{"id":3587559,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3587559/?format=json","airdate":"2025-12-06T12:20:37-08:00","show":65305,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65305/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"The Lovecats","track_id":"4d93a1cd-710f-38c4-bc9d-9299de718df8","recording_id":"1c19fbb9-edce-49e1-a934-de6071dd7964","artist":"The Cure","artist_ids":["69ee3720-a7cb-4402-b48d-a02c366f2bcf"],"album":"Japanese Whispers","release_id":"17d4456d-1149-31a0-b45d-ccdad093e8fa","release_group_id":"6a276bf7-5f45-34ec-8276-a4362d4cc733","labels":["Fiction Records"],"label_ids":["f6182855-aa81-453a-a460-58c0fd71635d"],"release_date":"1985-01-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"The Cure's Japanese Whispers was released on this day in 1983.\n\nThis song was initially written as a parody, and Robert Smith later distanced himself from the song. In Rock & Folk magazine, Smith said: \"'The Love Cats' is far from being my favorite song: composed drunk, video filmed drunk, promotion made drunk. It was a joke.\"\n -- \nThe 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. A few of the shots are of Lol Tolhurst roaming the streets outside while wearing one of the cat costumes.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcUza_wWCfA","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}