How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?
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| Studio album by Sinéad O'Connor | ||||
| Released | 20 February 2012 | |||
| Recorded | 2007-2011 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 44:59 | |||
| Label | Shamrock Solutions Republic of Ireland One Little Indian |
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| Producer | John Reynolds | |||
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| Singles from How About I Be Me (and You Be You)? | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 75/100 |
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| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
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| Pitchfork | (7.6/10) |
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How About I Be Me (and You Be You)? is the ninth full-length album by Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor released in Ireland on 2 March 2012 on Shamrock Solutions and 5 March 2012 in the United Kingdom on One Little Indian. The first single "The Wolf Is Getting Married" was released on 24 February in Ireland and got to number 40 for one week, accompanied by a video directed by Roman Rappak, lead singer of Breton.
The second single "4th and Vine" was released on 18 February 2013, accompanied by a video directed by Kathryn Ferguson. In 2013 O'Connor announced a European tour in support for the album, called The Crazy Baldhead Tour.
Will Hermes of the magazine Rolling Stone graded the album with three out of five stars and found, "empathy, wit and beauty on... [the] focused LP".
Live album - Limited special edition
This live album was recorded in three different concerts. Songs 1 to 4 at Dublin Olympia Theatre (Dublin), December 18, 2011; songs 5 to 8 at Frikirkjan Church (Reykjavík), October 14, 2011 (during Iceland Airwaves '11); songs 9 to 12 at St. John at Hackney (London), November 2, 2011.
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