Sinead O'Connor, Transformed, Takes Stage In Ireland (PHOTOS)

people.com:

Nothing compares to ... who?

Look closely -- that's none other than Irish singer Sinead O'Connor, performing as a backup singer at a summer music festival in Bray, Ireland, over the weekend.

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Comments

[abhorson]

07:29 AM on 08/11/2011

is she "wanted" somewhere ? Cause the new look is really extreme - even for Sinead.

[TheLibraryOfCodex]

06:45 PM on 08/10/2011

Heroic woman

Had the courage to speak up about Catholic sex abuse in the early 90's and predictably she was booed for it.

Turns out, she was absolutely correct.

[DungBeetle]

04:22 PM on 08/10/2011

Time is theiving murderer that must be stopped.

[LittleRedEngine]

01:41 PM on 08/10/2011

This is a PERFECT example of how the world will chew you up and spit you out. Man.. I'm glad I learned that lesson and survived..

[Funn]

12:18 PM on 08/10/2011

Fat, bald and Irish is no way to go through life.

[guilatty]

10:47 AM on 08/31/2011

Well, it's working for me!

[scarletxoxoxo]

03:37 AM on 08/10/2011

She is awesome.

[Kalonji Jones]

02:17 AM on 08/10/2011

my punctuation came out wr
ong

[Kalonji Jones]

02:15 AM on 08/10/2011

first of all Sinead wrote that song for her brother who was dying of cancer. which explians,for the uninformed her hair. (if you didn't know
) the uninformed,
Second, She has had hair for years.
And the Huffiffingington chic who said the name of the song wrong,
Thanx for that.
don't mean to sound mean but, for the most part. I bet all the people who have a thing to say about Sinead. Don't know the first thist thing about her or even have one of her recorfds.
Nothing compares to you!

[KDMac]

09:42 AM on 08/10/2011

Wow, she has a rabid fan. Who knew?

[Kalonji Jones]

11:49 AM on 08/10/2011

Rabid! I mean? I don't have rabies. And your screen name makes me want mac and cheese and listen to KD Lang

[jdl51]

10:48 AM on 08/31/2011

Really? Prince better give back all that royalty money then.

"Nothing Compares 2 U" is a pop song written by American recording artist Prince for one of his side-projects, The Family. However, it wasn't until Sinéad O'Connor recorded her version for the album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got when it became a worldwide hit."

[NYState Of Mind]

09:10 PM on 08/09/2011

Wow. That actually makes me sad. Yes, we change with time, but to go from such a striking beauty to such a frump.... damn! She went from one end of the spectrum to the other. I just would have hoped she had aged much better than that. Even with no hair at all she looked amazing. It's not the age, it's the weight. This is a major disappointment. By the way,all of you who just let yourselves go to such a degree as you slide into middle age, stop making excuses. The "babies that ruined your body" are in college already. Go hit the gym!

[panasonic52]

09:19 PM on 08/09/2011

I still can't even believe those two pics are of the same person. She had such striking features in the 1990 picture. Women usually gain weight when they're older, but I agree that this is just plain letting go...doesn't even look like she's trying a bit.

[freddychef]

12:10 AM on 08/10/2011

ok, she let herself 'go'.
I would think that you would be more interested in her voice, then appearence.

[mrskorn]

08:28 PM on 08/09/2011

I thought it was a young Rosanne Barr.

[Species5618]

11:42 PM on 08/09/2011

I totally did too.

[missmcgillicuddy]

03:45 PM on 08/10/2011

I did as well. I am an admirer of both RB and SO'C.

[UncleJimbo]

08:12 PM on 08/09/2011

Does the person in the picture look 44?.....I'm not convinced!

[Mrs Putrid Festring]

07:44 PM on 08/09/2011

did it dawn on anyone that she might be pregnant.

[Seafarer61]

07:42 PM on 08/09/2011

Brutal.

[alsm9]

07:16 PM on 08/09/2011

Wow, kinda shocked. She looks so different.

[Gebbeth]

06:38 PM on 08/09/2011

I still am not convinced it's her, but if it is, so what. She's gained some weight, as we all do when we get older, and kids tend to do things to your body (doesn't matter if you are a man or woman, having kids just slows you down a bit and you end up putting on some pounds).

To me, what matter is that she left the music business to find some inner peace, and that's pretty admirable considering her earlier successes. The other thing is that she stood up and denounced the Catholic Church for being hypocritical and essentially being silent on issues that mattered, and taking stances that were just plain wrong. She took a lot of heat for that.

Turns out she was absolutely right. In light of everything we have now heard about child molestation and the attempts to hide the truth and reshuffle these criminals to different areas where they continued to molest kids....that's pretty criminal and "sinful" if I can use that word.

Sinead deserves a lot of credit for pointing these problems out.