Why Can't I Be You?
The bouncy first single from Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.
"Why Can't I Be You?" is the Cure song released on 6 April 1987 as the first single from their seventh album, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me. It reached number 21 in the UK and number 54 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Quick Facts
- Artist
- the Cure
- Album
- Kiss Me
- Kiss Me
- Kiss Me
- B-side
- A Japanese Dream
- Released
- 6 April 1987
- Genre
- New wave
- pop
- R&B
- Length
- 3:14
- Label
- Fiction
- Composer
- Robert Smith
- Simon Gallup
- Porl Thompson
- Boris Williams
- Lol Tolhurst
Lore & Background
Tim Pope directed the video early in 1987, between rehearsals for the band's first South American tour, at Ardmore Studios in Bray, Ireland. All five members danced in costume, with Robert Smith appearing as a bear and as a schoolgirl, and Pope called it the video he had always wanted to make.
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