Nothing Compares 2 U" is a song which was written and composed by Prince for one of his side projects, The project was celled the Family. Later on made famous by Irish recording artist Sinéad O'Connor, who made a cover of the song and released it as the second single from her second studio album. The album was called "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got". But not until O'Connor recorded and produced the version along with Nellee Hooper did it become a worldwide hit sensation in 1990. A music video, which has been debated as iconic, was shot and received heavy rotation on MTV. Its lyrics explore feelings of longing from an abandoned lover's point of view.
Mainly shot in Paris, the music video for "Nothing Compares 2 U" was directed by John Maybury. O'Connor's tears toward the end were unplanned. She stated onVH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s that it was caused by the lyric "All the flowers that you planted, Mother/in the back yard/All died when you went away," because she had a very complex relationship with her late mother, who used to abuse her in childhood.
The clip consists almost solely of a closeup on Sinead O'Connor's face as she sings the lyrics, sometimes with angry expression; the rest consists of her walking through an area of Paris, known as the Parc de Saint-Cloud. Toward the end of the video, two tears roll down her face, one on each cheek. In the middle and at the very end of the video there is a shot from O'Connor's photo session for the I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got album cover.
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