Tp think Sinead O'Connor should learn some manners?

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Just saw her on the BBC. How rude was she to that interviewer? She needs a slap...

I like her as an artist. Have ever so slightly gone off her...

TanteRose that Graham Norton clip is lovely. She makes perfect sense and he is very understanding.

WowOoo,

hardly worthy of being called an "interview" - just a scant few seconds, and the interviewer did NOT do his homework on how to handle talking to her.

Mechanical

and she sang so beautifully!

TanteRose - thank you!

Aww, she has to promote an album and she doesn't like interviews.
I do still love her.

She's said in the past she doesn't like interviews, and she sufferers from a serious mental illness. Of course she's not going to come across all sunshine and light sometimes.

BirdsGottaFly

I agree with you totally.

SO did tend to ramble on sometimes and I can see why people lost time for her tbh.

oh no SirBoob apparently, someone should just give the arsey woman a slap

God, I really don't think she came across that badly. I was expecting far worse, she was just a bit abrupt. "Are you trying to convince me or yourself?" is a ridiculously patronising question.

Eddie Mair interviewed her really badly and in her shoes I would have had the same WYF expression.
It was hardly an 'interview' and I don't think she was rude at all. What was she supposed to do? Simper and flutter her eye lashes?

I've just watched the youtube clip, and she doesn't come across as rude, she comes across as being extremely embarassed by the questions about her past. She obviously wanted to talk about the music.

Not sure why that would earn her a slap .

TanteRose

Thankyou for linking that. I totally agree with what claig and others have said.
She simply does "do" small talk bullshit. She wasn't rude.

And yes, shame on you for saying she needs a slap OP. Needlessly aggressive (yes I know you meant it metaphorically)

"I'm just making idle conversation until you ask me something interesting"

genius!

Wasn't she an IRA supporter?

I'm amazed, considering the flaming you would normally get on MN for advocating slapping someone with MH issues, that the OP has got off so lightly.

Agree tanterose I laughed out loud at that comment. I love seeing fiery, opinionated women act out of the expected norm, for whatever reason

Why would an experienced interview start by asking about someone's mental state? Very personal and inappropriate. No wonder she was pissed off.

I think she's fantastic

He was a prick, she was annoyed and embarrassed and he is lucky she didn't just walk off stage. He started by mentioning her mental health and she said 'don't' and he carried on.

Yep

Watching it again, i think he owes her an apology. Oafish, and i normally like him.

Yeah thats what the woman needs, a good slap That will put her in her place.

She might not have been the first person in Ireland to speak up agaonst the Catholic Church but for me (and maybe a lot of my generation) she said what we all wanted to say but were too constrained by our families and the stronghold that the church still had on us even in the 90's. And I wasnt from a rural part of Ireland. I lived in a progressive major city. Yet my mother would spit, literally spit and call her a slut every time she saw SOC on TV.

SOC spoke for me, and prob many others. She is never dealt a fair hand. You can be sure that a man wouldnt have been worngfooted with loaded questions about mental health. She should have walked, she is to be commended that she didnt.

Eddie Mair was crass, it was cringeworthy.

Marceline I agre with that last paragraph

... so fucking patronising.