{"id":14583,"date":"2015-07-19T00:06:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T07:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=14583"},"modified":"2015-07-19T09:54:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T16:54:08","slug":"sinead-oconnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2015\/07\/sinead-oconnor\/","title":{"rendered":"SIN\u00c9AD O\u2019CONNOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14584\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Issue35-SINEAD-O-CONNOR.jpg\" alt=\"Issue35-SINEAD-O-CONNOR\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Issue35-SINEAD-O-CONNOR.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Issue35-SINEAD-O-CONNOR-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>SIN\u00c9AD O\u2019CONNOR<\/b><\/h1>\n<h3><b>The iconoclastic singer reveals her love of the blues on her 10th album<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor\u2019s new album,\u00a0<i>I\u2019m Not Bossy, I\u2019m the Boss<\/i>, is something of a milestone. \u201cI see it that way in terms of being a songwriter,\u201d she says. \u201cIn the last few years, I\u2019ve studied and immersed myself in the blues\u2014not the unhappy kind of blues, but the Chicago funky style of blues. Because of that, I feel I\u2019ve advanced and broadened as a songwriter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor\u2014whose career skyrocketed in 1990 with Prince\u2019s \u201cNothing Compares 2 U\u201d\u2014has taken forays into reggae, trip-hop and folk. Blues, however, wasn\u2019t on her radar until her last tour was canceled due to illness. \u201cThe business end of things became very nasty,\u201d she says. \u201cI thought, \u2018The only way I\u2019m going to stay in music is to make myself fall in love with music.\u2019 My mate said, \u2018You have to check out blues.\u2019 I immersed myself in the blues and became addicted to it. The stamp of Howlin\u2019 Wolf, Willie Dixon and Buddy Guy is palpable in the new record\u2019s direct, passionate lyrics and bold, gruff vocals.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor\u2019s musical preference isn\u2019t all that\u2019s changed\u2014so has her songwriting process. It\u2019s no longer therapy to untangle the emotional ravages of growing up in 1970s war-torn Ireland. \u201cWhen I was younger, I had a lot of things to get off my chest, and that\u2019s what songwriting was,\u201d she says. \u201cNow I write character songs, not autobiographical ones. I can put myself in the characters, but I\u2019m not limited by my own experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another inspiration was Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg\u2019s Ban Bossy girl-empowering campaign. \u201cI was struck by the picture of Beyonc\u00e9 and the words \u2018I\u2019m not bossy, I\u2019m the boss,\u2019\u201d says O\u2019Connor, 47. \u201cAt the time I was experiencing issues with getting employees to act on my instructions. After 25 years of not opening my mouth, I had to say, \u2018I love you all, but I am the boss.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To cap this new self-assertive chapter, the album cover features O\u2019Connor dressed as a vixen in a slinky black latex dress. \u201cNow I\u2019m faced with the terror of shooting the video, and they want me to dress like that,\u201d she says, aghast. \u201cIt was fun for a day, but it\u2019s high maintenance. It wasn\u2019t meant to be the album cover, just a couple of publicity shots to get people talking about the album.It seems to have worked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Linda Laban<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIN\u00c9AD O\u2019CONNOR The iconoclastic singer reveals her love of the blues on her 10th album Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor\u2019s new album,\u00a0I\u2019m Not Bossy, I\u2019m the Boss, is something of a milestone. \u201cI see it that way in terms of being a songwriter,\u201d she says. \u201cIn the last few years, I\u2019ve studied and immersed myself in the blues\u2014not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[7652,4490],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14622,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14583\/revisions\/14622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}