{"id":8942,"date":"2018-01-16T18:37:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T01:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8942"},"modified":"2018-01-22T18:44:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T01:44:23","slug":"dolores-oriordan-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/16\/dolores-oriordan-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores O&#8217;Riordan Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/postscript\/the-ferocious-sublime-dolores-oriordan-of-the-cranberries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The New Yorker<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"ArticleHeader__hed___GPB7e\" data-reactid=\"106\">The Ferocious, Sublime Dolores O\u2019Riordan, of the Cranberries<\/h1>\n<p>By <a class=\"Link__link___3dWao \" title=\"Amanda Petrusich\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/contributors\/amanda-petrusich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\" data-reactid=\"120\">Amanda Petrusich<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Ejga4kJUts\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"171\">The Irish singer Dolores O\u2019Riordan, who fronted the alt-rock band the Cranberries since 1989, died on Monday, at the age of forty-six. O\u2019Riordan was managing several health issues at the time of her death\u2014she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2015 and had been suffering from back pain, which resulted in the cancellation of a Cranberries reunion tour last year. Her body was found in a hotel on Park Lane, in central London; her death was described as sudden and unexplained.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"175\">O\u2019Riordan was born in Ballybricken, in County Limerick, in 1971. She was the youngest of seven children and just eighteen when she joined the Cranberries. Her folks were strict: as a teen-ager, she wasn\u2019t allowed to wear makeup or buy her own clothes. In an <a class=\"ArticleBody__link___1FS03\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/music\/the-cranberries-how-we-made-linger-1.3356393\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-reactid=\"177\">interview with the <em data-reactid=\"179\">Irish Times<\/em><\/a>, she recalled how the guitarist Noel Hogan brought her a pair of Doc Martens to wear for the band\u2019s first photo shoot. \u201cThey were too big for me, but I put them on anyway,\u201d she said. \u201cSuddenly I looked like an indie girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"182\">Like many people, the first time I heard her sing was on \u201cLinger,\u201d an early single that ended up in fairly heavy rotation on MTV in 1993. The <a class=\"ArticleBody__link___1FS03\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G6Kspj3OO0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-reactid=\"184\">black-and-white video<\/a>, directed by Melodie McDaniel, was based loosely on Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s \u201cAlphaville,\u201d a film that considers the potency of desire. It\u2019s a hazy, sentimental song about realizing that you\u2019re on the bummer end of a lopsided relationship. \u201cYou know I\u2019m such a fool for you,\u201d O\u2019Riordan sings. She\u2019s asking, in a way, for mercy\u2014a final show of kindness: \u201cYou\u2019ve got me wrapped around your finger \/ Do you have to let it linger?\u201d I wasn\u2019t old enough to understand the particular humiliation of being duped and strung along by someone you loved and trusted, but I nonetheless recognized the deep agony and confusion in her voice when she asked, \u201cWhy were you holding her hand?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"187\">Still, it wasn\u2019t until \u201cZombie,\u201d the first single from the band\u2019s second album, \u201cNo Need to Argue,\u201d that the sublime recklessness of O\u2019Riordan\u2019s voice became fully evident. By then, the Cranberries were the most successful Irish rock band since U2. Most of the other rock singers I admired at the time (Kim Gordon, of Sonic Youth; Kim and Kelley Deal, of the Breeders; Kathleen Hanna, of Bikini Kill) sounded plainly and hopelessly cool\u2014disaffected, vaguely antagonistic, and aloof. O\u2019Riordan sounded like a maniac. \u201cZombie\u201d was written as a memorial for two children\u2014the twelve-year-old Jonathan Ball and the three-year-old Tim Parry\u2014who were killed in an I.R.A. street bombing, in Warrington, England, in 1993 (the explosives were hidden in garbage cans). She goes feral on the chorus: \u201cZombie-ie-ie-ie-oh-oh-oh-oh!\u201d It\u2019s all terrifically guttural\u2014ugly, wild, and paralyzing. For an American kid, her round Irish accent made the word seem even stranger, as if she were conjuring something otherworldly, only to vanquish it.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"187\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/postscript\/the-ferocious-sublime-dolores-oriordan-of-the-cranberries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The New Yorker<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New Yorker The Ferocious, Sublime Dolores O\u2019Riordan, of the Cranberries By Amanda Petrusich The Irish singer Dolores O\u2019Riordan, who fronted the alt-rock band the Cranberries since 1989, died on Monday, at the age of forty-six. 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