5. Miley Cyrus Vs. Sinead O’Connor
The Miley Cyrus/Sinead O’Connor feud was born out of a strange maternal instinct. When Miley Cyrus told Rolling Stone that her “Wrecking Ball” video was inspired by Sinead O’Connor’s video for “Nothing Compares 2 U,” Sinead O’Connor fired back with an open letter, and in that letter, she said some things:
“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.”
Clearly, O’Connor isn’t cool with some of Cyrus’s decision making. However, Miley Cyrus did not take any of that sitting down. She took to Twitter, like many celebrities often do, and posted some of O’Connor’s old Tweets, and used them to compare her to Amanda Bynes, who was in the middle of her infamous breakdown at the time. The Tweets date back to when she was looking for a psychiatrist. O’Connor took to Facebook to respond:
“Miley … Really? Who … is advising you? Because taking me on is even more … stupid than behaving like a prostitute and calling it feminism,” O’Connor wrote, continuing in another post, “Ms. Cyrus has today posted tweets of mine which are two years old and which were sent when I was ill and seeking medical help. She has done this in an attempt to deliberately cause me harm and hurt.”
The feud kept going back and forth across different social media platforms from there, and it really wasn’t pretty.
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