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The Cure\u2019s Robert Smith<\/a> has heaped praise on his latest collaborator, Olivia Rodrigo.<\/p>\n Last year, Smith appeared as a special guest with Rodrigo when she headlined Glastonbury Festival, and since then, they have started a musical partnership with The Cure frontman becoming her very first collaborator.<\/p>\n During her surprise set at Primavera Sound in Barcelona at the weekend, Rodrigo welcomed Smith to the stage to perform \u2018What\u2019s Wrong With Me<\/a>\u2018, which will appear on her new album, You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So In Love, on June 12th.<\/p>\n Introducing the track in Barcelona, Rodrigo said, \u201cIt\u2019s really special to me for so many reasons\u2026 primarily because it\u2019s my first collaboration. I can\u2019t believe this song exists and with the person that it exists with.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, in a new interview with BBC 6 Music, aired on June 8th, Smith revealed the collaboration was kept a tight secret, and his bandmates in The Cure didn\u2019t even know it existed, sharing, \u201cI didn\u2019t tell anyone, I didn\u2019t tell my band until yesterday night when we came off. They were like, \u2018What?’\u201d<\/p>\n Smith continued, \u201cThe same was with Glastonbury, everything we do is genuinely secret, and it\u2019s just exciting when we do it. It proved the point tonight, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n However, he has yet to hear her new album, explaining, \u201cHer producer Dan sent me the link to her album a few weeks ago, but I haven\u2019t listened to the album because I like to listen to the albums on vinyl or on CD and put them in and sit and listen to them.\u201d<\/p>\n Then, heaping praise on Rodrigo, he said, \u201cI\u2019m slightly in awe of how easy she finds it all, it\u2019s not really comparable to how I do things.\u201d <\/p>\n Smith elaborated on what makes Rodrigo<\/a> a special talent, \u201cIt just comes across as very effortless, very natural, and I\u2019m not really a natural performer. I think when I write songs, I\u2019m writing them for a very specific reason, and I agonise over them to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Rodrigo shared a handwritten note following the Primavera appearance, telling fans \u201cRobert has been soundtracking my life for as long as I can remember\u201d and \u201cI am in disbelief that this song exists and I cannot wait for it to come out officially\u201d.<\/p>\n Elsewhere in the new interview, Smith discussed The Cure\u2019s place in the current musical landscape as headliners on bills such as Primavera surrounded by younger acts, noting, \u201cWe have found ourselves in a position where there are a lot of people who are just getting into The Cure, they have done over the years, we\u2019ve always refreshed the audience, but it seems like in the last couple of years it\u2019s become much more evident.\u201d<\/p>\n He added, \u201cI\u2019m not really sure why, songs like \u2018Boys Don\u2019t Cry\u2019 seem like they\u2019ve really tapped into something.\u201d<\/p>\n
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