Sinead O'Connor
Nothing Compares 2 You
In this blog, I will talk about how powerful the 'Nothing Compares 2 You' video by Sinead O'Connor is. Firstly let's begin by discussing how the video actually came about. Sinead O'Connor did not actually write the song herself, rather she id a cover of the song. The song was originally written and composed by an artist known as 'Prince' and the song was for one of his side projects. When the song was released, it wasn't a huge success that many thought it would be. However after Sinead O'Connr had done a cover f the song and released it, the song began to rise in popularity and managed to top the charts in the 1990s. In the video, it mostly consisted of O'Connor's face as she performed the song. It reached No.1 in many countries and in Ireland it reached No.1 and managed to remain there for 11 weeks. O'Connor also received Grammy nominations such as Record of the Year and she won the Grammy for 'Best Alternative Music Performance'. As well as how well the song was sang by O'Connor it arguably topped the charts for one reason and this is because in the video, O'Connor did something very natural but uncommon in music videos. Whilst Sinead was in the process of composing her cover to the song, her mother had recently passed away. As you can imagine, this would have been an incredibly tough time for her. Now during the song, in the lyrics, Sinead made a reference to her recently passed away mother and this brought a lot of emotion, so O'Connor began to cry but also continue her performance of the song. By O'Connor displaying real emotion, the audience felt it and this gave the song meaning and people where able to empathize with O'Connor.
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