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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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Dolores O’Riordan

By PATRICK STEVEN WAECHTER
Jun. 13, 2007

Four years after breaking with The Cranberries, Dolores O’Riordan is back on the scene. With her new album, ”Are You Listening?,” we can only hope that the answer is yes. Her latest features some familiar sound qualities of The Cranberries, but perhaps with a fuller and more mature flavor. Dolores took a few minutes out of her drive through Paris to speak with 411 Magazine.


411 Magazine: Who were your childhood heroes?

Dolores O’Riordan: I looked up a lot to Elvis Pressley. I thought Patsy Cline was great. I liked Frank Sinatra. Johnny Cash. All that kind of stuff. I thought they were all pretty cool when I was a kid. Of course, when I got into the teens, I started to develop my own taste… I got really into Depeche Mode and The Cure, and then R.E.M. and all that that stuff.


What motivated you to go solo?

What happened was that I’d been in The Cranberries for fifteen years. A huge chunk of my life was taken up. It was a chapter of my life, or maybe even a few chapters. When I finished, the greatest hits came out. So, I left the band and I told them I was going to go on a journey where I was going to discover who I was without The Cranberries. I went off into the forest and went out there just being a person and a mother and a wife and a daughter for four years. I was trying to find out what I maybe would have lost over those years as a part of the rat race of being famous. I just wanted to experience real life, some grounding. I really enjoyed that grounding and songwriting started to become a hobby then. Then, I moved back to Ireland and the kids started to go to school and I got the album together.


You have three little ones, no? How are things at home?

Actually, I have four because I have a stepson as well. But I hate to say step. We have four children. Things are great, actually. Very lovely and busy. It’s very nice, because I remember when I left and went off with The Cranberries I wrote about missing my family, but I’m not missing them.


Mother-to-mother, what advice would you impart to Britney Spears?

Well, I think that really she has to go through what she’s going through, because this is something that’s very important for her to find herself. She has had a very difficult journey. I went through similar stuff
when I was quite young. Becoming famous is a very very difficult thing. You go through all of these things and at the end of the day it makes you stronger, stronger, stronger… you hope, anyway. I think she’ll get through it, though. She’s a strong one.


Your album has been my perfect rainy day anti-depressant lately, as it seems to rain nonstop here in Florida. Who do you listen to on days like those?

Have you gotten the new Snow Patrol? It’s a really beautiful album. They’re from Ireland as well. But oh my god, you’ll love ‘em.


My favorite song on your album is ”When We Were Young.” Is that a song about fighting the past?

It’s kind of like when you have little ones, you become aware that they’re in a kind of a headspace. And they’ll never be able to get it back when they hit ten, then twelve, then the teens… and the angst… and suddenly they’re on the next level. In a way, when you’re a kid, you have no stress, because all you have to do is worrying about dressing yourself. I’m just looking back on when I was a kid and saying ”thanks mom, thanks for doing all you did” and hoping my own kids love and appreciate me the same.


”Ecstasy” is another standout song. ”Look, you made me do this to myself.” Sounds like a complicated trip.

Really. It’s kind of about depression. And suicide. And drug addiction. And escapism. Trying to escape from pain, eternal pain. Everybody has a different journey, and it’s never perfect. People always end up with baggage, issues, pain. You can run, but you can’t hide. You do have to face it. But some people can’t face it, so they just leave. It’s very important to open up to other humans when you’re going through stuff, to never be ashamed of what you feel. You need to open up and share it because it’s only then that you get to the next level.


You’re getting ready for a U.S. tour. Will you revisit songs of the Cranberries?

Oh yeah. I play all the old stuff, because people like that, you know what I mean. Those songs, ”Zombie,” ”Linger,” all of them… I played ”Zombie” at my last show and there was one girl who cried straight through it. She was really releasing, and just kind of let it all out. I love playing live. It’s so nice to see what the songs mean to the people out there.