Allyson McCabe believes it’s time to reassess our old judgments about Sinéad O’Connor and to expose the machinery that built her up and knocked her down.Īddressing triumph and struggle, sound and story, Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters argues that its subject has been repeatedly manipulated and misunderstood by a culture that is often hostile to women who speak their minds (in O’Connor’s case, by shaving her head, championing rappers, and tearing up a picture of the pope on live television). For many people-including, for years, the author-what they knew of O’Connor stopped there. Two years later, an appearance on Saturday Night Live turned her into a scandal. In 1990, Sinéad O’Connor’s video for “Nothing Compares 2 U” turned her into a superstar. A stirring defense of Sinéad O’Connor’s music and activism, and an indictment of the culture that cancelled her.
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