Sinead O'Connor's _Troy_ - About her MOM ?!?!?

[adams%ronzoni.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Jeffrey P. Adams)]

Now that the Cathy Demo nonsense is dying down, let's return to
our regularly unscheduled program:

I was watching MTV the other midnight, and Kevin whatsisname (the
VeeJay), while introducing Elvis Costello's _Veronica_, made a
remark about artists who have written songs about their relatives,
and he implied that _Troy_, Sinead O'Connor's best song ever, was
written about her MOTHER !  Now, I may have missed something here,
because it seems pretty obvious to me that _Troy_ is about the
loss of a lover.  Maybe Sinead has a relationship to her mother
that I didn't know about, but I kind of think MTV blew it.

Any thoughts?

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Jeff Adams                 "If you never did, you should,
adams@bosco.berkeley.edu    these things are fun & fun is good" -Dr. Seuss
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