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Harold brodkey american review innocence11/3/2023 O’Connor’s production sensibilities, too, spanned a vast range - she combined hip-hop, traditional folk, and orchestral arrangements all in one song. In tender moments, like the love fantasy she describes in “Just Like U Said It Would B,” O’Connor’s delicate voice would suddenly explode into voluminous wailing, and the result straddled the beautiful and the unbearable. ![]() The music on her 1987 debut, The Lion and the Cobra (Chrysalis), had a similar effect. Instead, it highlights her startled blue eyes and the fragile innocence that makes her seem like a rock-and-roll E.T. O’Connor’s shaved head ought to give her the menacing look of a skinhead. ![]() In his short story “Innocence,” Harold Brodkey writes of his leading female character, “To see her in sunlight was to see Marxism die.” Nearly the same can be said of Sinéad O’Connor: To experience her is to watch all standard aesthetic notions and musical theories become irrelevant. We’re republishing it here as part of a retrospective of Elizabeth Wurtzel’s work for the magazine.” “ This article originally appeared in the Apissue of New York Magazine. ![]() Photo: Mike Slaughter/Toronto Star via Getty Images
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