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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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Некоторые вопросы в интервью совершенно тупые. Про мужеподобный вид, например (Не, ну надо такое придумать. Долька, воплощённая женственность - мужеподобна!!!). Зато как она элегантно на них отвечает. Не поддаётся на провокации, так сказать:)

За такое вообще надо было в лоб давать. :))) Если уж им так хотелось задать этот вопрос, могли бы спросить как-нибудь помягче, а то они уж совсем прямолинейно. Но Долорес молодец - ответила очень здорово. :)

Долорес продолжает давать интервью.

Вот по этой ссылке http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...xa0REa1UwTVE9PQ можно скачать видео нового интервью (15 Мб, файл .flv). Я его не видел, но по постам на ЗГ понял, что она там отвечает на кучу вопросов, очень клево выглядит (в огромных черных очках, черных перчатках и желтой майке :)))... и она уже на 100% в курсе, что альбом выложен в сети и вроде бы не сильно расстроилась. :)

А это краткий пересказ интервью. Обратите внимание, что она говорит о человеческом духе. А еще мне понравилось, как она называет себя мамой 4 детей - то есть Донни она тоже считает за своего. Какая же она лапочка. %)

Dolores O’Riordan video interview on 20 Minutos

March 14th, 2007

Spanish news site 20 Minutos has posted a new interview recorded with Dolores this week in Madrid.

She talks a bit about The Cranberries’ dizzying rise to fame in the 90s, recalling, “For me, it was kind of like when you’re in a storm, a crazy storm, and the storm is going all around you,” she said spinning her index finger wildly in the air. “I’m in the eye of the storm. Have you heard of that expression? I’m in the middle of it. So for me, I couldn’t see it, ‘cos I was in the middle of it, singing and doing interviews like that — but I couldn’t see it. At the time, it was difficult ‘cos I don’t think any of the band members could appreciate what was happening. We were just going day to day, hotel to hotel, making videos and all that. But it wasn’t until I took a 4-year break from The Cranberries, I’m sitting back now, y’know, I have four children now, and I’m looking back and going ‘Oooh yeah! Did that happen?’”

She also talks about her time away from The Cranberries:

“We’re not totally ended or anything. But what happened was, I spent 14, 15 years with the Cranberries and I became famous with The Cranberries when I was 18. And then you go, ‘Well, now maybe I need to take time off. Maybe I need to go home and find me, my soul, the human spirit. Who am I? Without The Cranberries — I had to find that out. So the last 4 years was like a journey where I was trying to figure out who I am when I’m not in The Cranberries. And it was fantastic, you know?

“It was so cool, I got to do stuff that was really normal like waking up and worry about the laundry — I have to wash all these clothes now! And I have to empty the dishwasher and make the breakfast and clean up after the breakfast.”