remember how any time mtv news or some other entity that dealt with kids needed to explain the latest bout ethnic cleansing, and how they always used the song ‘zombie’ ?

then the news package would, with the exception of the band actually performing, be virtually indistinguishable from the video itself, right down to the slow motion footage of tanks rolling.

the cranberries and tween/teen oriented news programming certainly got a lot of mileage out of a song that carries the message of northern ireland: there’s some trouble there, apparently.