# Isn't Miley Cyrus like, 37 years old? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 8, 2009, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768 "2009-03-08T21:49:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768/21 "2009-03-09T14:40:05Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > She is starting to get that cokehead rasp, I’ve noticed. Miley? That’s probably a combination of cigarettes and bad singing technique. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768/22 "2009-03-09T14:41:19Z")
…or all three… ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768/23 "2009-03-09T16:18:48Z")
Who the hell is Miley Cyrus? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768/24 "2009-03-09T16:30:05Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > Who the hell is Miley Cyrus? Better known as Hannah Montana, daughter of Billy “Achey-Breakey Heart” Ray Cyrus. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768/25 "2009-03-09T16:32:08Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > Who the hell is Miley Cyrus? You really don’t want to know. She will give you an acky breaky heart. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768/26 "2009-03-09T18:34:18Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > She just released a 200-something page autobiography. (Yes, I’ve read it for some reason, and yes, I know it was ghostwritten.) In her three years of fame, she has had enough experiences to fill a 200-something page autobiography. Of course, most of those experiences have to do with being an actress and stuff about her family, but I can think of very few actresses- young _or_ old- who have packed so much fame and accomplishments into three years as Miley Cyrus has. Obviously, she is an alien (MILEY standing for Measuring Intelligence and Love of Earthling Youth) who was sent to the future to bring a message to the children of today. And what is that message? I think it is “give up your dreams of fame and stardom, because you will never achieve what I have.” (Of course, she says the exact opposite thing in the book, but she’s just waiting to drop her true wisdom on the kids of the world when they’re ready for it…much later, when both she and Billy Ray, alias Cyrus One, have gone back into obscurity, and Cyrus Three- or possibly Cyrus Four or Five- make their way into Earth’s hearts.) It’s too late! It’s [already begun.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace_Cyrus) ETA - just in case you can’t place him: [Shake It.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpU78IeTx_c) ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768/27 "2009-03-09T18:40:03Z")
The original Miley is indeed 37. She had grown so rich, she wanted to retire. She took a young unknown actress to her cabin and she told her secret. 'I am not Miley Cyrus, she said. ‘My name is Ryan; I inherited the microphone from the previous Miley Cyrus, just as you will inherit it from me. The woman I inherited it from is not the real Miley Cyrus either. Her name was Cummerbund. The real Miley has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.’ ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768/28 "2009-03-09T19:48:58Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > You really don’t want to know. She will give you an acky breaky heart. Besides I just don’t think Sparky would understand. ---
**Author:** ![wolf11469](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf11469/32/12464_2.png) [@wolf11469](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf11469)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768/29 "2009-03-09T19:49:34Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > The original Miley is indeed 37. She had grown so rich, she wanted to retire. She took a young unknown actress to her cabin and she told her secret. 'I am not Miley Cyrus, she said. ‘My name is Ryan; I inherited the microphone from the previous Miley Cyrus, just as you will inherit it from me. The woman I inherited it from is not the real Miley Cyrus either. Her name was Cummerbund. The real Miley has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.’ inconceivable ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768/30 "2009-03-09T20:10:14Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > All men say that…its never true though. You don’t know how disappointing it is when you are expecting an above average desperation and then discover its tiny… its tiny what? ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768/31 "2009-03-09T20:31:19Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > The original Miley is indeed 37. She had grown so rich, she wanted to retire. She took a young unknown actress to her cabin and she told her secret. 'I am not Miley Cyrus, she said. ‘My name is Ryan; I inherited the microphone from the previous Miley Cyrus, just as you will inherit it from me. The woman I inherited it from is not the real Miley Cyrus either. Her name was Cummerbund. The real Miley has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.’ _snort_ ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768/32 "2009-03-09T21:26:36Z")
She’s making the same mistakes as so many people on the “it” list. She’s everywhere. Her agent has allowed such a media saturation that a backlash is inevitable. In the space of a few months, she’s hosted or appeared at the emmys, the grammys, the oscars, the razzies, the Nickies…it’s just too much. The public will soon turn on her so rabidly that Anne Boelyn’s fall from grace will pale in comparison. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768/33 "2009-03-09T21:44:38Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Miley? That’s probably a combination of cigarettes and bad singing technique. That and her dad’s special sessions with her to lose her gag reflex. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768/34 "2009-03-09T21:54:42Z")
> [@Q.E.D](#): > > Better known as Hannah Montana, daughter of Billy “Achey-Breakey Heart” Ray Cyrus. And best not known at all. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768/35 "2009-03-09T21:55:13Z")
Actually, the last time I saw a picture of her–last week sometime–my first thought was “What is she, 12?” She looks very young. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768/36 "2009-03-09T21:56:28Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > That and her dad’s special sessions with her to lose her gag reflex. Okay, that was a little over the top there, lissener. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768/37 "2009-03-09T22:05:06Z")
eeesh, um yeah. I would lay some coin on odds that an updated autobio comes out in a couple of years featuring the real story behind MC/HM, the drugs, the sex, the ritual sacrifices… ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768/38 "2009-03-09T22:05:59Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Okay, that was a little over the top there, lissener. Seriously. I agree totally. And she’s a role model! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768/39 "2009-03-09T22:08:57Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Actually, the last time I saw a picture of her–last week sometime–my first thought was “What is she, 12?” > > She looks very young. Except when she goes on the red carpet, when she dresses too old and frumpy for 16. [http://cdn.buzznet.com/media-cdn/jj1/headlines/2009/02/miley-cyrus-grammys-2009.jpg](http://cdn.buzznet.com/media-cdn/jj1/headlines/2009/02/miley-cyrus-grammys-2009.jpg) [http://www.catwalkqueen.tv/Oscars%202009%20Miley%20Cyrus.jpg](http://www.catwalkqueen.tv/Oscars%202009%20Miley%20Cyrus.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768/40 "2009-03-09T22:15:49Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > I agree totally. And she’s a role model! Oh, please. I am not opining that she’s a role model for anybody. I am saying that your oh-so-subtle suggestion of father-daughter incest is disgusting. However, you clearly delight in iconoclasty even when there’s no icon to, err, clast. **gigi** , I’m not sure how old she is (15?) but I agree that she’s dressed too old in the pictures you linked. Look at the curvature of her cheeks; she still has some growing too do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-miley-cyrus-like-37-years-old/488768.md?page=3)