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The very Wish-sounding new single from The Cure is quite a nice surprise, proving that despite his odd post-menopausal, you-just-woke-up-Mom-from-a-nap, look, Robert Smith can still pen one hell of a bouncy little pop song. “The Only One” fits that mold, as Smith bends his trademark vocals (He’s totes ripping off that dude from The Black Kids!) all over the song’s over-indulgent chorus.