After Miley Cyrus divulged to Rolling Stone that singer Sinead O'Connor is one of her biggest influences, and that her vulnerable video for "Wrecking Ball" is modeled after O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U," the British icon took a moment to offer some motherly advice in an open letter.
O'Connor, 47, expresses that she isn't amused in the lengthy post to Cyrus, 20, and advises her to essentially stop everything she's doing. And fast.
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"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 writes, in the letter posted to her website.
"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."
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Cyrus posed nude for the buzzed-about cover of Rolling Stone's October issue, and talked about her wild Video Music Awards' performance and the controversy surrounding it.
"We could have even gone further, but we didn't," she told Rolling Stone, about the twerk and teddy-bear filled display. "I thought that's what the VMAs were all about! It's not the Grammys or the Oscars."
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"America is just so weird in what they think is right and wrong," she added.
But in her letter O'Connor makes clear that she thinks Cyrus isn't aware of just how much she's being "prostituted" by the music business.
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"The music business doesn't give a sh-- about you, or any of us," she writes. "They will prostitute you for all you are worth, and cleverly make you think its what YOU wanted."
"Yes, I'm suggesting you don't care for yourself," O'Connor continues. "You are worth more than your body or your sexual appeal… I repeat, you have enough talent that you don't need to let the music business make a prostitute of you."
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The Irish singer has seen her fair-share of controversy over the course of her career, most notably for her unabashed slamming of the Catholic Church, but O'Connor has largely advocated from a women's rights platform.
"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," she writes.
"The message you keep sending is that it's somehow cool to be prostituted.. it's so not cool Miley.. it's dangerous."
"Kindly fire any motherf---er who hasn't expressed alarm, because they don't care about you."
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