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Sinead O'Connor pens open letter to Miley Cyrus
Entertainment Weekly ^ | 10/03/2013 | Grady Smith

Posted on 10/03/2013 10:10:05 AM PDT by LonelyCon

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 it’s the music business or yourself doing the pimping.

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...

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.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: culturewar; cyrus; lookatme; miley; mileycyrus; moralabsolutes; oconnor; pornification; sinead; sineadoconnor; youtubevideo
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To: BuckeyeTexan
naked daughters praying for animals

Isn't that a Marilyn Manson tune?

41 posted on 10/03/2013 10:47:54 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Gaffer

Acting like a whore on tv.


42 posted on 10/03/2013 10:48:13 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Gaffer

Your testifying, not prophesying.

God says, “train up a child in the way he should go: and when he’s old, he will not depart from it.”

You say, “The forces against you and the roll of the dice on hormones, peer pressure, school environ, et al just don’t allow that sometimes.”

I bet Billy Ray has the same philosophy as you. It’s the prevailing philosophy on child rearing, and certainly the cause of the disaster we’re in.


43 posted on 10/03/2013 10:49:55 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Boogieman

Okay..thanks...it just didn’t click for me...my bad.


44 posted on 10/03/2013 10:50:31 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: LonelyCon

Is Mucinex still a cue-ball? Sinusaid, I meant to say, as Hairy Reed might put it .... Cruz made me say it.


45 posted on 10/03/2013 10:51:53 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: MrEdd

Fair enough


46 posted on 10/03/2013 10:52:42 AM PDT by LonelyCon
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To: SMARTY
If you sacrifice taste, talent, class, originality, etc. to shock value... what are you doing in a public venue and who in fact, are you but the latest and most vulgar in a long line of circus freaks??!

Yes, look how it's damaged the careers of Cher, Madonna, and Beyonce.

47 posted on 10/03/2013 10:53:52 AM PDT by Jack Black ( Whatever is left of American patriotism is now identical with counter-revolution.)
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To: demshateGod

Please take this over to the Religion Forum. Pontificating isn’t a general/chat option here for me.


48 posted on 10/03/2013 10:54:55 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer
If she was my daughter, I’d beat her with a two-by-four wangle a way to get her drug tested and then go to a court and have her little ass committed as a potential danger to herself.

Fixed it.

49 posted on 10/03/2013 10:55:13 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Nevadan

Are you talking about Adam or God? I wouldn’t say God blew it with Adam. I would say Adam blew it with Cain, but I don’t see anything that suggest Adam was a good father. That Cain didn’t even know how to worship God properly is a testament to bad child rearing. There isn’t any mention of Adam walking with God in the cool of the (day) after The Fall.

Do you have young kids? I do. I’m not going to plan to fail.


50 posted on 10/03/2013 10:57:07 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Rodamala

Thank your for your thoughtful input. In actuality, if you’d been through this, you’d know that any 16-17 year old knows the power of the system that can be used against their parent.


51 posted on 10/03/2013 10:58:08 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

Silly me.


52 posted on 10/03/2013 10:59:49 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: MrEdd

The twenties are tough on girls. There are three paths for Miley. She can go Amy Winehouee, she can go Lindsay Lohan or she can go Drew Barrymore.

No one is going to change Miley except Miley. Whatever borderline personality, angst, or whatever else goes on in their heads in their late teens and early twenties,, until they get that “AH HAH” moment, they will continue to behave in that manner.

No medication, counseling or rehab center will make much of a difference. Until they choose to change it is get up on the bull and hold o for dear life.


53 posted on 10/03/2013 11:00:39 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Make today a great day. Insult a liberal.)
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To: SMARTY

“If you trivialize and cheapen yourself... who will take you or your talent (such as it is) seriously?”

Madonna did it. Made billions.


54 posted on 10/03/2013 11:01:10 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: demshateGod

Yes....silly. Just as ‘silly’ as the hybrid car owner episode in South Park, or the wine sifter fart smellers in the San Francisco episode.


55 posted on 10/03/2013 11:01:26 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: LonelyCon

Sinead grew up.
Say what you want, she is very talented.


56 posted on 10/03/2013 11:03:39 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: LonelyCon
Sinead grew up.


57 posted on 10/03/2013 11:05:51 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: BobinIL
The video for her song Nothing Compares 2 U is fairly emotionally moving (I think)... Every time I see her teardrops fall in this video it gets to me. Personally speaking, I believe Sinéad was a very pretty young woman, actually... it's her eyes, you can never argue pretty eyes. I never got the shaved head thing... but it was a role model for some of my theater-chick female friends in HS...
58 posted on 10/03/2013 11:08:52 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Gaffer

Anyway. I did bring up the subject and perhaps opened old wounds. I apologize FRiend. Forgive me.

There’s a lot in me that proves I have no ability to raise my kids right. I’m totally dependent on Him. The verse I cited is not really an admonition to do right, but a warning that I can’t do right, and need Him. The good news is that trusting Him to it will yield success.


59 posted on 10/03/2013 11:11:02 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: LonelyCon

One cant to another cant . .


60 posted on 10/03/2013 11:15:11 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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