Sinead O’Connor Giving Miley Cyrus Advice – No Ma’am!

So Sinead O’Conner is attempting to give Miley Cyrus advice?  No ma’am.

Apparently, these two have been going back and forth for a couple of days. It all started when Miley Cyrus told Rolling Stone – remember she’s on the current cover – that Sinead’s video of “Nothing Compares 2 U” was an inspiration for her most recent music video “Wrecking Ball.”  In the video Miley is straddling a huge wrecking ball wearing nothing but red lipstick.

Well on Wed, Sinead posted an open letter to Miley on her website.

Dear Miley,

I wasn’t going to write this letter, but today I’ve been dodging phone calls from various newspapers who wished me to remark upon your having said in Rolling Stone your Wrecking Ball video was designed to be similar to the one for Nothing Compares … So this is what I need to say … And it is said in the spirit of motherliness and with love.

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 its the music business or yourself doing the pimping.

Nothing but harm will come in the long run, from allowing yourself to be exploited, and it is absolutely NOT in ANY way an empowerment of yourself or any other young women, for you to send across the message that you are to be valued (even by you) more for your sexual appeal than your obvious talent ….

Yes, I’m suggesting you don’t care for yourself. That has to change. You ought be protected as a precious young lady by anyone in your employ and anyone around you, including you. This is a dangerous world. We don’t encourage our daughters to walk around naked in it because it makes them prey for animals and less than animals, a distressing majority of whom work in the music industry and it’s associated media ….

On Thursday, apparently not taking to kindly to Sinead’s letter, Miley tweeted a photo of Sinead ripping the pope’s photograph during her famous 1992 performance on “Saturday Night Live.” She also tweeted the words “Before there was Amanda Bynes, there was …” with a screen grab consisting of tweets from 2012 when Sinead pleaded for assistance with psychiatric help. (Does everyone remember that?)

Well, I guess Sinead didn’t like Miley’s response so she wrote another long letter.

Miley… Really? Who the f—k is advising you? Because taking me on is even more f—kin’ stupid than behaving like a prostitute and calling it feminism. You have posted today tweets of mine which are two years old, which were posted by me when I was unwell and seeking help so as to make them look like they are recent. In doing so you mock myself and Amanda Bynes for having suffered with mental health issues and for having sought help.

I mean really really… who advises you? have you any idea how stupid and dangerous it is to mock people for suffering illness? You will yourself one day suffer such illness, that is without doubt. The course you have set yourself upon can only end in that, trust me.

I am staggered that any 20 yr old woman of the 21st century could behave in such a dangerous and irresponsible manner as to not only send the signal to young women that its ok to act like prostitutes but also to the signal that those who have suffered or do suffer mental health problems are to be mocked and have their opinions invalidated. Have you no sense of danger at all? or responsibility? Remove your tweets immediately or you will hear from my lawyers. I am certain you will be hearing from all manner of mental health advocacy groups also. It is not acceptable to mock any person for having suffered.

It is most unbecoming of you to respond in such a fashion to someone who expressed care for you. And worse that you are such an anti-female tool of the anti-female music industry. I hope that you will apologise to Amanda Bynes and to any person who has been wounded by your mockery of those who have suffered. And I hope that you will wake up and understand that you in fact are a danger to women.

Furthermore you posted a photo of me tearing the pope’s photo .. as if to imply insanity.. by doing so all you have achieved is to expose your staggering ignorance. I suggest you read The Philadelphia Report, The Boston Report, all the reports which will illuminate for you why that action of mine remains sane and valid. By mocking it you mock every child who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of priests and had it covered by the Vatican. You could really do with educating yourself, that is if you’re not too busy getting your tits out to read.

Miley’s response was short and sweet:

Sinead. I don’t have time to write you an open letter cause Im hosting & performing on SNL this week.—
Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) October 03, 2013

So if youd like to meet up and talk lemme know in your next letter. —
Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) October 03, 2013

Today, Sinead wrote yet ANOTHER letter:

“Miley  I have no interest whatsoever in meeting you. You had plenty of time yesterday to abuse Amanda Bynes .. an entirely innocent party.. and myself.. who also did nothing to deserve your abuse.. along with every other sufferer of mental health problems and every person who suffered abuse at the hands of priests.

You can take five minutes today between g- string f—in’ changes to publicly apologise and remove your abusive tweets. If you do not then you don’t give a shit who you mock and what damage you do by being so ignorant.

When you publicly apologise to Amanda and myself and all mental health sufferers as well as all who were abused by priests that will end the matter as far as I am concerned.

What you did yesterday was designed to damage me and my career and has caused me enormous distress and harassment and has potential to damage my career, since you deliberately gave the impression those tweets of mine were not two years old but reflect my current condition. If you cannot apologize I will have no choice but to bring legal proceedings against you since it is extremely hard to be given work when people think one is suffering from mental illness.

I have no interest in or desire to cause you trouble but if you do not apologise for having deliberately tried to cause me hurt and trouble personally and professionally I will have to bring pressure upon you. When you end up in the psych ward or rehab I’ll be happy to visit you.. and would not lower myself to mock you.

Be a proper woman and make the public apologies I have listed above. Your hosting SNL is a bullsh– reason for not taking five minutes to do the right thing and your behaviour yesterday will rebound upon you very badly. You have no business abusing Amanda Bynes or anyone else. How do you think you made her feel yesterday? How do you feel when your friend Britney Spears is mocked and humiliated for having had mental health problems? I know I personally want to bash those who treat her that way. If she is your friend and more importantly if you are a true friend to her.. you ought apologise for joining those who mock and humiliate women who have been too nice frankly, to manage the music business without sensibly losing their minds.

Cease behaving in an anti-female capacity. You will become the victim of it shortly. Soon it will be you the media ‘crazy’ .. and you will not enjoy it.. and you will appreciate people (like myself) standing up for you. Which I will be happy to do.. if you earn my respect today by apologising publicly.”

Back to my original question. So Sinead O’Conner is giving advice now?  Is this the same Sinead that ruined her own career with reckless acts like ripping up a picture of the Pope and Joey Buttafucoco, airing her dirty laundry associated with her last marriage and using Twitter to reveal her mental health issues. I’m sorry but by penning THREE letters, she still seems to be struggling emotionally.

Friends, this is disturbing to me.

Honestly, I do not enjoy Miley as an artist.  However, as much as I speak candidly about my distaste for some of Miley’s artistry, Sinead is in no position to give advice.  Furthermore, was it really advice?  Just the act of writing an open letter can be seen as passive aggressive – especially if you’re presenting yourself as some sort of mentor. Sinead wasn’t attempting to be any more helpful than any other rag mag.  She was offended that Miley mentioned her name in the interview and used the open letter to show her disgust in a self-righteous disguise.

Good for Miley for clapping back.  (And if you ask me her response was on the light side.)

As far as mocking Amana Bynes… Let’s all speak honestly.  This girl is not suffering from mental issues.  She  – like many people in entertainment – has allowed the stress of staying relevant and easy allure of self-gratification (and by that I mean drugs) – take control of her life.  Call a spade a spade. Amanda was her own worst enemy in her recent demise just as Sinead ended her career.

As for Miley, there’s still hope. She’s hosting SNL this weekend. She’s on the cover of Rolling Stone. Her songs are getting a significant amount of rotation. Yep, Miley’s okay – love her or hate her.