The Cranberries singer was due to sing the vocal on the band’s version of Zombie before she was found dead in a London hotel room on January 15th this year.I happened to hear a "cover" of Dolores O'Riordan's song Zombie and it was the infamous cover that she was going to add vocals to, and then she croaked in the bathtub, the night before.
When I heard that cover I had to wince. When Prince died - was there any "new" cover of his music played on air? On the contrary Prince didn't let anyone cover his music - and for good reason. He even sued people if they covered him without paying royalties.
So when Dolores toured the U.S. she admits she was very young and naive - and even thought it was no big deal that she became a huge hit. She expected that is just what happens. Her dream had come true but then she discovered that being a superstar is very lonely. She could not leave her room. She had to live out of a suit case. She had to have security. She ended up marrying a Jock Rock dude - of one of those "Big Hair" bands of the 1980s (we won't even mention their name).Prince Claims When Someone Covers Your Song, The Original No Longer Exists
from the prince-world dept
After that it was all down hill for Dolores - she said they had to play double sets - routinely - in the U.S. - so play for 2 hours, take a 20 minute break, then play another 2 hours. Then do it again, night after night. That's a lot to expect for live performances. And so she go "initiated" into the Jock Rock scene. She had a nervous breakdown, had night mares and when she broke her contract, she had to hire a psychologist to "prove" her condition was clinical depression. She felt she had been commodified since she was repeatedly told the record company lost $6 million dollars - or was it $60 million? Well it would be worth that much now - compared to 1996.
So then she had a baby and said this restored her experience of love of life. She was amazed at how much love she felt. She went back to Nature, living on the farm in Ireland and she was able to feel the love of other people again. She said playing music became fun again and so she returned back to the band. But the "fun" didn't last for long - she said the band toured for ACDC and the Rollingstones - and she realized that old people can still rock. She was officially now immersed in Jock Rock. She got into "metal" music, as she thought the Metallica musician was her dream love, etc.
The problem with Jock Rock is that it stays in the dopamine level at best - the "chills" from music. Dolores O'Riordan's music is known to cause the "chills" - especially her "trademark" yodelling but also her "falsetto" or octave harmonics (falsetto range when the male sings the background in Dreams, for example). This ability to induce "chills" is the best Western music can achieve. For example Rachmaninoff's piano concerto Number 2 is known for its Frisson chill capabilities. I used to listen to it on cassette - in the 1980s - as I wandered the canyons of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. I didn't know anyone else who liked that music piece - Rach's Concerto nbr 2. I just listened to it on my own, over and over, because it induced frisson. By chance it was played on the radio as I drove up north a few days ago. But then the "Rach Nbr. 2" became trendy when it was turned into a hit movie about the tragic masochism of Western culture. Oh I'm sorry - Rach, Nbr. 3 was made into the movie SHINE - but that piece is a bit more schmaltzy then Number 2.
In an exclusive statement, O’Riordan’s UK Publicist Lindsey Holmes, provided further insight into what the Irish singer thought of Bad Wolves’ version of the track: “Dolores was excited about plans to guest vocal on a cover version of her all time classic “Zombie” by American rock band Bad Wolves. Although very different in style to the original, Dolores said she thought that the cover “was killer” and she was intrigued by the simple but effective couple of lyric changes that make the cover version as relevant to current world events as the original was to the events that inspired her to write the song in the early nineties.”That's an ironic phrase considering she died the night before she was supposed to sing on the cover.
Recorded by the US metal band, Bad Wolves, the group were originally supposed to collaborate with the Cranberries' late-lead vocalist Dolores O'Riordan. Sadly, O'Riordan passed away on 15 January, the day she was scheduled to record her vocals.I remember when MTV got big - and I first actually saw it at my cousin's house. My dad asked me if I wanted to have cable tv - this was in the 1980s of course. I adamantly stated NO! Because already at that time I knew that television was corporate-state mass mind control. haha. So I never watched MTV but my cousin was big in the "heavy metal" aspect of MTV.
When Dolores joined the Cranberries - she had never been to a rock show before! She played organ in the church for the church choir. She had studied piano for 7 years. I can relate to this - my main means of "listening" to rock music was when the musicians I played with in high school would play me songs on their instruments. I would just follow along with the chords - without ever having heard the originals! It didn't seem strange to me - that's how I learned most of my classical music as well. I never heard the originals.
The Cranberries frontwoman was said to be so taken with the cover from American group Bad Wolves that she wanted to contribute to this new 2018 version of her classic song.Again another highly ironic phrase. She was very "taken" wasn't she?
So the cover now has over 140 million views
They set up a session in London not knowing what O’Riordan would record – whether recutting the lead vocals or adding backups to Vext’s recording – and ultimately the band never found out what her intention would be.Right because it was HER song - and you can not recreate the "sound" - the feel of her voice which is sacred - she is Irish - it's an Irish song - and her life experience is that song. It's an anti-war song. They group Bad Wolves is touring with:
Do these Western appropriations of non-western cultures really know what they are about?Five Finger Death Punch - Wikipedia
Five Finger Death Punch, often shortened to Five Finger or Death Punch, also abbreviated as 5FDP or FFDP, is an American heavy metal band from Las Vegashttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Finger_Death_Punch, Nevada. Formed in 2005, the band's name comes from the kung fu movie The Five Fingers of Death.
whenever i listen to this i remember when i was 9 years old in 2003 during Iraq invasion, i was going out and saw all the bodies of our neighbors and some of my classmates on the street in front of my home. i wanted to go and check but the situation was dangerous to the extinct that you can get shot if you just take one step out of your home . you can't distinguish who' the enemy and who's goodbecause they were like zombies. we sleep and wake up to the view of bodies. my mom tried to hide it by putting rags on the windows but we can still smell it. the most tragic moment in my life, i wish i can erase it.Dolores said she liked to sing Gregorian Chant the best - This goes into the Serotonin level of music - beyond just the dopamine Jock rock level. Consider Indian spiritual females singers - like Anuradha Paudwal
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“Nobody knew. I didn’t discuss it with anyone. It was only between me and my God. I’d rather be missed than people say ‘why is she singing,'” she says.
The singer then gradually moved to singing devotional songs. Anuradha says she had to initially face difficulty even for singing devotional tracks.
“You will be surprised, that time when I had gone to a couple of companies, I said I want to sing ‘bhajans’ but they said no there is no market for your bhajan. And see today. The whole scenario has changed.
“They said ‘no one wants to listen to bhajans from you.’ They wanted me to sing only ghazals. Now that I look back, it has been a very rich journey.” The veteran singer feels she can’t fit into the music scene of today, “there is Jazz, pop, rock kind of music which I can’t sing”. She doesn’t have any disdain for it except for a word of caution for contemporary singers.Anuradha Paudwal sings sacred music
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Let's face it - misogyny is inherent in the Western music harmonics. At least Indian sacred music "tries" to get away from it.
Too bad Dolores was not able to do the same.
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