Sinead O’Connor Blasts Simon Cowell as Murderer of Music [VIDEO]
Sinead O'Connor blasted Simon Cowell as a murderer, Radar Online reported Friday.
O'Connor appeared on The Late Late Show in Ireland on Friday. She blasted the X Factor host for killing music. She also held Irish entertainment manager Louis Walsh accountable for the dire straits of rock and roll.
"I think the important thing to say is there's a certain alarm that needs to get rung and I know there are a lot of musicians around the country and around the world that will agree, music is being murdered, rock and roll is being murdered. The power of rock and roll to change things, to move people, is being murdered by all of this worship of fame, Pop Idol, X Factor, all this stuff," the 46-year-old said.
O'Connor did not believe the power of fame and success should be concentrated in the hands of the few. She cited the two men during her appearance.
"People like Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh - who doesn't even know how to burn a CD as of the last time I saw him - deciding what records should sound like, and deciding who gets to be famous and who doesn't," she said.
O'Connor also referenced Miley Cyrus. She has written the Wrecking Ball singer three open letters objecting to her sexualized behavior.
"I'm saying that why I got involved in the issue of whether or not it's appropriate for 20-year-old women to be asked to lick sledgehammers in videos for songs that have no lyrical reference to any such thing in them, is I would say is an exploitation of somebody who's possibly a little too young to understand the dangers of allowing oneself to be exploited in that way,'" she said.
Watch the clip here.