{"id":369725,"date":"2026-03-05T20:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/369725\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T20:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:16:16","slug":"sonique-i-didnt-want-to-write-a-song-about-rejection-i-wanted-to-write-about-how-powerful-love-feels-even-when-its-one-sided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/369725\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonique: \u2018I didn\u2019t want to write a song about rejection. I wanted to write about how powerful love feels, even when it\u2019s one-sided\u2019"},"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\">\nPeople have told her that her hit \u2018It Feels So Good\u2019 got them through heartbreak, illness and loss\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"British DJ and singer Sonique in London in 2000. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SF Record.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)\">British DJ and singer Sonique in London in 2000. Photo: Getty<\/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)\">Asked to describe the kind of woman she is, Sonique says: \u201cI\u2019m resilient. I\u2019ve been through lots of highs and lows including a health battle with cancer and I\u2019m still here, still standing, still singing.\u201d<\/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)\">Resilient is right. In the summer of 2009, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. A year later, following operations and months of chemo, she got the all-clear. To mark her good news, she released a version of Cyndi Lauper\u2019s Girls Just Want to Have Fun, to raise funds for Cancer Research UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People have told her that her hit \u2018It Feels So Good\u2019 got them through heartbreak, illness and loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[4747,18,117,19,17,23942],"class_list":{"0":"post-369725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-barry-egan","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-people-culture-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116178412631620168","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369725","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=369725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}