Sinead O’Connor has now announced she will not be quitting the music industry after she stated she would be retiring in a shock announcement last week.
The singer-songwriter announced her retirement from music last week via Twitter, as she expressed her forthcoming album “No Veteran Dies Alone” will be her last. She has now rescinded her plans for retirement in a statement released via her personal Twitter account, as she explains how the announcement was a “knee jerk reaction” to a series of triggering interviews with the press.
Good news. Fuck retiring. I retract. Am not retiring. I was temporarily allowing pigs in lipstick to fuck my head up… here’s my statement….. in the form of these three photos. It’s ‘colourful’ but that’s me : ) #LetOConnorBeOConnor pic.twitter.com/wKoEKFANPk
— Sinead O’Connor (Shuhada Sadaqat) (@MagdaDavitt77) June 7, 2021
Last Saturday (5 June 2021), O’Connor wrote on Twitter: “This is not sad news. It’s staggeringly beautiful news. A warrior knows when he or she should retreat. It’s been a forty year journey. Time to put the feet up and make other dreams come true.” Since last weeks shock announcement, the artist has released a second statement explaining why she is retracting her retirement. Describing those who had posed insensitive questions to her during interviews as “pigs in lipstick,” the Irish singer wrote: “I said I was retiring. As I have said many times before in knee jerk reactions when I was young and made the butt of media abuse on the grounds I’m legally vulnerable. The hugest misconception (I’m always asked this but never answer) of ‘Sinead O’Connor’ is that she is Amazonian. I’m not. I’m a five-foot, four-inch soft-hearted female who is actually very fragile.”
She continued: “But I love my job. Making music that is. I don’t like the consequences of being a talented (and outspoken woman) being that I have to wade through walls of prejudice every day to make a living. But I am born for live performance and with the astonishing love and support I have received in the last few days and will continue to receive from Rob Prinz and all at ICM, as well as many managers and buyers and fans, I feel safe in retracting my expressed wish to retire.”
The artist also criticised BBC’s Woman’s Hour in her latest statement, writing: “Last Tuesday it was unnecessary and hurtful for Woman’s Hour of all people, to remind me of the awfully abusive statement written about me by an Irish man for a UK paper…When people wonder what derailed my career? The UK and Irish UK papers’ constant abuse and invalidation of me on the grounds I may or may not have been diagnosed by them as ‘mad’. As if mad makes you invalid.”
Sinead O’Connor’s eleventh studio album “No Veteran Dies Alone” will be released in January 2022, although an exact date is yet to be confirmed. Earlier this month, the singer also released her very own memoir, “Rememberings,” detailing her journey through life.
