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"Zombie”—The Cranberries

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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How to Write Songs About Drugs That Feel Like Pop Songs

Dolores: I don't know if there's a trick to that or is that something you just do honestly with the cranberries it never even felt close to that right like uh i'm trying to think you know free to decide and in the course i'm not that suicidal anymore. It doesn't feel pedantic it also doesn't feel like um icky gross diaristic it like just feels like a pop song, she says. The songs were powerful they were fun they they never came close to to cliche or pedantic or anything like that salvation is an interesting one because there's a lot of like anti-drug songs right but this song is so catchy and so propulsive

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