She writes, “Whoever it was who told me got cross with me because I didn’t take the news happily. 1 in America, on the singles and albums charts respectively. She writes that she was sitting on the toilet-she wants you to know that she can’t remember whose toilet-when she is informed that both “Nothing Compares 2 U” and I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got have both hit no. But Sinéad’s book is rough going in this respect as well. The pop-star-memoir arc, generally-the Rise and Fall narrative you know and love from any Oscar-nominated biopic or tawdry VH1 Behind the Music episode you’ve ever watched-at least there’s a rise, right? At least there’s a brief period when the pop’s star discovery, and breakthrough success, and apex fame and fortune are enjoyed by the pop star. I tell you that much only because this might somewhat explain both the fragility and the ferocity with which Sinéad O’Connor sings, and the hard-fought self-assurance she brings to every song she’s ever sung. Her mother died in a car accident when Sinéad was 18, shortly before she got her first record deal. She says her mother would beat her with a carpet-sweeper pole instead and make Sinéad say “I am nothing” over and over. Sinéad mentions a few times that when she’d come home from school for the summer she’d pretend she’d lost her field hockey stick, because she didn’t want her mother to beat her with it. Her parents split up when she was 9 she split time between her father, who was initially granted custody of the children, and her mother, who in Sinéad’s account was physically and mentally abusive. She was born in Glenageary, Ireland, in 1966. Who is this person? What does she want? What doesn’t she want? What do we want from her? In June 2021 Sinéad O’Connor published a memoir called Rememberings.
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