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Here is a review of No Man's Woman by Billboard:
As of now the track list is not finalized, but it is said that 15 songs are on the album. The following is a list of songs that are said to be on the album, but again, nothing has been finalized.
In other news, Sinéad's next single is rumored to be Daddy I'm Fine. There is no official word from Sinéad or from Atlantic Records. I'll keep you all posted on this one.
I would also like to apologize for not updating the site frequently. There just isn't very much going on with Sinéad right now.
the Bangles are regrouping, and recently dotmusic.com did an interview with Susanna Hoffs and Michael Steele. Here's What new bands do you like? S: "I like Travis. I was a real early follower of Travis." M: "Elliot Smith and Macy Gray - she's quite formidable. And the new Sinead (O'Connor) record is like...wow, it's awesome, check it out."
Here is what Stephen Jenkins, lead singer of Third Eye Blind, has to say about Sinead. DE: You recently collaborated with Sinead O’Connor in a live radio performance. How was that? SJ: She was at this radio station in Boston doing an a cappella set and I’m a huge fan of Sinead. I mean, talk about people getting a bad rap. It’s so weird. Sinead and Courtney [Love] can’t say a thing without getting slaughtered. I love her album, I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got and I wanted to cover her song "The Emperor’s New Clothes." And she was there and I contacted her and said, "We’ll be your backing band.” And she said, "Okay, but can you sing with me? Because I sort of forgot the words." So we typed up her lyrics and we introduced her, and people booed her because Boston is such a Catholic town and they’re still mad because she tore up a picture of a the Pope on Saturday Night Live a few years ago. I’m like, ‘the Pope can take it!’ So she came out, and we did a song together and I gave her a hug and told her she made my day. It was cool."
Finally, here's what Canadian singer Chantal Kreviazuk said about Sinéad. Guest-Edward: I know you're a huge Sinead O'Connor fan. Me also. I love her music. Which album would you say has influenced you most in terms of lyrics, for example? "TLATC," "Gospel Oak?" Chantal_Kreviazuk: "I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got" and "Gospel Oak" have definitely had such an impact on me. The thing that I love so much about all of Sinead O'Connor's work, is that besides showcasing her supernatural vocal style, she does not allow meaningless, frivolous, songs to show up on her albums, even if she did not write it all by herself. She is very selective and constantly upholds her integrity. I don't know about her personal life."
Sinead O'Connor has put notoriety behind her, but she isn't making any apologies, says Mark Edwards When is an apology not an apology? Try this for size. It's from The Lamb's Book of Life, a song on Sinead O'Connor's new album, Faith and Courage. "I know that I have done many things/To give you reason not to listen to me/ Especially as I have been so angry/ But if you knew me, maybe you would understand me/ Words can't express how sorry I am/ If I ever caused any pain to anybody/I just hope that you can show compassion/ And love me ... " So then, is this an apology for all the behaviour that earned O'Connor, 33, the soubriquet "Mad Bad Sinead" - the woman who ripped up a picture of the Pope on American network television, that kind of thing? Sinead herself is having none of that. "Certainly not, it's not an apology at all," she says, as we sip tea in a London hotel, while O'Connor gives half her attention to me and half to her mobile phone ("I know I look as though I'm not listening, but I am," she says, as she alternately punches keys in search of a text message or stares at it, willing it to ring.) "The 'I' in that song isn't me," she explains. "It's Ireland. People would love me to apologise. But I'm not sorry. I'm very proud of what I did." And then at least I get an apology for the lack of an apology. "I'm dreadfully sorry to disappoint you," she adds, with a grin. No regrets then? "No, no regrets. Except ... well ... I regret that I didn't dress more sexy." This afternoon, O'Connor is in the smartest-of-smart grey suits. Only the trademark crop prevents her from looking more like a successful businesswoman than one of the few genuine rebels left in rock music. "I always write in the first person, even if the song isn't about me," she continues. "It can be someone else, or it can be what I imagine God would say, or it can be Ireland talking. There is a tradition among Irish poets or songwriters of referring to Ireland as a woman, or a lost heifer, because it used to be illegal to write songs about Ireland." O'Connor notices the well- practised look of English historical guilt forming on my face. "Ah, don't feel bad," she says. "The English did worse to their own people than they did to anyone else." Some would suggest that O'Connor has done a lot of harm to herself over the years. Within months of her hit version of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U propelling her to worldwide stardom, the anger that suffused her music bubbled over into her on- and offstage life. How apt that she ripped up the Pope on Saturday Night Live, a show where the cast were dubbed "the Not Ready for Primetime Players". O'Connor herself wasn't ready for prime time, muttered industry cynics, as they watched her record sales dip. O'Connor disagrees with this scenario. She was never going to be able to match the "freakish" success of that one single, and besides, she still sells a couple of million copies of each album she puts out. The truth, however, is that she has never made a record as good as I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, the album that spawned Nothing Compares 2 U. Until now, that is. Faith and Courage is as good; maybe better. And Jealous, which is released tomorrow, is the best single she's released since that Prince song; a mellow ballad - already playlisted on Radio 2 - with a beauty that belies its slightly shocking origins. "It is about a mutual friend of mine and (co-writer and producer) Dave Stewart's," O'Connor explains. "A man who after about five years of being divorced decided to get married again, and his ex-wife came round and beat him up so badly that she put him into hospital." Stewart is just one of several A-list producers who worked on Faith and Courage, alongside Wyclef Jean, Adrian Sherwood and Brian Eno. Between them, they provide a backdrop for O'Connor's first successful attempt to reconcile the two madly conflicting sides of her personality; the compassionate, caring Sinead of recent releases, and the angrier Sinead of her early work. Except, I probably shouldn't have used the term "angrier". "I don't think there is anger on this record at all," says O'Connor (clearly rather angry). "There is determination and self-belief. Testosterone. Balls. I don't believe in angry for the sake of being angry. There is a lot of fake anger around in the music business. What was powerful about my first record was that it was real. "I never set out to change the world, I set out to change myself and Ireland, and I think I have been pretty successful in both departments. I was trying to change myself and the obstacles and difficulties that I had to carry as a result of growing up as I did. And that involved expressing some things that were difficult to hear. The subject of child abuse at the time was a hot potato and was difficult to talk about. Abuse of any kind - you always saw the victims as shadows, and I was very interested in breaking down the walls of shame that surround child abuse. "I was the living embodiment of what happens to someone who has been through that kind of stuff and, understandably, people found it difficult to see or hear. But one thing I did do was to create conversation in Ireland where it needed to be created, and that's the job of artists." Faith and Courage offers ample evidence that O'Connor has extinguished a lot of her inner demons, originally caused by her mother's violence towards her. The track 'Til I Whisper U Something is O'Connor's riposte to Stewart's suggestion that she write some sad songs. "I'm really talking to him in the song, saying I don't want to write sad songs. It is about a journey into happiness. I have moved on from wanting to do that 'woe is me' thing. It has been my intention always to make the journey into joy." How far have you got, I ask? "I'm there," she says, quietly. Among the more extreme moments of this long and frequently bizarre journey, was O'Connor's surprise announcement that she had become a priest - Sister Bernadette Maria - thereby reconciling herself with the church that she had so openly attacked, albeit in her own particular way. "I would consider myself a strange mixture of Rasta, Hindu and Catholic," she says. The reason she took orders was because she wants to care for the terminally ill. "I'm interested in working around death, helping people into death without fear and helping the bereaved. I have always been fascinated with the way the human world looks on death as a terrible thing, a tragedy, an awful loss. I believe that only the body goes, the person is still around and is quite easy to communicate with if you want to." As if on cue, O'Connor's mobile phone rings. She picks it up, but hits the wrong key. "Shit. I've turned it off." But the mood is broken, and we leave our investigation of the spirit world for lighter matters. The song Dancing Lessons, I wonder, is it really about dancing lessons? "It is about my boyfriend," says O'Connor. "It is about being in a relationship and how it is very much like learning to dance. But yes, it's also about actual dancing lessons. It's something we haven't got around to yet, going for dancing lessons together, treading on each other's feet. I'd like to." Boyfriend? Hang on. Last time O'Connor was in the public eye, she was declaring herself both celibate and a lesbian. Surely several inconsistencies here? "I haven't been celibate for a long time," she says. "And I'm not a lesbian. I'm someone who doesn't believe in gay or straight. I think that if you fall in love with someone, it doesn't matter if it is a man or woman or alien. At the moment, it's somebody male." O'Connor senses my slight professional disappointment at being the one journalist who interviewed Sinead O'Connor when she was in a conventional relationship. "He is a very feminine man," she adds, "if that helps."
drDrew.com: You’re now ordained as a priest—that was surprising news.
Sinead O'Connor: I've always been on a very spiritual path. Maybe it's gotten slightly stronger now or I’m just more confident. When you're younger, you're fishing around for your identity. Maybe now that I'm 33, as opposed to 23, I have a greater sense and self-assurance in what my faith actually is and what I believe.
drDrew.com: Do you believe you have to have the courage to die in order to live?
SO:: I believe that we die many times in our lives. Literally, when we go to sleep every night, that is a form of dying and trusting that there is life after, we allow ourselves to fall asleep. I believe that we are lucky to have many deaths and rebirths in our lives. I'm interested in Paganism, which is [focused on] the idea of death and rebirth. The ordination process is a ritual death and rebirth process, where one leaves behind one’s past life and takes another name. It's also very connected to one’s own self, so you don't lose yourself. You leave behind things that are no longer useful to your purpose.
drDrew.com: You've always strived to heal, but your approach has often been confrontational.
SO:: When we are younger, we are not so sure what we're about, so we have to be quite defensive. As you get older, you become more confident and learn how to communicate in ways that are not threatening. Confrontation can be very useful in many relationships, though, whether it's private or political. Look at what happened in Northern Ireland. If you take a friendship or romance, there will often be disagreements or arguments, but it’s important not to run away from that. Loving someone enough to argue with them is very important.
drDrew.com: Is anger an important part of confrontation?
SO:: Obviously there are lines you don't cross, like preaching violence. But I think the world has a fear of anger, which is almost irrational. Anger is an emotion that could deal with a lot more honor. We should express anger in healthy ways. In Japan they have a wonderful thing where you can go out at lunchtime and pay five dollars and smash dishes. That's much healthier than repressing all the anger and keeping it inside.
drDrew.com: Speaking of confrontation, when you look back, how do you feel about the episode where you ripped up the photo of the pope on Saturday Night Live and were subsequently booed offstage when you opened for Bob Dylan?
SO:: It was very exciting. It was an amazing noise. What people forget is that half the crowd was cheering, so it was the most incredible noise to hear. I wasn't upset by the reaction at all because I was concentrating on the noise. It had a real hypnotic effect.
drDrew.com: When you've made controversial statements in the past, have you weighed how those comments might affect your career?
SO:: Sometimes I had a blueprint and a plan so I was prepared to cope with whatever happened--you cope with it by being sure of yourself. But the media tricks you into saying things that can be twisted, or people try to provoke you because they know your reputation. As you get older, your defenses go down and you don't feel you have to hide behind walls. I have the reputation of being this controversial, angry figure, but anyone who knows me or has listened to my records over the years has heard much more tenderness than anger.
drDrew.com: On your new album, the song "The Lamb's Book of Life" sounds like an apology for those who've been offended by you in the past.
SO:: Well, if I want to be heard then I must accept the responses people have made to my actions. Therefore I have to say, "I'm sorry if anything I did hurt you." That doesn't mean I'm sorry I did it. In many cases it had to be done. You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
The "RUGRATS IN PARIS" soundtrack boasts a critically acclaimed, multi-platinum roster of both global superstars and up-and-coming buzz bands. Featured artists include The Baha Men ("Who Let The Dogs Out") the hit single which is currently climbing the charts, TLC vocalist Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins ("My Getaway") and Sinead O'Connor ("When You Love" -- produced by Wyclef Jean.) Says George Acogny, the film's music supervisor, "Sinead's 'When You Love' summarizes the whole film. It's an emotional ballad written specifically for the movie, and truly shows Sinead at her best."
In other news, Sinéad shows heart by auctioning of her house in Atlanta. Proceeds will go towards building an acoholic clinic in Limerick Ireland.
The second single from this project will be "Jealous." The European radio on-air date will be August 28.
The tracklisting of the European single will be:
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1. Jealous (Album Version)
2. Summer's End (Non LP Bonus Track)
3. Full Circle (Non LP Bonus Track)
The European commercial single will ship September 29. The video shoot is on August 13; it will be directed by Mike Lipscombe. Sinéad will return to the U.S. for promotion on August 11, and will perform on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno on August 15. A feature for "60 Minutes" is TBA. Promo trips to Denmark, Holland, France and Germany for TV's or radio events are being worked on now, as are trips to Japan, Australia and New Zealand in October. Details are forthcoming. Sinéad is contributing a song to the Rugrats OST (Warner), which she did with Wyclef. It is also possible that she will contribute to the upcoming new Adam Sandler film OST.
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Reports that Sinéad O'Connor has been excommunicated from the Tridentine Church after her recent revelations regarding her sexual orientation are untrue, we can reveal. Speaking to Q Online from the rogue Catholic order's monastery in Co. Offaly, Tridentine founder Archbishop Michael Cox told us: "One of our bishops - Martin Pius Kelly from Carlow - did write to the media and to Sinéad saying that she'd been excommunicated, which he had no authority to do. He's been suspended and I've apologised to Sinéad." Cox went on to explain, "For someone to be made to leave our order we'd have to hold a sacred council, which is the procedure. Bishop Kelly should have come to me, his archbishop, if he did feel that something was amiss with Sinéad. In actual fact I'm very happy with her, she does very good work which she doesn't want the media to know about."
August 15 - Jay Leno
August 16 - The Late Late Show
August 20 - NBC Today Show Concert Series
Sinéad will also appear on 60 Minutes and an episode of Behind The Music on Vh1, but no official dates for these 2 appearances have been confirmed.
Those of you who may have missed Sinéad's memorable performance on SNL back in 1992 may have a chance to see it for the first time or see it once more. Here's an article about the subject:
A VH1/Entertainment Weekly list of TV's greatest rock moments played it safe by anointing The Beatles' 1964 debut on The Ed Sullivan Show as No. 1. The list will be revealed on VH1's 100 Greatest Rock and Roll Moments on TV, airing in five one-hour segments at 10 p.m. ET/PT July 31 to Aug. 4 (and repeating in full Aug. 5, 2-7 p.m. ET/PT). The cable network picks sister net MTV's 1981 debut as the No. 3 moment and, in a further instance of corporate synergy, the 1984 debut of the MTV Video Music Awards as No. 8. Sinéad ranks in at # 34 with her ripping up the Pope's picture on SNL, be sure you don't miss this program.
On Thursday July 20, Sinéad's song, "The State I'm In" was featured on an episode of NBC's hit soap, Passions. It is unclear if this episode was being re-aired or if it was a new episode.
And Finally, Faith and Courage makes the top of Vh1.com's list for best album, which was chosen by viewers of Vh1.com's website.
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On Tuesday's episode of Vh1's The List, Sinéad ranked number one with the Best Song By A Female Artist with Nothing Compares 2U.
Here's some news about how Faith and Courage is doing salewise. In it's first week of release, Faith and Courage sold only 29,000 copies. It debuted on Billboard at #55, the lowest debut for any Sinéad O'Connor record. Hopefully sales will be up soon
"Listened to the new Sinéad O´Connor cd today and felt mildly
disapointed.
It´s not that it doesn´t have it´s moments ...it most certainly does
(her
voice and lyrics are sublime as always) but there´s something about it
that
doesn´t quite slay me. Maybe it´s just one of these records I´ll have
to
listen to a couple more times before I fall head over heels in love
with
it. I hope so. I´ve been so looking forward to this record for a long
time
now."
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Also updated the F.A.Q. section.
Sinead O'Connor Comes out . . . with New Album 'Faith' By Elysa Gardner A priest with passion: Sinead O'Connor took a light-hearted approach to her latest album NEW YORK -- Sinead O'Connor has a confession to make. Some might suspect that the Irish singer/songwriter, who has inspired controversy with everything from her political views to her tonsorial choices, is simply trying to shock us again. Others might dismiss her revelation as an attempt to draw attention to her new album, Faith and Courage, which hits stores today. But here it is: ''I want to be Goldie Hawn,'' says O'Connor, 33, lounging in her Manhattan hotel suite. ''I'd like to do comic acting,'' she explains. ''Not heavy drama, where I'd have to dredge up lots of pain. ''But I wouldn't want to play big, big parts, because I'm actually painfully shy.'' Of course, if you're up on your show-biz gossip, you would most likely conclude that O'Connor is learning to overcome her timidity when it comes to her sex life. On Thursday, the lesbian magazine Curve issued a news release boasting that O'Connor had just ''come out'' to a Curve reporter in an ''exclusive'' interview. But O'Connor had already outed herself in a letter featured in the current issue of the Irish publication Hot Press. Addressing a previous interview in which she had discussed her sexuality, O'Connor wrote, ''I am a lesbian. I love men, but I prefer sex with women.'' Not surprisingly, O'Connor's appearance on Howard Stern's radio show Friday yielded more graphic details. ''But I don't believe in gay or straight,'' she told Stern. In fact, on one song on Faith, Daddy I'm Fine, O'Connor sings of wanting to have sex with ''every man in sight.'' That contradicts what she told Time in another interview last week -- that she has ''a huge calling towards celibacy. Obviously I am a very sexual person, and that's why it's a struggle.'' Asked about her current dating status, O'Connor says, ''I dabble a bit, but I don't have a strict boyfriend.'' Smiling slyly, she adds, ''Or a girlfriend.'' But on this afternoon, at least, O'Connor is more eager to discuss Faith, for which she enlisted an eclectic array of producers and co-writers, including Brian Eno, Dave Stewart and Wyclef Jean. ''It was important to work with people who could bring a sense of mischief and lightness and pop fun to the record,'' O'Connor says. Faith also was influenced by O'Connor's decision to become a priest. Last year, the singer was ordained by the Latin Tridentine Church, a splinter group of the Roman Catholic Church. ''I've always been inspired by religious studies -- by the Rastafarians, by Hinduism, by the Jews,'' she says. ''I'm passionately in love with the idea of God, although I think that organized religion has made God an uncool word. I think the problem is that we're missing an 'o.' Substitute the word 'good' -- problem solved.'' O'Connor chose the Tridentine movement because it is willing to ordain women -- and because it doesn't require celibacy, ''which I think should be voluntary rather than compulsory.'' ''But I don't want to talk too much about being a priest, because I didn't do this to get publicity,'' she stresses. ''Also, the Vatican (officials) have been very tolerant toward me. I think they feel that as long as I don't (mess) with them, they're not gonna (mess) with me.'' O'Connor's troubles with the Vatican can, of course, be traced to her infamous Saturday Night Live appearance in 1992, when she capped a song by ripping up a picture of Pope John Paul II. ''The song was about child abuse, and at that time we were dealing with that issue in the church here (in Ireland),'' she says. ''It wasn't an attack on the pope personally. In fact, I have great love and admiration for him -- and great sorrow for the fact that he's being worked like a dog when he should be able to rest up and have some fun and have a wife and children.'' O'Connor has endured some turmoil in her own domestic life recently. Last year she was in a custody battle with Dublin-based journalist John Waters, father of her daughter, Roisin, 4. There were reports that O'Connor attempted suicide and that Waters was subsequently awarded full custody. O'Connor refutes those accounts. ''I was in the hospital a few times because I was getting eye infections and losing a lot of weight,'' she says. ''Plus, I felt suicidal, which I told a few friends. So I think people assumed the worst.'' O'Connor says that she was granted full custody of the child but that she and Waters worked out a joint-custody arrangement that required her tomove from London to Dublin. O'Connor also remains devoted to her 12-year-old son from a former marriage, Jake, who lives with father John Reynolds in London. For all the speculation about her sexual confusion, in fact, O'Connor seems settled and content in both her personal and professional life. ''I have what I call a safe career,'' she says. ''I can't compete with the Britneys. But I'll always make enough money to send my kids to good schools and buy all the makeup I want -- and to make the kind of records I want to make.'' © Copyright 2000 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.
You can also read excerpts from the Curve Magazine interview by going to www.curvemag.com
Be sure to stay close to your tv and get up early to see Sinéad make an appearance on ABC's The View. Sinéad will also be talking to Access Hollywood about her new album, and her sexual epiphany. It all happens today, June 13, 2000.
Here is an article describing a free concert Sinéad will be doing to promote Faith and Courage:
You heard right! If you live in or near NYC, you can catch Sinéad O’Connor performing songs off her new FAITH AND COURAGE release - for free! The renowned singer/songwriter will be appearing outside the CBS Studios on June 12th, and the performance is open to all. The mini-concert is being taped to air on an upcoming edition of CBS’ The Morning Show. To attend just arrive at 59th and 5th Avenue before the 9:45am start time. Though not a lengthy set, fans can count on hearing “No Man’s Woman,” the lead single that’s been deemed “spine-tingling” by June’s Rolling Stone.
Not in the right area code? It’s all good, there are loads of ops to see Sinéad. In addition to her Friday (June 9th) performance on David Letterman, Access Hollywood will be spotlighting the Irish firebrand on June 12th. Then on June 13th, the day FAITH AND COURAGE hits stores, Sinéad will be appearing on ABC’s The View.
SINÉAD O'CONNOR COMES OUT IN AN EXCLUSIVE
INTERVIEW WITH CURVE, THE NATION'S
BEST-SELLING LESBIAN MAGAZINE
Irish singer/songwriter joins ranks with k.d. lang
and Melissa Etheridge as major recording artists
who have publicly come out as lesbian.
SAN FRANCISCO - In a delightfully candid and
thoughtful conversation, Sinéad O'Connor came out
as lesbian publicly for the first time during a recent
exclusive interview with CURVE, the nation's
best-selling lesbian magazine.
"I'm a lesbian," Ms. O'Connor confirmed in a June 2,
2000, interview with CURVE reporter Diane
Anderson-Minshall, "although I haven't been very
open about that, and throughout most of my life
I've gone out with blokes because I haven't
necessarily been terribly comfortable about being a
lesbian. But I actually am a lesbian."
The issue of Curve with Sinéad O'Connor's
coming-out story on the cover hits newsstands
June 27, 2000, and remains on the stands through
August 22, 2000.
"Sinéad O'Connor is a highly talented and intelligent
woman," says Frances Stevens, editor-in-chief,
publisher and founder of CURVE. "Although coming
out can be difficult, she's sending a clear message
to young women that it's O.K. to be gay. We
applaud her for taking this step and wish the best
for her and her family. "
Sinéad is also set to appear on a few other shows:
June 9 Rosie O'Donnell Show
June 9 Howard Stern Radio Show on E!
June 12 CBS - The Early Show
She is also set to appear on The View, MTV and VH1, but no offical dates have been set.
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In other news, Sinéad's performance at the HQ Venue in Dublin will be brodcast on RTE radio on June 22.
1. No Man's Woman is #1 for most increased air play, and most added song on Adult Alternative radio stations.
2. No Man's Woman has acheived 146 spins on 16 staions and received 4 adds on the "New & Active" radio category.
3. On stations that call themselves "HOT AC", No Man's Woman received most added song status with 196 spins on a total of 18 stations.
4. Radio & Records Magazine, one of the most leading magazines for music tracking lists No Man's Woman #21 on Adult Alternative Charts and #17 on ChartByte charts.
5. The song is also acheiving worldwide success, reaching Top 20 lists in many foreign countries.
And finally, Sinéad will be one of many guests appearing at the Big KISS concert (sponsord by KISS 108FM in Boston) on June 3rd. Don't bother trying to get a ticket, the show has sold out.
Also, No Man's Woman is currently #22 on CD93 radio and is also #20 on WLIR radio.
The tracks Rainy Day and Preacherman which appear on Faith and Courage have now been changed to: Dancing Lessons and The Lamb's Book Of Life. Check out Atlantic Records for the official tracklist.
SINEAD O'CONNOR "No Man's Woman" (3:00) Atlantic Sinead O'Connor's debut on Atlantic Records is a mixed bag. Instrumentally, she employs a hip-hop rhythm and pointed beats to give this song a drama that works well on many levels. Vocally, O'Connor's singular style still rings true, with those familiar layers and vulnerable, almost pained chops drawing your ears to the lyric from line one. And that's where the problem lies. If O'Connor was trying to put off every man listening to a radio, she's succeeded with aplomb: "I don't want to be no man's woman, I have other work I want to get done/I haven't traveled this far to become no man's woman." While she admits fear and pain from her relationships with the male gender, the overall tone remains caustic, almost like an attack, and it's wearying on the ear. Can you imagine what would happen if a man were to sing about how tired he'd become of women's manipulative ways or something similar? It would never fly - so why does this continue to be permissible? Artists are, of course, entitled to write a lyric as they see fit. It's a shame, because the tune is lovely and O'Connor's talent remains remarkable. Here's hoping that the follow-up is a little more universal.
Click here to see the promo poster for the No Man's Woman cd single.
Sinéad will also be appearing on BBC and American television this summer. Here are the following dates:
June 8 David Letterman Show
June 9 Rosie O'Donnell Show
June 9 Howard Stern Radio Show on
June 12 CBS - The Early Show
She is also set to appear on The View, MTV and VH1, but no offical dates have been set.
Finally, go to Atlantic Records to read the new section for Sinéad---They finally updated their database
BBC Northern Ireland is set to produce the biggest music show of the year on national television on May 29. Mike Edgar will produce, and possibly host, the Hot Press Uncovered spectacularlive from the HQ Hall of Fame in Dublin on May 29. The show will bring together the biggest collection of Irish music talent ever assembled. Stars including Sinead O'Connor, The Undertones, Ulster band Therapy and other big names are already confirmed to take part. The show, part of BBC Music Live, a celebration for the millennium, will be broadcast between 8-10pm and reach an audiance of up to 20 million viewers."We're absolutely thrilled about producing this major night for Irish music," Edgar said. "On the back of last October's Hot Press Rock Awards this is a completely different programme with an extremely fun and vibrant nature." Hot Press Uncovered will not only celebrate Irish music today but will also celebrate the history of the music magazine itself. Stars, who have all featured on the covers of Hot Press magazine overits 23 -year history, will gather in the HQ on the evening and will cover songs of other people who have also featured on the cover and inspired them on their respective musical journeys. Ulster group The Undertones will be making their first TV appearancein almost two decades where they are rumoured to be opening the show with legendaryTeenage Kicks followed by a cover version of a Them classic. Other artists already confirmed include the Chieftains and Paul Bradywhile The Corrs, Ronan Keating and Stephen Gately are all rumoured to be planning an appearance, with huge TV audiences offering priceless publicity. "It's a big coup for BBC Northern Ireland and a massive night for Irish music," Mike added.
1. The Healing Room
2. What Doesn't Belong To Me
3. Jealous
4. Daddy I'm Fine
5. Preacherman
6. Hold Back The Night
7. Till I Whisper
8. Emma's Song
9. If U Ever
10. No Man's Woman
11. Summer's End
12. Rainy Day
13. The State I'm In
14. Kyrie Eleison
15. Full Circle
Appearing as part of RTE Radio One's Mystery Train Live series, Sinead O'Connor remains as iconic a figure as ever. This event, however, was not a gig, as Mystery Train host, John Kelly, pointed out at the beginning. Rather, it was a relaxed, informal chat with Sinead in the comfort of a sittingroom. And so it turned out to be, with the notable exception of a couple of surprises: O'Connor's startling voice and the sight of an RTE radio presenter openly flirting with a priest. The format of these Mystery Train live shows - well known music personality is interviewed by well known radio presenter, well known music personality sings a number of songs - is such that it succeeds or fails on how relaxed theatmosphere is. To his credit, John Kelly drew O'Connor out of her initial nervous shell with casual empathy, easy going humour and instinctive queries, following the line of Q & A whenever and wherever it went but ultimately refusing to go for the soft option. For her part, Sinead O'Connor was genuinely sparky in her resolve toshed some light onto her public profile. Occasionally starkly honest ("lonelinessis a crowded room," she said in relation to her chart-topping success period) and very funny, on all levels she succeeded in laying to rest the public perceptionof her potential forself-destruction. As for the songs, O'Connor began with Kyrie Eleison and ended with She Moves Through The Fair. Accompanied for the most part by former Something Happens guitarist Ray Harmon, she also performed two untitled songs from her forthcoming album, House of The Rising Sun, Bob Dylan's I Believe In You, LoreenaMcKennit's Full Circle, On Raglan Road, Amazing Grace and I Am Stretched On Your Grave. If pins were dropped, no one heard them.