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Post by jdv on Jul 26, 2023 13:13:05 GMT -5
A true musical talent, O'Connor rocketed to fame with her cover of Prince's "Nothing compares 2 U" and kept making good music up to the end.
A purer voice could hardly be imagined.
The troubled singer had a long series of mental health issues and addictions, all of which were apparently made much worse by the suicide of her son Shane last year. She has 3 surviving children.
It's not been made public yet as to cause of death, but suicide via drugs is a pretty safe bet.
While it's hard to forget her "Nothing Compares 2 U" (particularly if you're old enough to remember when it first came out), I'll always remember her what I think is the best version of "Danny Boy" ever done.
Rest (finally) In Peace
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Post by Warpig on Jul 27, 2023 9:34:57 GMT -5
Fucking shame. Drugs and alcohol kids, the ruin of so many.
RIP Irish Rose
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Post by Warpig on Jul 28, 2023 8:59:52 GMT -5
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Post by jdv on Jul 28, 2023 14:33:32 GMT -5
Good old Moz.
But, to be fair, its audiences that decide who's popular, not the record companies. I suppose he's right in that, by in large, people did not "support" her in the last 20 years, but only in as much as she wasn't making very good music anymore - nor very much of it - and no one wanted her records.
In other words, record companies could give two craps about her politics/philosophies if she were still selling records. She wasn't.
She cancelled a tour last year b/c of her son's suicide, and was apparently trying to get a tour up for next year - one that I'm sure would have been fairly popular.
One can't avoid the fact that she was deeply, profoundly, mentally ill. Seems to have been right from the git, and that would have been true regardless of talent or fame. Obviously, it's hard to make business deals with people who are deeply troubled by mental illness and drug abuse.
That she (presumably) let herself OD/straight up committed suicide when she had 3 living, young, children is the clearest sign of that illness. The person most able to deal with her illness was herself, then family. It certainly wasn't her fans, who do have a right to mourn her.
That she was unable to right the ship is sad, but blaming anyone else for her demise, or for not "supporting" her is perhaps not seeing the forest for the trees.
He might be personalizing her story a tad.
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