At the beginning of the 90s, mainstream pop belonged to a handful of female artists; Madonna, Whitney and Mariah Carey all owned the airwaves with their provocative posturing and emotive power ballads which dominated the top 40 chart. Also emerging at this time, and striking a match amongst her contemporaries was the Irish singer songwriter Sinéad O’Connor. Sinead O’Connor broke the mould and the mainstream with her reworked version of Princes’ classic ‘Nothing Compares To You’. Her voice and image sent shockwaves around the globe. Coming from an Irish Catholic background, the autonomy over her own body had, up to a point, always been restricted due to the theocracy and dominant religious landscape she grew up in. But being Sinéad O’connor, she wasn’t going to allow that to prevent her from speaking her truth...
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