Open letter to Miley from Sinead O'con...the bald singer who likes Prince

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.

I am happy to hear I am somewhat of a role model for you and I hope that because of that you will pay close attention to what I am telling you.

The music business doesn’t give a shit about you, or any of us. 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.

None of the men oggling you give a shit about you either, do not be fooled. Many’s the woman mistook lust for love. If they want you sexually that doesn’t mean they give a F*ck about you. All the more true when you unwittingly give the impression you don’t give much of a F*ck about yourself. And when you employ people who give the impression they don’t give much of a F*ck about you either. No one who cares about you could support your being pimped.. and that includes you yourself.

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 pray [sic] for animals and less than animals (a distressing majority of whom work in the music industry and the associated media).

You are worth more than your body or your sexual appeal. The world of showbiz doesn’t see things that way, they like things to be seen the other way, whether they are magazines who want you on their cover, or whatever.. Don’t be under any illusions.. ALL of them want you because they’re making money off your youth and your beauty.. which they could not do except for the fact your youth makes you blind to the evils of show business. If you have an innocent heart you can’t recognise those who do not.

I repeat, you have enough talent that you don’t need to let the music business make a prostitute of you. You shouldn’t let them make a fool of you either. Don’t think for a moment that any of them give a flying F*ck about you. They’re there for the money.. we’re there for the music. It has always been that way and it will always be that way. The sooner a young lady gets to know that, the sooner she can be REALLY in control.

You also said in Rolling Stone that your look is based on mine. The look I chose, I chose on purpose at a time when my record company were encouraging me to do what you have done. I felt I would rather be judged on my talent and not my looks. I am happy that I made that choice, not least because I do not find myself on the proverbial rag heap now that I am almost 47 yrs of age.. which unfortunately many female artists who have based their image around their sexuality, end up on when they reach middle age.

Real empowerment of yourself as a woman would be to in future refuse to exploit your body or your sexuality in order for men to make money from you. I needn’t even ask the question.. I’ve been in the business long enough to know that men are making more money than you are from you getting naked. Its really not at all cool. And its sending dangerous signals to other young women. Please in future say no when you are asked to prostitute yourself. Your body is for you and your boyfriend. It isn’t for every spunk-spewing dirtbag on the net, or every greedy record company executive to buy his mistresses diamonds with.

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. 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.

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. The message you keep sending is that its somehow cool to be prostituted.. its so not cool Miley.. its dangerous. Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. we aren’t merely objects of desire. I would be encouraging you to send healthier messages to your peers.. that they and you are worth more than what is currently going on in your career. Kindly fire any motherf*cker who hasn’t expressed alarm, because they don’t care about you.

Love her music, love this letter, hoping Miley reads it, and gets it.   

Sinead doesn't like Prince. She covered his song, then they met and hated each other.

Sinead is a clever, beautiful woman, Miley would be wise to listen to her, but from what I've read, her own dad has tried to say similar things to her. I have no problem with young women expressing their sexuality so long as they are the ones driving the bus (Pink and Gaga spring to mind) but the likes of Miley and Britney just seem to be puppets of the showbiz system, they should take a look at Whitney to see where that gets you.  

I know, I was attempting sarcasm and failed but yeah, this letter is everything every woman in the music biz should realize. Probably go right over her head,unfortunately.

Boris2008 wrote:

Sinead doesn't like Prince. She covered his song, then they met and hated each other.

Sinead is a clever, beautiful woman, Miley would be wise to listen to her, but from what I've read, her own dad has tried to say similar things to her. I have no problem with young women expressing their sexuality so long as they are the ones driving the bus (Pink and Gaga spring to mind) but the likes of Miley and Britney just seem to be puppets of the showbiz system, they should take a look at Whitney to see where that gets you.  

Certainly Gaga and Pink--not a fan of either--use their sexuality in artful and esoteric ways. Miley and Britney are just exploitative about it. What they do is blatantly pornographic.

Miley has no body either, although she pretends to. No ass, no boobs, no skin tone...she's a mannequin. Even her face is bland.

Ppl keep showing Miley the time of day and watching her videos, why? The more ppl talk about her, the more money she makes...

corplhicks wrote:

Miley has no body either, although she pretends to. No ass, no boobs, no skin tone...she's a mannequin. Even her face is bland.

It sounds like a Channel 5 show (I'm sure that there is a U.S equivalent to Channel 5)

Miley - The Girl Born With No Ass!

 

Boris2008 wrote:

corplhicks wrote:

Miley has no body either, although she pretends to. No ass, no boobs, no skin tone...she's a mannequin. Even her face is bland.

It sounds like a Channel 5 show (I'm sure that there is a U.S equivalent to Channel 5)

Miley - The Girl Born With No Ass!

 

Over here that would be TLC, and trust me they'd jump on it!

yeah, I was gonna say "what sexuality?". She used to be pretty, I guess no semblance of that will do at all when you're trying to be edgy. I think that's why it's such a spectacular failure, because here you have someone pushing...... sex stuff, I guess?... by being as genuinely frightening as possible.


With that in mind, there's definitely plenty more people that letter could address even more (let's take a walk into the hip-hop world for a moment), but I understand that we're attempting to clean up the Miley train wreck, and rightfully so. There's even apps for it that censor her from your interwebz usage.  

Sinead sounds a lot like Donovan McNabb offering advice to RGIII....

exact33 wrote:

Sinead sounds a lot like Donovan McNabb offering advice to RGIII....

 

I guess the whole point of the letter was that Sinead was Sinead back in the spotlight for another 15 minutes

exact33 wrote:

Sinead sounds a lot like Donovan McNabb offering advice to RGIII....

  RGIII could learn a lot from that man as could Miley from whoever that woman is :p

Miley is basically taking a page out of Chistina Aguilera's book. After Christina Aguilera's first album, she decided to "grow up" and shock us by showing us how "dirty" she is. Miley is breaking from the Disney grasp she was under for years I guess.

shamgar75 wrote:

Miley is basically taking a page out of Chistina Aguilera's book.  After Christina Aguilera's first album, she decided to "grow up" and shock us by showing us how "dirty" she is.  Miley is breaking from the Disney grasp she was under for years I guess.

Aguilera also has one of the best voices this generation will ever hear.

MetalRob331 wrote:

Aguilera also has one of the best voices this generation will ever hear.  

 

I quite like CA and think that she has a fine voice, but still

 

thejokeriv wrote:

exact33 wrote:

Sinead sounds a lot like Donovan McNabb offering advice to RGIII....

 

I guess the whole point of the letter was that Sinead was Sinead back in the spotlight for another 15 minutes

Yeah because Sinead has always been an attention grabbing media whore, right?  

Boris2008 wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

exact33 wrote:

Sinead sounds a lot like Donovan McNabb offering advice to RGIII....

 

I guess the whole point of the letter was that Sinead was Sinead back in the spotlight for another 15 minutes

Yeah because Sinead has always been an attention grabbing media whore, right?  

Pretty much - she did a lot of stuff for shock value back in the day.... then said it was just "art"......

Not for nothing, but I honestly always thought Sinead looked good with the bald head and it seemed strange when she went with hair. The Lion and The Cobra is one great record.

I think Mileys response was a link of Sinead tearing the pic of the pope on SNL -shrugs-

she's what 20? She's gonna learn the hard way as she doesnt possess the wisdom or the brains to get it.

the good news is I dont listen to either....

thejokeriv wrote:

Boris2008 wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

exact33 wrote:

Sinead sounds a lot like Donovan McNabb offering advice to RGIII....

 

I guess the whole point of the letter was that Sinead was Sinead back in the spotlight for another 15 minutes

Yeah because Sinead has always been an attention grabbing media whore, right?  

Pretty much - she did a lot of stuff for shock value back in the day.... then said it was just "art"......

Care to give examples of this? There was the Pope tearing thing but that IMHO was not a publicity stunt but a genuine expression of rage towards the Catholic church (If you had ever spent any time in the Magdalene laundries as Sinead, and coincidentally my mother have, you would get this). Other than that and a few outspoken opinions, which again is more about her character than a calculated thing, I can't remember her ever really courting the press, even at the peak of her career when she probably should have done.

Seems Miley's fans have asked for Sinead to kill herself.. The youth of today and immaturity in this world make me shake my head.

Miley and Sinead are a couple of Froot Loops who deserve each other, IMO...

I'm having a hard time seeing why Sinead could be seen as anything but on the level. What she did in her career, the controversy, was something I applaud to this very day. It was artistic rebellion, and not to sell more records.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Miley and Sinead are a couple of Froot Loops who deserve each other, IMO...

 

I don't buy for a minute that anything Sinead did back in the day was anything more than attention grabbing. Artistic statement? BS - ripping up the Pope's picture was just to grab attention, not to "make an artistic statement."