Among Zombies, I CONFESS
Source: Rolling Stone (spanish)
Translated from spanish by Irish Girl
Date: june 2007
Reached fame with the Irish band The Cranberries. It was rumored that she would try it alone. Years has past, tours, childbirths ( three ) and a going down to her hell ( depression, anorexia, isolation and so on ). With Juan Pablo II blessing, Dolores O’Riordan ( 1971 ) returns with Are you listening? and starts her tour in Barcelona ( 29th May, Razzmatazz ): “Spanish fans shout me Lola at the concerts”.
Do you know what does “Dolores” mean in Castilian?
-Yeah, of course, calmness or loneliness, isn’t it? (*)
What is what you hate the most in interviews?
-When journalists start questions with “once you said…” or “I’ve read that…”
Well! I’ve read that you repeled a role in “Titanic”.
-Are you crazy? Someone must have put it on the Internet, but it’s completely false.
And what about your disagreeable polemics with your compatriot The Corrs? Also a rumor?
-They are adorable! I even know their parents. And my daughter is a superfan of theirs. Nothing, another lie.
Where are all of your piercings? You had a lot.
-I took them away. They are very bad for chakra, causing energy’s dispersions.
With this look, dark with long hair, you look like Courtney Cox, Monica in “Friends”.
-My husband says it. One day in Toronto, a guy came near me thinking I was her and asked me for an autograph.
Are you the richest woman in Ireland?
-I don’t think so. In any case it would be Enya. She is lining (*)
But you’ve sold more than 30.000.000 of albums!
-Really? I didn’t know it.
You should talk with your accountant more often.
-I still look at the costs when I go to the super. One day I bought a tshirt of 150 euros and I felt fatal.
By the look of things, you’re a dancing, in spite of that rare things, epileptics, that you did with The Cranberries.
-I’m good in Irish dancing. I learnt it when I was a child, at school, like when you’re young in Spain and you dance the typicall dance there, tango, isn’t it?
That’s Argentinian.
-Then, salsa.
That’s from caribbean countries.
-Flamenco? I love those spoted dresses (*)
In your career’s peak, you had a huge breakdown…
-We spent years touring and I couldn’t sleep. I slept 3 or 4 hours in a day. My brain didn’t work. I woke up in place where I didn’t remember how did I arrived to, opened what I thought it was the bathroom’s door and I was in a hotel’s vestibule with just my underwear…
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* “Dolores”- In Castilian, “Dolores” means pain ( physical and psycological ) or sorrow.
* “lining”- in Spain we use that word to speak about people who is very rich, but I don’t know if that’s the most correct word in English.
* “spoted dresses”- she is speaking about our typicall “trajes de flamenca” ^^ women wear them in April’s Fair, they are spoted and in lots of colours. I made a drawing for her where she was dressed in that way, with Irish flag colours I bought this magazin too and read this, and, in this way, she would remember Seville.
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