The Cure’s Robert Smith has “written a really catchy pop song” that could be a Christmas single

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The Cure’s Robert Smith has revealed that he has “written a really catchy pop song” that he could release as a Christmas single.The legendary frontman opened up about new material with Radio X host John Kennedy earlier this week as he took part in a special track-by-track playback of the ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ album.As he discussed the record’s content, song by song, Smith opened up about how he found inspiration for the tracklist.

This included recalling the encouragement he had from his brother during the early days of his career, as well as his complex relationship with mortality.While he went on to reveal that, above all else, he wants to provoke an “emotional response” in his listeners, he did explain that he is sitting on some new material that has a much more upbeat feel.Smith described one currently unreleased track in particular as a “really catchy” pop song that could work as a festive release going forward. “I always just want an emotional response from what I write… Unless I think. ‘This is a catchy idea’, but those days have kind of gone a little bit,” he said.“Although I have written a really catchy pop song!

I’m struggling to figure out how I’m gonna release it. Having been up in town all day, the amount of times I’ve heard [Wham!‘s] ‘Last Christmas’.

I think I just need to stick some Christmas words on it and get it out there!”While the details of the track and its possible release date remain unknown for now, Smith’s comments in the interview are far from the first time he has hinted about new music recently.Earlier this week, it was reported that the singer had shared details of two more Cure albums – one of which is set to be a “companion piece” to ‘Songs Of A Lost World’, while the third takes a.