The video, directed by Tim Pope, was shot in a mansion which had been “borrowed” from an estate agent who believed they wanted to buy it. In the morning they returned the keys.
According to Rolling Stone magazine, this was cut at a vineyard in the South of France, and is Robert Smith’s favorite Cure song. The band’s girlfriends hung out at the sessions, which influenced the music: “The girls would sit on the sofa in the back of the control room and give the songs marks out often,” Smith said. “So there was a really big female input.”