History of the most joyful song of care

THE Care They are known not to be among the most joyful and solar bands of all time, but one of their songs is. We are talking about “Friday I’m in love”song included in their 1992 album “Wish” (Read the review here).

The foundations for writing “Friday I’m in love” They arose in the mind of the frontman of the British band Robert Smith That in Guitar World he said: “I remember having returned home in the car on a Friday afternoon to take the free weekend. And I started thinking about this fantastic sequence of agreements. I was about 20 minutes from the study. So I turned around, I went back to the studio and everyone was still there. We actually recorded that Friday evening.” The demo was entitled “Friday” in homage to the night he was recorded.

Smith continues again: “When I started writing the lyrics, I thought: why not make a song on that feeling of Friday? It’s something you have at school, and many people do jobs that they don’t love much. So that feeling of Friday afternoon is something you can’t wait to try.”

In another interview, this time with Spin, he spoke of the text of “Friday I’m in love”“The genuinely stupid pop texts are much more difficult to write than my usual outbursts from the heart. I filled hundreds of sheets of paper, trying to find the words for” Friday i’m in love “. You have to find something that is not embarrassing: a simplicity and a naiveness that communicate. There is a stupidity that in a certain sense creak. We have always done pop songs.

When the band found the right progression for the musical part, Robert Smith He found it perfect. Maybe too much. So much so that he began to suspect that, albeit unconsciously, he should have copied it somewhere. “It is a truly beautiful progression of agreements, I could not believe that no one else had used it and at the time I asked so many people – however I was becoming paranoid for drugs – ‘I have to have stolen it somewhere, it is not possible that I invented it to me’ I asked everyone I knew, to everyone. I phoned people, I sang her and asked: ‘I ever heard it? ‘No, no, I’ve never heard it’. “

Although the song was already quite different from any other song written for “Wish”the manufacturer Dave M. Allen And Robert Smith They thought that an even more exciting version could be found, varying the speed and intonation of the recording. The two tried different variants, modifying the pounding of the song through the variable speed control of the ribbon recorder of the study. But, finding nothing that he overcome the original sound, they realized that perhaps they would have to leave him as he was. Then, the imponderable. Thinking of having zeroed the variable speed control, Smith had actually raised her a quarter of tone. Listening to it he was very happy with what he heard.

Speaking with Guitar Player he said: “It was an accident, even if happy. I was playing with the Pitch Control and I forgot to deactivate it. The atmosphere has completely changed, and the fact that it is the only song of” Wish “to not be in concert tone really makes her go up and play differently. After working on the disc for months, feeling something out of the tone tone makes you take a step back to the brain.

It was clearly the single and radio single that i Care They were looking for. However, they were perhaps a little worried because the song was not very representative of their usual repertoire, then they published “High” As a main single in March 1992, a month before the album release, so as not to divert their fans too much.

Once released on the market
“Wish”
the
Care
they published
“Friday I’m in love”
As a single accompanied by a video directed by Tim Pope who won the European Viewer’s Choice for best music video at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards. He stalled the British sales charts reaching sixth place.
“Friday I’m in love”
Over the years it has continued to grow in importance as an anthem of Friday.

While
Robert Smith
has had a fluctuating relationship with the overexposure of
“Friday I’m in love”
learned to appreciate the fact that this song has perhaps become the song for which they are perhaps best known. In 2022 the frontman of
Care
He said: “We didn’t play it live a lot for a long time … I found it too cheerful! But now it has become a truly wonderful moment of the show.” What a pair with how much he had the opportunity to tell Mojo in 2004: “It has always been paradoxical that people have been forced to consider us a Goth band. Because, for the general public, we are not. For the taxi drivers, I am the guy who sings” Friday I’m in Love “”.