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Rock legend Morrissey has criticised what he called heartfelt celebrity tributes to Sinéad O’Connor after the Irish singer’s death this week, saying other people didn’t have “the courage of her in her life”.
“She only had one ‘me’ to give. He left his label after promoting 7 million albums for them. She went crazy, yes, but without interest, ever. I hadn’t done anything wrong,” Morrissey wrote in a scathing blog. . post after Wednesday’s news of the death of the 56-year-old Grammy winner.
Morrissey added: “There is a sure hatred in the music industry for singers who have no compatibility (which I know very well), and are never congratulated to death, when, in the end, they cannot respond. “
“The ruthless park of fame springs up with praise for Sinead today. . . with the same silly labels of ‘icon’ and ‘legend’. You hire it now ONLY because it’s too late. You didn’t have the courage of her when she was alive and looking for you,” Morrissey wrote.
In the post tritiquing O’Connor through celebrities, the media and the music industry, Morrissey continued: “The press will label artists as destructive for what they remember. . . and they would call Sinead sad, fat, shocking, crazy”. . . Oh, still today!”
“Music CEOs who flashed their maximum captivating smiles by rejecting her from their list are lining up to call her a ‘feminist icon,’ and celebrities and 15-minute hell goblins and artificially excited diversity record labels are rushing to Twitter to tweet their jibber-jabber. . . when it was YOU who persuaded Sinead to surrender. . . because he refused to be classified [sic], and was degraded, as those who move the world degrade,” Morrissey wrote.
O’Connor, Morrissey said, “doesn’t want your sterile garbage. “
O’Connor rose to fame with his 1990 cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U. “In a shocking moment in 1992, O’Connor tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II at a live performance on “SNL” to protest abuse in the Catholic Church.
The protest hurt his career, but O’Connor later said he had no regrets.