Take Me To Church

Album: I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss (2014)
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  • The first single from Sinéad O'Connor's I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss album finds her singing about finding redemption after a difficult time. "The protagonist I'm writing about has had a profoundly distressing experience," said the singer, "from which she is ultimately able to not only salvage herself but give birth to herself, coming to the conclusion, 'I am only one I should adore.'"
  • This is an entirely different song to the one released by O'Connor's fellow countryman Hozier several months previously with the same title.
  • The I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss album title was inspired by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's Ban Bossy campaign, which points out the inherent sexism in calling ambitious women "bossy."

    "The day it dawns on you that [this business] is pimps and hos - and that you've been the ho and didn't even realize it -- can be a bit head-wrecking," she told Billboard magazine. "And then you realize, 'OK, I'm a ho, and maybe I can do something useful with that,' like slap on a wig and a latex dress and get a lot more attention for your album than you would have if you had gone on there with your E.T.-looking bald head."

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