Sinéad O’Connor RIP (1966-2023)

[Wynn Chester]

www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-acclaimed-dublin-singer-dies-aged-56/  

[ontheslate]

No age at all, sadly had a lot of tragedy in the last few years losing her son at tragically young age.
RIP Sinead

[metro1962]

Really shocked news to hear this and at 56 too.😒

Controversial yes but she spoke a lot of truths even if you did not want to hear it.

RIP Sinead.😒

[gra966]

Although I wasn't a fan of her music , it is sad that another chart star from " our era " has passed , especially at the age of 56 , the same as me . R.I.P Sinead O Connor.

[McCann]

Sad news, not totally unexpected I think at this stage.
Saw her on stage in Dublin with the Pogues to sing 'Fairytale of New York' running up to Christmas 15 years ago. One song but it'd stick in the memory for years.
She had a fine voice.

[jjmolloy]

She was a complex person with a lot of mental health problems which she never tried to hide, an amazing voice, everyone knows that song but she did a lot of other work too which wouldn't have got much if any airplay outside Ireland. On Raglan Road, stands out for me. She was never at peace while living I think it's safe to say, she is at peace now. RIP Sinead.

[Arch Stanton]

RIP Sinead.

[AlanH]

RIP Sinead. Always felt that the music industry valued her talents but not her outspokenness. Troubled star who never sold out on her ideals.

[Arch Stanton]

Jul 27, 2023 11:16:24 GMT AlanH said:

Troubled star who never sold out on her ideals.

Probably because her opinions were quite contradictory and seemed to change a lot. From one pole to the next.

[AlanH]

Morrissey right on the money here:

“She had only so much ‘self’ to give. She was dropped by her label after selling 7 million albums for them. She became crazed, yes, but uninteresting, never. She had done nothing wrong. She had proud vulnerability … and there is a certain music industry hatred for singers who don’t ‘fit in’ (this I know only too well), and they are never praised until death - when, finally, they can’t answer back. The cruel playpen of fame gushes with praise for Sinead today … with the usual moronic labels of “icon” and “legend”. You praise her now ONLY because it is too late. You hadn’t the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you. The press will label artists as pests because of what they withhold … and they would call Sinead sad, fat, shocking, insane … oh but not today! Music CEOs who had put on their most charming smile as they refused her for their roster are queuing-up to call her a “feminist icon”, and 15 minute celebrities and goblins from hell and record labels of artificially aroused diversity are squeezing onto Twitter to twitter their jibber-jabber … when it was YOU who talked Sinead into giving up … because she refused to be labelled, and she was degraded, as those few who move the world are always degraded. Why is ANYBODY surprised that Sinead O’Connor is dead? Who cared enough to save Judy Garland, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse, Marilyn Monroe, Billie Holiday? Where do you go when death can be the best outcome? Was this music madness worth Sinead’s life? No, it wasn’t. She was a challenge, and she couldn’t be boxed-up, and she had the courage to speak when everyone else stayed safely silent. She was harassed simply for being herself. Her eyes finally closed in search of a soul she could call her own. As always, the lamestreamers miss the ringing point, and with locked jaws they return to the insultingly stupid “icon” and “legend” when last week words far more cruel and dismissive would have done. Tomorrow the fawning fops flip back to their online shitposts and their cosy Cancer Culture and their moral superiority and their obituaries of parroted vomit … all of which will catch you lying on days like today … when Sinead doesn’t need your sterile slop.”

Morrissey (26/07/2023)

[metro1962]

Not a fan of Morrisey but I agree 100% on that above.

[Arch Stanton]

Jul 27, 2023 12:56:28 GMT metro1962 said:

Not a fan of Morrisey but I agree 100% on that above.

Yeah I 100% agree with that comment too.

[ltd]

Jul 27, 2023 12:56:28 GMT metro1962 said:

Not a fan of Morrisey but I agree 100% on that above.

Can't stand the bloke, but he's not wrong. I don't suppose it'll do any good mind.

[AlanH]

Yes, I should say that I'm not someone who hangs on Morrissey's every word (thank goodness to some degree) or who has ever had much time for The Smiths, but can't fault what he's said there.

[thewoodster]

What a loss Rip