Sinéad O'fucking Connor

Things are dire in Sillywriterland, but let not my everyday struggle distract me from key events. Sinéad O'Connor died today.

Enough people are glossing her legacy, so I'll speak from unfiltered subjectivity: she's in my top 3 musicians ever. I discovered her first two albums in my early 20s: literally found the LPs in the basement and waited till I was alone at my parents' to play them. They blew me away. To hell with the narrative of the one-hit-wonder; don't buy it. "Nothing compares 2 u" is ...