Sinéad O’Connor Was a Voice of Strength in the Darkness | Pitchfork

 

 

"These comparisons may paint her as a tragic figure, but as Gospel Oak illustrates, there was more lightness to O’Connor than you might glean from her troubled backstory. She had a biting, Irish sense of humor that often placed her as the butt of her own jokes (and made her 2021 memoir, Rememberings, as frequently hilarious as it was harrowing). When Frank Sinatra took offense to news of O’Connor refusing to perform in New Jersey if the National Anthem was played before her show—the way she tells it, she had been asked her preference and politely declined—the response rolls out in one perfect, neurotic punchline: “I love Frank Sinatra. Who doesn’t love Frank Sinatra? What’s not to love?... Even to have been threatened with physical violence by Frank Sinatra is an honor.”

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