Future #3: How to treat female artists better after Sinéad

Respect for the dead, disrespect for the living, and my playlist for you of an extraordinary singer and songwriter

I used to find her scary when I was a young adolescent. Too fierce. A handful. I thought about the Manic Street Preachers similarly in those early 1990s days. The things that these artists were singing or shouting about were things I didn’t want to confront. I knew it was best in the long run to please people. Not to talk about things that would make o…