{"id":127698,"date":"2025-10-17T09:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/127698\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T09:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:15:11","slug":"imelda-may-on-making-music-and-money-her-new-tv-show-and-why-meat-loaf-stormed-out-of-their-recording-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/127698\/","title":{"rendered":"Imelda May on making music and money, her new TV show and why Meat Loaf stormed out of their recording session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAs Imelda May explores her relationship with the Irish language in a new TV series, she tells Kirsty Blake Knox about being embarrassed to speak it, the time Meat Loaf told her to f*** off, and why AI is terrifying for artists\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Imelda May examines her relationship with the Irish language in her new series \u2018Amhr\u00e1in na nGael\u2019. Photo: RT\u00c9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/F USE THIS JFP_8879.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Imelda May examines her relationship with the Irish language in her new series \u2018Amhr\u00e1in na nGael\u2019. Photo: RT\u00c9<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u2018The music industry is in absolute bits. It\u2019s in absolute bits,\u201d singer Imelda May says. We are talking about a video May recently shared on one of her social media pages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In the clip, Shirley Manson, lead singer with Garbage, issues an alarm call about how difficult it is for artists and musicians to make a living in the music industry and her band\u2019s decision to curtail touring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Imelda May explores her relationship with the Irish language in a new TV series, she tells Kirsty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17,2119],"class_list":{"0":"post-127698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-kirsty-blake-knox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}