Coasted On One Song?

She's most known for 2 things: the hit single Nothing Compares 2 U, and ripping up a picture of the Pope live on TV. The former is what catapulted her to stardom at the time and what gave her the platform to commit the latter. So I would say that yes, her career coasted on having that one hit single and were it not for that most of us would not have heard of her.

The fact is she made music before Nothing Compares and made it after it, but this is the song she is recognised for by Joe Public by a long shot, not any of her other songs that she wrote herself.

Yes, she coasted on one song. I don't think that that is even debatable.

She also pissed off almost the entire USA (which at the time was predominantly Christian/Roman Catholic) by ripping up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live. She was already on her way down by the time that she did that, but that definitely sped up her decline. The USA wasn't the immoral demon infested country that it is now so stuff like that ended peoples' careers back then. I'm not saying that there weren't immoral demonic assholes back then- there were, but there were A LOT less of them.

Those are the two things that she is most remembered for.

As for her amazing writing talent... well, whenever anyone dies these days the news outlets turn them into saints and over praise their accomplishments. If CNN, MSNBC and FOX news existed during WWII we would have been hearing about how Hitler was just a misunderstood artistic genius.

A lot of artists coast on one song. I guess she sold enough to remain signed to a label.

I recall hearing another of her songs way back when her main hit came out and didn’t think much of it.

Well it's a helluva song. U2 put out albums for 30 years after their hits and not one of them gets played on the radio either.

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Most musicians and bands coast on one maybe two songs. 😂