Marcel Winatschek

Nothing Compares To Wrecking Ball

Miley Cyrus swinging naked on a wrecking ball was kind of ridiculous, but that was the whole point. Sinead O’Connor didn’t see it that way—she had a very public issue with it and told Miley she was throwing away her credibility. They ended up taking shots at each other in the press for a while, this weird generational feud that neither of them really seemed to want.

But then someone made a mashup putting ’Nothing Compares to You’ over ’Wrecking Ball’—Robin Skouteris did it—and it actually works. The two songs shouldn’t fit—different eras, different sensibilities—but they do. There’s something about the juxtaposition that just makes sense.

I wasn’t invested in the drama, but that mashup stuck with me. Sometimes the best thing about celebrity feuds is the weird art that falls out of them.