If your main take-away after watching that video is that the singer is bald, then not only do your eyes need to be tested, you should also try to track down where you mislaid your heart and soul.
First - and most trivially - she's not 'bald' in that video; she has close-cropped hair. Perhaps that's contrary to how you believe God wants women to look or something, but that says a whole lot more about you than it does about O'Connor.
As for the song, it's possible you just don't have enough life-experience to find it affecting. Listen again just after someone you loved has died or after you've been dumped and feel like you've been gut-punched and your heart has been ripped out, and you might find the experience very different.
Over the years, O'Connor has leaped all over the place in terms of her politics and religious beliefs. She has also had to deal with various mental and physical health issues, and there may well be a connection.
O'Connor was infamous in the States at one point for appearing on SNL, denouncing paedophiles in the Catholic Church and tearing up a picture of the then-Pope. Many good Catholics were outraged by this. In modern terms, she was 'cancelled' for daring to raise the subject on national TV, and her career nose-dived. Almost a decade later, the same pope finally admitted the Church had been ignoring and covering up a serious problem for many, many years. Several more years had to pass before the Church admitted that thousands of kids had been abused by priests who suffered no consequences.
I was never a fan and I haven't paid a huge amount of attention to her over the years, but while I've found some of her opinions questionable, I'm sure that she was always sincere at the time, and not just seeking attention for attention's sake. One thing she was famous for was a long-running dissing contest with Madonna, and I certainly support anyone who runs down that phoney publicity-seeker.
What do you think of Sinead O'Connor?
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If your main take-away after watching that video is that the singer is bald, then not only do your eyes need to be tested, you should also try to track down where you mislaid your heart and soul.
First - and most trivially - she's not 'bald' in that video; she has close-cropped hair. Perhaps that's contrary to how you believe God wants women to look or something, but that says a whole lot more about you than it does about O'Connor.
As for the song, it's possible you just don't have enough life-experience to find it affecting. Listen again just after someone you loved has died or after you've been dumped and feel like you've been gut-punched and your heart has been ripped out, and you might find the experience very different.
Over the years, O'Connor has leaped all over the place in terms of her politics and religious beliefs. She has also had to deal with various mental and physical health issues, and there may well be a connection.
O'Connor was infamous in the States at one point for appearing on SNL, denouncing paedophiles in the Catholic Church and tearing up a picture of the then-Pope. Many good Catholics were outraged by this. In modern terms, she was 'cancelled' for daring to raise the subject on national TV, and her career nose-dived. Almost a decade later, the same pope finally admitted the Church had been ignoring and covering up a serious problem for many, many years. Several more years had to pass before the Church admitted that thousands of kids had been abused by priests who suffered no consequences.
I was never a fan and I haven't paid a huge amount of attention to her over the years, but while I've found some of her opinions questionable, I'm sure that she was always sincere at the time, and not just seeking attention for attention's sake. One thing she was famous for was a long-running dissing contest with Madonna, and I certainly support anyone who runs down that phoney publicity-seeker.