The Icicle Melts by Dolores O'Reardon

The icicle melts was inspired by the awful real-life story of a two-year-old killed by two 10 year olds and Dolores O'Reardon is about to bring every ounce of her fury down on the word child. The Cranberries do not have the most natural or most comfortable relationship with rock stardom with fame they're soft spoken they're cautious, carefully navigating the transition from limerick ireland to being a zillion album selling international colossus internally. By design Dolores is far more prominent and far more exposed to the lousy or more invasive tabloid-esque aspects of fame than her bandmates so now she's the one in the big rolling stone story talking about