February 16, 2011
By Staff Reporter
According to showbizireland.com, pixie-ish singer Dolores O’Riordan made the announcement at a press conference last week.
“It’s a much needed break,” she said. “It was getting predictable and lacking in challenge. It’s time to experiment.”
Cynics might point out that the band’s last two albums, 1999’s “Bury the Hatchet” and 2001’s “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee” failed to break into the American charts, but sure, that’s beside the point. Especially since it featured such deathless lyrics as:
“Come on and
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up
Shatter, shatter, shatter, shatter
It’s time, smell the coffee, the coffee
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up
Shatter, shatter, shatter, shatter
This time smell the coffee, the coffee.”
Hmmm . . we smell a (fresh-roasted) marketing opportunity there. Folgers, Starbucks, are you listening?
Anyway, the band says that they will pursue solo projects. But a visit to their official website, www.cranberries.com, assures visitors that this is just a temporary hiatus. No need to argue. Time will tell.
In more Dolores news, the singer seems to be stepping right into the controversial boots left vacant by the recently retired Sinead O’Connor. She has recorded a track for Mel Gibson’s upcoming film, “The Passion,” which is driving religious leaders around the bend. Dolores recorded the song in Latin without musical accompaniment, which, she said, was like “going back to my roots, because I did Latin in school.” (Hmmm . . . is there a Latin word for “boycott”?)