Tears For Fears Almost Broke Up Several Times

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Tears For Fears have released their seventh album, "The Tipping Point." Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith say the duo's marriage-like relationship is what keeps the music going. Coincidentally, it is what has also almost made the band almost break up… over and over again.

In an interview, Smith refers to his nine-year break before releasing the 2004 record "Everybody Loves A Happy Ending and the same longing to leave that inspired his 2019 song "Stay." "Well, what keeps me here is the fact that I'm enjoying it now," he remarks. "At the time that was written, I wasn't enjoying it... I'm not saying even that it was bad. I just didn't feel an affinity with it." He then reminisces on his relationship with Orzabal and says, "it's the nature of the struggle of being in a duo." "Both of us will go through periods where we don't know if we should be working together, but I think that's not an ego thing." Smith continues, "You may be walking away to say, 'Well, if that's what you want to do, you go ahead and do that." "I'm with you, but I can't be a part of it.'"

In terms of not internalizing their arguments, Orzabal adds, "We're never too worried about taking each other too seriously." "But I do think that we have a more profound respect for each other... If we bicker now or if we argue now, it only lasts a couple of minutes, and then one of us says, 'OK, shall we have a cup of tea?'" Smith continues, "In marriage terms, we've got to the 'Yes, dear' stage of our relationship."

Source: Ultimate Classic Rock