The one constant in Sinéad O’Connor’s musical journey was her refusal to be pinned down
She was, of course, aware of the power of her voice. O’Connor saw it as her great gift. She described herself as a “method acting” vocalist – her way of getting inside a track was to take on the full weight of its meaning. “I’m a singer as much as a songwriter,” she said once. “In a way it’s harder to sing someone else’s songs. Singing your own songs is a piece of p***.”
That, though, was just the beginning. She was always willing to try something different in the studio, and her catalogue contains a multitude. O’Connor was a molten mix of punk and siren on her debut album, The Lion and the Cobra. Further into her career, she inhabited a variety of guises – always making them her own. She was a singer for all seasons – one more reason why her loss is so deeply felt.
He was right. She walked out and blew the audience away. But she did more than that. She wore a onesie belonging to her son Jake – two fingers to the record executives who told her she couldn’t be a star and a mother.“I thought it was a little odd that they asked me to perform, because of the way I look,” she said afterwards.
The performance that pulled the rug from under O’Connor in the US. Saturday Night Live was a national institution in the US – and O’Connor was heavily criticised for ripping up a portrait of John Paul II after a flensing cover of. “But in the end, I don’t hold up the child’s picture. I hold up John Paul II’s photo and then rip it into pieces. I yell, ‘Fight the real enemy!’”The reaction was one of shock that quickly turned to hostility.
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