“Lovesong“ (sometimes written as “Love Song“) is a song by English rock band the Cure, released as the third single from their eighth studio album, Disintegration, on 21 August 1989. The song saw considerable success in the United States, where it reached the number-two position in October 1989 and became the band's only top-10 entry on the Billboard Hot 100. In the United Kingdom, the single charted at number 18, and it peaked within the top 20 in Canada and Ireland. Frontman Robert Smith wrote “Lovesong” as a wedding present for his bride-to-be Mary Poole in 1988. “Lovesong” was the second UK and third US single from Disintegration, The Cure’s eighth studio album, and is the band’s highest charting single in the United States, reaching #2 in late 1989. Despite the song’s enormous success, Smith has mixed feelings about the track. He expresses satisfaction in finally feeling comfortable enough to write a straightforward love song and feels the song keeps Disintegration from having only one mood – presumably “gloom”. However, he called it the weakest song on the album and expressed disappointment that it was the band’s breakthrough single in the US. In 2004, Robert Smith told Rolling Stone: “I wrote ‘Love Song’ for Mary, my wife, as a wedding present, and I put it on the album to be kind of romantic. I thought it was the weakest song on there, and suddenly it went to Number Two in America. It was kept off the top by, like, Janet Jackson. I thought, ‘Of all the songs I’d written, this is the one that … cracks through.’ It was quite disappointing.“ Smith shared in 1989: “That one song, I think, hinges the whole Disintegration album and makes many people think twice. If that song wasn’t on the record, it would be very easy to dismiss the album as having a certain mood. But throwing that one in sort of upsets people a bit because they think, ‘This doesn’t fit.’ It’s taken me 10 years to reach the point where I feel comfortable singing a very straightforward love song. In the past,I’ve always felt a last-minute need to disguise the sentiments or put a twist on them. It’s actually one of the most difficult songs I’ve had to sing. It’s an open show of emotion. It’s not trying to be clever. And it’s difficult to do because you run the risk of being laughed at .I realized that while we were recording it.“ In 1991, Smith shared his opinion of the song’s music video: “I was disappointed with the video. The idea was of a fairy cave going on forever, but it looked very cramped and posed. The opening shot is terrible, this lingering shot of a huge phallus that makes no pretensions to be a stalagmite at all.“ Keyboardist Roger O'Donnell once shared: “The biggest surprise of the album was the success of “Lovesong”. We didn’t even play it on the European leg of the tour (according to my very reliable sources we did in fact start playing it on the last couple of weeks of the European tour). And (manager & record label owner) Chris Parry fought against all of us to get it released (as a single). I remember there being very heated discussions about it being released. We didn’t really like it that much, and it went on to the be the most successful single in the band’s history.“ Read more on Last.fm.