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Долорес дала шикарное интервью испанскому гей-порталу Chueca.com. Несмотря на это, интервью очень информативное.

Оказывается, Stay With Me рассказывает об отце Долорес, у которого был рак. :( Сейчас отцу уже лучше, но все равно - такого мы не знали. :( Тогда эта песня приобретает еще более страшный смысл... А я-то думал, она про Дона...

И Долорес любит Snow Patrol, Coldplay, Metallica, Aerosmith, Thin Lizzy и Evanescence. :)))


Dolores O’Riordan: Lesbian icon?

March 13th, 2007 by Alex

“If women find me attractive, that’s great. If men find me attractive, that’s fine too,” Dolores O’Riordan says in an interview for Spanish gay portal Chueca.com. The site, which proclaims her a lesbian icon (er?), asks her about religion and about the androgynous look that she sported for most of The Cranberries’ early career.

Interview with Dolores

Dolores O’Riordan announced the temporary separation of the Cranberries in 2003. But she has not until now decided to publish her new album. We spoke with her on her new release, “Are you listening”, on sale in May, on the future of her old band and on how it feels for a religious person like her to be a gay-lesbian icon.

Q:If you could imagine how the Cranberries 6th record would to be, what would be the difference between that record and “Are you listening”
D: It would be a completely differenct record, because the songs I wrote with the guys were completely different.

Q: However, songs like “Loser” or “When we were young” would fit in a Cranberries album.
D: Yes, because I wrote 70% of the Cranberries music and I write my own songs now. I haven’t changed, and I’m still the same person, and also the same singer. My record is more experimental and for the first time I’ve had to take care of everything myself. Different musicians helped me, and for the first time it’s been pretty experimental. It took me way longer, but I enjoy taking everything calmly, relaxing, and resting.

Q: The first time that there where rumors of your solo career was in the early 90s. When was the first time you really thought about it?
D: Not until I record the “Greatest Hits”. Before it had gone through my head, but I knew I wanted to finish what I had with the guys: the 5 CD’s, and the contract we had signed. I wanted to finish the Cranberries with the Cranberries.

Q: SO do you consider the project completely done?
D: It’s a possibility we will reunite, of course. The door is open. It hasn’t closed, who knows.

Q: The theme of death has always appeared in a lot of your songs, and now it’s present in your song “Black Widow”. How do you confront it?
D: “Black Widow” is a song about my mother in law’s death. She had cancer, and she fought with all sorts of treatments: chemotherapy, radiation…but everything made her worse. “Stay with me” is a song about cancer my father had. Fortunatley, he was able to get better, but the song is about the fear I felt about losing him. Music is very good therapy to deal with death. It’s a part of your life. Everyone is going to die, everyone around you. And in the end you have to try to move forward.

Q: Religion must help calm your fears, because you are a very religious person. At least from what we can tell with songs like “Angel fire” or “This is the day”
D: It’s good to have faith, to think there’s something after death, that we are going to a better place. Maybe we’ll find eachother in another place. It’s good that heaven exist. It would be horrible to think that one day you’ll be underground and that’s it…so I like to think there’s something else.

Q: Does your religion prohibit you from supporting gay marriage?
D: I don’t understand conventional/established religion. I don’t follow anyones established rules. It’s just that I have faith and I beleive in a greater spirit, & that’s it. If gay people want to get married, that’s very good. Everyone is happy.

Q: At one point you became a lesbian icon, given your androginy. Does that bother you given your religion?
D: It was just cos I had short hair. But why would it bother me? I think we should accept each other the way we are. Humans have to be able to love each other. Love can present itself in many different ways. If girls find me attractive I find that fantastic. And same thing if guys find me attractive.

Q: There are songs that seem to be inspired by your husband, and they sound very happy.
D: “Apple of my eye” is a very obvious one. It’s about loving someone, it’s very simple. I think it’s such a simple song that it’s very pretty.

Q: Part of Cranberries charm was that simplicity, but the critics never seem to understand that.
D: I have never cared what the critics thought about my lyrics being too simple. I think it’s always been a charm about the music that I do, and I think that’s why people like my songs.

Q: In this new record you worked with new producers like Dan Brodbeck and Youth. How did you find them?
D: Through Sanctuary. They suggested people for me to work with. Most of the disk belongs to Dan Brodbeck. Youth simply came to Canada and worked on a couple of songs one of them being “Ordinary Day”. It was great working with new people. I can’t find a word to describe all the ideas Dan brought in. It was a bunch of things.

Q: What music have you bene listening to lately?
D: I don’t listen to much music now, but I really like Snow Patrol and Coldplay. I don’t have a lot of time now to listen to music. I’m very busy.

Q: There are some metal songs in the album. Do you like metal?
D: Yes I like: Metallica, Aerosmith. I like Think Lizzy and Evanescence.

Q: You start your solo tour on May 29th in Barcelona. Do you hope to come back with a more extensive tour?
D: Right now there are 12 dates in Europe, and 15 in North America in June. I hope to come back to bigger places. It all depends on how the record does. It depends on a lot of things how my kids are doing, how the record is received, how everyone feels.

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Еще одно хорошее интервью для VH1.
Долорес отвечает на вопросы. Оказывается, в детстве папа называл ее Delsey Delsey. А еще у Долорес очень плохое зрение. :(


Dolores O'Riordan has come a long way since her early-90s audition for the lead singer job with The Cranberry Saw Us. Her band changed its name to something more palatable (you know them as The Cranberries), launched a campaign of world domination (few have recovered from the far-reaching effects of "Linger"), and now the pint-sized vocalist has struck out on her own with Are You Listening?. O'Riordan's unmistakable lilt swirls over a blend of folk and rock, which is made edgier by atmospheric production from Youth (U2, Paul McCartney). And though the album is the product of serious events such as death and motherhood, a recent chat with O'Riordan found her eager to share ideas on more frivolous things, like her soap opera obsession, getting tongue-tied in front of James Hetfield, and the downside of wearing glasses.



Name: Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan



Born: Limerick Maternity Hospital, September 6, 1971.



First memory: I can remember sitting on the windowsill looking out. It used to rain a lot in Ireland in the 70s, and I'd sit in front of the window. It was where I'd go when I got into trouble, when I lost my glasses. I started wearing them when I was 4 or 5 years old, so I'd sit on them or break them.



Biggest thrill as a child I went to see the movies for the first time when I was 7. It was The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. I thought it was fantastic -- I was blown away because I'd never been to a cinema. It was so cool.



What was your nickname as a kid? My dad used to call me Delsey Delsey. My dad likes to make up wacky names. My dad called us all pet names -- he didn't call us by our first names.



Did you sit at the back or front of the class? I chose to sit at the back, but I was always put at the front. I liked to fool around and I wasn't interested in what was going on as far as the teacher was concerned. I was a bit of a jester in school.



First record bought: The Smiths, How Soon Is Now? It was a tape.



First gig attended: I went to see the Waterboys outside Limerick when I was 17. It was brilliant -- the original Waterboys when they were [at] their high point. It was fantastic to have seen them at their high peak.



First date: I was an early beginner -- I had a boyfriend when I was about 7. We lived in a housing estate that was constantly being developed, so there were these vacant metal containers sitting around the building site, and in the vacant containers, there was a long piece of rubber, so we made a swing out of it. And because it was rubber, it hurt your butt to sit on, so my boyfriend, his name was Michael from around the corner, he would sit on it and let me sit on his lap -- very romantic, when you're 7.



Last book read: Panic by Jeff Abbott -- it's about a guy who thinks his life is one way, but it's not. His life is nothing like what he thought it was. It's an absolutely fantastic read. I couldn't put the book down.



Last movie seen: I think it was the one with Jack Nicolson and Matt Damon -- The Departed. I saw it on the plane. That's the only time I get to read or see movies because I have kids. I thought it was absolutely fabulous. I was well impressed.



Favorite sandwich: I don't eat bread -- I gave it up years ago. But what I really like doing is getting iceberg lettuce and putting fillings in there -- use the lettuce as a wrap. If you get some grated onions, carrots and cucumber, with a little soy sauce, some fresh ginger and garlic -- it's delicious. It's really healthy and organic.



Favorite item of clothing I have to say my pajamas. I just love my jim-jams. They've got Winnie the Pooh [on them], cotton and really soft. They're really childish, kiddy jim-jams.

Have you ever been starstruck? At the MTV Awards in 1995. I had spent my whole life being infatuated with James Hetfield from Metallica. We performed, and afterwards we all went to this bar backstage. He was standing across the way, so I said to my husband, 'Oh my god there he is!' Perchance my band was standing right behind him, so that gave me a chance. Alanis Morrisette's song was on the radio, and he turned around and said "That chick! That sounds so like 'Zombie'!" It was great -- he actually talked to me. I was thinking "I am not worthy." I could not say a word.



Do you collect anything?: I like to collect seashells and leaves. I bring them home and put them under paper and color with a crayon. Having kids is really cool because you get to have all these people that are on the same page as you.



Previous jobs: I had some pretty sad ones. I worked in a chip shop when I was 17. It was called Crank's Corner, and we were serving all the drunks at 2 a.m., so you'd get a serious amount of verbal abuse. That was the hardest job I had, working in the chipper in my small town. It toughened you up.



Favorite time of day: Crack of dawn -- it's a brand new day, a clean slate. Unless I have a really bad hangover, it's great. If I'm sober I love to get up and go out for a walk, and listen to the birds waking up. It's a great time to find peace with yourself.



Hanging on my bedroom wall: Lots of mirrors. I've got a thing for mirrors. And there's a flat TV screen, and the most amazing, austere painting that my husband and I bought in Ontario. It's really weird, it's very Hitchcock, scene of the crime. It's this silhouette of black trees. I don't know if it's done with paint or charcoal. The water is red and the trees are black. It's very eerie.



Ideal vacation: It would be with my kids, my mother and my husband, and somewhere by the ocean. One of the most beautiful places I've ever been is Antigua. When you lay in bed, you'd open your eyes and there was no ceiling, because it's hot all year round. You wake up when the sun comes up, and there's no watches and no clocks. There's no time there.



What's something that surprises people about you? The fact that I'm very, very blind. I can't see anything. I'm hopeless without my glasses. When I'm on tour they have to make this massive set list -- forty pieces of paper, twenty feet long, with giant writing. They have to put very thick, luminous white tape on the edge of the stage otherwise I'd fall off the stage.



What television show are you obsessed with? "Coronation Street." It's a soap opera based in Manchester, England. It's the longest [running] show in Europe -- like 60 years. My grandmother watched it, my mother watches it, I watch it and now my daughters watch it. It's cute. It's one of those soap operas that stands up to time. When I come back after working, it's like mashed potatoes. It reminds me of my granny, when I was a kid.



Swear word you use too much: Shit. Like, "Oh shit."



If I could be any character from history or literature: John Lennon. He's kind of my idol.