Sinead O’Connor Won’t Perform Her Most Famous Song Anymore
Sinead O’Connor feels she is “unable to emotionally connect” with her song “Nothing Compares 2U,” anymore. The singer took to her Facebook page to address her fans and tell them she no longer has an “emotional connection” to her most popular song. After 25 years she simply feels she’s brought everything she can to it, and doesn’t want to go through the motions with an audience.
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O’Connor writes, “My job is to be emotionally available. I’d be lying. You’d be getting a lie. My job is to give you honesty. I’m trained in honesty. I can’t act. It just isn’t in my training. Born on December 8, 1966, in Dublin, Ireland, O’Connor started her music career began when she was discovered by a local drummer. With fame came controversy: Among other incidents, when appearing on Saturday Night Live, O’Connor tore up a picture of the pope.
In 2005, she released the reggae-influenced Throw Down Your Arms. O’Connor continued to produce new music with 2007’s Theology. Despite her rocky personal life, O’Connor earned strong reviews for her 2012 effort How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?. Her next record, I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss (2014), also received a warm reception. O’Connor also continues to perform in concert with several dates scheduled around the world in 2015.
Her Facebook Post in Full: “OK, the time has come for me to cease singing Nothing Compares 2U. The first principle of the manner in which I’m trained as a singer (Bel Canto) is we never sing a song we don’t emotionally identify with. After twenty-five years of singing it, nine months or so ago I finally ran out of anything I could use in order to bring some emotion to it. I don’t want audiences to be disappointed coming along to a show and then not hearing it, so am letting you know here that you won’t. If I were to sing it just to please people, I wouldn’t be doing my job right, because my job is to be emotionally available. I’d be lying. You’d be getting a lie. My job is to give you honesty. I’m trained in honesty. I can’t act. It just isn’t in my training. I have ceased singing other songs over the years for the same reason.”
