Sinead is such a poignant person. I'm not saying that in a bad way. She is a woman who sky rocketed to fame on more or less one song. She clearly was more than that, but that's what we know of her.(SNL scandal aside).
She was eaten up and chewed out by the record industry. You can hear how jaded she is in this letter. It's truly truly a sad thing. The same thing will happen to Miley, that happened to Britney, that happened to Simpson, that happened to every pretty face with a top rate music producer and company backing her. They play up their innocence, build up their sexuality, let it implode, reap in the PR, exploit it for profit, and dump them.
I personally found this article very interesting, not for the fact that she was giving advice, but for the insight it provides of a woman who was at once fuel for the machine.
I don't understand why there is this public fear of Miley's sexuality. She's a 20 year-old girl. I am in law school on an undergraduate-filled campus, and I see girls her age wearing shorts with their ass literally hanging out on a daily basis. I'm fine with that; anything to wipe away the terrible puritan values that still linger in this country. The issue, I think, building on other comments here, is that she is not in control of herself. Though who is at 20? Again, I go back to college where I saw plenty of girls here age at the whims of "greek life" and all its hazing and binge drinking. Binge drinking is unhealthy, cocaine use is unhealthy, but baring your back in a music video is unhealthy? Not in my book. I understand that there are record execs exploiting her sexuality, but I don't think it's quite in the way the Sinead thinks. Seriously, what guy is watching Miley Cyrus videos because they're sexy (in favor of porn or the million other options on the internet, c'mon). Instead, maybe execs are exploiting the fact that normal 20 year old girls want to live vicariously through an overtly sexual celebrity and therefore the songs sell?
This is not exactly something I am proud of, but I have been pretty deep down the porn rabbit hole. Deep enough to come full circle right out the other side where you can only get off on normal pictures of women. I am willing to bet my life that there are guys who would watch that music video instead of porn, because I was one of those guys at one point in my life. I agree with the pimping analogy. She is being exploited and if she doesn't wise up now she will when the only thing she can do is regret her decisions.Seriously, what guy is watching Miley Cyrus videos because they're sexy (in favor of porn or the million other options on the internet, c'mon).
I'm not too familiar with Miley Cyrus so I can't speak on the quality of her music, but from this I take maybe an unpopular position. How is she any different from previous generations of musicians that have shocked us in the past. Off the top of my head, Elvis, Madonna, Eminem, GG Allen, Marilyn Manson - they have all given us some sort of public discourse and I really don't see how we don't recognize the fact we've always been edging into an age of no inhibition. I mean, if Cyrus didn't do what she did, we wouldn't be talking about her right now. Is she not in fact, doing her job, and doing it well? For once though, It seems like people are more disappointed in Miley than they are shocked. Perhaps that disappointment is misdirected though, because Miley is merely filling a void that everyone is so eager to gobble up.
I think it's the new love of watching celebrities spiraling out of control. "She's pulling a Lindsey Lohan, she's pulling an Amanda Bynes", etc. etc. There's a belief that she isn't control of herself or what she's doing, and that belief stems from how she was forced into this position as Hannah Montana most of her life. Hence all of the attention on her.
Don't think for a moment that any of them give a flying fuck 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.
This letter seems to be from a very honest place. There are some wisdoms that Miley should heed there.
Unfortunately, I can't see this having even a sliver of an effect on Miley at this point. O'Connor may be a role model, but as far as any young pop singer is concerned, she's likely an old, irrelevant curmudgeon, incapable of "understanding the times" and thus the "choices" Miley has made.
unlikely. You must remember this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dKdBlKgquwshe's likely an old, irrelevant curmudgeon, incapable of "understanding the times"
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.
...no words. The fact that pop music has come to the point of having to tell people not to lick sledgehammers is amazing.
I hate to see celebrities (or anyone for that matter) spiral out of control. I'm not saying that Miley will end up in rehab or dead in a hotel room but I would not be surprised if it happened. I just wish that more people felt this way so that we wouldn't perpetuate the culture of young celebrities regretting their decisions and ending up beaten on the side of the proverbial road.