Sinead O'Connor Thinks Justin Bieber Being Used?
Sinead O'Connor, the Irish singer-songwriter who has been vocal about the lack of morality in the music industry lately, insists that Justin Bieber may not understand that he is not selling out shows and records based off of his talent.
According to O'Connor, 46, the music industry distracts the masses by advertising sexual messages from people's favorite artists.
"The sounds of the records and the videos and how artists look has all been taken over by the industry. In a way, music's all been silenced," O'Connor said recently, according to Perez Hilton. "That's why I feel strongly about the over-sexualizing of young women. As long as you're visually distracted, you're not really listening."
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O'Connor said Bieber may be too young to be noticed by those in front of the image he promotes.
"Male artists too," O'Connor said, according to Perez Hilton. "Justin Bieber, he's being sold on his sexuality, but he's too young to even understand what's going on."
This is not the first time that the singer spoke against the music industry. O'Connor decided to write an open letter to Bieber's friend and singer Miley Cyrus Cyrus after the younger singer compared her work to that of the older artist's 80's hit "Nothing Compares 2 U" in Rolling Stone magazine.
"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," O'Connor wrote to Cyrus. "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."
Cyrus decided to respond to O'Connor's statements, and compared O'Connor to troubled actress Amanda Bynes who has caused many to question her mental state.
"Before Amanda Bynes.... There was....," Cyrus previously wrote in a cryptic message that included an image of O'Connor.
