Songs That Explain the ‘90s is out this fall on Twelve Books. If you’ve ever listened to 60 Songs That Explain the ‘90s and thought, “I wish this podcast were a book,” do we have some news for you. I tell you that much only because this might somewhat explain both the fragility and the ferocity with which Sinéad O’Connor sings, and the hard-fought self-assurance she brings to every song she’s ever sung. Her mother died in a car accident when Sinéad was 18, shortly before she got her first record deal. She says her mother would beat her with a carpet-sweeper pole instead and make Sinéad say, “I am nothing,” over and over.
Sinéad mentions a few times that when she’d come home from school for the summer she’d pretend she’d lost her field hockey stick, because she didn’t want her mother to beat her with it. Her parents split up when she was 9 she split time between her father, who was initially granted custody of the children, and her mother, who in Sinéad’s account was physically and mentally abusive. She was born in Glenageary, Ireland, in 1966. Who is this person? What does she want? What doesn’t she want? What do we want from her? In June 2021 Sinéad O’Connor published a memoir called Rememberings.
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