This is not how you shed your Disney image, singer advises younger pop star

Oct 3, 2013 07:44 GMT  ·  By
Miley Cyrus said her inspiration for the “Wrecking Ball” video was Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U”
   Miley Cyrus said her inspiration for the “Wrecking Ball” video was Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U”

Since Miley Cyrus dropped the extremely racy and, according to many, in very poor taste video for “Wrecking Ball,” she’s been trying to justify it in a variety of ways. One of them is that she tried to create a video as iconic as Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” but Sinead is not having any of that now.

The very outspoken singer has just penned an open letter to Miley to let her know that, while she’s flattered she looked to her video for inspiration for her “Wrecking Ball,” she completely missed the point if all she saw was nudity, sledgehammers, and imagery charged with plenty of not-so-innocent innuendos.

O’Connor, who is never the kind to mince her words, writes that she’s “extremely concerned” for Miley if she really thinks (or has been told to think) that doing what she does is in any way “cool” or artsy.

“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,” she writes.

Miley is young, so she can’t possibly know that the music business doesn’t care about her: as long as she does what she’s told, she will be of use. Once she stops or, more likely, people will stop paying attention to her, she’ll be spit out – but not before she’s been chewed within an inch of her life.

When that happens, “‘they’ will be sunning themselves on their yachts in Antigua, which they bought by selling your body and you will find yourself very alone,” Sinead writes, urging Miley to stop pimping herself and, at the same time, to stop letting her music bosses do that to her.

“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,” Sinead concludes her message as saying.

So, as you see, she’s not dissing Miley, she’s just doing what others have also done: she’s warning her that she’s in serious danger of letting her antics and her raunchy persona completely distract from her music.