I wanted
to comment on a couple of links a friend posted on Facebook to the Sinead
O'Connor open letter to Miley Cyrus regarding her video for "Wrecking
Ball", which continued on Miley's twitter responses, another open, angrier
letter from Sinead, more tweets from Miley, and finally another open letter
from Amanda Palmer to Sinead O'Connor commenting on the whole situation. I'm
sure it has continued on beyond this point, as more minor celebrities try to
jump on the opportunity for self-promotion, and professional commenters fill pages.
Fortunately I am above all that, since my pageviews confirm nobody's actually
reading this but Russian spammers.
For the
benefit of my two friends who might read this, neither of whom is quick to
follow pop-culture twitter controversy, here's a brief recap. Sinead O'Connor
wrote an open letter to Miley Cyrus which I will paraphrase as, "Not to
sound like your mom, but I watched your Wrecking Ball video, and please don't
be such a whore," which prompted Miley's twitter response along the lines
of, "Oh look, it's the crazy lady who tore up the pope's picture on SNL
twenty years ago." And it went downhill from there, to lines like:
"Unless you're not too busy getting your tits out." That last one I
think is a direct quote. In print is it "tits" or "teats"?
I think the late Robert Heinlen has me confused on that point.
