Posted on 07/26/2023 8:06:01 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Such a striking voice, such a talented songwriter, such a troubled individual, Sinéad O’Connor is dead at the age of 56.
O’Connor’s cause of death hasn’t been announced as I write these words but I reacted to the news with the same utter lack of surprise when George Michael died on Christmas Day, 2016. Apparently deeply unhappy, Michael had been casually working towards ending it all with a combination of drugs and anonymous sex. With her troubled history, it was my sad conclusion 30 years ago that O’Connor would not live a terribly long life.
She hit the big time with her 1990 cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” from her second album, “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.”
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Hit the trail skinhead
I guess it all comes down to whether you like apples or oranges...
95.7 BEN-FM is playing her right now. They’ve been playing her every couple of hours since the news came out.
Her act got old very fast, at least for me.
Received this in my email from the Catholic League.
Sinead O’Connor Dead At 56
Bill Donohue
July 26, 2023
Irish singer Sinead O’Connor has passed way at age 56.
In her better years, O’Connor sold millions of record albums, winning a Grammy for her work.
She became an overnight sensation in 1992 when she appeared on “Saturday Night Live” and ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II. Her antics, often controversial, were condemned not only by rank-and-file Catholics, but by celebrities such as Madonna and Frank Sinatra.
The “SNL” stunt was uncalled for, but it was her advocacy of violence that was more disturbing. In 2011, she warned Pope Benedict XVI not to come to Ireland, saying that if he did there would be a “f***in bloodbath.”
O’Connor was also delusional, perhaps a reflection of her drug habits. In 1999, she announced that she had become a priest; she even wore priestly attire. She described herself as Mother Bernadette Mary and claimed the authority to say Mass and administer the Sacraments.
When I was asked about this, I told The Star she “must be hallucinating. Next week, she’ll be a Buddhist monk. The week after, maybe she’ll turn into an Orthodox rabbi. She is no more a priest than I am a camel. The woman is obviously certifiably crazy.”
I once debated her on Larry King’s CNN show on the subject of clergy sexual abuse. The discussion floundered when I mentioned that most of the victims were postpubescent, meaning that it was homosexual priests, not pedophiles, who were the offenders. She asked, “What does postpubescent mean?”
O’Connor was a victim of child abuse and her travails were long standing. In 1997, she admitted, “I’ve been a very troubled person.” So true. She had at least two abortions, suffered from mental health issues, and contemplated suicide; her son killed himself last year at age 17.
May she find peace at last.
As so many have echoed lately - “Live your best life.”
So many celebrities live as if they are tortured.
Why be miserable? Life is short no matter what.
Enjoy the gift of life while you have it.
but essentially, this woman was just unhappy and miserable, perhaps by her own making....
she apparently tore up a pic of the Pope on tv at one time.....knowing what I think I know about the hierarchy of my church, perhaps she wasn't that far off...
I vividly remember the scandal she caused when she tore the pope's picture on Saturday Night Live.
She later did an event or concert with other artists. When she came on, some angry audience members starting chanting, "Baldy ... baldy ... baldy ..."
RIP, despite her politics and religious views, she is and was one of my favorite performers. Beautiful voice, great songs.
IIRC that was the Bob Dylan Tribute Concert.
I liked Dolores O’Riordan more.
Dean Martin became a recluse after his son died.
Don’t know her; will have to look her up.
I am a big fan of Enya.
A few weeks ago, I lay out in my hammock, about 80 degrees, at 9 PM, looking out at my little fenced in quarter-acre, my wife’s work, and a grand one.
I had my earbuds in, and was listening to music. The sky had passed through that phase of being dimly pink and magenta, merging into dark indigo as you looked up.
I looked at all the flowering shrubs surrounding our little lawn in the dim light, and I saw a wink in the dark. Then another.
Firefiles.
There is nothing like a firefly to make me feel like a seven year old boy again.
Then there were dozens of them, winking on and off in my dark yard. I had never seen more than five or six, and here they were.
I was quite entranced, remembering those nights when I had first been allowed to stay out after dark, chasing down fireflies and putting them in a jar on a warm Virginia summer night, and suddenly realized the music that was playing was Enya’s “A Day Without Rain”.
Lovely. Just grand music to see fireflies by!
Southern Culture On The Skids has a song called Firefly. You should give it a listen.
I have made a point to do that, thank you for the suggestion, FRiend...:)
When my husband and I first started dating, I got really sick in the middle of Summer. I was really laid out - probably the second time I’ve had a horrid ‘Summer Flu’.
My husband - then ‘boyfriend’ - knew how much I love the fireflies, and the garden was full of them that night. He went out and caught some in a jar, and left them near the bed and my head. They kept me company all night.
I’ve never forgotten that.
Modern woman. Not surprising.
Just pitiful. There are so many people who are mentally ill and because our media promotes sensationalism, they are inadequately treated.
The trans movement is just the latest example of media promoting journalistic crime for money and notoriety as they get their propaganda notes from those backing the big payoffs to mutilate children who are in dire need of mental help not associated with the gender ideology.
Yep. And the loss of an adolescent child for any reason creates tremendous stress on the parent’s marriage. Guilt. Recriminations.
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