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Indy Pop musician Amanda Palmer responds to Sinead O'Connor's open letter to Miley Cyrus, arguing that we have to build a world where women can make their own decisions.

After learning that Miley Cyrus sees her as a model, Sinead O'Connor wrote her an open letter urging her to see that corporations are using her and will leave her out to dry once she's "used up." Cyrus's unfortunate response on Twitter was to call her crazy.

Things are getting a bit ugly between O'Connor and Cyrus in the response to Miley's twitter reaction to O'Connor's letter.

Cyrus responded to O'Connor's open letter (see my last post), and the've escalated into an internet fight.

Robin Skouteris creates this mashup of Miley Cyrus's "Wrecking Ball" and Senead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U," and it's pretty good!

One look at the chosen paths of young artists, and why we shouldn't harp on them.

Folk singer Raina Rose writes an open letter to Miley Cyrus, Sinead O'Connor, and Amanda Palmer, showing appreciation for the dialogue they're having (in words and visually) and admiring them as "outspoken, powerful, talented" women.

Kornhaber discusses how media outlets often respond to Fiona Apple by alluding to insanity: calling her outbursts crazy. However, this is a mechanism to raise sensationalism and not actually address issues (and even to dismiss them); if we look at Apple, she has very clear rational reasons for her behaviors, and her "outbursts" are often very rational, even if emotion-laden. Kornhaber then extends his critique, showing how often this sort of "reading" happens to other artists, including Kanye and Sinead O'Connor.