Why Sinad OConnor Matters - Allyson McCabe

Allyson McCabe

Category: Autobiography & Biographies

Tags: Autobiography & Biographies, Contemporary

In 1990, Sinad OConnors video for Nothing Compares 2 U turned her into a superstar. Two years later, an appearance on Saturday Night Live turned her into a scandal. For many peopleincluding, for years, the authorwhat they knew of OConnor stopped there. Allyson McCabe believes its time to reassess our old judgments about Sinad OConnor and to expose the machinery that built her up and knocked her down., Addressing triumph and struggle, sound and story, Why Sinad OConnor Matters argues that its subject has been repeatedly manipulated and misunderstood by a culture that is often hostile to women who speak their minds (in OConnors case, by shaving her head, championing rappers, and tearing up a picture of the pope on live television). McCabe details OConnors childhood abuse, her initial success, and the backlash against her radical politics without shying away from the difficult issues her career raises. She compares OConnor to Madonna, another superstar who challenged the Catholic Church,