FIRST TIME HEARING || Cranberries - Zombie

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  @paulkemp4559 · 1 year ago

  Zombie" is a protest song by Irish alternative rock band the Cranberries. It was written by the lead singer, Dolores O'Riordan, about the 3 child victims of a IRA bombing in Warrington, England, during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Regardless of which side you support the killing of children in any conflict is abhorrent

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  @leandabee · 1 year ago

  One of the best songs ever!! RIP beautiful Delores🥺

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• ER

  @ericaadelaidee · 1 year ago

  zombie was sparked by 2 young english boys the IRA killed in a bombing but the over all message of the song is about the troubles and all the innocent lives lost on both sides

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• ST

  @steve8510 · 1 year ago (edited)

  She's uses a vocal technique called keening that's more common at funerals.

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• TH

  @themercoctavius · 1 year ago (edited)

  So to help you out and give a little backstory. Easter of 1916 was a very pivotal moment in Irish history. The Irish Nationalist movement launched an armed rebellion which was pretty quickly and brutally put down by the English army. Although unsuccessful at the time the Easter rebellion did however create enough impetus with the people for them to claim almost complete independence from British rule in the early 1920&apos;s. Only roughly a quarter (mostly the protestant bit) of the country, now called Northern Ireland stayed under British Rule and that&apos;s where most of &quot;The Troubles&quot; occurred and where this video is set. The British Army was stationed there from 1969 through to 2007 and it was not a happy time. The streets of Belfast were pretty scary most of the time with some pretty heavy fighting between the IRA (you were spot on there) and the British. &nbsp;Google &quot;The Troubles&quot;, the history is pretty wild! All they wanted, was to have their country back.<br><br>Although &quot;The Troubles&quot; in this instance are a fairly modern issue, the Irish V British conflict goes back centuries, as far back as their initial conquest by the Plantagenet kings in the 1200&apos;s and they&apos;ve been fighting off and on for independence ever since. A particularly nasty patch of history was when Cromwell led the re-conquest of Ireland after another rebellion in the mid 1600&apos;s. His treatment of the Irish during that time bordered on the barbaric. On the whole, the Irish have some very good reasons to hate the British.<br><br>About the song itself, the lead singer wrote it after two young boys were killed by an IRA bomb in England while the band was touring there and it hit her particularly hard that innocent kids were being killed by the conflict, hence some of the lines and that&apos;s also why it&apos;s so politically charged.The video, which was filmed on the streets of Belfast with real footage of soldiers and whatnot, was actually banned on both Irish and British broadcast networks, because of the imagery. They used the band&apos;s live performance instead, wild huh? It&apos;s a great song though, a real classic anthem.

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  @DescriberBonnie · 1 year ago

  Recently when Delores died, the song was being played a lot, and &nbsp;people were talking about how she wrote it about those particular boys, and the father of one of the boys didn&apos;t realize it was about his own son. &nbsp;He was quite touched to learn that so many years later.

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• TA

  @TalklikeAPirate · 1 year ago

  ❤Dolores❤ gone of this world ♡always in our hearts😢

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• MU

  @mubbles1066 · 1 year ago

  Here’s what Delores said about why she wrote the song. “There were a lot of bombs going off in London and I remember this one time a child was killed when a bomb was put in a rubbish bin -– that&apos;s why there&apos;s that line in the song, &apos;A child is slowly taken,&apos;&quot; O&apos;Riordan told Songwriting Magazine. &quot;We were on a tour bus and I was near the location where it happened, so it really struck me hard – I was quite young, but I remember being devastated about the innocent children being pulled into that kind of thing. So I suppose that&apos;s why I was saying, &apos;It&apos;s not me&apos; – that even though I&apos;m Irish it wasn&apos;t me, I didn&apos;t do it. Because being Irish, it was quite hard, especially in the UK when there was so much tension.&quot;<br>She told Vox magazine in 1994 that the song was written in part as a mechanism to grapple with her identity as an Irish citizen that did not support the actions of the IRA.<br>&quot;The IRA are not me. I&apos;m not the IRA. The Cranberries are not the IRA. My family are not. ... When it says in the song, &apos;It&apos;s not me, it&apos;s not my family,&apos; that&apos;s what I&apos;m saying. It&apos;s not Ireland&quot;.

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• RO

  @robbo-yg1rd · 1 year ago

  RIP dolores oriordan &nbsp;will never be forgotten

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• AN

  @anthonyparker4334 · 1 year ago

  there are no sides when children are put through this

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• GR

  @GreybeardMO · 1 year ago

  Nothing &apos;Bubble Gum&apos; about the Cranberries. &nbsp;Delores was a bloody genius. &nbsp;True artist.

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  @Jude_196 · 1 year ago (edited)

  To be specific: this song IS about The Troubles in Ireland - but, it relates to a more-specific incident: Twelve year old, Tim Parry, and three year old, Johnathan Ball, died when two bombs hidden inside litter bins exploded in Warrington on 20 March 1993, while 54 others were injured. &nbsp;I&apos;m with you, Mike....senseless conflict when you&apos;re taking lives, that way.

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