"Good news. Fuck retirement. I retract, ”
wrote on his Twitter account the Irish artist Sinéad O'Connor, who announced on June 4 to end his career.
Her previous statement was dictated, according to the letter accompanying her message, by the attitude of the British media towards her while the musician is on a promotional campaign for
Rememberings
, her memoir released on June 1.
O'Connor explains in particular having been struck, during an interview with the BBC on June 1, by the attitude of the journalist. She allegedly mentioned a line by
Daily Telegraph
music critic
Neil McCormick who called the Irishwoman
"a mad woman in the attic of pop"
, alluding to Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre's work
.
"I think it's a bit extreme to make the comparison with
Jane Eyre
, I don't think I have ever been seen as 'the madwoman in the attic of pop' as depicted in
Jane Eyre
..."
, retorted the artist,who had denounced a few hours later on Twitter a moment
"useless and violent
[…]
,
Extremely offensive and even misogynistic ”
.
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She wanted to "piss off the supremacists"
The BBC was then explained, arguing that
"during an interview on his new book, Sinéad O'Connor spoke of his mental health"
.
“She was then asked what she thought of the commentary of a music critic who had examined her book in recent days,”
added the British audiovisual company.
Other media encounters of this ilk prompted the musician to hastily declare her withdrawal from the stage.
But in the face of the boiling and the support of the fans, O'Connor updated his American-Irish tour of 2022.
"Plus, I lied when I said I was past my prime"
, the singer joked, still on Twitter.
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Converted to Islam in 2018, Sinéad O'Connor has since adopted the name of Shuhada Davitt. This religious inspiration caused her some slippage, as when she declared on Twitter that she no longer wanted to "
see whites from now on (if that is what non-Muslims are called). Never again, under any circumstances. They are disgusting ”
. Explaining a few days later on these remarks, O'Connor claimed in a video to have wanted to
"piss off the white supremacists"
and hoped that Twitter would delete his account, as the social network had done when the artist had declared not not like
"the nuns who murder babies in Ireland"
.