I Canto Sing That Song Again

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Sinead O’Connor writes:

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.

Sinead O’Connor (Facebook)


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25 thoughts on “I Canto Sing That Song Again

  1. PaddyIrishMan

    I’m sure the concert promoters were just delighted to hear that. It’d be like Elvis without “Oliver’s Army”.

    1. Elrond Hubbard

      He could easily do a show without it. Was far from his best at the O2 show a few years ago.

  2. Yea, Ok

    Yea thanks Sinead, obviously the subtle as a sledgehammer lyrics of your last single went over everyone’s head.

  3. Andyourpointiswhatexactly

    It’s not as if the song’s theme isn’t universal… It’s almost as if she’s trying to court attention/controversy but that can’t be it. Not her style.

  4. Soundings

    “If I were to sing it just to please people, I wouldn’t be doing my job right” says the well-known singer Sinead O’Connor.

    “I can’t act. It just isn’t in my training.” says the actress from The Butcher Boy, Hush-a-Bye-Baby and the Ghosts of Oxford Street.

    Is she just being a bit of a Monday-morning diva? There’s probably thousands of civil servants going to work today promising themselves they’ll never use that task scheduler on the computer anymore, it’s just killing their creative souls.

    On the other hand, I would listen to SOC singing Two Blind Mice, her voice manages to reach unfamiliar recesses of your being.

    1. Ringos Dove

      Yeah because Civil Servants are bursting with creativity to begin with. Finding one with a soul might also prove difficult.

      Sinead is right though in fairness, nothing worse than watching a band/artist trudge out songs with no passion behind them.

  5. Formerly known as @ireland.com

    I am not surprised. She finished her recent Melbourne gig with that song. She made a joke of it. She came back on stage, on her own. She struggled to get the guitar bits right, saying that she can’t play the guitar. She had more than one guitarist back stage, so one of them could have played the music, while she sang.

    I won’t miss that song. I am disappointed that she didn’t sing some other great songs, like Troy, Emma’s song, Downpressor Man (another cover).

    1. Soupy Normon

      Sinead says:
      ” Funniest moment ever onstage tonight. There was a tiny lake between the stage and the audience. Just as finished singing “Its been so lonely without you here, like a bird without a song” a duck got to the front of stage and went “QUACK QUACK!”
      ‘Couldn’t finish. Too funny.
      ‪#‎ABirdWithASong “

  6. Cool_Hand_Lucan

    I’m reminded of the Yusef Islam gig in The Point a few years ago when he played only new material much to the chargrin of the largely middle-aged audience. After the opening chords of another bland unknown song was played one punter was heard to yell out “PLAY PEACE TRAIN YOU F***ING B******!”

    1. Joe the Lion

      Amazing. Check out his tiny desk concert on npr.com. He plays all the hits now again ;)

  7. Jim

    Good. She didn’t sing it in December at Vicar Street and it was a relief. Last heard it last summer in the National Concert Hall and it was horrible within an otherwise flawless performance. Having said that about 200 phones came out for that one song so lots of people will be disappointed.

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