This song is by The Cranberries and appears on the album To the Faithful Departed (1996).

Fergal (November 2002, Hot Press) :

That was basically just because we were starting to get a bit of backlash in the press, not all of it obviously, but you read the reviews and stuff and you start taking them personally. That’s a song saying ‘Fuck you’ to the begrudgers, I’m entitled to my opinion, and if you don’t like it, fine, don’t listen to it, but don’t make a personal attack on me just ‘cos you don’t like what I’m saying.”

Dolores (Details, 1996):

That’s what “Free To Decide” is about. I’d been on tour for a year or so and I was feeling sick, so we canceled a few gigs we had in Ireland. And I woke up one morning when the doorbell rang, and there was a man standing at my door with a camera, and he said, “What? Leave”. I was frightened. And then that evening I was still feeling sick and really tired, but I went shopping, and the next morning I woke up and it was the main story in the papers: “She’s too much of a rock star now to do her gig in Ireland, and she says she has a sore knee, yet I saw her running into the supermarket”. And so in that song I was saying it’s not worth me turning into a real bitch and losing everything spiritually. Because I work too hard, and If I want to take three weeks off I’ll take them, and to hell with everybody else – it’s my life.”

Dolores (MTV, 1996):

The media started giving me a really hard time. There were just pictures of me kind of shopping, packing my groceries, on the front cover of all the magazines, all the Irish papers and stuff like that. And it was just kind of really bitchy on their behalf. And they were just saying that I was being a little pop star, and I was pulling the Irish shows — not caring, obviously, about how I felt as I person, as one side of the media can be like that. It can be very insensitive and uncaring towards many types of artists, you know?