Since Sinead O'Connor's death was announced online, tributes have poured in for her, celebrating her legacy, impact, and her talent.
Many have recalled her beautiful yet intense voice, her impassioned songwriting, and her undeniable stage presence. However, many also reported her previous controversies in the past and how they impacted the trajectory of her career.
Morrissey, who is also the subject of many criticisms and backlash, decried the attention and mourning that O'Connor has been receiving.
Morrissey Crticizes Sinead O'Connor Tributes
In a scathing blog post, Morrissey slammed the tributes commemorating Sinead O'Connor's life after her death. According to the singer, these are "hypocritical copouts."
"She was dropped by her label after selling 7 million albums for them. She became crazed, yes, but uninteresting, never. She had done nothing wrong," he wrote in a blog post posted on his website. "You praise her now ONLY because it is too late. You hadn't the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you."
Many perceived that O'Connor's music career started going south because of her very outspoken and defiant attitude. Infamously, she tore a photo of then-Pope John Paul II on "Saturday Night Live," in protest of the sexual abuse of children in the Catholic church.
Since then, music executives have frowned upon everything that O'Connor does and show in the media.
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"The press will label artists as pests because of what they withhold ... and they would call Sinead sad, fat, shocking, insane ... oh but not today! Music CEOs who had put on their most charming smile as they refused her for their roster are queuing-up to call her a 'feminist icon,;" he continued to say.
Radio stations even stopped playing her music after she stopped singing a National Anthem at a New Jersey concert back in the 90s. She even boycotted the Grammy Awards back then in protest of the first Gulf War. She went on to earn her first Grammy Award back then.
"Why is ANYBODY surprised that Sinead O'Connor is dead? Who cared enough to save Judy Garland, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse, Marilyn Monroe, Billie Holiday? Where do you go when death can be the best outcome? Was this music madness worth Sinead's life? No, it wasn't," he mulled in the post.
As of this writing, Sinead O'Connor's death has not yet been specified although London police claimed that it was not suspicious.
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