At some point, we stopped covering Sinead O’Connor. It’s not that she stopped talking or that she stopped being controversial, it’s just at some point, it seemed like she was unwell and – much like the Amanda Bynes situation – the media attention wasn’t helping. Sinead did go away for a little while to get some kind of treatment for what she said was a bipolar disorder. But over the past couple of years, she chimes in on pop culture issues. This week, she’s taking aim at Kim Kardashian’s Rolling Stone cover, which came out on July 1st (I’m just saying, this isn’t very timely). So did Sinead have a problem with the Rolling Stone writer referring to Kim as a “jungle Aphrodite”? No. Sinead had a problem with the fact that Kim doesn’t have anything to do with music. Which seems like… that ship sailed a long time ago.
Nothing compares to shots fired via social media. Irish singer Sinead O’Connor took to Facebook on Tuesday to voice her displeasure about Kim Kardashian West recently gracing the cover of Rolling Stone. She did not mince words.
“What is this c— doing on the cover of Rolling Stone ? Music has officially died,” O’Connor wrote. “Who knew it would be Rolling Stone that murdered it? Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh can no longer be expected to take all the blame. Bob Dylan must be f—ing horrified. #BoycottRollingStone”
While music coverage is what Rolling Stone is best known for, it is a popular culture publication. Kardashian is a popular culture figure and certainly not the first non-musician to appear on the cover.
Yes, Rolling Stone has always been about pop culture, although they are pretty music-oriented. I’m all for declaring a magazine to be “over” as soon as a Kardashian appears on the cover, but pretty soon that will mean we have no magazines left to read. Besides, I’d rather see a “pop culture” figure like Kim on the cover as opposed to Rolling Stone’s Teen Beat-treatment of terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Oh, and Kim does have something to do with music – she’s Kanye’s “muse”. Hahahaha.
Photos courtesy of Rolling Stone, WENN.
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