“The song was first heard after Sinead O’Connor passed away, in the final episode of the BBC show ‘The Woman in the Wall’.”
Sinead O’Connor’s song, which had never been released before, was first heard after she passed away. It played in the last episode of the BBC show ‘The Woman in the Wall,’ which was shown on September 25th.
Before she died, O’Connor had said she didn’t want her music released after she was gone. She told her estate not to put out any albums after her death. But there’s a special reason why they made an exception for ‘The Woman in the Wall.’
David Holmes, who made the music for the show and helped with Sinéad O’Connor’s recent songs, told The Guardian, “Sinéad gave permission to use the song even before they began filming. The producers were really impressed when they heard it because it was so powerful.”
The song, called “The Magdalene Song,” was a perfect match for the thriller. The show explores Ireland’s infamous Magdalene Laundries, which were places run by nuns for women who were considered “fallen,” like sex workers, unmarried pregnant women, and those who had suffered sexual abuse.
O’Connor was actually sent to one of these places as a teenager. In 1990, she told SPIN that she had never felt such fear and pain as she did there.
Holmes said, “It’s amazing how the song’s meaning connected with this story. It was like destiny. When you add music to a powerful story, something really special happens.”
In a 2021 talk with People magazine, the late Irish icon strongly opposed releasing music after an artist has passed away.
She said, “You see, once artists are gone, their work becomes much more valuable than when they were alive. Tupac has put out way more albums since he passed away than when he was alive, so what record companies do is pretty unpleasant.”
O’Connor also added, “That’s why I’ve always told my children from a very young age, ‘If something happens to me suddenly, before you call 911, get in touch with my accountant to make sure the record companies don’t release my music without letting you know where the money goes.'”
In that same talk, she expressed her strong disapproval of how Prince’s estate was releasing his unreleased music that he hadn’t shared before.
She said, “All musicians, we have songs that we really are embarrassed about that are bad. We don’t want anyone listening to them. Now this is a man who put out every song he ever made, so if he took the effort to create a vault, which is a pretty serious thing to do, it means he really didn’t want these songs out. And it upsets me that people are, as I said, releasing the songs from the vault without his consent.”
In this situation, because she gave her permission for the song to be used before she passed away, it’s quite probable that O’Connor would have been content with the choice. However, we don’t know what will occur with the album she was creating in the months leading up to her death.
Regarding what Holmes thinks O’Connor’s response would have been upon hearing her impactful song in the show, he mentioned, “She would have felt proud. Some have questioned the dark humor in the script, but having grown up in Belfast, I’ve witnessed how people use this kind of humor to cope with difficult situations.”
Even though the series has already been shown in the UK on BBC, fans of the Grammy-winning musician in the US can listen to the song when the show first comes out on Paramount+ on November 1st.
SOURCE:PARADE