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Originally Posted by Ammi

..I remember when my room was covered in David Bowie posters and my dad wasn't very impressed at all...there was the whole 'bisexual' thing going..how risqué....anyway I never wanted to live my life like Bowie in anyway or thought of him as a 'role model' as such but there was a lot of things about him that I admired apart from his music and the 'show' which were his complete stage performances...Madonna has always been controversial in many ways, from even her name to how she dresses/acts etc and especially in her live performances..but I haven't in my experience seen any of that 'controversy' or in disrespect in any way from her fans...I just don't personally think that fans take a literal or active meaning from everything their 'idols' do or wear but just take elements of inspiration from their music and them as people...anyway, that's just my opinion and her parents/family/friends seem very supportive of the direction of her career so I'm not really going to judge any differently..if it all turns out to be the wrong decisions for her then they will all have to deal with that....

David Bowie and to a much lesser extent Madonna had substance behind their style though. RCA's record deal with Miley will have you know that she is a recording artist but really she records little and creates less. She's an artist in similar vein to how the budgie runs the mine. That's the most hilarious thing about all of this. When you summarise everything that is going on around Miley Cyrus in 2013 the last thing anything seems to want to talk about is her music. It's an afterthought. I know that's staggeringly obvious even perhaps to many of her own fans but I'm going to play arch cynic as usual here and point out the sheer hilarity of it.

Her music is just background hum to this awfully substance devoid, kitch campaign to get her total lack of a personality over. Regardless of how much she enjoys what she is doing she's ultimately the end product of a much larger arm that is here to sell sex and fragrances to people who often stay isolated and insecure in their bedrooms because they wish they were more brave and audacious like Miley.

If you're grown up, tuned in and like the mindless escapism of it all then indulge but rest assured there is nothing positive here for anybody's children. I applaud Sinead's letter. It's a total stab of fresh air that has managed to pierce the curtain and that should be heralded as a very, very good thing by all but the dullest of fools who will somehow once again ignore substance and chalk it up to Sinead wanting to be relevant or some other such dog eared excuse to lambast it.

Sinead's a total berry, obviously, but nobody can deny her status as an artist and I've always thought that she has a fundamentally good soul.

So yeah, good thing. Now get out of it when you can.