Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U (Live at Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile Oct 13, 1990)

If you enjoyed the video, please, give it a like and subscribe, and turn on notifications, so you'll know when I post a new video. I'd also very much appreciate you leaving me a comment and sharing the video with your friends. Thanks! 🙏❤ Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/@musicfromtheheart100?sub_confirmation=1 Remembering Sinéad O’Connor (1966 - 2023) with the emotional Nothing Compares 2 U (Live at Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile Oct 13, 1990). In January 1990, "Nothing Compares 2 U" was released as a single, with the I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got album following in March. In April, the song went to #1 in America and many other countries, thrusting 23-year-old Sinéad into the spotlight. The attention had some deleterious effects on the singer. O'Connor claimed she hated the fame the song brought her, and she struggled with the commercialization of her music. "Nothing Compares 2 U" earned her a Grammy for Best Alternative Performance (it was also nominated for Record Of The Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and Best Short Form Music Video) but she rejected the award along with all others offered to her, and refused to appear at the ceremony in protest of materialism in the music industry. O'Connor believed she was being honored for putting up impressive sales figures, not for her art. She wanted no part of it. O'Connor's next single was the up-tempo "The Emperor's New Clothes," which was just a minor hit, reaching #60 in America in July 1990. By this time, the swell of attention had taken a toll on Sinéad, who became more interested in speaking out against oppression than in promoting her singles. O'Connor turned off a lot of people with her political statements, which included refusing to let the National Anthem be played before a concert in New Jersey and tearing up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live (she hoodwinked the production crew by having them zoom in on a photo of a Brazilian child when she rehearsed the song; when she did it live, she used the photo of the Pope and tore it up). It was a rough time for her, but she later realized it may have been for the best because it led her away from life as a celebrity, which didn't suit her. "I'm not a pop star," she wrote in her memoir. "I'm just a troubled soul who needs to scream into mikes now and then." Her next album, Am I Not Your Girl?, was a collection of somewhat obscure cover songs that was purposely hitless so she could get off the hamster wheel. Sinéad O'Connor announced in March 2015 that she will not be performing this song anymore. She explained: "The first principle of the manner in which I'm trained as a singer (Bel Canto) is we never sing a song we don't emotionally identify with. After twenty-five years of singing it, nine months or so ago I finally ran out of anything I could use in order to bring some emotion to it." "I don't want audiences to be disappointed coming along to a show and then not hearing it, so am letting you know here that you won't. If I were to sing it just to please people, I wouldn't be doing my job right, because my job is to be emotionally available. I'd be lying. You'd be getting a lie." She changed her tune in 2019 when she started singing it again, starting with an appearance on The Late Late Show in Ireland. In O'Connor's 2021 memoir Rememberings, she wrote about her contentious relationship with Prince, claiming that after this song made her famous, he invited her to his Hollywood mansion, where he verbally abused her and got physically aggressive with her. In her account, she left on foot in the middle of the night and Prince followed her in a car. But her thoughts on Prince don't reflect how she feels about "Nothing Compares 2 U." She told the New York Times, "As far as I'm concerned, it's my song." It's been seven hours and fifteen days Since you took your love away I go out every night and sleep all day Since you took your love away Since you been gone I can do whatever I want I can see whomever I choose I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant But nothing I said nothing can take away these blues 'Cause nothing compares Nothing compares to you It's been so lonely without you here Like a bird without a song Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling Tell me, baby, where did I go wrong? I could put my arms around every boy I see But they'd only remind me of you I went to the doctor and guess what he told me? Guess what he told me? He said, "Girl you better try to have fun No matter what you do, but he's a fool" 'Cause nothing compares Nothing compares to you All the flowers that you planted, mama In the back yard All died when you went away I know that living with you, baby, was sometimes hard But I'm willing to give it another try Nothing compares Nothing compares to you [repeat chorus 2x] #sineadoconnor #nothingcompares2u #idonotwantwhatihaventgot #estadionacional #santiago #chile #prince #alternativerock #poprock #folkrock