'Such a pretty girl [...] uou shaved your head,
pulled a face'
Although
Britney Spears may be the most recent pop star to shave her head, h has
stated the inspiration for the song was Irish chanteuse Sinead O’Connor.
'The horror show when you were young'
O'Connor has stated that her childhood was characterised by abuse from her
emotionally unstable mother.
'But even whores don't kiss with tongues'
Prostitutes, it is said, do not kiss their clients as kissing is felt to be
a sign of intimacy above that of copulation. If anyone wants to shed any
light on whether this is really true, please feel free...
Mark Kennedy
also discovered the following
gem from 2005:
"O'Connor
recently said in an interview with Hotpress, adding to her tiresome litany
of shocking statements, that mainstream music 'has all the sincerity of a
whore's kiss.'."
'Nonetheless I do believe you cried real tears' The video
of O’Connor’s version of the Prince-penned Nothing Compares 2 U
largely comprises a single static shot of O’Conner in close up.
Towards
the end of the song, around 3:20, as a result of singing the lines, 'All the
flowers that you planted, Mama in the back yard/All died when you went
away,' a tear rolls down each cheek. O’Connor maintains these were real
tears and were because the lyric made her think of her mother with whom
she’d had a complicated, sometimes abusive relationship.
'Twisted them until they scanned
and rhymed'
Rich Harding said:
"There are probably other known
examples but the ones that spring to mind are from TSE the track:
'A cloud of bees with no particular aim and no brain' - it was actually
wasps
and
'There
was a magical purple in the chrome of the exhaust of his Triumph motorbike'
- actually a Norton.
'Boo Hoo'
Rich Harding pointed out that 'Boo Hoo'
is normally used sarcastically to indicate that the speaker does not
actually share the view that the subject of discussion is sad and likely to
make one cry.
