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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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15 марта Алиша брала у Долорес интервью для MTV Italia. Интервью покажут еще не скоро, а отрывки из него Алиша уже написала. Мне очень понравилась история о том, как Долорес сообщала мужу о названии альбома. :))))))

I'm having so little time since I started working @ MTV Italy on monday.
Anyway, what was goos is that my first duty was to work on an interview of Dolores recorded last 15th of march here in MIlan. I can't post you the full log but here's a few funny thing you'd probably liek to know

1.
When she was asked about the album's title she explained how she's the one behind all the cranberries' albums titles, and how she always tried to make up titles that would make people wonder about them.
About AYL she quoted a conversation she had with her husband

Dolores: I got an idea
Don: tell me
Dolores: Are you listening?
Don: yes I am, what is it?
Dolores: No, Are you listening?
Don: I am listening, what's your idea for the title?
Dolores: Are you listening?
Don: I am!
Dolores:... no but... are you?

In the end they understood what each other was meaning and they both laughed. That was what made the idea official.

2.
She talked about the album producers, about Dan Broadeback and Youth and she explained how the latter worked on Ordinary Day and Apple of my Eye.
Ordinary day was born to be much more upbeat that it finally turned out, Youth was able to make it a bit more melodic while Apple was born as an old ballad, and he made it more modern.
Poi ha parlato dei produttori dell'album

3.
About the production of the album, she talked about the making-process with Dan Brodeback, of how he was stying at hers a week or so every month or 2, when she had about 6 or 8 new songs. She was naking the basic with a keyboard and voice, and then after it was recorded on protools he was adding rhytms and beats. She went around with the demo cds frmonths and when she had enough songs ready she booked metalwokrs in toronto and anothe rbig studio in dublin (but she doesn't tell which one, i guess windmill anyway?) where the musicians were flying to as well and then they recorded the songs together

4.she explained the meaning (or part of it) beind LOSER and OCTOBER.
(and Alex, if you promise not to post in on the home page i'll just copy-paste the explanation. I'm asking this cause this interview hasn't aired yet, and I'm just a poor unimportant internt at MTV, i dont want my boss to find out and get mad at me because of this )

Had a song called October yeah, no it was just , it was just written in October, and I was saying earlier… earlier, in Canada the fall, October, is a particularly beautiful month, so I think it’s quite common for people to get inspired when you’re looking at the leaves falling in October, so it just happened to be written in October, and at that time it was basically, I was going around and I had my music and I was playing it for different people of the music industry and I just came across the usual old situation where there’s somebody going “ I can’t hear any hits, I can’t hear it, I can’t hear it, you have to write a hit” and they I got really mad because… I get mad at that side of the music industry that only wants pop-pop-pop, al the time, it’s very frustrating because, not everybody on the streets want to hear pop-pop-pop all the time, a lot of people on the street like to hear different types of music and sometimes they like more raw music you know, so… it was kind of just…I was saying “you know I’ ll do it without you anyway, so I’m just gonna go and follow my dreams anyway, if you don’t believe in me that’s ok, I’ll just go around you, I’ll just go the other way” so…it’s kind of like that, you know

about loser... well she said it's just sarcastic.

согласись, таких групп очень мало. Все-таки материнство мешает музыкальной карьере.

Согласен. :)