Sinéad O'Connor & Opinions on Lil Yachty

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Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In 1992, Sinéad O’Connor was at the peak of her commercial success when she spoke out against the Pope on Saturday Night Live. After that, she encountered a massive backlash, but never backed down. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk to documentary filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson about the music, career and activism of Sinéad O’Connor. They also review the new album from rapper Lil Yachty.

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Featured Songs:

Sinéad O'Connor, "Nothing Compares 2 U," I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, Ensign/Chrysalis, 1990

The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Capitol, 1967

Lil Yachty, "drive ME crazy!," Let's Start Here, Quality Control, 2023

Lil Yachty, "the BLACK seminole," Let's Start Here, Quality Control, 2023

Lil Yachty, "sHouLd i B," Let's Start Here, Quality Control, 2023

Sinéad O'Connor, "Last Day of Our Acquaintance," I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, Ensign/Chrysalis, 1990

Sinéad O'Connor, "Mandinka," The Lion and the Cobra, Ensign/Chrysalis, 1987

Sinéad O'Connor, "I Am Stretched on Your Grave," I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, Ensign/Chrysalis, 1990

Sinéad O'Connor, "Thank You for Hearing Me," Universal Mother, Ensign/Chrysalis, 1994

Sinéad O'Connor, "Marcus Garvey," Throw Down Your Arms, Chocolate and Vanilla, 2005

Sinéad O'Connor, "Jackie," The Lion and the Cobra, Ensign/Chrysalis, 1987

Sinéad O'Connor, "Peggy Gordon," Sean-Nós Nua, Vanguard, 2002

Sinéad O'Connor, "This Is a Rebel Song," Gospel Oak EP, Chrysalis, 1997

Chris Connelly, "Ripcord, Ripcord," Eulogy to Christa, Easy Action, 2022

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0:00.0	Hey there, if you're listening to this and you support us on Patreon, you can hear it via the Patreon page and free.
0:30.0	You're listening to Sound Opinions in this week, we're talking about the music and life of Shinedo Connor. I'm Jim DeRugatus.
0:43.0	And I'm Greg Cutt. We talked to documentarian Catherine Ferguson about her film, Nothing Compares, as well as share some of our favorite underrated songs by Shinedo.
0:53.0	But first, some new music from Lil Yachty.
0:56.0	And I wanna be where you are. I just can't walk away.
1:00.0	You try me crazy hard. I lose that, lose that.
1:04.0	Imagine me circling through life without a piece of you.
1:11.0	Suffering out of suffering days, I'm meeting you.
1:15.0	You bring life to the part of it.
1:18.0	It's a little bit of Lil Yachty from his new album. Let's start here. The name of the track is Drive Me Crazy.
1:34.0	Miles McCollum, born in Georgia 25 years ago, rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
1:42.0	He was one of the key artists in that Sound Cloud hip-hop world, Jim DeRugatus, circa 2015.
1:52.0	You read the coverage of Sound Cloud. It was very hard on sleeve, very raw, very stripped down.
2:01.0	At a time in rap, where things were getting kind of moody. Drake was around, and then you had the drill music out of Chicago.
2:09.0	It was very dark. Yachty was being written about his bubblegum rap.
2:14.0	Bubblegum's track.
2:16.0	And King of the Teens, as he liked to build himself at the time, he was a kid, you know, teenager.
2:21.0	He's sampling Game Boy tracks in the Rugrats theme.
2:25.0	Right. A couple of singles, One Night in Minnesota, really put them on the map,
2:29.0	mixed tape, Lil Boat in March 2016, immediately signed to Motown Capital Records quality control music,
2:36.0	a joint venture among these big labels.
2:39.0	And he became the mainstream star of the Sound Cloud generation of hip-hop artists.
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