In 1987, 20-year-old Sinead O'Connor released an album called The Lion and the Cobra, which I heard and immediately made it part of my music library. Her voice was like nothing I had ever heard before: powerful, emotional, and pained. I played that thing to death. Her next album had the Prince song "Nothing Compares to You". Wow! The raw emotion in that song was off the charts. Then her bit on Saturday Night Live stopped her world-wide popularity in its tracks. This documentary follows her life history, which was heavily influenced by the male-dominated religion in Ireland. It ripped her mother apart, which led to Sinead's abuse. The video explains her anger with the Catholic church and its abuse that was displayed in various forms all around that country. Her anger helped influence an entire country's women to lead to the transformation of a country that is acceptant of all people. This is a difficult movie because her anger and the visceral anger of the men around the world toward her for being herself was painful to watch. In the end, people now understand more what her anger was about.
Review of Nothing Compares
