Rememberings (9780358447092) by O'Connor Sinead

Author:O'Connor, Sinead
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780358447092
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2021-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

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One of the factors contributing to my album’s success began in a Paris cemetery. At Père Lachaise, a queen-size bed is carved in snow-white marble. There a young woman lies, wearing a beautiful buttoned nightdress, smiling at her baby, blankets pulled up around them, baby smiling back. Every detail, down to the stitches in the sheets and blankets, perfect. Every smile line under the woman’s eyes. Even her hair on her pillow.

I walked around there most of the day in an extraordinarily expensive coat I wished I could keep. Gerry Stafford, the stylist, told me Père Lachaise even had its own sewage system. I must admit I was slightly freaked at the idea of the dead getting up to take a dump and then shuffling back into their tombs. Also, what do they wipe with?

Note to self: Never, ever go to a graveyard again.

We were making the video for “Nothing Compares 2 U.” We’d already shot most of the video in London a few days ago, maybe three setups. In one, a close-up, I just sang the song along with the track, sitting in a chair wearing a black polo neck. But in the part where it says “All the flowers that you planted, Mama, in the backyard, all died when you went away,” I cried for like twenty seconds.

I think that means I wasted their time. I did manage to get my act together and keep singing. But I think it’s unusable. So it’s good we’re shooting all this stuff in Paris. I feel bad I wasted everyone’s time and money, though.

John Maybury, who again directed my video, thought I was crying because me and Fachtna had recently parted ways. But I’m happy about that now. It’s better for everyone.

I was crying about my mother being dead. I’m still really messed up about it, even though I’m twenty-four. A little embarrassing. But there you go. I’m a girl.

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