Watching Miley Cyrus’s VMA performance of We Can’t
Stop/Blurred Lines, all I can think of as she gyrates on Robin Thicke, twerks, rub a
foam finger across her lady parts, sticks her tongue out, quite a lot, while in
a nude coloured bikini is, ‘What in the name of god is she doing? What happened
to the beautiful, sweet Hannah Montana?’
A lot of her fans who are defending her are saying, ‘she’s
20, she’s just growing up and trying to shed her Disney image’. I am not a
prude, and I have no issues with a bit of sexiness and raunchiness on stage.
But what Miley did was not sexy or raunchy. It was trashy, embarrassing and extremely
uncomfortable to watch (just ask Will Smith’s children). And that was just her
singing. Is she heading down a path of self destruction like other child stars
before her?
Oh wait! Doesn’t she have a new album coming out? Yes, she
does! She clearly set out to get the publicity, and boy did she get it! Even
though *NSYNC reformed for the first time in ten years, in a blink and you’ll
miss it performance, it was Miley that EVERYONE was talking about. She even
just tweeted ‘Smilers! My VMA performance had 306.000 tweets per minute. That's
more than the blackout or Superbowl! #fact.’ There really is no such thing as bad
publicity huh?!?
If her album does well on the back of this performance, what
does this say about society, and the kind of people that teenage girls look up
to? If I had a daughter I personally would not encourage her to look up to
someone like Miley Cyrus. She is so clearly desperate for fame that she would
degrade herself in such a fashion. I can’t help compare her to her peer Demi
Lovato. Now, there is someone who has been through a lot and come out the other
side, and is a good influence on her fans because of it. She is open about her past
of anorexia and self harm so she can reach out and help them. She works hard,
puts out decent songs, and doesn’t feel the need to sexualise herself in order
to sell albums.
Miley's VMA performance
Miley when she was young and innocent
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