Sinead O'Connor: C/D?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Bm9g6ceKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88wL8oRf45U

There's an old article on <a href="http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2002/10/argentina1/";>Freaky Trigger</a> where Tom reviews a bunch of covers of Don't Cry For Me Argentina and nails why hers is the best.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/irish-showbiz/sinead-oconnor-calls-kim-kardashian-6066869

Ha! She's always great when she kicks off!

anyone take a gander at her facebook meltdown? ugly stuff...yet reading back over it all in detail.... she sounds like she has some very legitimate concerns about her son. what ugly family business.

yeah harrowing stuff. i hope she get help. constant dram with sinead unfortunately.

drama

I feel like everyone's always been cruel to her, especially in the american media. Not an earth shattering revelation I know, just happened to be listening to Troy today

The peak of Sinead's fame and my SNL fandom both occurred at the same time, but even though I was a kid, I still got that the show (taking a cue from the larger media, of course) was especially brutal to her, both before and after the infamous pope thing. It made me all the more determined to root for her, and I still do.

She was calling attention to child sexual abuse over a decade before anyone else cared! That's what that whole thing was about! Fuck america seriously

Everyone thought it was just some sort of "edgy" stunt because they're morons

Perfectly irrelevant time warp for today, granted

I honestly remember Andrew Dice Clay getting more sensitive treatment from the media at the time.

I dont remember directly bc i was like four, but i've always known about that whole saga. Wikipedia says that madonna trashed her at the time

I remember thinking it was kinda cool but not thinking much of it & them finding out that american media was all flipped out about it was weird, like omg youys really

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhUzMGQLid4

Wow...that is hard to watch.

I see she's back on FB, having erased her plaintive frightening posts about being committed last year; and she also appears to be on tour? there's a rather great version of her doing Life on Mars from the other day. She looks fucking tough now, like, I would not fuck with this lady, she might put a bottle through my face.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkI6lzreh4w

oh that's a shitty version. Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNXYFOPRuQ0

^goosebumps^

Yeah, that was from a Bowie tribute concert here.

I think she's massively been treated like shit, and then every few years she does something great and people are all, huh, maybe we shouldn't have treated her like shit. I even liked her Sly & Robbie album.

goddamn that was so good

she's a total classic. i still love the incredible ballsy pope photo shred move and still hate how madonna kinda mocked it shortly thereafter.

Her reggae covers album is my go-to Christmas record.

Wish it included her Asian Dub Foundation jam, because this is so good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUVErnrbVEc
Awesome vocal, could imagine it sung by Kirsty MacColl.

pretty sure troy is one of my favorite songs

gotta be one of the most dramatic performances ever.

Was sinead the wellspring of the "growly vowel" phenomenon that has been a favourite affectation of a certain kind of female singer from the 90s til now?

more or less yeah

Wait was that Reggae album all Burning Spear covers?

reported missing outside of Chicago

Police in a suburb of Chicago are searching for Irish singer Sinead O'Connor who has been reported missing for more than a day.
Wilmette Police "are seeking to check the well-being" of the 49-year-old, they said in a brief press release.
Police were called after Ms O'Connor "left the Wilmette area" for a bicycle ride at 0600 local time on Sunday, and had not returned after more than a day.
No more information is currently available, police say.

Arsenio got her

She posted on FB two days ago that she was heading to North Carolina to protest

i see she's deleted that though

That's a long way to cycle.

Have it on pretty good authority she's been found safe.

Yeah, despite the URL this is good news.

http://wgntv.com/2016/05/16/sinead-oconnor-reported-missing-in-chicagos-northern-suburbs/

Listening to the Bowie tribute above is amazing, but watching it is a really strange effect - she's an old slightly dangerous looking granny on the mic, and then she'll turn and the profile + the lighting (+ the fact that it's generally when she's really going for the note) - she's reborn in her own skin, it's like Troy was yesterday.

Which isn't to say that she's best when she's harking back to the flush of youth - far from it, she's one of the artist where surviving would be its own worth, but she's done so much more than survive.

glad to hear she's safe. one of my favorite singers.

agreed. so wish I didn't have to click with dread every time this thread gets bumped.

I did give Lion and the Cobra a heavy listen after hearing about her disappearance. Like, okay, this might be the last time I get to hear this all without the thoughts of memorial and sorrow. But the next thing I did was google up DJP's Paul Mooney post.

Story is so tragic that even finding her has apparently not resulted in a happy ending (see: her most recent Facebook rant).

Top tip: don't see.

I hate to be all "won't someone think of the children" but any time I see Sinead news I think about how weird it must be to have her for a mother

the current situation seems weird. like, her 28 year old son is refusing to remove her 12 year old son from foster care and take him into custody or something. (the state won't allow her to take custody, it seems.) i would probably be mad at him too.

the thing with sinead is that she spoke up against child sexual abuse in the catholic church before anyone else in a similarly visible position did so. she took flak from basically everyone, who chalked it up to her being an "irrational" "crazy" woman.

i still think of her as an essentially principled, brave person who now seems to suffer from some kind of tragic mental illness which i don't know the details of.

never heard this before

For Sinead O'Connor, Love Willie - Don't Give Up - https://t.co/xbFXnQsH3i via @YouTube

— Willie Nelson (@WillieNelson) August 16, 2017

After that video she put up last week, this thread popping up made me think "oh no" - glad to be listening to that instead, her voice works perfectly.