“You hadn’t the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you,” The Smiths frontman said.
The title is a reference to one of Morrissey’s own songs, and the content of the messageMorrissey took aim at the the industry and the public figures whom heO’Connor the support she needed and deserved while she was still alive, noting that “she was dropped by her label after selling seven million albums for them.”Getty Imagesis a certain music industry hatred
for singers who don’t ‘fit in,'” he wrote, referencing O’Connor’s controversial past, “and they are never praised until death — when, finally, they can’t answer back.” The post continued, “The cruel playpen of fame gushes with praise for Sinead today … with the usual moronic labels of ‘icon’ and ‘legend’ … You hadn’t the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you., and she had the courage to speak when everyone else stayed safely silent. She was harassed simply for being herself. Her eyes finally closed in search of a soul she could call her own.
Morrissey also compared O’Connor to other female stars who were let down by the public in their time: Judy Garland,
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