It's not like her song lyrics were ever peppered with "ye's".
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 April 2003 01:43 (twenty years ago) link
Can't a person change her mind?
I'm not really a Sinead fan, but I could see where earlier in someone's life they may have wanted fame but then for one reason or another circumstances change and the attention becomes upsetting or intrusive. It would be a bit hypocritical if she planned carrying on recording and touring, but since she's not I don't see what's so horrible about the statement she made.
― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 25 April 2003 01:51 (twenty years ago) link
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Friday, 25 April 2003 02:01 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 25 April 2003 02:05 (twenty years ago) link
― JesseFox (JesseFox), Friday, 25 April 2003 02:13 (twenty years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:13 (twenty years ago) link
(the skepticism here i think has to do with ms. o'connor's well-known tendency towards shrill drama-queenery.)
― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 April 2003 05:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 25 April 2003 05:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 25 April 2003 06:14 (twenty years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 25 April 2003 06:34 (twenty years ago) link
― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 25 April 2003 07:23 (twenty years ago) link
I mean, it's been some time since 1. April now...
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 25 April 2003 08:23 (twenty years ago) link
Mari Wilson, Honey Bane, and Lene Lovich
― We the undersigned, Friday, 25 April 2003 10:08 (twenty years ago) link
It's an Irishism yeah. I have to say her comments about "leave me alone" show an abysmal level of arrogance which she acknowledges herself with the lame disclaimer about "this isnt meant rude".
― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 25 April 2003 10:19 (twenty years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 25 April 2003 11:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 11:54 (twenty years ago) link
I wonder is her current retirement linked to the way no one buys her stupid records any more?
this is all a bit like the way Sinead O'Connor at any given moment has just come through a bad patch but is now alright.
any woman who voluntarily copulates with arch-reactionary John Waters (not the film maker) needs a lot of help.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:35 (twenty years ago) link
― mike a (mike a), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:12 (twenty years ago) link
Davlo: On The fucking Money ye are. Couldn't 'ave said it betta meself ...
― Jay K (Jay K), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 26 April 2003 16:02 (twenty years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 26 April 2003 16:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 26 April 2003 16:26 (twenty years ago) link
Last I saw of her, she became a preist or something? Eh, at least she's not boring. Honestly, the new wave of pop stars lack so much charisma compared to people like Sinead and Prince and MJ.
I also noted that, for someone who claims to have written at least half of her first album by the age of 15, she lacks anything even the most basic grammar skills.
PS. This made me laugh:
Yeah, how cheesy of her to write "ye" in emails... she should say stuff like "OTM" and "grebt" instead. Because there's no way her mailing list could have any in-group affectations or anything.
-- fortunate hazel (fhazel-l...), April 25th, 2003.
― David Allen, Saturday, 26 April 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Saturday, 3 May 2003 13:08 (twenty years ago) link
Great logic. Hypocrisy? I think not. I'd love nothing more than to make money off music and be left the fuck alone in real life. In order to do that, it seems you need to wear masks and use fake names like the Residents. Must get tricky copyrighting stuff privately under a pseudonym.
― Scaredy Cat, Saturday, 3 May 2003 14:21 (twenty years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Monday, 5 May 2003 16:19 (twenty years ago) link
― james, Friday, 30 May 2003 00:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 30 May 2003 00:43 (twenty years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 30 May 2003 02:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Sinead Fan, Friday, 18 July 2003 17:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 July 2003 17:22 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 18 July 2003 17:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 18 July 2003 17:42 (twenty years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 18 July 2003 17:48 (twenty years ago) link
Please, Ned, my hate-plate is full right now. I'm too busy being demonized by frothing DMB fans to re-direct my attention back to this ancient debacle. One customer at a time, please.
For what it's worth, at least Sinead made interesting music once upon a time.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:22 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:28 (twenty years ago) link
I think if you watched the VH1 behind the music episode of hers you might gain some understanding of her and realize that music was her way to get out of the hell she was living in.
I don't think anyone's decrying Sinead's troubled life, it's merely her ludicrous, self-serving, contradictory and utterly presumptious open letter that's the subject of ridicule here. However Sinead feels she needs to handle her demons is her own business, and good luck to her, but please....she should've thought twice before hocking up that dollop of phlegmy malarkey.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:36 (twenty years ago) link
― kephm, Friday, 18 July 2003 19:29 (twenty years ago) link
― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 02:22 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 02:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 02:26 (twenty years ago) link
But no plastic.
― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 03:21 (twenty years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 05:20 (twenty years ago) link
Sinead O'Connor interviewed by Christianity Today (don't miss this!):
http://www.christianitytoday.com/music/interviews/2007/sineadoconnor-0707.html
― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link