- Morrissey blasted celebrity tributes to Sinéad O'Connor after the Irish singer's death.
- "You hadn't the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you," Morrissey wrote in a blog post.
Rock legend Morrissey has blasted what he called insincere celebrity tributes to Sinéad O'Connor after the Irish singer's death this week, saying that people did not have "the guts to support her when she was alive."
"She had only so much 'self' to give. She was dropped by her label after selling 7 million albums for them. She became crazed, yes, but uninteresting, never. She had done nothing wrong," Morrissey wrote in a scathing blog post following the Wednesday news of the 56-year-old Grammy winner's death.
Morrissey added, "There is a certain music industry hatred for singers who don't 'fit in' (this I know only too well), and they are never praised until death - when, finally, they can't answer back."
"The cruel playpen of fame gushes with praise for Sinead today … with the usual moronic labels of 'icon' and 'legend'. You praise her now ONLY because it is too late. You hadn't the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you," Morrissey wrote.
In the post slamming O'Connor tributes by celebs, the media and the music industry, Morrissey continued, "The press will label artists as pests because of what they withhold … and they would call Sinead sad, fat, shocking, insane … oh but not today!"
"Music CEOs who had put on their most charming smile as they refused her for their roster are queuing-up to call her a 'feminist icon', and 15 minute celebrities and goblins from hell and record labels of artificially aroused diversity are squeezing onto Twitter to twitter their jibber-jabber … when it was YOU who talked Sinead into giving up … because she refused to be labelled [sic], and she was degraded, as those few who move the world are always degraded," wrote Morrissey.
O'Connor, said Morrissey, "doesn't need your sterile slop."
O'Connor shot to fame with her 1990 cover of Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U." In a shocking moment in 1992, O'Connor tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II during a live performance on "SNL" to protest abuse in the Catholic Church.
The protest damaged her career, but O'Connor later said she had no regrets.