Further thoughts…
Her father absolutely has sheltered her. The last I heard of her before now was a photo shoot at which Daddy was very present and very restrictive.
That said, I’m not convinced this was all completely signed off on…at least not by Billy. In fact, I’d be interested to know what he’s thinking right now…
That photoshoot was with Annie “The Only Living Professional Photographer Anyone Knows By Name” Leibowitz. When Miley and company say they were following her directions to the letter, I believe them.
Hey Miley, put your tongue back in your mouth before you put someone’s eye out. Then go put some clothes on.
Strippers have been doing that for a long time, too. I don’t think it’s sexy, either.
But I assume that the attraction might be the fact that the woman is appears to actually wants (in fact, demands!) for you to look at her ass, when normally that kind of behavior is considered boorish.
Which, AFAIC, was the entire song/show/act. All Miley is doing is saying: This right here is exactly what is going on in the clubs right now. Booty popping, twerking, booty clapping, and lots of drugs and trippin’. I think even the teddy bears are an MDMA reference.
My wife and I watched a rerun last night. At one point she asked me, “Is this what our parents thought of The Beatles?” and I had to say yes, we’ve become our parents. Took a long time but it finally happened. OTOH, I haven’t seen anyone note that there was no rock at any point in the ceremony, not even in the nominees. (Best rock video was awarded off screen.) They’re holding the event in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, home to 1000 hipster bands, and not one mention of any of those. (Vampire Weekend presented, but they’re from Manhattan.) Why isn’t that the headline?
Miley’s performance looked a lot different in context, too. She performs after Lady Gaga struts around in a “bikini” of three seashells held on by strings. And her duo with Robin Thicke was one of four [!] simultaneous performances going on, with lots of dancers gyrating in outfits about as small.
The whole thing was pop spectacle, by kids for kids, a cynical blast of noise and movement. I’m not the target audience by miles. Miley’s song has 157 million YouTube hits. Offended, though? Also not by miles.
Well, the Beatles were actually good and had a lasting impact on music for decades to come. I doubt anyone will be saying the same for Miss Cyrus in 2063.
Be sure to bookmark this thread though, in case I’m wrong.
I completely agree with you. But you couldn’t convince any parents of that in 1964.
I didn’t see the VMAs, but I did happen to read this article in Slate today on what some see as racism in her performance: Miley Cyrus VMA performance: White appropriation of black bodies.
Again, I haven’t seen the performance, so I can’t comment on the article’s merits.
Same here. I had to look it up.
We were discussing it among the “get off my lawn” crowd at work. I thought it was something along the lines of a selfie. Had to look it up.
Miley’s schtick makes me wonder what the future Mileys are going to be like in 20 years.
This. Exactly this. Mainstream media cannot simply ENJOY something sexy, they have to CONDEMN a sexy thing even as they pimp it out to their audience. It’s a fairly creepy phenomenon, makes you respect good, honest porn a lot more.
I’ve always seen the “twerk” move as a sort of degrading thing done as a sort of sexual objectification of the women doing it. Often times you’ll see the women down low doing that motor-butt shit with the men standing around them pouring alcohol (or whatever) down on their backs and asses while they do it.
I can’t remember the last time I even stubbed my digital toe on MTV’s festering corpse and I’m not even going make the effort to download a pirate copy of the VMA’s. If want to rot my brain I’ll get some *N. fowleri *amoebae to do the job right and proper.
“Sex sells” is generally about having attractive looking people in ads. That applies to the vast majority of advertising. What Miley was doing a bit more on the side of “sexual”. There is a distinction.
The whole performance didn’t come off as shocking so much as stupid and embarrassing. I honestly had a difficult time watching this girl make such a damn fool of herself in front of everyone, starting with the fact that she sounded dreadful, especially when she started shrieking out the opening verse of Blurred Lines. The outfit was ridiculous too, and not because it was “shocking” or “slutty”. Honestly, she’d have looked more dignified performing naked than in a leotard with a picture of a stoned Chuck E Cheeze about to vomit a case of Bud Light.
Whoever mentioned that it seemed like a goof on sex was spot on. I’m not saying the girl can’t be sexy, I’m saying that this performance made her seem like a dirty cartoon parody of sexy.
Speaking of cartoon sexuality, Miley twerks on works of art made me laugh pretty good.
You ever see someone twerk in 3/4 time. It ain’t pretty.
So what’s the Straight Dope Consensus on Miley Cyrus and Illuminati and/or reptilians?
More or less likely based on tongue dancing?
Unless you get some syncopation going with the left and right cheeks like some of the great ones. I saw this stripper once . . . :eek: 