Call Her the Immaterial Girl
Regarding “The Non-Material Girl,” by Robert Hilburn (Sept. 6):
Sinead O’Connor is the personification of what she condemns: material success and being obsessed with hair, clothes and makeup. Like her ideological ancestors, the hippies, O’Connor has chosen the safest form of rebellion--her appearance.
If she truly wants to be daringly original, she should continue to sing beautifully, earn millions and become an advocate of capitalism, the only system that encourages the best in each of us.
But whatever her musical talent, O’Connor’s ideas are not original; the philosophy that material success is evil has been around for centuries. O’Connor unconventional? Hardly. She is a plain conformist.
SCOTT M. HOLLERAN
Glendale
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