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OT RIP Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries

Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd

This is off topic, I know, but I wonder if I might be allowed to indulge myself for a moment here.


As much as I'm inspired by celebrities and their work, I'm saddened by them, too, sometimes.  I know it's dumb, I have enough grief in my life as it is that I don't need to borrow any from the rich and famous I don't even know.  However, I'm old enough that I am a Cranberries fan from back in the 1990s, when the band broke through.  Hearing this week that she died at age 46 got to me.


So the death of Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries got to me, especially since this article about her death mentioned that she was abused at age 8, 2 years before I was when I was 10 years old.  


https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/how-dolores-oriordan-die-cranberries-11856734


RIP, Dolores.  Your legacy does "Linger."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Kspj3OO0s


nancy6464
nancy6464
Hugs. It doesn’t feel off topic to me~
Jillsaundars
Jillsaundars
I especially loved the song zombie

Hugs
arfie
arfie
If filtering the pain of my life through celebrities and their art is dumb, just give me directions to the dumbass gallery. It's where I belong. I am utterly convinced that is what all the varieties of art are for.

"Zombie" captures the hell of PTSD better than any artistic expression I have beheld.
Community LeaderLeo
Leo
Ditto on "Zombie". PEople wondered why that song resonated over the years. That's why, for me.
LillyPotter
LillyPotter
i'm with everyone on how i process so much thru music. for, i don't even know, how many years, it was the only way i had to feel feelings.

the singers of songs, the writers of lyrics and the singers of songs expressed what i could not and didn't even know i had in me that needed feeling.

thanks for this, muj xo
Community LeaderSunCloudJD
SunCloudJD
I agree as well.... I was really effected when David Bowie died and huge when John Lennon was shot

Big hug muji..... I think compassion is always welcome

Musk wrote to me and I agree that "I hope there are some brownies on the other side"
BlueSky
BlueSky
WHAT? The cranberries singer is gone?! I love that band and was just listening to them. I have nice memories tied to their music. I remember popping their tapes in my walkman and their music taking my mind to happy places... somewhere not of my life... and not of this world. RIP, Delores :(
lilmissy7
lilmissy7
Yea I read the article I teared up a bit, I don’t think it’s dumb at all or off topic ether.
Gentlest of hugs <3
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