A new Sundance doc—with eerie timing given recent tragic news—finds the singer looking back at her controversial moments and contemplating whether or not she was treated fairly.
,” one of two pillars of her pop culture iconography. The other is… decidedly more controversial, and arguably destroyed her career.
That confidence carried over to her messaging, a relentless adherence to speaking out against injustice with fiery public statements and attention-grabbing stunts. The most infamous of these,performance, is the climax of the documentary—and, here, it’s being revisited through modern eyes. “I was always being ‘crazied’ by the media, made out to be crazy,” O’Connor says. “I don’t blame anybody for thinking I was crazy or for hating me for it or whatever, because they didn’t know. It was a crazy idea. This bitch is saying priests are raping children? Jesus Christ. Of course it seemed crazy to them.”I was always being ‘crazied’ by the media, made out to be crazy… I don’t blame anybody for thinking I was crazy or for hating me for it or whatever, because they didn’t know.
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