Hello, welcome to Beth Roars,
where we look at your favorite singers
to find out what makes them them.
♪ Roar roar roar roar roar roar ♪
Rawr!
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This one has been asked
for loads in the comments
and you're in for a treat.
(audience cheering and screaming)
(guitar playing)
- Zombie!
- Wow, look at that crowd.
(rock music playing)
Imagine being on that stage, wow.
♪ Another head hangs lowly ♪
♪ Child is slowly taken ♪
♪ And the violence, caused such silence ♪
♪ Who are we mistaken ♪
- The first thing you can hear
is her accent is so strong on that er.
Really closing on the ers
and those throatic Irish Rs,
all that placement is so
Irish, it's really nice.
♪ But you see, it's not me ♪
♪ It's not my family ♪
- And here's come the yogo.
♪ In your head, in your
head, they are fighting ♪
♪ Fighting ♪
♪ With their tanks ♪
♪ And their bombs ♪
♪ And their bombs and their guns ♪
♪ In your head, in your
head, they are fighting ♪
- So you can hear how she's flipping
between hear head voice.
♪ Crying, dying ♪
I'm not doing it very well.
She's obviously a master at
her style rather than me,
but it is really really
interesting and unusual.
♪ In your head ♪
- People are (words drowned by
music) at this point in time.
♪ In your head ♪
♪ Zombie zombie zombie ♪
♪ What's in your head ♪
- That's interesting.
So, normally, with metals or scream
or in a rock sort of
setting, it'd be a bit more
of a forward-placed distortion,
but this is quite far
back, it's actually more
towards the growl of someone
like Christina Aguilera.
The (growls)
This sort of bass.
♪ Hey ♪
Which is really, really interesting.
I kinda learned to do this by
making the sound of my alarm.
It kinda sounds a little
bit like the Cookie Monster
and often, people get that before
they try and get the kind
of real metal distortion
because they don't bring
it far enough forward.
However, that Cookie Monster
sound has its own charm.
♪ In your head ♪
♪ Zombie zombie zombie ♪
- She's so cool.
It's such a sad story as well.
♪ Another mother's breaking ♪
♪ Heart is taking over ♪
- Over, really on the Rs.
♪ When the violence causes silence ♪
♪ We must be mistaken ♪
- Really far back on that.
♪ It's the same old theme since 1916 ♪
♪ In your head, in your
head, they are fighting ♪
- It's so interesting because you hear
a little bit of this yodo in Xiano singing
which is a traditional form
of Acapella Irish music.
And it's like she's
taken little bit of that.
Also, that is really highly ornamented,
really really fast little runs.
And you can hear that
no so much in this song,
but some other of The Cranberries music.
- Sing it!
♪ With their tanks ♪
♪ And their bombs ♪
♪ And their bombs ♪
♪ And their guns ♪
♪ In your head, in your
head, they are dying ♪
♪ In your head, in your head ♪
♪ Zombie, zombie, zombie ♪
- You can see here a lot, she is,
she's making these big
noises on unusual choices.
However, she's not paying any tension.
Her shoulders are not tensed,
her neck is not tensed.
She's just singing, it
looks really easy for her.
And often, this is what we do.
We think that if we put those of effort
and we'll make a really
nice, good, loud sound.
However, that is not always the case.
The more we relax on a lower voice,
the better you often sound.
♪ What's in your head, in your head ♪
♪ Zombie, zombie, zombie ♪
♪ Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ♪
- Full yodo
♪ La la la ♪
- Ah, bring it really far forward there.
Okay, so, Dolores O'Riordan's
life was quite a difficult one
and she had some really
horrible, horrible things
happened to her, her
father was brain damaged
after a motorcycle accident.
She grew up being sexually abused,
which is really really horrible.
And eventually, she died having
accidentally drowned in a bathtub.
It's one of those really, really sad tales
because I mean, she's a human.
And obviously, a very
talented human at that.
- We wrote this song five years ago,
hoping for peace in the north of Ireland.
Things are looking better than ever
so let's hope for peace for Christmas.
- And someone who wants peace.
(rock instrumentals playing)
(crowd cheering)
What an extraordinary,
unusual and emotional artist.
Thank you for watching,
I hope you enjoyed.
If you did, please do like and subscribe
and I'll see you in the next one, bye.
(acapella vocalizing)
Rawr!
