"We can't stop, and we won't stop." Pretty similar to Drake's "You only live once, that's the motto: YOLO," Miley Cyrus has the same approach to how she wants to live. She can't stop and won't stop "doing lines in the bathroom."
Notorious for her partially nude video of her swinging back and forth on a metaphoric wrecking ball, Miley became more viral than ever before. Critics may say that she is out of control and has lost her mind, but has she really? Miley has opened up during many interview and spoken about how hard her breakup with celebrity Liam Hemsworth really effected her.
"if people can take their minds off the obvious and go into their imagination and see what the video really means, it is so vulnerable. … If you look at my eyes, I look more sad than actually my voice sounds on the record. It was a lot harder to actually do the video than it was to even record the song. It was much more of an emotional experience."
Okay, I feel a little sympathetic for her because she was so sad and lost, but does that really mean that she has to swing back and forth on a wrecking ball naked and do unbelievably provocative sexual gestures during the video? I get it, she is trying to express to the entire world that she was hit by a wrecking ball of love and all Liam did was wreck her. Man, she sure did make a point.
If that wasn't enough, her performance at the 2013 Video Music Awards made it more than clear that she truly meant that she can't be tamed when she titled her 2010 album "Can't be Tamed." Many, if not all, of the viewers of the VMA's thought that Miley's performance was out of control and raunchy.
So why would she sacrifice her career by making herself out to be such a trashy person. Well, it was all part of her master plan. In an interview with Barbara Walters, Miley says that she does not regret any of the questionable things she has done in the past year. She accomplished her goal, and did it skillfully. As she mentioned in the interview, "It was with a purpose, everyone in the world is talking about me and my music." I give it to her, there is not one person in the world who has turned on a TV or computer in the past year that doesn't know who she is. If her goal truly was to have everyone in the world talking about her, she did an amazing job. Her mom, Tish Cyrus believes that "this is what all twenty year old's do, but she is just doing it in front of the world." I don't know about you, but I don't think I ever swung back and forth on a wrecking ball, or made such a bold statement on stage at one of the most watched Award shows in the country.
The display that Miley has put on over the past year has lead to many more opprobrious acts by other celebrities and athletes. Miley showed that doing something crazy lead to her getting more attention and being known world-wide overnight than staying conservative would have. Others are trying out her approach and making themselves known the same sort of way she did.
Critics may despise her and think poorly of her, but at the end of the day, she devised a plan that made her one of the most well known people in the world.
Honestly, I think she is a genius. Maybe not super classy, but this girl has made more money in the last year than she has ever before. This was really her only way of becoming a grown up sex symbol completely separated from her Disney channel roots. If we look at other young women in her similar situation like Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez who haven't gone totally crazy, it seems like they are still stuck in the pop bubblegum music that Disney first taught them. Miley now has such a wider appeal than those two ever will. Maybe this is just to say that as a society we are addicted to things that are taboo and secretly love more overt sexuality. I know a lot of people snub Miley as gross and inappropriate, which sometimes she is, but most of the time she is just being a little more sexual in public than our society currently allows. Eventually, I think this will become a little more normal and mainstream (as has been the trend for the last few decades anyway). I just wonder how far we will go. What I also wonder about is whether or not she thought of the campaign herself. Anyways, good points you mentioned, and I thought it was smart to include her interview with Barabara Walters too.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Miley is not the best role model and has presented herself to be rather "trashy" recently, but I think a larger focus should be put on those around her as well. For instance, with the whole performance at the VMA's mentioned, everyone freaked out about Miley's actions in grinding up against a married many, etc., but let's be real. Robin Thicke knew she was going to do this. They had to rehearse. Additionally, he did not respond negatively. He participated in what happened on that stage, yet he received very little negative feedback for his actions as compared to Miley. There is something wrong with our society if we are focusing so intensely on the actions of a young woman as wrong and completely ignoring the wrong actions of a fully grown man.
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