Sinead O’Connor Remembers Things Differently – The New York Times

Sinead O’Connor Remembers Things Differently (Published 2021)

The mainstream narrative is that a pop star ripped up a photo of the pope on “Saturday Night Live” and derailed her life. What if the opposite were true?

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/arts/music/sinead-oconnor-rememberings.html?surface=most-popular&fellback=false&req_id=558401398&algo=bandit-all-surfaces-uh-lastthismonth-alpha-01&variant=7_bandit-all-surfaces-uh-lastthismonth-alpha-01&pool=pool/91fcf8

But O’Connor doesn’t see it that way. In fact, the opposite feels true. Now she has written a memoir, “Rememberings,” that recasts the story from her perspective. “I feel that having a No. 1 record derailed my career,” she writes, “and my tearing the photo put me back on the right track.”