# Miley Cyrus is writing a memoir. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 23, 2008, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miley-cyrus-is-writing-a-memoir/446505 "2008-04-23T04:10:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miley-cyrus-is-writing-a-memoir/446505/21 "2008-04-23T22:12:42Z")
My father’s family name being Cyrus, and my Christian name Destiny, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Hannah Montana… ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miley-cyrus-is-writing-a-memoir/446505/22 "2008-04-23T22:14:32Z")
Personally, I think she’s got the chops to make it. Her pop career will flame out, but unlike pop or rock, Country stars tend to have a bit of longevity. And that’s where the majority of her career will be, in country. She’s not a bad singer, and she seems like a genuinely nice person. And while I haven’t seen the pics in question (again, googling up “naughty Hannah Montana sleepover” just seems to be asking for the FBI to come over for coffee) I’m willing to bet that the folks that screamed their heads off are a rather… unique fringe element. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miley-cyrus-is-writing-a-memoir/446505/23 "2008-04-23T22:21:54Z")
I heard on the radio this morning that this book will be about how she has managed to not turn into Britney Spears or Lindsey Lohan. Which sounds like a good idea if she writes it in 7 years once she’s been able to go to bars for a year and still hasn’t turned into a booze addled slut but even Britney was squeeky clean at 15. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miley-cyrus-is-writing-a-memoir/446505/24 "2008-04-23T22:24:39Z")
“My daddy died this year in Iraq. I am going to give mommy the Angel pendant that daddy put on mommy when she was having me. I had it in my jewelry box since that day. I love my mommy.” Oh, wait, wrong [faked Hannah Montana story](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22502162/)… ---
**Author:** ![Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miley-cyrus-is-writing-a-memoir/446505/25 "2008-04-23T22:29:36Z")
This book could be incredible.\* Ms. Cyrus has lived a life that has to be filled with not only dizzying success, but also the tremendous pressure that comes from knowing that it cannot last - she only has to look at her father to see where she is headed. Her memoir could also explore her relationship to her father. What are the chances there is not a really fucked up dynamic going on there? Mr. Cyrus has had his own success as both a singer and actor completely eclipsed by his teenage daughter. Do you think he is a little bitter? What are her relationships like with her siblings (step, half, whole)? The family’s life has to revolve around her, so there must be some resentment. Then there are all the issues we know confront child stars including drugs. Even if Ms. Cyrus is clean, she could tell us how he has dealt with these pressures. Finally, a teenage girl can produce fine writing on her life. > **[Anne Frank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank)** > > Annelies Marie Frank (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}German: \[ˈanə(liːs maˈʁiː) ˈfʁaŋk\] ⓘ, Dutch: \[ˌɑnəˈlis maːˈri ˈfrɑŋk, ˈɑnə ˈfrɑŋk\] ⓘ; 12 June 1929 – c. February or March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary in which she documented life in hiding under Nazi persecution. She is a celebrated diarist who describe... - In reality, it will suck because Ms. Cyrus’s ghostwritten memoir will give no real insight into her life. ---
**Author:** ![Euthanasiast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miley-cyrus-is-writing-a-memoir/446505/26 "2008-04-23T22:34:11Z")
It’s a logarithmic curve, a tried and true formula really. You start out squeaky and adorable, yet cute enough that you know most guys are gonna want to bang her when she gets old enough, and some others would rather not wait. She appeals to kids first, then as she gets hotter, adult men. She gets as much mileage from that until she has to show up on stage wearing ultra tight boy shorts, seventeen tramp stamps, and so many piercings that she looks like she fell down a flight of stairs holding a tackle box. Then the next logical step is she french kisses whatever pop icon female that’s too old and too irrevelant to matter anymore (kind of a passing the whore torch ceremony) on stage of some MTV abortion of an awards show, and then it’s on to drugs and drunken public mind fuck rodeo theatrics. Lohan, Spears, Hilton, Plato, Martin… Should make for quite a show. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miley-cyrus-is-writing-a-memoir/446505/27 "2008-04-23T22:39:31Z")
[QUOTE=Euthanasiast] Lohan, Spears, Hilton, Plato, Martin… Should make for quite a show. [/QUOTE] Wow, and I thought i was curmudgeonly. Was Hilton ever a child star? And who’s this Martin you speak of? ETA: I looked at your link and wow, those eyebrows are hideous. She should enter a contest whose prize is a mirror next time. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miley-cyrus-is-writing-a-memoir/446505/28 "2008-04-23T22:48:44Z")
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun] Finally, a teenage girl can produce fine writing on her life. > **[Anne Frank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank)** > > Annelies Marie Frank\[a\] (12 June 1929 – c. February or March 1945) was a German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim. She gained worldwide notability posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. In the diary, she regularly described her family's everyday life in their hiding place in an Amsterdam attic from 1942 until their arrest in 1944. > Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1929. In 1934, when she was four and... [/QUOTE] Yes, but Miley never had to hide in an attic from Nazis…as far as I know. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miley-cyrus-is-writing-a-memoir/446505/29 "2008-04-23T22:59:57Z")
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun] This book could be incredible.\* Ms. Cyrus has lived a life that has to be filled with not only dizzying success, but also the tremendous pressure that comes from knowing that it cannot last - she only has to look at her father to see where she is headed. Her memoir could also explore her relationship to her father. What are the chances there is not a really fucked up dynamic going on there? Mr. Cyrus has had his own success as both a singer and actor completely eclipsed by his teenage daughter. Do you think he is a little bitter? What are her relationships like with her siblings (step, half, whole)? The family’s life has to revolve around her, so there must be some resentment. Then there are all the issues we know confront child stars including drugs. Even if Ms. Cyrus is clean, she could tell us how he has dealt with these pressures. Finally, a teenage girl can produce fine writing on her life. > **[Anne Frank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank)** > > Annelies Marie Frank\[a\] (12 June 1929 – c. February or March 1945) was a German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim. She gained worldwide notability posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. In the diary, she regularly described her family's everyday life in their hiding place in an Amsterdam attic from 1942 until their arrest in 1944. > Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1929. In 1934, when she was four and... - In reality, it will suck because Ms. Cyrus’s ghostwritten memoir will give no real insight into her life. [/QUOTE] Um…people want insight into Miley Cyrus’ life? (Non-pedophiles over the age of 16, I mean.) Who are these people, and why is no one treating their cranial hemorhaging? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miley-cyrus-is-writing-a-memoir/446505/30 "2008-04-24T20:22:01Z")
The _Washington Post_ has a [satirical take](http://blog.washingtonpost.com/celebritology/2008/04/sneak_peek_miley_cyruss_memoir.html?hpid=entnews) on what a Miley memoir might look like. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miley-cyrus-is-writing-a-memoir/446505/31 "2008-04-24T22:17:37Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] Um…people want insight into Miley Cyrus’ life? (Non-pedophiles over the age of 16, I mean.) Who are these people, and why is no one treating their cranial hemorhaging? [/QUOTE] I doubt that they’re going to try to sell the book to non-pedophiles over the age of 16. On the other hand, they’re going to be able sell a copy to damn near each and every girl age 8 to 16 in the country. ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miley-cyrus-is-writing-a-memoir/446505/32 "2008-04-29T20:01:59Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] Um…people want insight into Miley Cyrus’ life? (Non-pedophiles over the age of 16, I mean.) Who are these people, and why is no one treating their cranial hemorhaging? [/QUOTE] Hey like it or not she’s big news. How many other stars [crash websites](http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/04/29/news_of_miley_cyrus_pictures_crash_vanit)? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miley-cyrus-is-writing-a-memoir/446505/33 "2008-04-29T23:09:41Z")
Ah, [photo shenanigans controversy](http://entertainment.uk.msn.com/news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=8188319) already. > [@Miley](#): > > “I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be ‘artistic’ and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed,” the pop star said. > > “I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologise to my fans who I care so deeply about.” > [@Miley](#): > > But when the images were released by Vanity Fair last week, Miley said: "I think it’s really artsy. > > “It wasn’t in a skanky way. Annie took, like, a beautiful shot, and I thought that was really cool. That’s what she wanted me to do, and you can’t say no to Annie.” :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miley-cyrus-is-writing-a-memoir/446505.md?page=1)