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The Cranberries乐队女主唱Dolores O’Riordan07年五月推出首张个人专辑。这张名为《Are You Listening》由先行单曲《Ordinary Day》为其开道。这张专辑由Youth和Dan Brobeck联合制作完成。录制工作则全部安排在O’Riordan在加拿大和都柏林的家中。 The Cranberries乐队的上一张专辑《Wake up and smell the coffee》要追溯到2001年，当时乐队宣称他们大概将在2004年解散。在一份声明中，主唱Dolores说；“The Cranberries之后的时光是一块白板——没有压力也没有唱片合约。生命中的第一次，我完全自由了。我没有顾忌，这便是我最先开始音乐生涯时所拥有的感觉。在这里，一切都一目了然。” “这张专辑唤醒了我的生命——一次我终于完成了的旅行。就好像是我跨过了一座桥，踏上了一个伟大的崭新的高原。我的生活和十年前相比完全不同，多了一种接纳包容的美妙感觉。再次发行音乐作品，这也是一段激动人心的时光。” 这张专辑共收录了12首歌曲，风格一如The Cranberries晚期的延续,编曲郎朗上口，歌词很符合她现在的生活,充满着母性的光辉,招牌式的嗓音依旧清冽坚强，除了处处依旧以吉他为主线,还加了不少风暴式的旋律金属,平稳时灵气飘逸，高潮时大气磅礴，完全的情之所至，没有丝毫矫饰的成份.在The Cranberries时代，由于词曲创作大部分都由Dolores包揽，所以The Cranberries的音乐很大比例是受Dolores的个人气质所影响和决定的。所以Dolores的这张个人专辑基本还是The Cranberries迷们喜欢那种特色. Dolores在意大利语中表示“痛苦”，在圣经里有个关于第七痛苦的故事。可能因为她是家里第七孩子所以得到这个名字。生下耶稣的圣母玛丽亚，如同Mercedes等名字都是用来颂扬及表示对Mary的尊敬。这是个神圣的名字，唤此名字的人，多具有文才艺术方面的才华，在写作画画方面多有成就。 O'Riordan was born September 6, 1971, the youngest of seven in Ballybricken, Limerick, Ireland. She was born into a "strict Catholic family",but doesn't go to church.She joined The Cranberry Saw Us in 1990. The band later changed its name to The Cranberries at her request. On July 18, 1994 O'Riordan married Don Burton, the former tour manager of Duran Duran. They had their first child, Taylor Baxter, on November 23, 1997, born during the break between the release of To the Faithful Departed and Bury the Hatchet. Their second child, Molly Leigh, was born on January 27, 2001 (coincidentally the birthday of her husband Don). Their third, Dakota Rain, was born on April 10, 2005. She was unsuccessfully sued by a former nanny, Joy Fahy, in 2004 for breach of contract. She admits to having gone through therapy early in her career after a nervous breakdown in 1994. O'Riordan lives in Howth, County Dublin with her husband and their four children (one is from a previous relationship of Burton's). She also has a log cabin in Ontario, Canada, a holiday villa in Benissa, Spain and a 150-acre (61 ha) stud farm, called Riversfield Stud, located in Kilmallock, County Limerick. She has owned it since 1998 and intends to build a new home and stables there. In 1990 Dolores O'Riordan auditioned and won the role of lead singer for a band called The Cranberry Saw Us (later changed to The Cranberries). The band released five albums Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1993), No Need to Argue (1994), To the Faithful Departed (1996), Bury the Hatchet (1999) and Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (2001) and a greatest-hits compilation entitled Stars - The Best of 1992 - 2002 (2002), before their foreseen hiatus. Throughout the '90s, O'Riordan was recognized for her constantly changing hairstyles, from shoulder-length to very short crop in a myriad of colors and shades. She usually performs barefoot on stage. In 2003 O'Riordan was to feature on the soundtrack to Spider-Man 2 with the song "Black Widow," but the song was eventually not used; the track appears on O'Riordan's first solo album, Are You Listening? instead. In 2004 O'Riordan appeared with the Italian artist Zucchero on the album Zu & Co., with the song "Pure Love." The album also featured other superstars such as Sting, Sheryl Crow, Luciano Pavarotti, Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker, Macy Gray and Eric Clapton. The same year she worked with composer Angelo Badalamenti on the Evilenko soundtrack providing vocals on several tracks, including "Angels Go The Heaven", the movie theme. In 2005 she appeared on the Jam & Spoon's album Tripomatic Fairytales 3003 as a guest vocalist on the track "Mirror Lover". O'Riordan also made a cameo appearance in Adam Sandler's comedy Click, released on June 23, 2006, as a wedding singer performing an alternate version of The Cranberries' song "Linger", set to strings. The first single “Ordinary Day” - was produced by BRIT Awards winner, Youth, whose previous credits include The Verve, Embrace, Primal Scream, U2 and Paul McCartney. Dolores made an appearance live on the "The Late Late Show" (Irish television) on April 20, 2007. Are You Listening? was released on May 4, 2007 in the Republic of Ireland. It was subsequently released in Europe on May 7, 2007, and in North America on May 15, 2007, with "Ordinary Day" as its first single, released in late April. The video for "Ordinary Day" was shot in Prague. In August "When We Were Young" was released as the second single lifted from the album. On November 19, 2007 she cancelled the remainder of her European Tour (Lille, Paris, Luxemburg, Warsaw and Prague) due to illness. On her official website she wrote this apology message: "Hello to all! Just a note to say sorry for canceling the tour, I need to rest a while as I have been traveling and touring for the better part of a year. The Doc says rest and I'll get better. I will come back in the new year. Love to you all and Happy Holidays! Sorry once again. -Dolores XX" Whatever the illness, it was managed or cured enough for her to perform a few small American club gigs in December, including Des Moines, Nashville, and a well-received free show in Charlottesville, Virginia.
英文名称：Are You Listening 专辑曲目： 01. Ordinary Day
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