On September 27, 1994, the second album "No Need To Argue" - "No More Argue" was released. It is their most successful album, selling over 15 million copies worldwide. The band has also become one of the world's top bands. Among them, singles such as "Zombie" - "The Walking Dead" and "Ode To My Family" - "Dedicated to My Family" have become champion songs around the world.
The following answer reference-(Fuji and Ryoma - Assistant Level 3)
zombie, Oxford annotated as zombie, Chinese translation as walking dead.
This is an anti-war song. Specifically, anti-Irish Civil War. The Irish people, who have suffered from war, have never bent the backbone of their nation. The lead singer is Dolores from The Cranberries. She angrily performs this song with her unique Irish coloratura and explosive singing voice.
The Cranberrie Band is known as the greatest alternative rock band in the history of Irish music. The unique singing voice of lead singer Dolores, sometimes soft and light, sometimes powerful and loud, has attracted countless fans around the world. They use Irish neo-folk music style, delicate comfort, and melancholy melodies to sing their philosophy of advocating peace and caring for the world. Dolores' soft and high-pitched singing voice has become the target of imitation by Hong Kong and Taiwan artists such as Faye Wong, Fan Xiaoxuan, Xin Xiaoqi, etc. Among them, "Dreams" is the original English version of Faye Wong's "Dream Man". It can be heard that Faye Wong's singing style almost completely imitates Dolores's singing style.
The Cranberrie band is like a purple rose falling rapidly from an unattainable branch, walking against the wind with a melancholy expression. The wind carries the fragrance of Irish grass and the faint reverberation of the reed pipe, a purple band. , the elegant and irregular arc traces across the gray sky, and its end point is a clear rose carving on a wind-eroded rock. Behind the solemnity and sadness is tenacious optimism and the power of life.
All the songs of The Cranberries revolve around a theme - shouting for peace. They lament for the children who died in the war and for the people who lost their homes. They are the best among them, starting from Dublin in 1916 Since the outbreak of the anti-British "Easter Rising", this country that has suffered so much in history has never stopped raising its anti-war banner with songs. This song was written during the conflict between Ireland and Britain, when two children were bombed. Death.
The Cranberries use a sad slow beat to describe the gray war scars and the innocent children playing games under the surveillance of soldiers with submachine guns. It is cruel and real. Dolores in the main song seems careless. Singing, a touch of sadness, calmness and alienation, the surging emotions are concealed by the suppressed voice without leaving any trace, and there is a gentle pain in the heart. When it comes to the chorus, Dolores uses the change and prolongation of the ending to express loud accusations and condemnations , the anger reached the extreme, and any description or modification seemed incomprehensible and pale. Only the curse that broke out was so sonorous. This kind of anger burst out from Dolores's throat, with the cry of the peak of grief.
In her tearing voice, I saw a broken face, full of stubbornness and anger, like a petrel, washed in the turbulence of the storm into the lucky green light of Irish mythology, crossing the ocean in an instant.