We didn’t really like it that much, and it went on to the be the most successful single in the band’s history.
I remember there being very heated discussions about it being released. And (manager & record label owner) Chris Parry fought against all of us to get it released (as a single). 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). The biggest surprise of the album was the success of “Lovesong”. The opening shot is terrible, this lingering shot of a huge phallus that makes no pretensions to be a stalagmite at all. The idea was of a fairy cave going on forever, but it looked very cramped and posed. In 1991, Smith shared his opinion of the song’s music video: I realized that while we were recording it. And it’s difficult to do because you run the risk of being laughed at. It’s actually one of the most difficult songs I’ve had to sing. In the past,I’ve always felt a last-minute need to disguise the sentiments or put a twist on them. 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 singingĪ very straightforward love song. Would be very easy to dismiss the album as having a certain mood. That one song, I think, hinges the whole Disintegration album and makes many people think twice. I thought, ‘Of all the songs I’d written, this is the one that … cracks through.’ It was quite disappointing. It was kept off the top by, like, Janet Jackson. I thought it was the weakest song on there, and suddenly it went to Number Two in America. I wrote ‘Love Song’ for Mary, my wife, as a wedding present, and I put it on the album to be kind of romantic.
In 2004, Robert Smith told Rolling Stone:
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