Sinéad O’Connor, Nothing Compares 2 U | FIERCE Pop + Rock 🔥🤘

In the 33^rd edition of FIERCE Pop + Rock 🔥🤘, we highlight “Nothing Compares 2 U” performed by Sinéad O’Connor. 

Bring on the bold, FIERCE tracks! FIERCE Pop + Rock 🔥🤘 provides background information and insight into pop, rock, and metal songs that raise eyebrows and stir the pot.  Featured records can be classic or brand new. In the 33^rd edition of FIERCE Pop + Rock 🔥🤘 (2023), we explore 🎵 “Nothing Compares 2 U” performed by 🎙 Sinéad O’Connor.

“It’s been seven hours and fifteen days / Since you took your love away.” Those iconic lyrics hail from the beloved, 1990 classic, 🎵 “Nothing Compares 2 U” (💿 I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got). “Nothing Compares 2 U” was written by the late, great 🎙 Prince. Prince even recorded his own, absolutely terrific version.  Still, the version of the song that we all know and love hails from the one and only, 🎙 Sinéad O’Connor.  Sadly, O’Connor is no longer with us, passing away on July 26, 2023 at just 56 😢.  Despite death, the legacy of 🏆 Grammy-winning the Irish singer/songwriter lives on.  Two things shine incredibly bright during her career (1) “Nothing Compares 2 U” – duh and (2) the infamous pope protest on SNL. While the pope protest is epic, we focus merely on the fierceness of her no. 1 hit here.

Sinéad O’Connor made this cover truly sound like an original, PERIOD (more like exclamation).  Her tone is haunting and marvelous on “Nothing Compares 2 U.”  A tuneful song, Her expressiveness only amplifies the melody more. Furthermore, she does a superb job bringing out the emotions: “Since you’ve been gone I can do whatever I want / … But nothing, I said, nothing can takeaway these blues.” Of course, she’s particularly electric on the chorus: “‘Cause nothing compares / Nothing compares to you.” Adding to the allure of this beloved gem, nominated for three Grammys itself,  is the production by O’Connor and 🎛 Nellee Hooper. The sound, it’s just glorious – maybe it’s the keys, or is it the strings? Regardless, the world lost a magnificent artist in Sinéad O’Connor.  Her music and her legacy endures on, particularly on her ace in the hole, 🎵 “Nothing Compares 2 U”.

🎙 Sinéad O’Connor • 💿 I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got • 🏷 Chrysalis • 🗓 1990

Sinéad O’Connor, Nothing Compares 2 U: FIERCE Pop + Rock 🔥🤘 No. 33 (2023) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Chrysalis; Amr Osman, Deiby Tum Tum, Harry Shelton, Jerome Abel, Mavluda Tashbaeva, Pavel Danilyuk, RDNE Stock project, Vishnu R Nair from Pexels]