“It’s not like I got up in the morning and said, ‘OK, now let’s start a new controversy,'” O’Connor told Rolling Stone in 1991. Those acts, in many ways, derailed her career - but she didn’t view it in that light. And this all came before her infamous SNL performance of Bob Marley’s “War,” during which she shredded a photo of Pope John Paul II in protest of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. In 1991, along with Public Enemy, she boycotted the Grammy Awards to protest the first Gulf War. national anthem before a performance, which led certain radio stations to stop playing her music. That same year, she stopped a New Jersey concert venue from playing the U.S. In 1990, O’Connor refused to appear as a musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by misogynist comic Andrew Dice Clay. You hadn’t the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you.”
“You praise her now ONLY because it is too late. She had done nothing wrong,” Morrissey wrote. She became crazed, yes, but uninteresting, never. “She was dropped by her label after selling 7 million albums for them. This differs greatly from the backlash O’Connor received for stepping outside the traditional mainstream star lane to make bold public stances on child abuse, war, and organized religion. Morrissey’s claims of not fitting refer largely to the public response to his alleged support of a white nationalist political party, among his other controversial stances that have aimed at immigrants, women, and Asian communities. The statement, shared through his official website, positions the reactions to the musician’s death as hypocritical copouts, reading: “She had proud vulnerability … and there is a certain music industry hatred for singers who don’t ‘fit in’ (this I know only too well), and they are never praised until death – when, finally, they can’t answer back.” In light of Sinead O’Connor’s death, Morrissey has published an impassioned blog post criticizing what he views as disingenuous tributes to the singer, who died Wednesday at the age of 56.
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