Sinead O'Connor saw clearly. She saw what the Church was doing in Ireland and she brought light on it - and frankly, they tried to crucify her for it. There's something so powerful when someone can see a cultural disease and clearly speak to it.
But she saw other things clearly too. How the music industry wanted her to be pretty, and she shaved her head; how they wanted her to be docile and she rebelled; how they wanted her to be overawed by them and she said she never wanted to be a pop star in the first place. She saw herself so clearly - a protest singer who shone a light.
I know she is a complex being and not everything she did made sense. But she came from a pure place, and it took a few decades for us to catch up with her, and see that most things she said were absolutely true and right. I am grateful to her, for the risks she took, and for how hard she struggled to show us Truth.
