Sinead O'Connor announces retirement.

(the skepticism here i think has to do with ms. o'connor's well-known tendency towards shrill drama-queenery.)

I mean, it's been some time since 1. April now...

Mari Wilson, Honey Bane, and Lene Lovich

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".

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.

Davlo: On The fucking Money ye are. Couldn't 'ave said it betta meself ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

But no plastic.

Sinead O'Connor interviewed by Christianity Today (don't miss this!):

http://www.christianitytoday.com/music/interviews/2007/sineadoconnor-0707.html