Sinéad O’Connor Estate Denounces Donald Trump’s Use of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ at Campaign Rallies: She ‘Would Have Been Disgusted, Hurt and Insulted’

variety.com:

Ellise Shafer The estate of the late Sinéad O’Connor has denounced Donald Trump’s use of the singer-songwriter’s performance of “Nothing Compares 2 U” at his campaign rallies.

Trump most recently played the song at events in Maryland and North Carolina in the past week. In a statement to Variety, O’Connor’s estate and label Chrysalis Records demanded that Trump cease playing the song immediately. “Throughout her life, it is well known that Sinéad O’Connor lived by a fierce moral code defined by honesty, kindness, fairness and decency towards her fellow human beings.

It was with outrage therefore that we learned that Donald Trump has been using her iconic performance of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ at his political rallies,” the statement reads. “It is no exaggeration to say that Sinéad would have been disgusted, hurt and insulted to have her work misrepresented in this way by someone who she herself referred to as a ‘biblical devil.’ As the guardians of her legacy, we demand that Donald Trump and his associates desist from using her music immediately.” O’Connor died on July 26, 2023 in London at the age of 56.

In January, the Southwark Coroners Court determined that she died of natural causes. O’Connor broke through internationally with the release of her second album, “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got,” in 1990.