"Nothing Compares 2 U," by Prince and performed by Sinead O'Connor: Enlightened Western Freedom or Fascism? meanemotion=sincere, meanspeed=60.0 bpm

The song, Nothing Compares 2 U, written by Prince and performed by Sinead O'Connor on this recording, here an iTunes download, became associated with one major United States television event: on Saturday Night Live, Sinead, expressing her disagreement with positions taken by the Roman Catholic church, spontaneously--the show really is live—took an eight by ten photograph of the Pope and slowly and brazenly tore it in half during a close up television shot.

Though the church expressed disappointment, and many Christians stopped buying her music, no order of death was issued in the name of religion. This freedom that we give freely as Western Enlightened people—freedom to express disagreement with authority or freedom to make a speech in the middle of a public park about why Clinton was a better president than Lincoln.

The enlightened free west. How quickly we forget Theo Van Gough, and why he was slaughtered and butchered by men who were bursting with joy at the death. Rushdie: death warrant, for: what? All Jews and Christians, Babies, children, women, boys, girls: all Jews and Christians “must die” according to the delusional fascists in the sand and hiding in the caves. You realize that if you are a Jew or Christian, someone is commanded to kill you. That is why there is a war. Freedom versus fascism.

The MeanFrequencies™ of Nothing Compares 2 U are:
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meanemotion=sincere.
meanbeat=1.00 beat per second.
meanspace=1000 milliseconds per beat.
meanspace=4000 milliseconds per measure.
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meanpitch=256.000 Hertz, 62 cents above B3=246.942 Hertz, 38 cents below C4=261.626 Hertz.

Ian Schneider
12 September 2006
NYC