‘Can’t compare to 2 U’ It is one of Sinéad O’Connor’s best-known songs. This is not yours. Prince composed for his band The Family’s debut album recorded in 1985. Five years later, O’Connor reversed that, including his second album—’I Don’t Want What I Don’t Have’ (1990)—and For nearly the entire five minutes of the song’s music video, he let them shoot him in iconic close-ups. A milestone in your career. It’s not surprising that the documentary directed by Kathryn Ferguson and dedicated to her by the Showtime network is fully titled ‘Comparable with nothing’, but ‘with you’ has been removed: nothing is comparable in general.
And it may be true, because the career of the Irish singer, born in Dublin in 1966, is comparable to few others. From stardom—including a Grammy award—to the argument for defending everything that needs to be defended. The movie released this Saturday Closing gala of the In-Edit festival in BarcelonaIt begins with one of the most painful images of his career. He was booed by the crowd during a Bob Dylan memorial concert at Madison Square Garden in New York.October 16, 1992. The scene moves to another close-up of O’Connor staring at the audience defiantly and sadly.
After halfway through the movie, the scene comes back. Then we see Kris Kristofferson take the stage to support her and tell her to ignore them. Right after, O’Connor asks the keyboard player to stop playing and interprets Bob Marley’s ‘War’ as ‘a cappella’, in fact Dylan was supposed to sing ‘I believe in you’. More and more angry. His voice overpowers boo. When he finishes, his public gaze is almost condescending, although he later cries and allows himself to be consoled. Kristofferson has always been an honest man.
This performance closed a tragic fortnight for O’Connor, the end of his career. And it’s all to express very clearly what others know, but to remain silent and thus give. 13 days ago, on October 3rd, O’Connor was a guest on ‘Saturday Night Live’. ‘War’, he also sang ‘a cappella’ and eventually Pope Pope II. He tore up a photograph of John Paul. The scandal was big, of course. You don’t play with the church. Even with the patriotic conscience of the United States, he was also not questioned by the singer.
That’s why he was booed in Madison Square Garden and denounced in the papers after tearing up a photo of the Pope. And they forgot that O’Connor clearly meant it. against racism, homophobia, patriarchy, pedophilia, church abuse or the war in Iraq. It didn’t do him much good. 1992 marked the end of a career that had begun just seven years ago at post-punk concerts in Dublin and London.
All this gets a lot of attention in the documentary, but that’s not the only thing that’s interesting. The director explores complex family relationships, the music he listened to as a child, what his haircut represents –A radical new femininity shave, although also associated with ‘skin heads’– her pregnancy, the pressures of the recording industry, her performance at the 1989 Grammys with the Public Enemy logo painted on her head, followed by a boycott of the same awards.
Ferguson completely eliminated physical interviews to give the film a more fluid pace. about a large amount family images, performances, video clips and television programs of the period, We heard O’Connor’s voice and statements from her ex-husband and drummer, John Reynolds, and her friends, brother, teachers, musicians, journalists, and publishers. A polyhedral portrait in the first and third person.
‘Nothing to compare’ concludes with O’Connor’s current performance. Appointed as a priest by the Latin Tridentine Church in 1999, he converted to Islam in 2018 and changed his name to Shuhada Sadaqat. No one will boo him.
Source: Informacion
