“Nothing Compares 2 U” is a song about loss, which is a universal human experience but one that everyone faces differently. While some see the song as a story about the loss of a romantic love, others interpret the lyrics in other ways.
“It’s been seven hours and fifteen days/Since you took your love away,” O’Connor belts out in a music video for the song, with a tear on her cheek. O’Connor wasn’t thinking about a breakup when she sang the words. She was thinking about her mother, she told the BBC in a 2016 interview.
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“It’s always the same thing and it always works … I always think of my mother … which is why I had the little tear in the video,” she said. “My mother died when I was 17 and it wasn’t long after that that I was making the video.” She told the BBC that the common emotion behind the song is part of the reason it became a beloved hit. “I think I’m probably similar to millions of people who loved the song, and we’re all people who associated the song with a loss of some kind,” she said.
