Miley Cyrus Reflects on Sinéad O’Connor “Wrecking Ball” Dispute in New TV Special

In her new particular, Limitless Summer time Trip: Continued (Yard Classes), Miley Cyrus displays on her 2013 feud with Sinéad O’Connor. The dispute between the artists started after Cyrus instructed Rolling Stone that her “Wrecking Ball” music video was impressed by O’Connor’s iconic “Nothing Compares 2 U” visible. “I needed it to be robust however actually fairly,” Cyrus stated, “that’s what Sinéad did along with her hair and every part.”

Shortly after the interview was revealed, O’Connor wrote an open letter to Cyrus. She wrote to the pop star, who was 20 years outdated on the time, “I’m extraordinarily involved for you that these round you might have led you to consider, or inspired you in your individual perception, that it’s in any method ‘cool’ to be bare and licking sledgehammers in your movies. It’s in reality the case that you’ll obscure your expertise by permitting your self to be pimped, whether or not its the music enterprise or your self doing the pimping.”

Cyrus responded to O’Connor by posting a screenshot of tweets from the Irish musician, making mild of O’Connor’s difficulties with psychological well being.

Within the on-camera interview for the brand new particular, Cyrus stated, “On the time after I had made ‘Wrecking Ball,’ I used to be anticipating for there to be controversy and backlash, however I don’t suppose I anticipated different girls to place me down or activate me, particularly girls that had been in my place earlier than.” She continued:

So, that is after I had obtained an open letter from Sinead O’Connor, and I had no thought in regards to the fragile psychological state that she was in, and I used to be additionally solely 20 years outdated, so I may actually solely wrap my head round psychological sickness a lot. And all that I noticed was that one other lady had instructed me that this concept was not my thought. And even when I used to be satisfied that it was, it was nonetheless simply, you realize, males in energy’s thought of me they usually had manipulated me to consider that it was my very own thought when it by no means actually was. And it was. And it’s. And I nonetheless like it.

Our, you realize, youthful childhood triggers and traumas come up in bizarre and odd methods, and I believe I had simply been judged for thus lengthy for my very own decisions that I used to be simply exhausted, and I used to be on this place the place I lastly was making my very own decisions and my very own choices, and to have that taken away from me deeply upset me. God bless Sinead O’Connor, for actual, in all seriousness.

Cyrus additionally devoted her Limitless Summer time Trip: Continued (Yard Classes) efficiency of “Surprise Lady” to O’Connor.

Sinéad O’Connor died in July on the age of 56. Tributes to the singer-songwriter poured out from the music neighborhood and past.