The Cure: Boys Don't Cry

Music Video
1986
3m

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The video, released in 1986 to promote the "New Voice New Mix" re-recording, features three children miming the song. Behind a curtain, Smith, Tolhurst, and Dempsey (in his only appearance w... Read allThe video, released in 1986 to promote the "New Voice New Mix" re-recording, features three children miming the song. Behind a curtain, Smith, Tolhurst, and Dempsey (in his only appearance with the band since his 1979 departure), appear as the children's shadows.The video, released in 1986 to promote the "New Voice New Mix" re-recording, features three children miming the song. Behind a curtain, Smith, Tolhurst, and Dempsey (in his only appearance with the band since his 1979 departure), appear as the children's shadows.

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- Tim Pope
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7.5/10

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- Tim Pope
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9/10

Classic Cure moment

A classic tune and a fantastic moment from The Cure, in "Boys Don't Cry" the band members are hidden in the background as three imaginative figures while three boys are mimicking their playing the instruments and singing. An excellent and original idea at the time in terms of known music videos, later expanded and better used by Queen in "The Miracle".

Here, Robert Smith, Michael Dempsey and Laurence Tolhurst are put far back as dark shadows of the upfront colorful boys coldly play the immortal song. Lots of fun and doesn't get better than this. One of my all-time favorite Cure moments. 9/10.