Sinead O'Connor Done Attacking Miley Cyrus, Finds New Feud Targets: Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh

Earlier this week, Sinead O'Connor penned a series of scathing open letters to Miley Cyrus. The letters culminated in a threat of legal action. Now, however, the Irish songstress is setting her sights on a feud with two other targets:  Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh, who is Cowell's fellow judge on the UK version of The X Factor.

Sinead O'Connor railed against the Cowell, Walsh, and the music industry on Ireland's The Late Late Show, saying, "I feel sorry for the murder of music and rock 'n' roll, which has happened because of the industry,"

Sinead O'Connor continued, saying, "Because of Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh -  they've murdered music. I stand to say it on behalf of every musician in the world and they'll agree with me."

 "The industry has taken over so much," O'Connor added - "the money-making side of it, the sexualizing of extremely young people making records, and all the worship with money and bling and diamonds, all the Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh - it all amounts to the murder of music and that's what concerns me."

During her interview, O'Connor also spoke of the incident with Cyrus, although she clearly said she liked her music-just not the persona built around Cyrus, which O'Connor feels is exploitive. "I'm not dismissing the records, they are great records. Miley's records are great records. What I feel is that the industry of music does exploit people who are possibly a little too young to know what they are doing. I'm asking whether it's appropriate for 20-year-old women to lick sledgehammers for videos in songs which have no lyrical reference to any such thing in them. It's an exploitation of someone too young to understand the dangers."

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