Put your clothes on, a motherly Sinead O'Connor advises Miley Cyrus
That's the advice from
Irish singer Sinead O'Connor, who's penned a motherly, if
expletive-laden open letter to former Disney star Miley Cyrus in the
wake of a controversial video music awards show performance
and the video for her latest single, "Wrecking Ball."
"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," the
46-year-old singer says in the letter posted on her
Cyrus, 20, was the
subject of widespread scorn in August, when she danced provocatively in a
skimpy outfit during MTV's Video Music Awards show. Soon after, she
released the video for her latest single, in which she rides a wrecking
ball while nude and suggestively licks a sledgehammer.
Miley's 'grandmother' weighs in
"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," O'Connor wrote. "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."
In a Rolling Stone
article, Cyrus compared her look in the "Wrecking Ball" video to
O'Connor's style in her iconic 1990 video for "Nothing Compares 2 U."
But O'Connor said she chose the shaved-head look in direct defiance of
music industry executives who wanted her to present a sexier appearance.
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