Jun 27
Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson has been called Ireland's country pop princess, though most know her as CMAT. Her latest album, "Euro-Country," opens with a poem she wrote in her early 20s. The words are in Irish. It is dark and questioning.
There's just a great history of, like, Irish women being bald and, like, shaving their heads in retaliation of society. / Sinead O'Connor may be the best-known, but she was not the first. / We have this pirate queen from the 1500s, and she shaves her head to be accepted as the leader of the pirate gang. And so I had this theory of shaving my head for a while, but then I thought, no. I'll leave Sinead that mark. She can do it (laughter).
+ translation and caption from her NPR Interview + [link] +
