Sinead O'Connor Marries

Sinead O'Connor has married her boyfriend, British Press Association reporter Nick Sommerlad. According to British reports, the couple was married three weeks ago in Ireland in a private ceremony attended by a handful of friends.

A mutual friend introduced O'Connor and Sommerlad in February when he began working in Dublin. They were engaged in June. This is O'Connor's second marriage. She has one child, thirteen-year-old Jake, from a previous marriage to writer John Reynolds. She was also involved with an Irish Times columnist John Waters, who is the father to her five-year-old daughter Roisin.

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“Time to Pretend”

MGMT | 2008

Listening to MGMT’s breakthrough song, one might interpret it as being about the excesses of rock stardom, but it’s actually about the duo’s pet praying mantis. Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden told Rolling Stone they got the idea from the insect's jerky movements. The mantis died, but the two bandmates kept the egg sack and allowed the hundreds of eggs to hatch. “We tried to name them all, but they died after a day,” said Goldwasser, with VanWyngarden chiming in, “But the praying mantis dance inspired us.”

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