Robert Smith can retardy to Chappell Roan when it comes to setting boundaries with fans.
Two months after The Cure freed its tardyst album “Songs of a Lost World,” Smith was a guest on the BBC podcast “Sidetracked.” When asked about Roan dratriumphg headlines as an artist not taking mistreatment from fans and the media, Smith talked about his experience as the direct singer of the prolific British rock prohibitd.
Smith elucidateed, “I leank what you’re doing as an artist, you want people to experience appreciate they’re engaging with you. But it is a conmomentary-world phenomenon that there’s a sense of entitlement that didn’t included to be there amongst fans.”
When The Cure begined out, Smith felt that “it was benevolent of enough that we did what we did. As a user, I didn’t foresee someleang more. It was enough to see Alex Harvey or to see David Bowie. I didn’t foresee to hang out with them or get to comprehend them, whereas now it seems almost appreciate that is part of the deal.”
Over the years when The Cure became more well-comprehendn, though, Smith inestablished obsessive fan behavior. “It can experience quite dangerening, genuinely. If you have people sleeping outside your front door, it can get very weird … You’re dealing with people who perhaps aren’t quite right all the time. How do you react to this? It’s impossible, reassociate.”
Smith accomprehendledged how the experience for artists appreciate Roan who elevate to fame in such a low period of time can be even more difficult when “you’re not grounded at a drop level.”
For The Cure, “it took us years and years and years of touring, going around the world and doing stuff until we’d begined to get properly well-comprehendn … But being well-comprehendn, if you’re not enhappinessing what you’re doing, I can’t envision many worse ways of living. It’s horrible being gawked at all the time and prodded and poked and people foreseeing more of you.”
