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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: Responsibility2nd

Precisely.


81 posted on 10/03/2013 11:51:44 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Resolute Conservative

Already on it.


82 posted on 10/03/2013 11:52:04 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Yeah. I saw that. I guess there was a shift change at Mod Central. The afternoon mod is more casual.

Why won't they make me a mod?

83 posted on 10/03/2013 11:53:13 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Lazamataz
Why won't they make me a mod?

That would require its own thread and it would have to be excerpted because the list would be so long it would crash the "new" FR servers.

84 posted on 10/03/2013 11:55:45 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Lazamataz

See - you would make a cool mod.

It’s been a while but IIRC you had some awesome threads going in the past in your campain to be a mod. HUNDREDS even THOUSANDS of FReepers supported you in you quest to be a moderator.

Perhaps your “hitting” that certain someone at the staff party that one time got you black-balled (poor choice of words, I know).

Anyway - whenever your up for it (again poor choice) and want to restart your ‘Laz for Mod’ campain - let me know.


85 posted on 10/03/2013 12:04:47 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: LonelyCon
us females in the industry are role models

'Fess up -- this is really from The Onion, right?

86 posted on 10/03/2013 12:11:56 PM PDT by shego
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To: trisham

She has some sort of affliction with her tongue.


87 posted on 10/03/2013 12:45:06 PM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: demshateGod

re: Are you talking about Adam or God? I wouldn’t say God blew it with Adam.

I am talking about God, our Heavenly Father. No, I am not saying God blew it with Adam & Eve. But by your recipe, He did, because if a child goes astray, you believe from what you said that it is the parent’s fault. They simply did not do a good enough job in parenting or they “planned for failure”.

God provided a paradise for Adam & Eve. He loved them and spent time with them. Yet, they chose to place their trust in the serpent’s words, rather than God’s and do the one thing that God had asked them not to do. It is the same with our children. We can teach them God’s ways. We can work to prepare them for adulthood. We can teach them a Biblical worldview. But one of the things you will learn as a parent is that you do not have total control over your children. While they are small you have a lot more control, but as they get older, they will necessarily have to make choices on their own. They will face influences that you did not choose for them. And factually, the world that we live in is pushing back hard against Biblical values. Just as God gave Adam & Eve freewill, He gives us all freewill to choose His ways or not.

I used to believe as you that being a dedicated and godly parent insured that none of my children would ever go astray. I too observed other parents going through some difficult times, and I assumed they must have done something wrong. I have come to conclude that teaching children what they should do and having them follow those teachings through young adulthood are two separate issues. Some of the godliest parents I know have struggled with their children once they became adolescents or young adults. Even Billy & Ruth Graham had prodigal children.

My point is that I would encourage you not to be quick to condemn other parents who truly did work to bring up their children right or accuse them of “planning to fail”. Parenting is the toughest job in the world. The hard stuff is not while your children are small. It is when they get older. It is an unspeakable joy when you see your children grow up into godly adults who love God, but it can also shred your heart when you see them make choices that do not reflect what you taught them.


88 posted on 10/03/2013 12:51:47 PM PDT by Nevadan
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To: riri

—That album was incredible by the way. Not a bad song on it. —

Indeed! And then, think about how long ago the album came out—O’Connor obviously had talent at one point but she hasn’t shown a glimmer of it since The Lion & The Cobra.


89 posted on 10/03/2013 12:54:38 PM PDT by JoeTheGeorgian
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To: Old Sarge
,I am acquainted with the Cyruses, much to my misfortune.,

That is unfortunate. Liked Billy ray's ‘Some Gave All’. Figured he supported Al Bore on account both are Tennesseans. At one time Billy had a voice of almost operatic force. Don't like to see southern boys letting our region down.

90 posted on 10/03/2013 12:55:14 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: Billthedrill
Sinead is bipolar and manic depressive, but she's no dummy. She's a major talent, as a singer and a songwriter. She's also looney and probably suicidal, but I think she means well.

I'm going to see her live in 300-seat bar in NYC next month, with a table right by the stage. Hopefully, she makes it there.

91 posted on 10/03/2013 12:55:37 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: JoeTheGeorgian; riri
The Lion and the Cobra wasn't even her "big" album, it was a sort of indie hit. She got really famous for "I do not want what I have not got" and the Prince single.

And she's had many great albums since then, even if they didn't sell well. "Am I Not Your Girl" is excellent for example, but I think her best effort was "Faith and Courage." It's a brilliant album.

92 posted on 10/03/2013 1:00:55 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Nevadan

I don’t know why people choose that position. I know why people use it as a defense, I understand it, I’m not condemning them, they’re not the issue, and they offer no proof of anything. You can’t erase the clear meaning of scripture through anecdotes. You can obscure it’s meaning by amending it: Well, that just means your kids won’t depart if you do everything right. In that case just bury the stupid passage because it has no meaning for us, who can’t live up to it.

You’re taking one sin of Adam (albeit costly) and comparing it to rebellious, apostate children. Did Adam go astray? Absolutely not. I never said my children, or others who claim God’s PROMISE, will never sin. We’re talking about complete rebellion: which would be the case if my daughters behaved like Miley Cyrus. Adam’s fall has many implications, but it doesn’t give any credibility to the popular opinion that rebellion or obedience is a toss up.

We’re told explicitly how Eli, Samuel, David, Solomon, Cain, etc. failed as parents and are shown the result.


93 posted on 10/03/2013 1:20:21 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: LonelyCon

Hey Miley, tell Sinead to have a coke and shut the F&%k up.


94 posted on 10/03/2013 1:33:26 PM PDT by BBell (The Blue Dog is Stupid)
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To: Gaffer

I lived it too with my eldest. He had all the every Sunday at church, skiing, beach boy scouts, stay at home mom, dinner on the table every night at 6, own room, desk, papers, scuba diving, quiet, no financial or health problems but still went off the rails for a bit. oh yeah, everyone blames the parents, except sometimes it is not the parents.


95 posted on 10/03/2013 2:19:20 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: LonelyCon

I remember when she was on a SNL skit and they referred to her as Sinbad.


96 posted on 10/03/2013 4:20:12 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: crusty old prospector

“Hey cue ball, I’m lookin’ at you, I’m thinkin’ “Fourteen in the side pocket’”


97 posted on 10/03/2013 4:21:13 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: crusty old prospector

One of the best SNL skits of all time, with the late Phil Hartman playing Frank Sinatra.

Frank Sinatra: I’ll tell you what you better understand! Next time you see Old Glory riding up that pole, you better sing that anthem, darling! You’re lucky you’re a chick, or you’d be nothing but a stain on the road and a crewcut. Our founding fathers went to the mat for you, baby!

Sinead O’Connor: It’s not my flag - I’m Irish.

Frank Sinatra: Oh? Well, then stay off of this stuff.. [ mimes drinking ] That’s the curse of you people.


98 posted on 10/03/2013 4:23:41 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

I love that, and I’m half Irish. Go ahead-call for the paddywagon. :)


99 posted on 10/03/2013 4:25:28 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: LonelyCon

-— The messenger is flawed (and some of the language is NSFW), but I agree with the message. ——

Yeah. Unfortunately, she has be own baggage.


100 posted on 10/03/2013 4:33:46 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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