Your comments made me realize an interesting contrast generationally between the "90s kids" like myself and today, and you pinpointed it in the music here - the sadness and grief. Many young people today actively avoid sadness, trauma, and grief, whereas our generation embraced it and sang about it defiantly, we doubled down on our trauma - and you hear that in the Cranberries or Nirvana or Pearl Jam and others like that. Interesting, I'd not made that connection before, hmm.
Born in the 80s raised by a single mother with 3 kids in the 90s and we are the sticks and stones generation and like she said in the song we really did give a damn at that time. Looking back we realized what we messed but at the time we didn't have any way to express it cause we all felt like does anyone care. We could surround ourselves with lots of friends and family but still felt completely alone.
@@joeevett9007 No matter the form of drug though, it was just such a seriously sad loss! She had such a beautiful if sad and soulful voice that showed the pain she felt in every song she sang! They were also very political as a group though too as per ‘Zombie’ which was all about the troubles in own homeland of Northern Ireland! I was so sad and shocked the day I heard Dolores had passed away as The Cranberries were an incredible group.
I love how you start jamming out to the intro, but as soon as she starts singing you immediately notice the tone is serious and you are quickly sucked in. Love your honest reactions.
The 90s were SO FILLED with songs with DEEP DEEP meaning. It was sooooo emotional. Nowadays we don’t get many songs that are Top Hits and have this much depth in their lyrics. These songs in the 90s (like Ode to My Family) were HITS.
Yay I'm so glad you checked this out! Love this song and love The Cranberries. You might check out "Linger", the first time I heard it I had to know who it was, it felt like she was singing everything in my heart.. I bought the cassette tape and just fell in love with this band.
Linger was the song that Hooked me!! The way Dolores' voice just Drags you in is AMAZING!! GOD Rest her Soul!! 😭 Breaks my Heart knowing she's gone!! 💔😭
Christina, I too bought the cassette single and played it over and over and over in my car every day for so so long, really amazing and beautiful song. Gosh I am right there all over again, good memories!!
From comments Dolores made on this song, she was feeling the pressures of being an adult and suddenly hugely famous and touring all the time and was missing being at home with her family. However, the line, "Understand what I've become, It wasn't my design, And people everywhere think, Something better than I am" is related to her self loathing due to her (at that time) secret sexual abuse experiences.
That's absolutely right.It's from her actually saying this stuff in an interview and her alluding to what everyone surmised to her 'secretive abuse' she never went there,but it's a drawn conclusion it was sexual. Dolores was always open and honest in a lot in the early years just a teenager out of high school when she first joined the brothers in the band.
After watching your insightful comments and emotional connection to "Zombie" I came over to this reaction video for "Ode to my Family" and now I'm subscribing because you "get it" without even knowing the background.
Thanks so much, this is my fav Band and probably my fav Song ever! This is not a political Song, she wrote this one when the Band was on Tour with much success and many Fans, but she was missing her family, her home and her childhood, so the Fans care about her, but do they really, like really care? Thus the repeated "Does anyone care?"☺ They are from Ireland by the way.
What a voice so unique so soft and at the same time controlled and powerful. God bless her soul. Our limerick Angel is sorely missed. Zombie , linger , dreams , empty (haunting vocals), dreaming my dreams and i cant be with you to name a few for start. Top reaction as per usual pal slainte from ireland 🇮🇪.
Wawww nice Said, the cranberries was one of my first bands and i fell in love with them, i feel so sad that i never whent to see them live on a concert. But back in those days i wa like 13 years old... bit i still miss her qnd love her...god bless Dolores O'Riordan... i still hear her songs when i feel down or bad. Sche is the best inspiration i ever had in my yunger days.... god bless Ireland... greetings from Belgium
Some of my favorite Cranberries songs are: Wanted, When You're Gone, The Icicle Melts, So Cold in Ireland, Daffodil Lament. There's so much emotion in her voice. It's good music to listen to when I need a good cry. Another good one from the 90's you should check out is Lightning Crashes by Live.
Without reading up on it, it simply seems like a lament of her finding the world to be a much different place than her first impression of it, which is her family.
so many reactions vids by others focus on aspects of the songs and videos, which is important, and you do that, but one thing i've noticed you often do that i dont hardly ever hear anyone else say is 'why', like, why did the person or group create what they created - what inspired the joy or rage or sadness reflected in the song. I've heard almost all of the songs you react to before, but hardly ever considered that question. thanks for that.
Also, the Ireland that she, and the band lived through was basically like Oakland during the 80s and 90s, bit with WAYYYYYY more bombs, "cops" and guns.
The republic was peaceful except for marches in Dublin and the burning of the UK embassy. But living with that on the news every night most people had extended family up there in the north.
@@charliegeorge9393 actually, I have been, and if the "troubles" had an impact , here , in the states, I really can only imagine the impact of even being a few hundred miles from northern Ireland at that time.
you need to research the history of Ireland, especially from the 1960-1998 to understand what their music is all about. Thanks for doing this, it is a long time ago I listen to their music, she was a genius singer!
Saw them around the UK as "The Cranberry Saw Us" , then The Cranberries, from 1991 each year to 1996. Mainly Sheffield, but also Leeds, Hull and other places. The band was really cool and friendly, Dolores was stunning and really funny.
Theres a comment on a different video where a local irish musician said The Cranberry Saw Us had a buzz around the scene and that everyone playing the clubs knew they were going to be huge after seeing them for the first time. He talked about hearing the mixes being cut for the first album around the studio and said 'yep, they're going all the way ".
I have seen The Cranberries twice. Once in the nineties in New Zealand and once not long before Delores passed here in London. Both times she had me in tears with that ethereal voice of hers. Magic!!
The song is about Dolores leaving her home in the country to become a singer in a band and even though there were conflicts (in the country and with her decision to leave the family home) she loved her family intensely. It's deeply personal. Joy leaving to be a singer, Sorrow having to leave her parent's family home to do it. Does anyone care is a reference to how it's a personal song which may resonate with someone but its for her first and foremost.
Love The Cranberries. Are you looking for more 1990s bands? If you are, try these: What's Going On by 4 Non-Blondes Deeper Shade of Soul by The Urban Dance League Jeremy by Pearl Jam Anything, anything by Soundgarden/Chris Cornell For 2000s go for Boulevard of Broken Dreams/Holiday by Green Day Cancer by My Chemical Romance The Kill by 30 Seconds to Mars
Abso-fuckin-lutely; check “Jeremy” by Pearl Jam! Pioneers of grudge rock, and one of the most fascinating and gripping songs of the 90’s, possibly beyond. It is 90’s music 101, cannot skip it.
« Does anyone care »… when you know what happened to her when she was a child, the repetition hits different. Your « analyses », like I don’t know, you feel it… pure feeling. Awesome…
"What was the political comment..." This is mainly about family and coming of age, but these guys grew up during "The Troubles" in Ireland. (A low buring 80 year civil war in Norther Ireland) If you want to see the political side of that, watch "Zombie" (esp the live version from Paris)
Low burning??? 🤨 Guess you never lived or ever visited the real portions of Co. Down, Co. Derry, Co. Armagh or even Co. Antrim. I was born earlier than expected (April 1970) in Béal Feirste, just before my parents planned to and did emigrate to America because they did not want me to grow up in a war zone. I went back in the early 1990s to live with and care for my Great Auntie while attending grad school…why don’t you visit around July 12th even now and tell ME it’s low burning in THE SIX COUNTIES 😒 People think that since the Easter agreement in 1998 solved everything…🙄
@@user-lw6pq1gs8p I was born a Irish Catholic 'orangeman' in Derry of Parents that never had a Brit passport but where born british in Ireland. Relatives died in WWII for RAF and others SF political figures 'on the run'. I knew personally life as a wide eyed boy before '69 in N.Ireland and friends of many sides and class. The stories and experiences I had could fill a few books or songs but what really troubled me was the time after the day when milk stopped being delivered to the front door, sometimes had doorkeys left for the milkman. The reasons did not matter. Ireland had a greater spirit that was dimmed after '69, IMHO but regardless of personal traumas or troubles. However, the character of the island, still sings, dance, write and joke about everyday life. Many international stars stem from the relatively unknown little island and may still reference more about the no milk on the Doorways and really never know why that is more relevant in their lives.
This gives me serous nostalgia vibes. This is one of the songs that remind me of a time when my 10 year old eyes only saw America through a television that barely receives MTV.
Im a big fan of The Cranberries since 1994 they did until today and forever. I hear her every single day everyday. Some part of the lyrics picturing her childhood which she had sexual abuse / harassment from some respective family friend (suspected the church pastor). I got it from some news article. She also suffered from mild bipolar due to her depression, being hugely successful, but meanwhile nobody cares about the traumas she holds. And she needs to appear "Being OK" as the Front Lady of the HUGE CRANBERRIES. I LOVE HER until forever. RIP my Queen Dolores. Your forever fan, From Jakarta Indonesia. I heard you since 1994, and until forever. Your songs are part of my life and breath. Rest In Peace my Angel Dolores .....❤
Dolores was diagnosed with several Bipolar Disorder in 2015, but she suffered with it from the time she was a teenager. She was a truly troubled individual, and it eventually took her life. That's why her music was always so haunting, and would often be both happy and sad at the same time.
"Does anyone care....?" ..she left home to pursue her musical career. Wrote this song on her first tour of the U.S. where the Cranberries were huge from the success of their debut album. She missed her family, her country, her simple life. The lyrics are about her missing the simple times versus what the people/her fans thought she was or should be. Tragic end to her story after struggling with untreated childhood trauma. RiP
It's funny, I can listen to this song & just jam, but other times it reminds me of when I was a teen in the 90's, a child of divorce with parents who decided to go live their own lives without me & the isolation & hurt I felt at that time. Songs like this can cut to the heart of you & bare old wounds that you think have healed. Hope you enjoyed it & in 20 years, you may have your own song that brings you to a moment in your life when you reflect on who you were & who you've become
It's about her missing her family and regrets what she's become which was an alcoholic. She was still an angel though. She died in her bathtub in I think 2018. A beautiful voice, just a tortured soul.
What is the meaning of Ode to My Family song? Lead singer Dolores O'Riordan was raised in the countryside of County Limerick, Ireland. This song is about her decision to become a rock star and the conflicts that decision caused with her parents and their Irish traditions. She sings it in a lullaby-like way as if reminiscing on her family back in Ireland.
I just found your channel! I love how you really take in the emotion of the songs and as a viewer we can see it. A lot of reaction videos feel a bit faked or cheesy, but you've nailed it. Subscribed!
So many memories flooded in the first minute I couldn’t listen to it. Tears. Grief. Loss and joy are all in this song. I like that this kid has the range and open mindedness to listen to anything.
They grew up in Limerick in the Republic of Ireland. There were no troubles there. The troubles were in the North of Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.
@@sirlordcomic thanks for your information... I didn't know that much. But it's still a war in their home country, so they were probably growing up with a lot of fear of the war they were seeing in the news.
4:05 -> you ask what happened to them to write something like this. If you read about the lead singer, Dolores, she had some rough experiences groing up, suffered some abuse, family house burned down... Some things will impact an artist later on, she was a song writer after all, so she carried those things...
I think the line "does anyone care" refers to the demands being placed on her and the band, fans wanted to see them, record company wanted them performing for years and years with no break and nobody except their families cared what it was doing to them and their happiness
The English have oppressed the Irish Catholic community since time immemorial. There’s a great book about this by Leon Uris called Trinity. South Ireland, mostly Protestant , conceded , whereas Northern Irish Catholics have not. This goes back back to when Henry the Eighth broke with the Roman church and declared himself head of the Church of England so he could divorce his wife to marry another. Lots of info on YT!
I think you might need to read Trinity again. The Southern part of Ireland became an independent republic afrter a war of independence and has a mainly Roman Catholic population (not that the religion is all that important because freedom of worship is constitutionally guaranteed). Six counties in the Northeastern corner of the island were retained as part of the UK and are known as Northern Ireland.
In addition to the other comments. It is also an ode to the scars of previous. We strive to be better, but the scars of the past pervade our desire for our future. And that is our legacy.
The writers of this song, and the creators of the video (and the video for Zombie) grew up in a war zone. People of Ireland killing each other over religious beliefs, if you can imagine such a thing. In parts of Ireland, this has been going on for over 100 years, it's the Catholics vs the Protestants. The political climate is also very volatile. So glad I was born and raised in the US.
You should try Castaway Angels by Leprous. It took me some time to adjust to the sound of the Cranberries. Leprous too. But they've changed my appreciation of music.
Her singing was based on a style called keenig. You should look up the struggles of the Irish still going on today. When we immigrated to America businesses had signs that said "irish need not apply"
Keep doing your reactions the way you are, the genuineness of your reactions is appreciated, you're right researching beforehand would detract from that. To answer your question about the upbringing of the singer/writer, read a little about "the troubles" in Ireland, as i'm not Irish there's no way I could do it justice trying to explain it, I doubt if anyone could in the limited space of a YT comment. This is a big rabbit hole to fall down and you'll probably learn some American history that you probably weren't taught while you're at it.
I love that you don’t research the song you’re about listen. Your reaction is pure. I love The Cranberries. Her voice give me chills every time. I have the privilege to say I saw them live in Montreal on one of their tours. Rest in power Dolores.
If you want to try another heavier song from them, check out “Promises”. It’s one of the Cranberries lesser known harder songs similar in sound to Zombie.
The Cranberries were an Irish Rock band formed in 1989.Ireland suffered from a continuous series of civil strife through most of the 1900s, with a second civil war between the IRA and the British during the 1980s and ‘90s.
What a great time it was to be a teenager listening to moody 90s grunge like this Irish emo. Lol but seriously, the Cranberries, great group. I love the stories they tell about their country and the impact it had on them. Rage Against the Machine is another great political “grunge” group I loved form the 90s. Like “Killing In the Name of”. I love watching your first impression and interpretation from your eyes. It reminds me when I first listened to this stuff and all the memories flooding back of friends listening with me. Yay! Music is awesome. I think you should dive into some female angst songs by female writers/ musicians with the roe v wade bs coming up. You are just scratching the surface with Dolores.
This song is about family and how it feels to be separated from them, the memories and learned values and love.. she misses them. Wrote this song while away and chasing her dream.
I'm from 50 miles from her home and as an Irish person from that time 'DOES ANYONE CARE ''would mean, she is going through the trials of life ,but she's not expecting anyone to help ,because everyone around her has troubles that are just as bad for them and she's not asking for help ,because everyone is going through bad times?
Can you please react to Sinead O'Connor - "nothing compares to you" Pleaseeee? omg I'd love to see that! It's a super powerful emotional song that she sings from her soul. It makes me cry everytime. I think you would appreciate it.
Your comments made me realize an interesting contrast generationally between the "90s kids" like myself and today, and you pinpointed it in the music here - the sadness and grief. Many young people today actively avoid sadness, trauma, and grief, whereas our generation embraced it and sang about it defiantly, we doubled down on our trauma - and you hear that in the Cranberries or Nirvana or Pearl Jam and others like that. Interesting, I'd not made that connection before, hmm.
Well said!
Yes. We did embrace our sadness and it made us stronger. 💛
People have made comments about our movies and cartoons as well. Dark. We didn't F around. Our monsters were SCARY, not sparkly vampires.
@@ShieAyla Oh yeah that's a good point - totally
Born in the 80s raised by a single mother with 3 kids in the 90s and we are the sticks and stones generation and like she said in the song we really did give a damn at that time. Looking back we realized what we messed but at the time we didn't have any way to express it cause we all felt like does anyone care. We could surround ourselves with lots of friends and family but still felt completely alone.
Ode To My Family was written about O’Riordon’s choice to pursue her music career much to the disapproval of her parents.
maybe they were right , she's already dead from fentanyl I believe... very sad ..
@@kevinverduci7600 you'd be wrong in the cause of death, it was an accidental drowning.
@@kevinverduci7600 Alcohol intoxication while bathing and she passed out and drowned, correct premise just a different drug.
@@joeevett9007 😞
@@joeevett9007 No matter the form of drug though, it was just such a seriously sad loss! She had such a beautiful if sad and soulful voice that showed the pain she felt in every song she sang! They were also very political as a group though too as per ‘Zombie’ which was all about the troubles in own homeland of Northern Ireland! I was so sad and shocked the day I heard Dolores had passed away as The Cranberries were an incredible group.
I love how you start jamming out to the intro, but as soon as she starts singing you immediately notice the tone is serious and you are quickly sucked in. Love your honest reactions.
Lol iwas thinking to myself he won't be moving around for long more when it kicks in.
The 90s were SO FILLED with songs with DEEP DEEP meaning. It was sooooo emotional. Nowadays we don’t get many songs that are Top Hits and have this much depth in their lyrics. These songs in the 90s (like Ode to My Family) were HITS.
bollocks
Not just the 90s but the 80s and 70s too.
Yay I'm so glad you checked this out! Love this song and love The Cranberries. You might check out "Linger", the first time I heard it I had to know who it was, it felt like she was singing everything in my heart.. I bought the cassette tape and just fell in love with this band.
Linger was the song that Hooked me!! The way Dolores' voice just Drags you in is AMAZING!! GOD Rest her Soul!! 😭 Breaks my Heart knowing she's gone!! 💔😭
Another great Cranberries song! Love Linger!
Let's show my age...I fell in love with "Linger" the first time I heard it in junior high.
Christina, I too bought the cassette single and played it over and over and over in my car every day for so so long, really amazing and beautiful song. Gosh I am right there all over again, good memories!!
Linger is awesome and not as sad as this or Zombie!
"It's like they're being sacrificed, but for what?"
Exactly.
You're right her voice has love and pain both✌
From comments Dolores made on this song, she was feeling the pressures of being an adult and suddenly hugely famous and touring all the time and was missing being at home with her family. However, the line, "Understand what I've become, It wasn't my design, And people everywhere think, Something better than I am" is related to her self loathing due to her (at that time) secret sexual abuse experiences.
So glad to hear that this was an emotion in the song, because I love this song but always felt there was sexual abuse happening from her emotions
That's absolutely right.It's from her actually saying this stuff in an interview and her alluding to what everyone surmised to her 'secretive abuse' she never went there,but it's a drawn conclusion it was sexual. Dolores was always open and honest in a lot in the early years just a teenager out of high school when she first joined the brothers in the band.
After watching your insightful comments and emotional connection to "Zombie" I came over to this reaction video for "Ode to my Family" and now I'm subscribing because you "get it" without even knowing the background.
Same here!✋🏽 I find he’s a very sympathetic soul! ❤️
you key in real quick to the deeper bits of the music, man. it's impressive. one of the reasons i subbed QUICK when i started watching your vids
100% this
Thanks so much, this is my fav Band and probably my fav Song ever! This is not a political Song, she wrote this one when the Band was on Tour with much success and many Fans, but she was missing her family, her home and her childhood, so the Fans care about her, but do they really, like really care? Thus the repeated "Does anyone care?"☺ They are from Ireland by the way.
What a voice so unique so soft and at the same time controlled and powerful. God bless her soul. Our limerick Angel is sorely missed. Zombie , linger , dreams , empty (haunting vocals), dreaming my dreams and i cant be with you to name a few for start. Top reaction as per usual pal slainte from ireland 🇮🇪.
Wawww nice Said, the cranberries was one of my first bands and i fell in love with them, i feel so sad that i never whent to see them live on a concert. But back in those days i wa like 13 years old... bit i still miss her qnd love her...god bless Dolores O'Riordan... i still hear her songs when i feel down or bad. Sche is the best inspiration i ever had in my yunger days.... god bless Ireland... greetings from Belgium
Yes, you described that very well! The Irish are the only people I know who can be happily sad & sadly happy with grace and ease.
Some of my favorite Cranberries songs are: Wanted, When You're Gone, The Icicle Melts, So Cold in Ireland, Daffodil Lament. There's so much emotion in her voice. It's good music to listen to when I need a good cry.
Another good one from the 90's you should check out is Lightning Crashes by Live.
Yes all of those are not requested enough!
Was gonna say When You're Gone & Salvation for some contrast. Lightning Crashes though...do you wanna break him?
Lightning Crashes is such an amazing song! It's my favorite song from Live. Such a great band.
Thanks a lot for making me aware of the existence of "Lightning Crashes".
OMG what a song.
Without reading up on it, it simply seems like a lament of her finding the world to be a much different place than her first impression of it, which is her family.
so many reactions vids by others focus on aspects of the songs and videos, which is important, and you do that, but one thing i've noticed you often do that i dont hardly ever hear anyone else say is 'why', like, why did the person or group create what they created - what inspired the joy or rage or sadness reflected in the song. I've heard almost all of the songs you react to before, but hardly ever considered that question. thanks for that.
Also, the Ireland that she, and the band lived through was basically like Oakland during the 80s and 90s, bit with WAYYYYYY more bombs, "cops" and guns.
Cork was generally peaceful here but in Northern Ireland it was crazy. People in Belfast lived through hell.
The republic was peaceful except for marches in Dublin and the burning of the UK embassy. But living with that on the news every night most people had extended family up there in the north.
@@jgg59 indeed, and, just with the "looming" threat, just being in that kind of proximity has to be somewhat traumatic.
they were from Limerick, please don't make ignorant assumptions about somewhere you've never been too.
@@charliegeorge9393 actually, I have been, and if the "troubles" had an impact , here , in the states, I really can only imagine the impact of even being a few hundred miles from northern Ireland at that time.
you need to research the history of Ireland, especially from the 1960-1998 to understand what their music is all about. Thanks for doing this, it is a long time ago I listen to their music, she was a genius singer!
You should start in 1916, not 1960
Definitely read up on the history of Ireland. 1916 and the rise of the troubles and the IRA.
Saw them around the UK as "The Cranberry Saw Us" , then The Cranberries, from 1991 each year to 1996. Mainly Sheffield, but also Leeds, Hull and other places. The band was really cool and friendly, Dolores was stunning and really funny.
Theres a comment on a different video where a local irish musician said The Cranberry Saw Us had a buzz around the scene and that everyone playing the clubs knew they were going to be huge after seeing them for the first time. He talked about hearing the mixes being cut for the first album around the studio and said 'yep, they're going all the way ".
I have seen The Cranberries twice. Once in the nineties in New Zealand and once not long before Delores passed here in London. Both times she had me in tears with that ethereal voice of hers. Magic!!
My personal favourite is “Dreams”, but their songs are amazing .
The song is about Dolores leaving her home in the country to become a singer in a band and even though there were conflicts (in the country and with her decision to leave the family home) she loved her family intensely. It's deeply personal. Joy leaving to be a singer, Sorrow having to leave her parent's family home to do it. Does anyone care is a reference to how it's a personal song which may resonate with someone but its for her first and foremost.
Never read a more perfect summing up of a song's meaning, wonderful comment
Love The Cranberries. Are you looking for more 1990s bands? If you are, try these:
What's Going On by 4 Non-Blondes
Deeper Shade of Soul by The Urban Dance League
Jeremy by Pearl Jam
Anything, anything by Soundgarden/Chris Cornell
For 2000s go for Boulevard of Broken Dreams/Holiday by Green Day
Cancer by My Chemical Romance
The Kill by 30 Seconds to Mars
Jeremy will break him... That is a deeply sad song. Black would do the same. Both Pearl Jam classics, though.
Yes 👍
Definitely second thos list, especially What's Up by 4 Non-Blondes and Jeremy by Pearl Jam.
Abso-fuckin-lutely; check “Jeremy” by Pearl Jam! Pioneers of grudge rock, and one of the most fascinating and gripping songs of the 90’s, possibly beyond. It is 90’s music 101, cannot skip it.
Love Your Reactions Jojo!! You have a Great Spirit and are Honest with the new Music you React too, Love that!! Stay Safe and Smiling!! 🙂❤️🇺🇲
« Does anyone care »… when you know what happened to her when she was a child, the repetition hits different. Your « analyses », like I don’t know, you feel it… pure feeling. Awesome…
My favorite song of theirs...a gorgeous lament- very Irish
"What was the political comment..."
This is mainly about family and coming of age, but these guys grew up during "The Troubles" in Ireland. (A low buring 80 year civil war in Norther Ireland)
If you want to see the political side of that, watch "Zombie" (esp the live version from Paris)
Low burning??? 🤨 Guess you never lived or ever visited the real portions of Co. Down, Co. Derry, Co. Armagh or even Co. Antrim. I was born earlier than expected (April 1970) in Béal Feirste, just before my parents planned to and did emigrate to America because they did not want me to grow up in a war zone. I went back in the early 1990s to live with and care for my Great Auntie while attending grad school…why don’t you visit around July 12th even now and tell ME it’s low burning in THE SIX COUNTIES 😒 People think that since the Easter agreement in 1998 solved everything…🙄
@@user-lw6pq1gs8p I was born a Irish Catholic 'orangeman' in Derry of Parents that never had a Brit passport but where born british in Ireland. Relatives died in WWII for RAF and others SF political figures 'on the run'. I knew personally life as a wide eyed boy before '69 in N.Ireland and friends of many sides and class. The stories and experiences I had could fill a few books or songs but what really troubled me was the time after the day when milk stopped being delivered to the front door, sometimes had doorkeys left for the milkman. The reasons did not matter. Ireland had a greater spirit that was dimmed after '69, IMHO but regardless of personal traumas or troubles. However, the character of the island, still sings, dance, write and joke about everyday life. Many international stars stem from the relatively unknown little island and may still reference more about the no milk on the Doorways and really never know why that is more relevant in their lives.
This gives me serous nostalgia vibes. This is one of the songs that remind me of a time when my 10 year old eyes only saw America through a television that barely receives MTV.
Im a big fan of The Cranberries since 1994 they did until today and forever. I hear her every single day everyday. Some part of the lyrics picturing her childhood which she had sexual abuse / harassment from some respective family friend (suspected the church pastor). I got it from some news article. She also suffered from mild bipolar due to her depression, being hugely successful, but meanwhile nobody cares about the traumas she holds. And she needs to appear "Being OK" as the Front Lady of the HUGE CRANBERRIES. I LOVE HER until forever. RIP my Queen Dolores. Your forever fan, From Jakarta Indonesia. I heard you since 1994, and until forever. Your songs are part of my life and breath. Rest In Peace my Angel Dolores .....❤
I love seeing young musicians listening to the music from my era and the reactions y’all have. Much love to you! Keep listening 🥰🎧
Dolores was diagnosed with several Bipolar Disorder in 2015, but she suffered with it from the time she was a teenager. She was a truly troubled individual, and it eventually took her life. That's why her music was always so haunting, and would often be both happy and sad at the same time.
I loved how you were bopping until the moment she started singing and you stopped like a statue
"Does anyone care....?" ..she left home to pursue her musical career. Wrote this song on her first tour of the U.S. where the Cranberries were huge from the success of their debut album. She missed her family, her country, her simple life. The lyrics are about her missing the simple times versus what the people/her fans thought she was or should be. Tragic end to her story after struggling with untreated childhood trauma. RiP
It's funny, I can listen to this song & just jam, but other times it reminds me of when I was a teen in the 90's, a child of divorce with parents who decided to go live their own lives without me & the isolation & hurt I felt at that time. Songs like this can cut to the heart of you & bare old wounds that you think have healed.
Hope you enjoyed it & in 20 years, you may have your own song that brings you to a moment in your life when you reflect on who you were & who you've become
It's about her missing her family and regrets what she's become which was an alcoholic. She was still an angel though. She died in her bathtub in I think 2018. A beautiful voice, just a tortured soul.
Quick little interesting fact, when she first started singing she would turn her back to the crowd because she was so shy.
What is the meaning of Ode to My Family song?
Lead singer Dolores O'Riordan was raised in the countryside of County Limerick, Ireland. This song is about her decision to become a rock star and the conflicts that decision caused with her parents and their Irish traditions. She sings it in a lullaby-like way as if reminiscing on her family back in Ireland.
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So many memories flooded in the first minute I couldn’t listen to it. Tears. Grief. Loss and joy are all in this song.
I like that this kid has the range and open mindedness to listen to anything.
They're living in Ireland so they experienced a lot of violence in their childhood.
IRA...
There are very interesting documentations about it on YT.✌🏽
They grew up in Limerick in the Republic of Ireland. There were no troubles there. The troubles were in the North of Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.
@@sirlordcomic thanks for your information...
I didn't know that much.
But it's still a war in their home country, so they were probably growing up with a lot of fear of the war they were seeing in the news.
25 years of peace in North Ireland. Brexit is stirring old troubles. Pray for peace
You might as well just listen to this whole album!!!! 💕🎶
4:05 -> you ask what happened to them to write something like this. If you read about the lead singer, Dolores, she had some rough experiences groing up, suffered some abuse, family house burned down... Some things will impact an artist later on, she was a song writer after all, so she carried those things...
Some of her great less known ones Hollywood and Warchild. You should check them out too
Just watched your Zombie reaction, so glad to see that the Cranberries have you hooked!
The Cranberries " Linger" and "Salvation" are others to check out.
they are the Greatest Band Of All Time
One of my other personal favorite Irish bands U2. Loved dancing to their music videos with my cousin when they be on MTV.
I think the line "does anyone care" refers to the demands being placed on her and the band, fans wanted to see them, record company wanted them performing for years and years with no break and nobody except their families cared what it was doing to them and their happiness
What you could do for songs like this is look up the Wikipedia article or some other info during the outro after the song is over.
The English have oppressed the Irish Catholic community since time immemorial. There’s a great book about this by Leon Uris called Trinity. South Ireland, mostly Protestant , conceded , whereas Northern Irish Catholics have not. This goes back back to when Henry the Eighth broke with the Roman church and declared himself head of the Church of England so he could divorce his wife to marry another. Lots of info on YT!
I think you might need to read Trinity again. The Southern part of Ireland became an independent republic afrter a war of independence and has a mainly Roman Catholic population (not that the religion is all that important because freedom of worship is constitutionally guaranteed). Six counties in the Northeastern corner of the island were retained as part of the UK and are known as Northern Ireland.
@@mikekelly5869 you’re right , I got it backwards!
@@TheDivayenta We'll blame Leon Uris 😄
In addition to the other comments. It is also an ode to the scars of previous. We strive to be better, but the scars of the past pervade our desire for our future. And that is our legacy.
I like that when you heard the lyrics and the voice you went from boppin to this is real
This song beautifully designed.
Makes me cry every time I listen to.
Nothing else to say
The writers of this song, and the creators of the video (and the video for Zombie) grew up in a war zone. People of Ireland killing each other over religious beliefs, if you can imagine such a thing. In parts of Ireland, this has been going on for over 100 years, it's the Catholics vs the Protestants. The political climate is also very volatile. So glad I was born and raised in the US.
Wow!! You're a wise soul. You get it! Instant fan.
This song really brings me tears.
You should try Castaway Angels by Leprous.
It took me some time to adjust to the sound of the Cranberries. Leprous too. But they've changed my appreciation of music.
My favorite band in high school I got to see them in 1994.
It's melancholy. That feeling you get when looking back at places and people you know you will never see again
Her singing was based on a style called keenig. You should look up the struggles of the Irish still going on today. When we immigrated to America businesses had signs that said "irish need not apply"
Keep doing your reactions the way you are, the genuineness of your reactions is appreciated, you're right researching beforehand would detract from that.
To answer your question about the upbringing of the singer/writer, read a little about "the troubles" in Ireland, as i'm not Irish there's no way I could do it justice trying to explain it, I doubt if anyone could in the limited space of a YT comment. This is a big rabbit hole to fall down and you'll probably learn some American history that you probably weren't taught while you're at it.
Beautiful song. Thank you!
Gawd I ♥ her voice! Such a sad beautiful song
I love that you don’t research the song you’re about listen. Your reaction is pure.
I love The Cranberries. Her voice give me chills every time. I have the privilege to say I saw them live in Montreal on one of their tours. Rest in power Dolores.
If you want to try another heavier song from them, check out “Promises”. It’s one of the Cranberries lesser known harder songs similar in sound to Zombie.
For me, "Promises" is their best song.
It's nice to see you doing an actual first time reaction. I reckon most people have at least a little sneak peek first😄
I love the way her voice stopped you in your tracks….. happens to me every time
She was on tour and longing for home (Ireland).
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She was a refugee from northern Ireland.
Always cry when I hear this song alone
I believe this was the song she wrote in America when she travelled there for first time.
Dolores was a special one and always will be.
Irish civil war banged hard in the 80’s and 90’s. Irish Catholics vs the Unionist Protestants.
Masterpiece of a song.
My favourite 90's group.. Rip..
This song always always makes me 😭
My fav cranberries song!!
My mom had this cd when I was a kid and I “borrowed” it a lot and this song always made me cry. I was like 8 crying to the cranberries lol
The Cranberries were an Irish Rock band formed in 1989.Ireland suffered from a continuous series of civil strife through most of the 1900s, with a second civil war between the IRA and the British during the 1980s and ‘90s.
I absolutely love this song. It's great to see someone from a different country and generation enjoy it too.
Finally someone reacting my favorite song from cramberries
What a great time it was to be a teenager listening to moody 90s grunge like this Irish emo. Lol but seriously, the Cranberries, great group. I love the stories they tell about their country and the impact it had on them. Rage Against the Machine is another great political “grunge” group I loved form the 90s. Like “Killing In the Name of”. I love watching your first impression and interpretation from your eyes. It reminds me when I first listened to this stuff and all the memories flooding back of friends listening with me. Yay! Music is awesome. I think you should dive into some female angst songs by female writers/ musicians with the roe v wade bs coming up. You are just scratching the surface with Dolores.
This song is about family and how it feels to be separated from them, the memories and learned values and love.. she misses them. Wrote this song while away and chasing her dream.
I'm from 50 miles from her home and as an Irish person from that time 'DOES ANYONE CARE ''would mean, she is going through the trials of life ,but she's not expecting anyone to help ,because everyone around her has troubles that are just as bad for them and she's not asking for help ,because everyone is going through bad times?
my favourite song of them
So pleased you're enjoying The Cranberries. Have to agree with the people suggesting Linger! You gotta react to that one.
Northern Ireland in the 90s was pretty much hell from what I understand. IRA was on full blast back then
Truth via pain provided on the voice of a pasted angel..
One of the most timeless, moving tracks by The Cranberries. So good, nice one J :D
The Cranberries give you something to think about and at times to relate to in addition to making something beautiful to enjoy.
Loved you reacting to zombies and this as well
Definitely, my favorite Cranberries song. Linger was ethereal and Zombie was an anthem, but this song hits home.
subscribing / so great seeing u reacting to songs like these
Sinead O’Conner; nothing compares to you.
Can you please react to Sinead O'Connor - "nothing compares to you" Pleaseeee? omg I'd love to see that! It's a super powerful emotional song that she sings from her soul. It makes me cry everytime. I think you would appreciate it.
From Limerick in Ireland
The Cranberries Dreams is also beautiful
I think you heard the tragic nature of this song. The way she sang " He Liked me" struck me as being very telling. Everyone hears differently though.
I don't know how You keep missing the bigger hits by the Cranberries but I hope You continue checking them out.