Her first album was one of the best of the 80's and her second album was one of the best of the 90's. She was musically leaps and bounds above Madonna, the two are nothing a like. Sinead had an ALLTIME voice and was much closer to postpunk than she was to pop. My favorite song by her is Jump in the River and Drown which was featured on the brilliant Married to the Mob Soundtrack. I suggest giving it a listen before comparing her to Madonna (who to be fair is also talented) again.
It's sad to see her not getting the respect she deserves here. I don't care about anything she did before or after this.
On October 3rd 1992 at the absolute height of her fame she ripped up a picture of the pope live on television during her appearance on SNL. She did so in protest of the Catholic's church massive cover up of it's sexual abuse against children. 25 Years later a movie called Spotlight won an academy for telling the story of Journalists who exposed the entire thing, O'conner was a decade before the journalists and two decades before the movie.
So how did she know? She was a victim herself and those are the first people to know. SNL of course disavowed her action and had Joe Pesci come on the next night and threaten to punch her in the face. Yep, SNL threatened to beat up a victim of sexual abuse for speaking out. Despite O'Conner being proven 100% correct, SNL has never publicly apologized.
She is a true hero who took on one of if not the most powerful organization on earth (before it was cool). It came at a great cost to her career and to her mental and physical health. In a world were celebrities pretend to be brave, she actually was. She should be celebrated on these forums and other other place that respects people who do the right thing regardless of the cost.
Her first album "The Lion and the Cobra" was named in reference to Psalm 91
Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
3 Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence. 4 He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. 5 You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, 6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. 7 A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. 8 You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.
9 If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling, 10 no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent. 11 For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; 12 they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. 13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
14 “Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. 15 He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. 16 With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
Driving three hours isn't maintaining normalcy
Not to mention how many patients do they see? Either quit or stfu.
Let's just accept all female Ukrainian refugees and be done with it.
I eat like shit, got my blood work done the other day. Totally fine. Asked if I wanted a covid shot, nope.
Visions of sweet Ukrainian tang.
100 lifetimes? Add like 47000 more zeros
You'd think they'd make something like this in house???
I'm busting out some Pepsi cans and heading to Antarctica. See you there fellow storm chasers.
I love the Olympics, bummed that I can't watch them this year. I remember when countries would boycott the Olympics, now I guess viewers have to do it.
Your boss just told you the classified medical information about EVERY SINGLE employee in your company. Remember this when it comes blackmail time.
If they are ALL vaccinated and you're the only one who isn't how do they think you're jeopardizing their health?
Just trying to pay my bills.
In a 28 day about 4,500 people die in Scotland. From what I can find at least 4 million people in Scotland have had at least one shot our of a population of 5.5 Million.
My crude calculations are showing that the Vaccine is likely responsible for around 1,000 of those deaths.
920 would be the absolutely maximum assuming that none of those people died from something else. There are ways to accurately estimate the actual number of deaths (certainly less than 920, but probably not much less).
The problem isn't that they didn't work, it's that they did.
I'm okay with zombies.
Huge leap.
It's sad you knuckle-heads know nothing about the great Bill Cosby. He was railroaded for being a conservative who dared to blame the black community for most of their problems.
His entire trial was a shame. He was freed. I am glad.
Why do you think the liberal media went after him?
My mask is off forever.
I'm so glad to have started highschool in the 90s. Ya we were lied to about student loans and college, but at least I got a taste of pre social media life.
Lebron Jame's son having a heart attack is getting almost no coverage. 10 years ago it would be the lead story every day for at least a week.