{"id":796921,"date":"2019-06-19T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=849610"},"modified":"2019-06-19T10:00:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T16:00:26","slug":"the-cranberries-unveil-dreamy-animated-video-wake-me-when-its-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/the-cranberries-unveil-dreamy-animated-video-wake-me-when-its-over\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cranberries Unveil Dreamy, Animated Video \u2018Wake Me When It\u2019s Over\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/the-cranberries-album.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-cranberries\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-cranberries\" data-tag=\"the-cranberries\">The Cranberries<\/a> released a surreal, animated video for \u201cWake Me When It\u2019s Over,\u201d the third track off their final album <em>In the End.<\/em> The clip features a woman running past several painted landscapes, bypassing a dead lion and elephant that disintegrate into pieces as she picks up speed. Slowly, she evolves into a deer, then a polar bear, and so on \u2014 before transforming back to herself at the end of the video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFighting\u2019s not the answer\/Fighting\u2019s not the cure\/It\u2019s eating you like cancer\/It\u2019s killing you for sure,\u201d sings the late Dolores O\u2019Riordan. \u201cWake me when it\u2019s over.\u201d Her singular, searing vocals repeat the refrain during the the chorus.<\/p>\n<p>The video was made in a collaboration between the band and students at the Limerick School of Art and Design, located in the Cranberries\u2019 hometown of Limerick, Ireland.&nbsp;According to creative director Tom Clancy, the woman \u201ccould be interpreted as representing mother nature, through a feminine superhero who is attempting to overcome all that crosses her path. On her journey, she morphs into various animals whose habitats exist between land, water and sky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile \u2018Wake Me When It\u2019s Over\u2019 is obviously about Dolores\u2019 personal experiences, the directors take on it as a song about the destruction of our natural environment,\u201d drummer Fergal Lawler tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cIn keeping with her long held belief that the listener can always decide for themselves what any of her songs are about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the alt rock-star\u2019s tragic death in January 2018, <em>In the End<\/em> is comprised of O\u2019Riordan\u2019s posthumous vocals that were stitched together from demos. Released on April 26th, the record is the band\u2019s final release, as they have planned on disbanding.&nbsp;\u201cIt\u2019s the end of the Cranberries and so on,\u201d guitarist Noel Hogan told Rolling Stone earlier this year. \u201cI think it just brings it full circle. Everybody knows now that this is the final\u2026for us, definitely\u2026It makes it feel like a proper ending after so long spent with this thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-cranberries-animated-video-wake-me-when-its-over-849610\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cranberries released a surreal, animated video for \u201cWake Me When It\u2019s Over,\u201d the third track off their final album In the End. The clip features a woman running past several painted landscapes, bypassing a dead lion and elephant that disintegrate into pieces as she picks up speed. Slowly, she evolves into a deer, then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-796921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 12:44:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}