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?