Sinead O'Connor Calls it Quits

Subject: RE: Sinead O'Connor Calls it Quits
From: GUEST,duuuude
Date: 28 Apr 03 - 04:57 PM

Said she didn't want to be famous anymore, I think she accomplished THAT a few years ago. Good time to give something up is when you're totally out of touch with it anyway.

Subject: RE: Sinead O'Connor Calls it Quits
From: Coyote Breath
Date: 28 Apr 03 - 07:30 PM

I like her voice. She sings "Factory Girl" on the Chieftains' "Tears of Stone" album with Paddy Moloney having done the arrangement. I really enjoyed it and it has become a favorite of mine. Other than that one cut from that one album I have not heard her sing. On the strength of that cut, though, I will now go out and purchase some of the CD's mentioned here. I don't care about her shaved head or her feelings about the Pope or any of that other stuff. I don't listen to musicians because of their "political positions" but because of their music.

CB

Subject: RE: Sinead O'Connor Calls it Quits
From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
Date: 29 Apr 03 - 04:10 AM

Didn't she already announce her retirement from music when she became a priest? Is she the new Nellie Melba?

She had a very troubled childhood, her mother was evidently very mentally unstable, but her brother Joe (whose "Irish Male" books incidentally are hilarious) says that she grossly exaggerates the unhappiness of the family environment.

I somehow can't help feeling that we haven't heard the last of her. Just wish she'd stick to rock music which is what she's best at.

Subject: RE: Sinead O'Connor Calls it Quits
From: mexican
Date: 29 Apr 03 - 05:47 AM

People who chose to make money out of music/media/exposure/entertainment industry and then start whineing about privacy get on my nerves!

Would have been great when she started out If she was saying "don't play my records on the radio - I want privacy" or "Don't cover me in the media - I'm shy!"

Subject: RE: Sinead O'Connor Calls it Quits
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Apr 03 - 09:14 AM

am I too late to chime in with 'spaw and Mick? I always felt she was a "happening", not a singer. It was never 'listen to this neat song', it was 'look at Sinead and all the esoteric breathy stuff she's doing'.

Maybe I'm just too old.

Subject: RE: Sinead O'Connor Calls it Quits
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Apr 03 - 09:46 AM

Kats her brother refuted her allegations of abuse, having seen her once or twice on RTE she come across as a very sour person, I think any abusing would have been done by her. Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: Sinead O'Connor Calls it Quits
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Apr 03 - 10:30 AM

Yikes, Ard, thanks for that. I have to say, though, in what I've read of abuse in families, that quite often only one child is singled out for the abuse. Also, I know from comparing notes with a couple of my siblings, that each has their own very specific memories of childhood and they don't always agree in the details.:-) Sometimes it sounds as though they were raised in a completely different family than I was!

kat

Subject: RE: Sinead O'Connor Calls it Quits
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 30 Apr 03 - 05:31 AM

I've always been irritated by her self-pity as well as her seeming assumption that her every thought and feeling is of limitless interest to the public, and that no one else ever suffered as she has. Her early life is hardly an uncommon story, unfortunately.

The famed ripping up of the Pope's pic seems less a political statement than sheer exhibitionism. There's an element of trolling in it – you just KNOW it's going to ignite strong reaction and get everybody talking about you. I wonder how purely ideological her true motivation was, and I don't believe the attention she seeks – and manages to attract – is displeasing to her. Otherwise why do it? No one is forcing her to be so public in non-musical areas.

A good voice, yes, but I certainly don't hear greatness in it. It will be interesting to see if she means it about quitting, and how many people will be prompted by this announcement to coax and beg her to stay.

Subject: RE: Sinead O'Connor Calls it Quits
From: cockney
Date: 30 Apr 03 - 06:22 AM

Reminds me of hester who posts on this forum "I'm leaving" just to bring attention to herself.

Subject: RE: Sinead O'Connor Calls it Quits
From: GUEST,James
Date: 30 Apr 03 - 08:26 AM

If it can be said of anyone that they squandered a huge talent..it can certainly be sais of Sinead..I love her music but I have always hated her posturing. I do hope she changes her mind and continues to sing. I will miss her music but not her foolishness.

Subject: RE: Sinead O'Connor Calls it Quits
From: Steve-o
Date: 30 Apr 03 - 12:01 PM

Way to go, Bonnie!! When I think of all the great folk singers who suffered injustices and shaved their heads and ripped pictures of the pope, it just makes me get all gooey inside. Why are we talking about this? Why am I reading this!? Art- save your money. There are hugely talented folk musicians all over the place who need the money you people are wasting on Sinead albums.

Subject: RE: Sinead O'Connor Calls it Quits
From: Cluin
Date: 01 May 03 - 02:44 AM

Personally, she always bored me, not matter what she was singing or doing or saying. Much ado. "Look at me, I shaved my head. Look at me. I have an opinion. Listen to me. Here's where my life is right now."

Except once. I saw her singing with Van Morrison on the Letterman show. It was about the time she was on the outs after the Pope's piccy thingy and I guess Van thought he was showing some kind of solidarity by having her sing with him. She was acting kind of chastened, but Van was very drunk it seemed and was staggering around the stage, acting up. She kind of cracked a smile while singing her verse. And suddenly VM decided he would charge in and sing the last line with her. But he ended up lurching forward, grabbing at the mic and bouncing it off her front teeth. At the same time I was embarassed for both of them, I still laughed my ass off.

Subject: RE: Sinead O'Connor Calls it Quits
From: MARINER
Date: 01 May 03 - 05:06 PM

Ah come on folks! wise up! Every time Sínead makes a public statement or does something controversial it means she has an album or a single due out shortly. Have none of you spotted that?