After Miley Cyrus told Rolling Stone that her "Wrecking Ball" video was inspired by Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” video from the early ‘90s — both singers appear in extreme close up, pretty-crying into the camera — O'Connor responded by saying she is extremely flattered and hopes to someday write haikus with Miley over Pumpkin Spice Lattes at Starbucks. Just kidding, she actually wrote an open letter on her website slut-shaming Miley. Because it’s 2013 and ranting on the internet is what we do now.
O’Connor writes, via Us Weekly, "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.”
To be fair — say what you will about Miley, but girl has never indicated that she has a desire to be cool. She’s just being Miley. (Interestingly, this news comes just one day after Marina Abramovic told the New York Times that “Wrecking Ball” "captures something about being young and rebellious. There is energy there, and I can see a talent.”)
O’Connor continues:
"You have enough talent that you don't need to let the music business make a prostitute of you…. Whether we like it or not, us females in the industry are role models and as such we have to be extremely careful what messages we send to other women.”
Despite her strong word choice, O’Connor is right that women in the music industry are labeled role models regardless of whether they want the title, and Miley herself has acknowledged the complicated challenge of maturing as an artist — and a twentysomething girl — when you have a worldwide fanbase that is primarily young girls.
Since the letter went viral this morning, O’Connor’s website has crashed, and Miley has responded by tweeting a screengrab of older tweets by O’Connor.
Before Amanda Bynes.... There was.... pic.twitter.com/6JZPVnunPc
— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) October 3, 2013
O’Connor has talked publicly about her mental health problems and suicide attempts in the past. And so the heated internet feud ends like most heated internet feuds — with no real winner.
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