Miley Cyrus Responds to Sinead O'Connor, Calls Out Singer's Unstable Past
In a recent interview, Miley Cyrus said her controversial Wrecking Ball video was inspired by Sinead O'Connor's video for the track "Nothing Compares 2 U. "Having learned of this statement, the 46-year old Irish singer has reached out to the lightning rod of a 20-year0old artist via an open letter on the Internet. In it, she offers both a scathing critique and a few words of inspiring wisdom
O'Connor, who knows a bit about causing controversy herself, writes, “I am extremely concerned for you that those around you have led you to believe, or encouraged you in your own belief, that it is in any way 'cool' to be naked and licking sledgehammers in your videos."
It is in fact the case that you will obscure your talent by allowing yourself to be pimped, whether it's the music business or yourself doing the pimping."O'Connor - who has never been shy about her opinion (once tearing up a photo of The Pope during an SNL performance) - went on to diss the music industry and explain her worries.
The music business doesn't give a sh*t about you, or any of us," she tells Miley. "They will prostitute you for all you are worth, and cleverly make you think its what YOU wanted..."And when you end up in rehab as a result of being prostituted, 'they' will be sunning themselves on their yachts in Antigua, which they bought by selling your body and you will find yourself very alone."Cyrus said on last night's MTV special that she plans to take over the world, but O'Connor advises her to focus on her "talent" over her "looks" in order to do so.And the veteran artist does believe Miley Cyrus has "obvious" talent."As for the shedding of the Hannah Montana image... whoever is telling you getting naked is the way to do that does absolutely NOT respect your talent, or you as a young lady," she wrote."Your records are good enough for you not to need any shedding of Hannah Montana. She's waaaaaaay gone by now.. Not because you got naked but because you make great records."Do you agree with Sinead's comments on Miley
Miley Cyrus Responds to Sinead O'Connor
It is very much on between Miley Cyrus and Sinead O'Connor, who called out the Twerking pop star earlier today. Now Miles is responding in kind. And then some. Hours after the Irish singer advised Miley to keep her clothes on and not let the music industry treat her as a prostitute, the 20-year old artist has fired back.
With Tweets invoking O'Connor's unstable history
Prefacing her Re-Tweeting rampage, Miley wrote "Before Amanda Bynes… There was…" and then posted a screen shot of messages from O'Connor's very own account. They included Tweets of Sinead asking for professional help (“does any1 know a psychiatrist in Dublin or wicklow who could urgently see my today please?”) and saying she "desperately need to get back on meds today."The messages are from January 2012 during a time when O'Connor made it clear she was going through some pretty major psychological problems.Many may question whether Cyrus is crossing a line here by mocking anyone's mental illness, especially considering the content of Sinead's message. O'Connor's open letter to Miley Cyrus actually praised the young singer's talent and came down harder on the music industry than on Miley herself. Check out Miley's screen grab of O'Connor Tweets below and decide
