Sinéad O'Connor: "I feel that having a No. 1 record derailed my career & my tearing the photo [of the Pope] put me back on the right track.”
"O’Connor saw herself as a protest-singing punk. When she ascended to the top of the pop charts, she was trapped." nytimes.com/2021/05/18/art…
"O’Connor saw herself as a protest-singing punk. When she ascended to the top of the pop charts, she was trapped." nytimes.com/2021/05/18/art…
Sinéad says her mom abused her as a child:
"O’Connor was 18 when her mother died & on that day, she took down the one photo on her mom’s bedroom wall: the image of the pope. O’Connor carefully saved the photo, waiting for the right moment to destroy it."nytimes.com/2021/05/18/art…
"O’Connor was 18 when her mother died & on that day, she took down the one photo on her mom’s bedroom wall: the image of the pope. O’Connor carefully saved the photo, waiting for the right moment to destroy it."nytimes.com/2021/05/18/art…
So much in here about misogyny in the music industry:
"When Sinéad O’Connor became pregnant in the midst of recording, she writes that the executive called a doctor and tried to coerce her into having an abortion, which she refused." nytimes.com/2021/05/18/art…
"When Sinéad O’Connor became pregnant in the midst of recording, she writes that the executive called a doctor and tried to coerce her into having an abortion, which she refused." nytimes.com/2021/05/18/art…
Origins of her iconic shaved head:
"She was still a teenager when an exec...told her to dress more femininely & grow out her close-cropped hair. So she marched to a barber & shaved it all off."
The idea: "an escape hatch from looking like a human woman"
nytimes.com/2021/05/18/art…
"She was still a teenager when an exec...told her to dress more femininely & grow out her close-cropped hair. So she marched to a barber & shaved it all off."
The idea: "an escape hatch from looking like a human woman"
nytimes.com/2021/05/18/art…
"What they did to Britney Spears was disgusting. If you met a stranger in the street crying, you’d put your arms around her. You wouldn’t start taking photos of her, you know?”
Not lost on her that people called Britney "crazy" for shaving her head. nytimes.com/2021/05/18/art…
Not lost on her that people called Britney "crazy" for shaving her head. nytimes.com/2021/05/18/art…
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