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Sinead O’Connor

February 17, 2012 by · Comments Off on Sinead O’Connor 

Sinead O’Connor, Sinead O’Connor and Lil’ Kim might not seem to have much in common, other than a flair for offending churchgoers. Which neither of them has done in awhile; one of the more recent things they share is a certain downward career trajectory.

(You need to be simulating exorcisms on the Grammys to turn the Catholic League’s head – more on Nicki Minaj later.) But both of them built those careers by defying expectations and using the full force of their often idiosyncratic personalities. And this week, they’ve both hinted at comebacks. Lil’ Kim very modestly, with the release of a new, Valentine’s Day-themed song, “If You Love Me”; and O’Connor, boldly, with an NPR stream of her brilliant, gorgeous new album, “How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?”

In her spot-on write-up of “How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?” (out next week), Ann Powers borrows some academic thinking to help explain O’Connor’s special power:

Here’s a term that might not seem too musical: “immediacy behavior.” Educators use it to describe the way a teacher acts to gain the trust of his or her students. Open body language, an engaging way of speaking, a warm, direct gaze – these cues, as much as any words uttered, forge the connection that makes learning possible. Immediacy behavior is crucial to making great pop music, too. Artists rely on it to get their points across. For some, it’s an occasional stance, taken when the spotlight narrows and the spectacle falls away, as when Lady Gaga performs at her piano. Others make it the center of their creative process. It doesn’t matter whether they’re genuinely confessional or just good at weaving a story. We trust what they tell us Immediacy behavior is Sinead O’Connor’s métier.

Here we see O’Connor and Lil’ Kim in relief. Kim’s never been about warmth. If we had to name her métier, it would be standoffish sexuality – she is direct and in some ways (absurdly) intimate, but you never anticipate her full embrace. We’re thinking in particular of a song like “Not Tonight,” where she remembers “Jimmy, [who would] lay me on my back, bustin’ nuts all in me,” all as a way of setting up the chorus: “I don’t want dick tonight/Eat my p**sy right.” That’s a rather literal example, but you get the idea.

Sinead O’Connor

September 5, 2011 by · Comments Off on Sinead O’Connor 

Sinead O'ConnorSinead O’Connor, Singer Sinead O’Connor, who had great success in the 90’s with “Nothing Compares 2 U”, has publicly announced that is desperate for sex.

The singer, 44 years old, wrote on her blog on her website recently that she is so hot it is “close to the back of a truck.”

Oook. Keep your pants Sinead.  Sinead wrote:

“I recently read of a woman in America who married her truck regularly and humps. Still do not own a truck, but I’m beginning to understand the head space.”

“And I worry that it may also be that desperate for sex than a few days I could run down the road and the entire fleet of taxi Bray hump in an hour!”

Sinead wants to take drastic action before it’s too late … so you put the call through its web site for men 44 years or more to come forward and offer to give you some satisfaction.

She says she is the “top of their first sexual and too lovely to live like a nun, and is very depressing.”

But the virtue of Sinead has a price: he wants her suitor no younger than 44 years to find her beautiful, has a job, being hairy, as his mother. Ah, yes, and not to be called Brian and Nigel.

Sinead O’connor Update

August 10, 2011 by · Comments Off on Sinead O’connor Update 

Sinead O'connor UpdateSinead O’connor Update, In 1990, Sinead O’Connor cover almost forgotten one Prince, “Nothing Compares 2U”, broke into the global consciousness of music as a firework explosion. The combination of voices rising to the crash of the shaven head, which only served to make her most poignant expressive eyes, O’Connor’s performance was fascinating.

Fame follows – and then exploded – in the midst of a series of unpopular political views and religious singer, including an attack on the Roman Catholic Church cover-up of sexual abuse of children.

Despite the fall from grace of the singer remained fascinating, combining fragile gamine with an appetite for hard policy. Its tight haircut, consciously anti-female Doc Marten boots, sweaters and coats widths old kept her eyes off the mark. And anything that could or may not lead to hide the enormous power of her vocal talent and lyrical.

Earlier this week, more than two decades after its debut surprisingly, images of a very different looking O’Connor appeared on the Internet after a performance at the Music Festival in Bray on the west coast of Ireland. Showing a Frumpies, bespectacled O’Connor under a mop of black hair and black suit that would have been monastic, but the exposure of a segment of the generous plump belly, the singer’s appearance has caused quite a stir – even in our own website.

Newspapers, online blogs and social sphere of the media on Facebook and Twitter have exploded with astonishment and dismay by the transformation of O’Connor.

“The man, 44 years old singer was unrecognizable from its peak musical as she took the stage wearing a very unflattering combination of a top of the stomach, exposing the black network, and an ill-fitting black pants suit “said the Daily Mail

As if that were not damning enough, the singer self-absorbed air seems to have irritated the role further: “With her black hair in a crop full of difficulties and with glasses and a gold crucifix necklace, Sinead seemed to be a world of their own co-starred with [reggae singer Natty] Wailer. ”

Closer to home, Us Weekly wrote that the singer had surprised her fans with a look that was “totally unrecognizable,” while ABC News put the “before slim” singer in a gallery of stars like Kirstie Alley and Jennifer Hudson who have had problems with her yo-yo-ing weight. “Nothing compares to what … Connor Sinead O ‘seems now,” subtitled it.

Wait. If a singer who uses the window of fame to highlight bewildering political views, as well as bringing personal eerily songs like “Troy” and “Three Babies” in the musical canon really be judged by the same rules that are hard currency common for actresses and reality TV stars?

Sinead O’Connor is not Kim Kardashian, in which each eyebrow wax and start the front is the subject of a celebrity interview or approval of the product. Neither are Natalie Portman and Renee Zellweger, whose transformation of body shape is part of her artistic range.

Instead, the Dublin-born singer, who has four children and the heights of fame, has always given back to the conventions of beauty that are apparently the means to acceptance. The thorny displeasure manifests yet feminine style seems remarkably unchanged prototype of the attitudes he had in her youth.

“What the voices expressing surprise at her new look really surprised by is that Sinead O’Connor should care so little for the opinions of many in the entertainment industry are judged harshly.”
For the indignation that followed the appearance of the singer in Bray, you could be forgiven for thinking that O’Connor has spent the last decade and a half under a rock, all the better to surprise her fans when he reappeared several kilos heavier and without a bald head. In fact, she has enjoyed a musical career that has continued, a bit below the radar, and the singer has released a new album every two years since 2000, as well as touring recently in Moscow and the United Kingdom.

What voices expressing surprise at her new look really surprised by is that Sinead O’Connor should care so little for the opinions of many in the entertainment industry are judged harshly. The wonder of your weight gain is both in their neglect of what others think of it, as a singer is to succumb to the aging process more than 20 years. In fact, it is not exaggerating suggesting that her critics are really uncomfortable with her refusal to hide away permanently, now that the years that thinness was the gamine look is marked in the past.

Its just weeks from the music industry deified Amy Winehouse, a singer with addiction problems that stalled during the tabloid reader’s also cruelly foreshortened talented jazz diva’s life.

As O’Connor, Winehouse’s talent was the kind of once in a generation, a degree of difference in distance of the total height to reach the likes of Adele, another British talent that despite her record of sales success falls into a more conventional mold. Although Winehouse romance and addiction no harmful exists in the hard look of the front pages of newspapers, its slim skinny, hyper-sexualized costumes suspiciously division improved, though less fell into the right side of the aesthetic is prepared the entertainment industry to accept.

Unlike Winehouse, Connor has gotten through life, having a family and keep doing what their fans want to do: perform and record music. In the way of her admission of having different child abuse, bipolar disorder and as a lesbian coming out suggests that the journey has not been without its demons.

But far from criticizing the singer for her audacity to continue performing even when not adjusted to the nostalgic memory of the past two decades, O’Connor congratulated himself on her ability to move forward. Twenty years later, the lyrics of songs like “I feel so different,” “I do not want what I have not” and “Three Babies” have become even more poignant than they were the first time.

Sinead O’Connor

July 7, 2011 by · Comments Off on Sinead O’Connor 

Sinead O'ConnorSinead O’Connor, The shaved head, dwarf waif functions can be long gone, but the talent and the voice that will remain intact. The competence of the Manchester International Festival is to produce memorable events and a night with the often controversial, Ms. O’Connor surprise in a specially constructed tent was exactly that.

Sure she put on some weight and shock horror, she has hair, but so what? The bellicosity, vulnerability and a voice that can melt your heart remain as strong as ever.

Sunday’s show – one of the three for the festival – including a series of new songs from their upcoming album Home. Since the opening of Tubular Bells, as the chords to remove her shoes, which became an enthusiastic, harmony-filled riot of a song to court what does a real VIP, it looks like it will be an album worth gets your hands on.

A small stage presence, there was a touching insecurity about Sinead O’Connor, as he repeatedly gave her six-piece band the thumbs up in the numbers of the opening to say “this is going to be OK.”

Believe me, it was much, much better than that.

The band itself – only together last week – were gorgeous, enveloping music and vocal harmonies around the iconic presence in her head like a giant blanket comfort.

Running through its catalog, we were treated to songs from the album Theology and the Universal Mother and Sly and Robbie album produced by throwing weapons.

And, of course, he did Nothing Compares 2 U. And he still has the power to make the hairs stand up on the back of her neck.

Sinead O’Connor is a unique artist and hopefully it stays that way.

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