Word: sinead
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Some artists sing the song, and some let the song sing them. For Aretha Franklin, the song has always been incidental--a cheap vehicle for her amazing voice. Sinead O'Connor, who possesses a completely different but equally distinctive talent, reveals herself in the lyrics she performs. Now both have terrific new CDs that showcase their strengths...
...Franklin uses melody as a base camp on her way to bigger things, Sinead O'Connor clings to it as if it were the only haven between her and the abyss. The contrast in styles is made conveniently clear on O'Connor's new double album, She Who Dwells ..., which features a spectacular cover of Do Right Woman. Where Franklin started the song in pieces and pulled herself toward an emotional victory, O'Connor opens Do Right Woman deceptively whole. She does not trill or soar; she just sings notes of remarkable clarity and intensity. But as the Dan Penn/Chip...
...album is saved from sounding like a sinister movie soundtrack by the ministrations of Sinead O’Connor, who has one of the most poignant and beautiful voices in pop. Though she never gives full rein to her devastating range, her emotional performance on “A Prayer For England” stands out on an album that sounds almost frigidly intellectual...
Take the tracks to pieces, and they don't seem like much. The lyrics are average, the instrumentation capable. But Moby's great gift is for feeling. He tailors 18's melancholy cuts, Great Escape and Harbour, around vocals from the female singers Azure Ray and Sinead O'Connor. Both songs start almost a cappella, and Moby surrounds each voice with keyboards that rise like warm bathwater. The music gains tension yet never overwhelms the sad beauty of the voices. On 18's playful radio hits--We Are All Made of Stars and Jam for the Ladies...
Taylor was last in the heat going around the final turn, but she managed to finish with a flourish again, passing former U.S. Olympic Trial competitor Yvonne Harrison—now running for Puerto Rico—and Great Britain’s Sinead Dudgeon, who had beaten Taylor in the preliminaries...