What Prince Really Thought of Sinead O’Connor’s ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ Cover
26.07.2023 - 20:55
/ usmagazine.com
Sinéad O’Connor‘s biggest hit was a cover of the Prince song “Nothing Compares 2 U,” but the two musicians didn’t have a great relationship.
In a 2009 interview, O’Connor said that she “loved” Prince’s music before covering the track, which spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and appeared on her 1990 album, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got. “Did I ever meet Prince? I did and, we didn’t like each other. At all,” O’Connor told Uncut magazine in 2013. “I’m not going to go into it, but we detest each other. It got violent too, which is why I can’t go into it, but it is a very funny story. I’ll tell it when I’m an old lady and I write my book.”
O’Connor finally opened up about her alleged encounter with Prince — who died in April 2016 at age 57 — in her 2021 memoir, Rememberings. According to O’Connor, the duo met briefly in 1988 but didn’t really talk until after her version of “Nothing Compares 2 U” became a hit.
“[I] thought: He must be wanting to celebrate the song doing so well!” O’Connor wrote. “There’ll be cake! Princes always have cake!”
Their meeting, however, was allegedly not so pleasant. According to O’Connor, Prince chastised her for using curse words in interviews. “I don’t work for you,” she recalled telling him. “If you don’t like it, you can f–k yourself.”
O’Connor went on to claim that Prince and his assistant (whom she referred to as Igor) kept trying to serve her soup after she said she didn’t want any. After that, Prince allegedly asked O’Connor to have a pillow fight, and she agreed.
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“Only on the first thump I get, I realize he’s got something in the pillow, stuffed down the end, designed to hurt,” she wrote. “He ain’t playing at all. I get