Tp think Sinead O'Connor should learn some manners?

[breadyegg]

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...

I don't really care. I think she's a good artist and if I like what I hear, I'll buy it.

I met SOC a few times, she,s hugely intelligent, very witty, and not in the least up her own arse.
I,m sad to see anyone advocate that any woman needs a slap.Just horrible.

Well that's another 4 minutes of my life gone.

I think A storm in a very small teacup is the technical term.

They are both creative and tangential people.

We knew that.

"I don't think she sees it as her role to make other people feel comfortable."

Quoted from piprabbit on Page 3 - is it just me who thinks we should have this instilled in all little girls minds?

Thanks to this thread, Ive made Sineads sales go up (sorry, my cat broke my apostrophe key).

'Everyone can see
What's going on:
They laugh 'cause they know
They're untouchable,
Not because what I said was wrong.

Whatever it may bring
I will live by my own policies.
I will sleep with a clear conscience,
I will sleep in peace.'

Long may Sinead continue to speak truth to power, and long may she live by her own policies - including refusing to simper and smile while she's being disrespected and patronised.

I thought Sinead was very funny in that interview :)

The interviewer was a bit of an arse.

is a much better example of how to interview someone/ask how they are. I'm no massive Lorraine fan, and it's not a super indepth interview but Sinead is totally gracious and charming. She even apologises for interrupting Lorraine at one point: hardly diva behaviour.

She is rude, and comes across as a horrible human being.

Even when she was in the charts when I was a child she gave me the creeps.

How hard is it really to just say 'fine thank you'?

goodness, Clouds...

now, when you say that, are you trying to convince us or yourself?

She once lived in a horrible place where the expected answer to a question like that was 'fine thank you, mother superior'.

She also has real mh issues that she deals with very much in public as she is an entertainer, and the crassness of the line of questioning on those issues elicited a very appropriate response from her.

How hard is it? Gees, given her life and what she went through herself, I have to say I'd probably be a lot worse. A horrible human being? W.T.A.F? LOL, says a lot about the questioner, tbh, if you had any idea.

How hard is it? Really? To just shut your mouth to decades of state-sanctioned abuse and enforced slavery of women because you have a vagina?

If people just shut their mouths and smiled, Clouds, women like you and me wouldn't have the vote, the right to work without your husband's permission, own property in your own right without being widowed or your nearest male kin's permission or even the right to say no to sex with your husband.

Sure, she's such a horrible human being

Snap, math.

Great album! So glad I bought it. I might not if I hadn't read this thread.

Surely, anybody would get there backs up if when asked how they were, replied fine and then were met with "who you trying to convince?". Especially in what seemed to be a quick interview conducted standing several meters apart.

He hardly seemed like he was asking to be caring and compassionate, more as an attack.

Its incredibly rude and disrespectful . There is the clear implication that you are somehow a liar or to feeble to know your own feelings.

It drives me mad when people try to tell me how I really feel, as if they know my own mind better so Sinead's response was very apt imo.

I imagine the interviewer thought it was fine to do this due to her MH issues. Nice.

Her song troy is so powerful

I often sing that as I.like the screaming part

Well clouds, the easy thing for her to do would be to say 'fine thank you' but she doesn't choose easy. She chooses honest.

I've also ordered one of sinead's albums due to this thread. I've ordered 'The best of..'but will definitely order the new one as well.

I'm so pleased as it includes her version of 'Don't cry for me Argentina' which I've just discovered due to listening to her on youtube over the last couple of days. It's amazing.

The more I think about this the more incensed I get.

Why, why, why did she have to be 'mature' when faced with a question that was obviously intended to provoke?

'Are you trying to convince me or yourself?'. I can't read that in any other way than a snarky.

Ooh look, I invented a new verb!

She was asked perfectly nicely how she was.

She was the first to be rude with the way she responded.

I appreciate that her interviewer didn't respond to her rudeness well and actually just made the situation worse. But if she had given a pleasant response to a pleasant question it wouldn't have happened in the first place.

But of course according to some people, giving a pleasant response to a simple question is just the same as shutting your mouth to years of state sanctioned abuse and enforced slavery.

I totally agree madameboolala

'Are you trying to convince me or yourself?'

why does he think she gives a shit about what he thinks?
Such a smug, conceited thing for him to say.

Noooooooooooooooo!

Now I've looked it up and now I know what Eddie Mair looks like and I do not like finding out what radio voices look like.

Damn the lot of you!

Well, it's fairly clear that she's got 'ishoos' in which case she probably shouldn't put herself in a position where she is interviewed.

As we know, the media aren't very kind and she obviously doesn't have the mental capacity to cope with it. I see far worse 'attacks' on people in the office every day and they don't react like that. She should think herself lucky she's not in the 'real world'.

It's got nothing to do with her ability as an artist.

She doesn't have the mental capacity to cope with it? She made a bit of an arsey comment! She didn't go on a murderous rampage around the studio.