Prince wrote this song, Sinéad made it a worldwide hit. Sinéad had 10 brilliant albums. Unfortunately she was physically and sexually abused by her mother. Her mother would make her sleep in the backyard in a shed. When Sinéad turned 19 she was ready to try to forgive her mother but sadly her mother died in a car crash before she got the chance. That’s why the song is personal to her. The wee bit about all the flowers that you planted in the backyard, all died when you went away. Sinèad had a very sad life and suffered mental health issues as a result. January 2022 her son Shane aged 17 took his own life. She never got over the loss. She was an amazing activist and charitable lady. Very down to earth. We in Ireland 🇮🇪 loved her as did the rest of the world. RIP Sinéad, back with your son. Your music lives on.

@joeb-5150

10 ай бұрын

Don't cha just love Google

@Cath1027

10 ай бұрын

@@joeb-5150I believe when you don’t know something google is great. As a fan of Sinéad since her first song I don’t need google. KZread has the full Doctor Phil show with Sinéad, you should check it out.

She was an activist, she spoke out about sexual child abuse in the catholic church and got cancelled for it. She was before her time. For us who were young in the 90:s, she was an absolute legend ❤

@NickiTwix

8 ай бұрын

Yeah Madonna pissed me off cause she said some shit about it but it’s like hello Madonna you had crosses on fire in Like A Prayer, just seems hypocritical to me

@cm9241

4 ай бұрын

This is why i hate people whining about cancel culture. Real people speaking out have been "cancelled" before "cancelled" just meant being complained about on twitter. Now it's nothing but people bitching about cancel culture because they got mean tweets about them for talking about trans people, when this woman's career was snuffed for speaking out about child abuse in the church. go back to the hollywood blacklist of suspected communists in the 50s. Cancel culture always existed, the only difference is now people take any criticism as being cancelled.

@100puremustard5

3 ай бұрын

​@@cm9241The problem now is your 1st amendment right is being cancelled. That definitley wasn't happening pre 2009

@cm9241

3 ай бұрын

@@100puremustard5 "that definitely wasn't happening pre 2009" - someone who doesn't remember 2003. Lmaoooo. Bill Maher and the Dixie Chicks directly lost work because of their speech. I'm not a fan of the Dixie Chicks music and I fucking loathe Bill Maher but they absolutely got cancelled, by conservatives. Bill Maher's show literally got cancelled, taken off air because he said the terrorists that flew the planes on 9/11 weren't cowards.

@100puremustard5

3 ай бұрын

I was talking about regular citizens who are "supposed" to be protected by the constitution. Not artists who should literally just shut up and sing (I don't need and don't care to hear about their politics)

Not only was she on a different level as a artist but also as a human !!

@dannycraig1980

6 ай бұрын

She was amazing ❤

This is not just singing, this is exposing one's very soul.

For all that Prince wrote & first performed the song, it was pretty much unnoticed until Sinéad performed it, and meant every word, sung it with every fibre of her being, in the music video tears rolled down her face and I think everybody that saw it cried with her. It remains one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded and Sinéad was a beautiful soul, an activist for the causes she believed in and that deserved her activism, she remains loved and held in high, high regard. 🌸

@johnnyboots481

10 ай бұрын

Prince did not perform the song, (he did eventually)he wrote it, and his side project band "the family ", recorded it. It was somewhat popular back in the 80s with their other hit " the screams of passion ". Should check it out. The singer is Wendy's sister.

@johnnyboots481

10 ай бұрын

The original.. kzread.info/dash/bejne/kY6g3LBpd9fWoJs.htmlsi=Rucs8SvT0ol1s_u0

@DDuMas

9 ай бұрын

When Sinead OConner did the music video, her mother recently passed away. She meant it. You can see the sadness and tears when she sings that part: kzread.info/dash/bejne/YmF5qJhpnsjNpc4.htmlsi=3vzyWUGCxQQZ3Qbv&t=200

every time Sinéad sung this simple song,, she ,, 'tore' a liitle bit out of her soul,, to convey the emotion,, ,, for her loves,,,, her children,, (one of whom died),, and herself,,,,,,, and then one day ............... there was no more soul,, left

Sinead was a strong Irish activist who had TV networks scared to air her. Finally, SNL hired her, where she ripped a picture of the Pope to pieces. She was banned and her career slowed greatly. Terrific Lady in many ways. RIP

My favorite Sinead story is that when she was first signed with a record company, they wanted her to adopt the “look” that so many female artists either choose or are forced to take on (sexy, pop princess) which is fine if that’s who you are but it definitely wasn’t Sinead. So she shaved her head. I love that she had the conviction and the balls to defy them like that. Thanks for another fun reaction.

Sinead is held in very high honour . She was a musical legend, no tricks or backing tracks, lip synking. Her voice is real and raw. She was a human rights activist, and didn't back down ,even when her own career was on the line. She spoke out vigorously on child sex abuse by the Catholic clergy, and she suffered personally because of this. But she was right and time has proven that. She gave courage to abused people to come forward and fight for justice. The more they tried to silence her, the larger the number of people came forward to support her, by exposing what happened to them. Rest in peace Sinead, and thank you.

@molly9518

3 ай бұрын

❤

It is so hard to believe that she did not write this song, because she delivers it so personally and emotionally. She did connect with one line- “all the flowers that you planted, mama, in the backyard, all died when you went away”. She thinks of her own mother at that line, and actually sheds a tear in the official video around that point as well.

In the Irish domain, you might also like Dolores O'Riordan, another brilliant singer who passed too early. Front woman for the Irish band 'The Cranberries'.

A very special human!!.. An outspoken spokes person for abuse, And mental health. A Brave person. ❤️❤️🙏

You did a great reaction! You’re highly intuitive and read Sinéad exceptionally well. Thanks for sharing this

Rest in Peace, precious Sinead ❤ She is one of the most brilliant, authentic musicians we have ever had!

Great reaction. This was recorded back in 1990 in Chile for a concert sponsored by Amnesty International when Chile got it's democracy back after decades from a dictatorship. Long Live Sinead O'connor. She was an Amazing performer and human being. Thank u Ireland and Our sincerest love and thanks for giving us this incredible and timeless woman. 🤘

This "Mythical fairy bouncing all over the stage giving you her heart" beautifully put.

Thank you from Ireland for your HEARTFELT reaction☘ We are mourning our beautiful Daughter Sinéad💔She was a force of nature with unmatched talent, but she was also very fragile. Please react to her live acapella performance of 'I Am Stretched On Your Grave' - a 17th-century Irish poem that she transformed with just her voice and a 'beat box' sample; She was 'keening' for our Country & it is pure perfection. (Keening is a traditional style of Ireland's culture and Sinéad was a Master of it.) The media and music industry cruelly shunned her for speaking THE TRUTH about the catholic abuse of innocent Irish children, including herself & she was eventually proven CORRECT - now an acknowledged fact globally. But the damage was already done to her and her career. I hope they're proud of their relentless victim shaming of a 23 year old girl who was brave enough to speak out. Rest easy sweet Sinéad - I hope you're finally at peace with your beloved son, Shane💚We will never forget you.

@greendragonpublishing

10 ай бұрын

That's an amazing song. And Irish Ways and Irish Laws. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pHd20rShXa2vpMo.html And Foggy Dew kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y2eBs6h8lqa_lLQ.html. Her love of Ireland oozes in her soul.

This was at a Human Rights concert in Chile in 1990. The flag was the flag of Chile.

5:13 That flag is a chilean flag. Because this was filmed in Santiago, Chile, in the "An Embrace for Hope" concert from of Amnesty Internacional in October 1990. Many internacional musicians and bands came to this country to celebrate Chile's return to democracy after Augusto Pinochet 17 years dictatorship.

@bockviken

10 ай бұрын

And Who put the dictator Pinochet inte Power? The answere is USA/CIA!

They found her on my birthday, worst present ever. She was a beautiful, complicated , tortured woman and I love her interpretations of this song. Do check the official video as well. May she rest in peace with her god and find her son and peace

This song gives me chills everytime I hear this she's amazing

Literally in tears watching this… my God she was beautiful and they destroyed her…

Sinéad was one of our most beautifully souled but troubled angels ….. 💐 🇮🇪🇮🇪

The official video is simply mesmerizing.

The music video for this is legendary, the camera stays on just her angelic face for the entire video as she sings. Simple and perfect. You know a woman's classically beautiful when her head's shaved bald and another woman notices how beautiful she is anyway. Hard to pull off, but she sure did. She was truly one of a kind.

@DDuMas

9 ай бұрын

When she sings the part "All the flowers that you planted mama... In the back yard" kzread.info/dash/bejne/YmF5qJhpnsjNpc4.htmlsi=3vzyWUGCxQQZ3Qbv&t=200 She looks down, you can feel the sadness, then you see tears... Her mother just passed recently, very close to when she made that video.

She shaved off her hair in protest of the way people look at beautiful women. Since she knew that she was beautiful, she tried to erase it by shaving off her hair. She wanted to be recognized by her music and not her looks.

amazes me to see the emotion she put into this song even thought she has probably sang it hundreds and hundreds of times.

As a civil rights, activist, and Campaigner against child abuse by religious orders, she was warned that she would lose her career. She chose to fight for the victim s . when.the music industry blocked her, she said "I chose the path of speaking for the silent victims"

In an interview, she said she would think of her troubled relationship with her mom while performing this song.

Sinéad (SHIN-aid - in Irish, an S followed by an I or E is aspirated as if there was an H after it). She was an amazing artist, a fantastic voice, full of raw power and exquisite control. A strong activist, someone who stood up to the establishment and lost most of her career over it, but did it anyhow. She struggled with mental health issues all her life. She has an amazing catalogue not only of modern music, but of Irish traditional tunes (The Foggy Dew with the Chieftains makes me cry every time).

@greendragonpublishing

10 ай бұрын

How she tanked her career - on Saturday Night Live, she got up on stage, held up a picture of the Pope, and ripped it in two, on live TV. She was protesting the centuries of cover-ups of sexual abuse within the church. Now, decades later, things are finally coming out and being proven, and there are finally lawsuits and consequences, but back then (1992), there was a stranglehold on such prosecution. Also, this was a picture that her mother personally owned. Her mother abused her for years - so it represented lies and abuse. Brave, strong, symbolic. In 1991, she was nominated for four Grammys. She refused to attend or accept an award, in protest over the industry's focus on money over artistic value. She used her fame to speak up about abuse, human rights, racism, organized religion, and women's rights.

She has indeed had a full and emotional life. The documentary 'Nothing Compares' is a fantastic way to get some insight into her story.

La bandera es de Chile. Fue durante un concierto de Amnistía Internacional en Chile, en 1990.

At a certain point and time, she had the world in her hands and it came tumbling down in one night, in an SNL music performance. She had mental issues all of her life and was a commited activist and still was untill her death. I think at the time, she was sadly misunderstood by the fans and booted out by the medias, but she still remains an important figure of the 80`s era

She’s from Ireland 🇮🇪 & totally worth going down the rabbit hole. She does come from a very troubled background. Her mother was abusive in every sense of the way. She was controversial for standing up to the Pope live on SNL, regarding the sa in the Catholic church. She also did not want to be marketed in a “sexual” way. This is why she cut her hair & refused to dress provocative. She wanted to be known for her music. She wrote a letter to Miley Cyrus telling her to beware of the industry sexualizing her….you can find said letter online. Some of my favorite songs of hers: *Three Babies, *Emperor’s New Clothes, *The Last Day Of Our Acquaintance, *Black Boys On Mopeds, *I Am Stretched On Your Grave, *Mandinka *This Is To Mother You….. gosh, so many more!

The music video for this song is mostly just a close up of her face while she songs and emotes. It is so beautiful.

Sinead was a warrior. We need more Sineads in this world 😢.

I would definitely call her performance in this specific video “intense” for the lack of a better word! I’m glad you’re seeing this too!

Her original video was truly classic. R I P

I love that you picked up on so much by this performance. You are pretty spot on in your observations of her. I recommend reacting to her live performance of Mandinka at the Grammys. It’s a fantastic performance. She did have a lot of pain and suffering in her life. She has said she had really healed through her music. Sadly, her life never got any easier. She was an amazing activist, incredibly, intelligent, she ran circles around pretty much anyone who interviewed her. I suggest that you look up interviews with her, I am always amazed by what a intelligent and remarkable human being she was. There’s a very good documentary about her called. “Nothing compares”, I strongly recommend watching it.

@drobichaud1000

10 ай бұрын

I didnt think she even liked it judging by her reactions during the song. She's a young black chick that knows not much of anything outside of ghetto wigs and extensions, Lol

I absolutely love this song ❤️‍🔥 what a firy beyond sensational performance and i love her outfit, too 😊and her face is beyond gorgeous 💎❤️‍🔥🙏

She connects emotio with to all her songs. That was a trademark for her. Check out all of her other live videos. It will blow you away

She left it ALL on the stage everytime.

So glad you started with this version of the song. To my mind the eternal virtuoso performance. Smart people will have various opinions on the order of when to watch great Prince songs and covers, but someone did you right by recommending this one. Loved your reaction. Keep up the great work and your channel will grow and grow. Health, wealth, and happiness!

Beautiful voice, Beautiful person, beautiful face. Such a sad life 😞

Such an amazing song. It was such a big hit when it came out.

@johnnyboots481

10 ай бұрын

This is the original,,"when it came out"....kzread.info/dash/bejne/kY6g3LBpd9fWoJs.htmlsi=Rucs8SvT0ol1s_u0

Powerful song written by arguably the greatest complete entertainer that has graced this earth (Prince) but once Sinead sang this. He was happy to let her claim it.

@johnnyboots481

10 ай бұрын

Prince wrote it, his side project band"the family " were 1st to record it. Bit popular in the 80s, their other hit was the screams of passion. The female singer is Wendy's sister

@johnnyboots481

10 ай бұрын

The original.....kzread.info/dash/bejne/kY6g3LBpd9fWoJs.htmlsi=Rucs8SvT0ol1s_u0

Irish voice, Irish vocal tradition.

She was one of a kind. R I P Sinead. ❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

This one hits hard doll

I can't hear this song without tearing up

I like this over the studio version, it’s just so raw

Best comparable voice is lead singer of the band The Cranberries Dolores O'Riordan!!!! R.I.P. to both they were absolute legends!!! By the way she shaved her head before her first album was put out because the record executives said she would be famous because she was beautiful, out of defiance!!!!!

@janish4027

9 ай бұрын

Absolutely. Zombie would be another great choice for a reaction video.

I will cry for her for a long time I loved her from the time I was in my early teens and I’m 53 myself I will miss her

That was the Amnesty International concert in 1990 which took place in Santiago Chile. It was organized to celebrate Chile's return to democracy after the 17-year dictatorship by Augusto Pinochet. Many international stars were part of this lineup: Tracy Chapman, Ruben Blades, Sinead, Peter Gabriel, NKOTB, Sting, among others.

Sinead was the most beautiful articulate troubled person. And she’s very dearly missed. RIP angel, sorry we didn’t listen. 💔

Masterful performance!

Yes, it is magical.

R.I.P. Sweet Sinead

Live version of “This is the last day of our acquaintance” is an absolute must

Please watch the interviews with her and watch the vivo version of this song. And then listen to her pain. And why she is bald. A stunning woman in all aspects

this is a Prince song. great performance.

Love her.❤

RIP Sinead!

Sínéad.🕊

I learned a lot about her watching her documentary. She was so amazing and ahead of her time.

I absolutely fell in love with her in the official video. I was in my early teens and her bold head was weird but her face was perfect. I still love that video.

Sinead had a "diffcult" relationship with her mother who passed away in an RTI and some of this is addressing the issues. Perfect song for the perfect singer. RIP Sinead ❤❤

her mum had recently passed so the song has a couple of "meanings" .The part about the dead flowers is about her mum.They had a rather tough relationship. On the album version video she's actually in tears wen her voice trails off & she's looking down.

Everything she did had her soul in it We lost one of the greatest

Even at 56 she felt this song

Of course we love you. Take care.

I would also compare her to Dolores Riordan of the cranberries

Such a tortured beautiful soul. Her story was a hard one. she was amazing she and her son suffered and were lost to mental illness ❤

Been a fan since I was a teenager. Amazing. RIP. She is Irish and has a little bit of Irish keening.

Listen to the album version. When this came out the world was stunned and it shot to the top, worldwide

The best reaction video to the best music video on KZread,

I'm crying listening to this. She spoke up and know one listened. Both my Grandparents were in Catholic Residential schools in British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦. They were Native Indians, they were beatin raped and tortured. If they spoke our Native language they would stick needles through there toungue. We have a Dark history here that they tryed to cover up. Now they are finding over 10,000 unmarked Graves of children who didn't make it.

Probably the most painfull song ever singed And the one to ear 1000 times when somebody broke your heart, or you lose someone you love

Man you gotta watch the music video. So raw. Like, even on your own time and not for the channel, you just have to. Get ready.

Beautiful soul , astounding artist!!❤❤

Have a listen around the holidays to her version of silent night from the Fred Claus movie. It's astonishing how powerful her voice is while practically whispering.

Theres a live version of "Troy" on KZread. Not her biggest hit, but probably her most powerful song wiht a huge build. To me it defines everything I love about Sinead! Would be awesome to see you react to it.

Chris Cornell also covered this song and his version is quite haunting

@johnnyboots481

10 ай бұрын

The family were 1st to record it.. the original . .kzread.info/dash/bejne/kY6g3LBpd9fWoJs.htmlsi=Rucs8SvT0ol1s_u0

@brittreacts

10 ай бұрын

I will keep that in mind, thanks!

@johnnyboots481

10 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/gKmumsqMY8WyqJc.htmlsi=-Q8Udq6tCEajLZpq

The original video is legendary

She had a very difficult life. She was a beautiful human ❤

great song and performance!

SHE WAS FROM DUBLIN, IRELAND....O'Connor has spoken openly about her mental health struggles. She has said that she was physically abused by her mother as a child and told Oprah Winfrey that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2007, which she later redacted. PEOPLE reports that in 2015, the singer posted on Facebook she had "taken an overdose" amidst a custody battle with Shane's father, the musician Donal Lunny. She later lost custody of her son. Her son took his life at 17. RIP Sinead, thank you for your music........

Her performance on the music video became iconic, her look her emotion ❤

This is the best version of this song imo, but I also love the stereophonics version

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The official music video is WAY better than any live version

@avidpix

10 ай бұрын

In my mind, both the official video and the live performances stand in there own right, as equally emotionally charged, but in different way I’ll say again, Sinéad was one of the beautiful souled, but troubled angels, and will be missed. 💐🇮🇪🇮🇪

You pronounced it correctly. It’s Irish, so it sounds like “Sh” Lots to know about her. She got brutalized by the media and celebrities after ripping a picture of the pope up on SNL calling out the rampant child abuse by the church. After that her life when downhill. Mental health, substance abuse, death of her son. She once said “They say horrible things about me. They say I’m a bad person. But they never said I couldn’t sing” ❤️🇮🇪🇨🇦

You should listen to Last Day of our Acquaintance

It's the Chile flag. Very similar to Texas flag.

You should listen to her album Lion and the Cobra in its entirety!

Now watch the official studio version video 👍

Britt... so glad you did this. Maybe do the video too. It's lovely. Or at least watch it on your own time to see the emotion. Much love.

Yeah prince wrote it but it's her song through and through and she was irish 👍

She was a great performer and an activist who spoke out against sexual abuse of children in the Catholic church. That hurt her career but she continued to speak out against wrongs until she passed. Courageous woman. RIP! 🙏

@laurabrevitz3944

10 ай бұрын

Sinéad. Was. Right.

STUDIO versions a must now