{"id":1979266,"date":"2025-08-25T20:37:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1979266"},"modified":"2025-08-25T20:37:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:37:02","slug":"lorne-michaels-admits-he-would-have-welcomed-sinead-oconnor-back-for-snl-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lorne-michaels-admits-he-would-have-welcomed-sinead-oconnor-back-for-snl-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorne Michaels Admits He Would Have Welcomed Sinead O\u2019Connor Back for \u2018SNL 50\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In 1992, Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor made headlines for ripping up a photo o<strong>f Pope John Paul II<\/strong> on <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> \u2014 and was never invited back to the show. But during <em>SNL\u2019s<\/em> 50th anniversary special, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalexaminer.com\/tag\/miley-cyrus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Miley Cyrus;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Miley Cyrus<\/strong><\/a> and <strong>Brittany Howard<\/strong> performed her signature hit \u201cNothing Compares 2 U,\u201d and creator <strong>Lorne Michaels<\/strong> revealed he would have extended an invite to O\u2019Connor if she were still alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIf [O\u2019Connor] were still alive, I would have asked her to sing that song,\u201d Michaels, 80, said during an interview with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/puck.news\/lorne-michaels-on-colbert-trump-the-future-of-snl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Puck;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><em>Puck<\/em><\/a> published on August 22. \u201cBut it was represented by Miley singing it with so much power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, not all fans were pleased with Cyrus, 32, performing the tune considering she and O\u2019Connor had famously feuded online in 2013. Shortly after the release of the music video for \u201cWrecking Ball,\u201d Cyrus revealed she had been inspired by O\u2019Connor, but the \u201cFeel So Different\u201d singer instead responded with a warning to the younger artist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI 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 \u2018cool\u2019 to be naked and licking sledgehammers in your videos,\u201d O\u2019Connor wrote in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2013\/oct\/03\/sinead-o-connor-open-letter-miley-cyrus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:an open letter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">an open letter<\/a>\u00a0to the \u201cParty in the U.S.A.\u201d songstress. \u201cIt is in fact the case that you will obscure your talent by allowing yourself to be pimped, whether it\u2019s the music business or yourself doing the pimping.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">ZUMAPRESS.com \/ MEGA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cyrus\u2019 response to O\u2019Connor\u2019s concern was to chastise her mental health in a social media post on X and compared her to former Nickelodeon star <strong>Amanda Bynes<\/strong>, who was also struggling with her mental health at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In August 2023 \u2014 one month after the \u201990s icon died from natural causes at age 56 \u2014 the \u201cFlowers\u201d hitmaker expressed regret over mocking O\u2019Connor. In her documentary concert special, <em>Endless Summer Vacation: Continued (Backyard Sessions)<\/em>, Cyrus admitted that she had \u201cno idea about the fragile mental state that [O\u2019Connor] was in.\u201d She later dedicated her song \u201cWonder Woman\u201d to the late singer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1992, Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor made headlines for ripping up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live \u2014 and was never invited back to the show. But during SNL\u2019s 50th anniversary special, Miley Cyrus and Brittany Howard performed her signature hit \u201cNothing Compares 2 U,\u201d and creator Lorne Michaels revealed he would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1979267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[313270,353323,305353,22623,305354],"class_list":["post-1979266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-50th-anniversary-special","tag-brittany-howard","tag-lorne-michaels","tag-miley-cyrus","tag-sinead-oconnor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Lorne-Michaels-Admits-He-Would-Have-Welcomed-Sinead-OConnor-Back.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}