Friday I'm In Love

"Friday I'm in Love" written and performed by The Cure is the second single taken from the album Wish (1992). It is among the band's most well-known songs. "Friday I'm in Love" was nominated for a Grammy Award and won the award for European Viewer's Choice for Best Music Video at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards. The song was written to be a slower number than its upbeat final rendition. While the track was recorded in D major, the commercially released version sounds halfway between D major and E-flat major, half a semitone higher, due to Robert Smith forgetting to turn off the vari-speed on the tape after toying with it before recording. When played live, the song is played in its original intended key as opposed to the one heard on the record. The second single from the band’s ninth studio album, it became one of the band’s most successful songs, reaching the top 40 in seven countries. It is the Cure’s second highest-charting song in Ireland (#4), the UK (#6), New Zealand (#7) and the US (#18). It also topped the Modern Rock Chart in the US for four weeks. I mean, ‘Friday, I’m In Love’ is not a work of genius, it was almost a calculated song. It’s a really good chord progression, I couldn’t believe no-one else had used it and I asked so many people at the time – I was getting drug paranoia anyway – ‘I must have stolen this from somewhere, I can’t possibly have come up with this.’ I asked everyone I knew, everyone. - Robert Smith “‘Friday I’m in Love’ is a dumb pop song, but it’s quite excellent actually, because it’s so absurd. It’s so out of character – very optimistic and really out there in happy land. It’s nice to get that counterbalance. People think we’re supposed to be leaders of some sort of ‘gloom movement.’ I could sit and write gloomy songs all day long, but I just don’t see the point.” – Robert Smith, Spin Magazine, June 1992. In an interview with Guitar World, Robert Smith shared: I remember driving home one Friday afternoon to have the weekend off. And I started to think of this really great chord sequence. I was about 20 minutes away from the studio. So I turned around, went back to the studio and everyone was still there. We actually recorded it that Friday night. So from then on it was always just called “Friday.” Then, when I came to do the words for it, I thought, why don’t I do a song about that Friday feeling? It’s a thing you have at school, and lots of people work at jobs they don’t really enjoy. So that Friday afternoon feeling is something you look forward to. In 1997, Robert Smith further explained the origin of the lyrics: I met the others in the group outside this pub near the studios, and it was a Friday afternoon. I’d been thinking, ‘Has anyone ever done the days of the week?’ I felt really good about [the idea], and I wrote this song on the journey. The song started out less peppy, Smith explained: Originally it was at half the speed – very downbeat … (but then bassist Simon Gallup) started playing it faster and faster until we hit a tempo that felt comfortable, and suddenly I realized it was a pop song … the others were going, ‘If you want this on the record, Robert, you’ve got to write some happy words to it.’ … So, I wrote the whole thing in five minutes. When I came back in the control room the others were genuinely surprised at how happy it was. They thought I was going to sing something a bit morose over it, and they were waiting for the twist. Smith has had mixed feelings about “Friday I’m In Love”. In 2007 he told EW: We had spent such an awful long time to get well known. [When] it happened, though, I found it very uncomfortable. For a long time, I didn’t like certain songs because I thought, ‘You’re to blame, you bastard. You made me popular.’ ‘Friday I’m in Love’ is a perfect example. However, while promoting the compilation Galore, he called it one of my three favorite Cure singles ever.

Friday I’m in Love Lyrics The Cure From The Album Wish (1992) [Verse 1] I don't care if Monday's blue Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too Thursday, I don't care about you It's Friday, I'm in love Monday, you can fall apart Tuesday, Wednesday, break my heart Oh, Thursday doesn't even start It's Friday, I'm in love [Chorus] Saturday, wait And Sunday always comes too late But Friday, never hesitate [Verse 2] I don't care if Monday's black Tuesday, Wednesday, heart attack Thursday, never looking back It's Friday, I'm in love [Instrumental] [Verse 3] Monday, you can hold your head Tuesday, Wednesday, stay in bed Or Thursday, watch the walls instead It's Friday, I'm in love [Chorus] Saturday, wait And Sunday always comes too late But Friday, never hesitate [Bridge] Dressed up to the eyes, it's a wonderful surprise To see your shoes and your spirits rise Throw out your frown and just smile at the sound As sleek as a sheik, spinning round and round Always take a big bite, it's such a gorgeous sight To see you eat in the middle of the night You can never get enough, enough of this stuff It's Friday, I'm in love [Verse 1] I don't care if Monday's blue Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too Thursday, I don't care about you It's Friday, I'm in love Monday, you can fall apart Tuesday, Wednesday, break my heart Thursday doesn't even start It's Friday, I'm in love, woah [Outro] Oh, do-do, do-do, do-do, do Do-do, do-do, do-do, do Oh, oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh, oh, yeah Produced By Dave Allen & Robert Smith Written By Simon Gallup, Pearl Thompson, Boris Williams, Perry Bamonte & Robert Smith Recorded At The Manor Studio (Oxfordshire, England) Release Date May 11, 1992