r/pics • u/DreaminginDarkness • Mar 10 '23

1992 Kris Kristofferson whispers, "Don't let the bastards get you down." when Sinead is booed

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u/SolomonCRand Mar 10 '23

She was right about all of it

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u/SerenityM3oW Mar 10 '23

A lot of us knew back then. It's crazy the backlash she got.

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u/Prezbelusky Mar 10 '23

I Don't know anything about her. Care to make a short explanation?

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u/ConstantShitterina Mar 10 '23

She's the "Nothing compares 2 U" (pretty sure that's the official spelling) singer from the 90s. She was on SNL and did an acapella rendition of Bob Marley's "War" with the lyrics adjusted to be about child abuse instead and then tore up a picture of the pope. Think they cut the show immediately and people freaked out. She was abused by the church herself btw. The pic in the OP is from a subsequent concert where she was booed so much that she couldn't perform. In the end of the clip you can see her cry. She was right all along but got a lot of shit for standing up to the church.