From Yahoo Music:
O'Connor debuts glam makeover
If she's the boss, you better get to work! A little more than two months before releasing her 10th studio album, Sinéad O'Connor unveiled its surprising cover featuring a nearly unrecognizable snapshot of the music legend.
Sporting a jet-black bob with
dramatic bangs, smoky eye makeup, and a skintight black PVC leather
dress (complete with a high neck and long sleeves), the singer looks
like a heroine from a Quentin Tarantino film... who could do some
serious damage with that glittered guitar.
Obviously, the whole sexy, futuristic superhero look for I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss
is a major departure from her standard style, which is defined by a
shaved head, light makeup, and relatively unfussy clothes. So what
inspired such a dramatic about-face in the icon?
Typical dumbass left-fascism. Words don't kill, commies kill. [And abortion mills!]
It was Sheryl Sandberg, or, rather, the women's empowerment movement Sandberg created. O'Connor took to her personal website to
explain her change of heart.
"Originally I had a different title,
The Vishnu Room, but a few months back when I saw the phrase 'I’m not bossy, I'm the boss' and became aware of the
Ban Bossy
campaign, I wished I could re-name the album, since indeed it can be
tricky being a female boss and I think Sheryl’s campaign is a terribly
important one."
In fact, this power struggle is something the star has been dealing with for decades. Back in February, she
explained
that her iconic anti-glam image was an intentional act of rebellion
against record executives when she was first starting out in the '80s.
"I got put into the record
business at a time when record executives were a little frisky. Put it
that way," O'Connor said. "You had to protect yourself straight off.
You'd be better to have a bag on your head, really." But the execs had
other ideas in mind.
"They wanted me to grow my hair
really long and wear miniskirts and all that kind of stuff because they
reckoned I'd look much prettier," O'Connor shared. "So I went straight
around to the barber and shaved the rest of my hair off … to make myself
as unattractive as I possibly could."
Silly bunt. All she had to do was start talking. That would be enough to sabotage any erection.
But even though there's no doubt
that O'Connor is now the boss (and has been for a long time), changing
the title of her latest album at first seemed impossible.
"At the stage I became aware of
the Ban Bossy campaign, it was too late to change the album title
because the sleeve was already in print," the star lamented in her blog
post before explaining a fortunate turn of events. "Last week, when the
record company received the promo shots, which included the cover shot
you now see, they asked could they change the planned cover to the
current one, and that allowed me the opportunity of changing the title."
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