As you probably know, Ireland had been fighting for its independence from England for decades. In March of 1993, a bomb was detonated in the town of Warrington, England, that had been left in a trash receptacle on one of the city’s streets, resulting in the death of a 3-year old and a 12-year old child. This tragic incident, combined with the decades-long ongoing conflict between England and Ireland (Delores O’Riordan’s native country), inspired her to write “Zombie”. If memory serves, she died in 2018 as a result of a drowning accident. One of the most unique and best vocalists ever. RIP Delores O’Riordan 🕊️🕊️😇🙏Peace my brother ✌🏾
@pepiblanco8 ай бұрын
Ireland not Scotland
@TommyLMason8 ай бұрын
@@pepiblanco Yep, my bad . But I had it correct in the beginning, and I don’t know what possessed me to write Scotland after that. Sorry about that. Ireland, not Scotland 🫡🇮🇪
@pepiblanco8 ай бұрын
@@TommyLMason all good. Kind of figured you knew what this song is really about. Lots of people sadly don't. BTW, I'm not Irish. Sentiment is still there. Be well
@TommyLMason8 ай бұрын
@@pepiblanco Same here, my friend. Not Irish, but the sentiment is definitely still there. ✌️ Edit: Corrected my mistake in my original comment.
@stephenthorpe35918 ай бұрын
Your first sentence is misleading. The Republic of Ireland (which is most of the island of Ireland) has been fully independent from England for a very long time. The problem is Northern Ireland. Even then, about half of the population of N.I. are loyal to England. The fight was really the terrorist war waged by the IRA. The Cranberries, being from the Republic, are basically just spectators of the fighting. It isn't their war. They don't take sides in the song.
@kareng46588 ай бұрын
This song does have so much power. It's timeless. RIP Dolores, what a talent and a beautiful soul.
@skinwalker_7 ай бұрын
This song is as relevant today as it was during the troubles.
@80sboy718 ай бұрын
Dolores was going to sing this song with Bad Wolves she tragically passed away the same day they were going to record it. Bad wolves went on and recorded and released it with all the proceeds donated to her children. R.I.P. Dolores
@ttrails12 ай бұрын
I once read that when a truce did come it was quipped by someone that they had better vote for peace or Dolores would write another song about them. In an interview with Dolores she said she was actually a bit afraid to write a song because she might get in some kind of trouble. Well she didn't and she did good! RIP Dolores
@lailachopperchops92908 ай бұрын
written by the lead singer, Dolores O'Riordan, about the young victims of a bombing in Warrington, England, during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
@InanaNinsianna5 ай бұрын
I love that you did both versions! Thank you so much!!
@martinbynion15897 ай бұрын
NE, you "got" this song from the very start! The best and most visceral response to it that I ever seen. Slainte!!
@marcburger84588 ай бұрын
She looked so fantastic in gold❤
@justinhowell88737 ай бұрын
She also utilized a vocal technique known as “keening” which is a traditional Irish form for mourning the dead.
@christophersmith70418 ай бұрын
Absolutely phenomenal a masterpiece and a No1 hit in 26 countries, great reaction thanks 🙏
@lauralattemann95368 ай бұрын
Hi, I love your reactions! 😃Amazing band, Dolores was one of a kind, so talented! Her style of signing in certain parts is called "keening", an Irish way of signing for funerals. You can find more incredible songs like : “Linger”, “Ode to my family”, “Dreams”. see you next time, cheers
@JmOnEyXz4 ай бұрын
She was amazing in all aspects, she is missed and will never be forgotten
@whamsie40228 ай бұрын
Yup. Still gives me the chills.
@ungenerationed90228 ай бұрын
Loved your take: when will it end? When indeed. People always want to know, whose side are you on? Let's all be on the side of innocent men, women and children dying in someone else's war.
@whamsie40228 ай бұрын
No phones in that crowd. The good, old days.
@worldfamouslanglois48058 ай бұрын
you are so wise bro.. the more you know the less you know -- as we understand things the more questions we have to discover. This song in particular, because of my family, makes me piss tears almost every time. She's spitting wisdom in this one bro
@JmOnEyXz4 ай бұрын
Great choice for a reaction. Dolores was a global treasure, RIP. Every time I hear this song I am transported back to the day she passed and instantly become emotional over the content of the song. Wonderful job again in your interpretation of the lyrics/video concepts. ❤
@zacharywood61388 ай бұрын
Very good reaction, good job, it's nice to see there are some reactors that care and have a brain.
@theneverenderreacts8 ай бұрын
I appreciate that
@Catstales4you8 ай бұрын
Another beautiful soul and powerful voice gonna way too soon. Great reaction
@brooke32937 ай бұрын
U have a keen ear & open heart makes for a great reaction ❤️
@garywest98198 ай бұрын
Great reaction video. This song is iconic from that time. Loved your appreciation of her voice and the amazing Drummer!
@winny94mc3 ай бұрын
Best reaction iv seen on this song, i clearly feel u bro 🙏🙏
@scottyscot86 ай бұрын
A searingly emotional song,thanks for the reaction to a truly amazing track 🎼🎵🎵🎶🎶❤️⚠️🚸⚠️
@Erik_Danley4 ай бұрын
In the lyrics it has “and their bombs, and their bombs”. I find that really unexpected and powerful
@philipkudrna56438 ай бұрын
The song was written in 1993, 5 years before in 1998 the „Good Friday Agreement“ was signed that brought a brittle peace to the region, that has been lasting now for more than a quarter of a century.
@Bob-p4x8 ай бұрын
Happy to come in first. What an amazing group and reaction. I love watching your reactions. A very sad song about children being killed in England during the Irish Republican Army wartime.
@Dani-EL19845 ай бұрын
M8 this is a very heavy song About the IRA , and bombing in 1993 where the life of two Young boys were taken. The woman singing was also An activist against all violence and war crimes happening in times when Ireland was critical. Also relevant these days as innocent kids are dying for example in Gaza in a war they did not choose for... Thanks for reaction video. Would really like to meet you one Day, the way you 'feel" songs is really interesting me.
@JohnHazelwood588 ай бұрын
"the drummer is killing it!" ... < yeah! the drums sounds like gun-shots on purpouse! :-/
@JmOnEyXz4 ай бұрын
oddly enough, sometimes people overshadow Dolores by focusing on the drummer
@crlosguzman3 ай бұрын
Great Reaction dude
@justinhowell88737 ай бұрын
She was from Northern Ireland and was singing about the Catholic-Protestant war in Northern Ireland in the 1990’s.
@leonamckenna59537 ай бұрын
She is from limerick..!!!
@arnodobler10968 ай бұрын
great reaction both versions yeah RIP Dolores 😢
@newgrl8 ай бұрын
Check out the English Wikipedia article "The Troubles" for more information on the civil war in Northern Ireland. The Troubles have been going on for longer than since 1916. That was just the latest bout of fighting. R.I.P. Dolores O'Riordan and your wonderful voice.
@hansmolders10668 ай бұрын
The kids were golden too! The issue was lighting. Back in the day they put more light on the kids and that changed the looks
@Dian-1331Ай бұрын
Dolores interview: What it was was we wanted an abstract message as well as visually the real, actual Belfast footage. The idea of the gold was my idea; I wanted to paint my body in gold and be all glamorous and beautiful and perfect and gold, you know. The cross was the director’s idea, and the cross symbolized Christ suffering and dying, and all the pain that was caused to him. And all the little kids on the bottom were all painted in silver, but they’re screaming. Silver and gold to symbolize the beauty that we see in the world or that we care to open our eyes to. Then the screaming and the cross and the real, black-and-white footage symbolize the pain that’s there and we close our eyes to: the children that suffer, and the parents and families that suffer.
@megdelaney36778 ай бұрын
💟R.I.P. Dolores O'Riordan
@leonavila10206 ай бұрын
yooo you need to do 115 - Elena siegman, her voice is so angelic but yet so powerful, the song is used in the black ops zombies soundtrack!!
@karenglenn67078 ай бұрын
As an Australian with Irish and English heritage, we always knew about the troubles. We grew up seeing it on the news all the time and I remember when two Australian men were shot in Amsterdam by the IRA in front of their wives in the 80’s as they had been mistaken for off duty British soldiers. Most people lost any sympathy with the IRA when they just indiscriminately planted bombs and killed innocents. It was truly disgusting.
@PeterOConnell-pq6io7 ай бұрын
Echoes of the artillery barrage and automatic weapons fire from the 1916 Easter Rising, and the firing squads thereafter, kept ringing in everyone's ears.
@angrychicken60938 ай бұрын
To quote Billy Joel; only the good die young. And,,,,, she was so good.😢
@ThisFiasco8 ай бұрын
No war but the Class War brother. Peace and love to you and yours.
@terrytibbs69097 ай бұрын
Always do the official video, the quality of sound is always better
@hansmolders10668 ай бұрын
And that is why Ireland is supporting Gaza, they know!
@mubbles10668 ай бұрын
Well I don’t know about that,it was written about an IRA car bomb in Warrington,England that killed two schoolchildren….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's why there's that line in the song, 'A child is slowly taken,'" O'Riordan told Songwriting Magazine. "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's why I was saying, 'It's not me' - that even though I'm Irish it wasn't me, I didn't do it. Because being Irish, it was quite hard, especially in the UK when there was so much tension." 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. "The IRA are not me. I'm not the IRA. The Cranberries are not the IRA. My family are not. ... When it says in the song, 'It's not me, it's not my family,' that's what I'm saying. It's not Ireland".
@karenglenn67078 ай бұрын
What a ridiculous comment!
@jeffcrosby-k7r8 ай бұрын
YOU are awesome
@EBoudreault8 ай бұрын
In this case she is signing about the catholic and protestant religion war going on since 1916 ...great reaction
@dickie36586 ай бұрын
Oh my God .
@bernardmalonzo59486 ай бұрын
Pls check this out CHAR OF FRANZ RYTHM FAMILY BAND RENDITION OF ZOMBIE 🇵🇭
@brockedwards58964 ай бұрын
You have to react to Kasey Chambers cover of Eminem's song Lose Yourself! You will be blown away!
@bigmatt28968 ай бұрын
Great reaction bro, when you get time please research the meaning behind this song as it has a very very sad story to it. also when you get time would you please react to the cover of this song by a band called bad wolves (must be the music video) again there is a really sad story to the cover version aswell. stay safe bro
@theneverenderreacts8 ай бұрын
I will, thank you so much
@bigmatt28968 ай бұрын
@@theneverenderreacts thanks bro you will love the cover of it, as far as covers go its about the best you will hear. looking forward to seeing it and hopefully you enjoy it
@michaels30938 ай бұрын
@@theneverenderreacts Yes this cover is a must watch.
@robertcastellanos29558 ай бұрын
Great song!! You shold react to the best rapper in spanish called "Canserbero"...you will not regret!
@dbohunt4812Ай бұрын
Check out Guns-N-Roses Paradise City
@alin_colin97608 ай бұрын
Hi, im new, i like your videos Have you ever listen to Jinjer Pisces live session? Or Molotov gimme the power?
@theneverenderreacts8 ай бұрын
Yes I have. It's on my channel
@DionisioAviles-t5v8 ай бұрын
👍👍👍👍
@stephenkozak73447 ай бұрын
you figure ot out if you just played it thru once, then reran it with stops... mebe)
@AK_J.Reed248 ай бұрын
Please set a bad word version of Zombie dedication to Delores
@DebiG10578 ай бұрын
Needless violence us evident when humans don't love everyone and share our cultures gently.
@der_greis_ist_heissl28168 ай бұрын
🤦♂️
@guilhermemiranda6318 ай бұрын
react exdous ''Blacklist'' pls man, PLEASE :(
@Xavier-Denis8 ай бұрын
Do a research on IRA, you will learn more on Belfast and this conflict.
@bernardmalonzo59486 ай бұрын
GOOD DAY SIR NEVER REACT PLS CHECK THIS OUT FRANZ RYTHM FAMILY BAND RENDITION OF ZOMBIE ITS A WORTHY TO WATCH THIS COVER MORE POWER TO UR CHANNEL SIR NEW SUB HERE🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭👍👍👍
@thomaskentgens72908 ай бұрын
never
@worldfamouslanglois48058 ай бұрын
She keening for the dead
@VonLigenstein8 ай бұрын
why ere their more people going to concerts back then... Dude back then Interweebs was in it's infancy. there was no KZbin... google wasn't even a rea word... streaming? okay now you're just making up words....
@zimbo65a8 ай бұрын
is this man blind or why has he no intention to watch the videos he is "reacting"?
@paulhadfield79098 ай бұрын
surely your reacting to the song, not the video tsk
@curtisain19318 ай бұрын
Pick some simple meaning songs that you will understand. You may not understand what is going on but you never listen to the lyrics ( I think you don't understand them) but you don't watch the video. Instead you pretend to be a head banging, grunting rocker.
@christophersmith70418 ай бұрын
Absolutely ruined this reaction with your ridiculous behaviour and singing over the Artist???
@theneverenderreacts8 ай бұрын
Fly a kite
@Desu-Desu-Chan-San8 ай бұрын
"Spiritbox - Circle With Me" is my suggestion. Great reaction by the way, your energy is great ♥