Miley Cyrus has made some pretty interesting headlines this past year, and for good reason; the former Disney star has made it abundantly clear that she’s not an innocent child star any longer, and the results of her wrecking-ball entrance into adulthood captivated news sources during the later half of 2013. Fittingly, Cyrus very publicly left 2013 with a bang and rung in the new year in New York City as one of the starring acts in the New Year’s Rockin’ Eve show in Time’s Square. Finding herself among such infamous names as Robin Thicke, Cyrus was not lost to the crowd, and gave a splendid performance that’s sure to have people raving well into the new year.
The artist performed both of her recent hits, “Wrecking Ball” and “Get It Right,” ensuring a multitude of jokes about Miley swinging from the famous Waterford ball. As always, Twitter was an apt means for people to share their jokes with the masses.
*Times square goes completely black*
*Wrecking ball begins to play*
*Miley cyrus rides down on the NYE ball*
I CAME IN ON NEW YEARS EVE
Cyrus’ stellar performance wasn’t the only thing that had people talking, however; her clothing choices also left critics raving. Donning a golden, belly-revealing ensemble, Cyrus still managed to stay warm in the below-freezing New York chill with a huge, white, fur coat, which was carried by three back-up dancers so it wouldn’t touch the ground.
It seems like Miley Cyrus is on a continuous downward spiral. She has changed her entire image in more ways than one and now she has taken her change in appearance a step further by dying her eyebrows. Cyrus cut her hair short and dyed it blonde a few months back and now she has dyed her eyebrows to match. At least that is what it appears she TRIED to do. Recent photos of Cyrus and her friends make it appear as though Cyrus has no eyebrows at all.
While her transformation has shocked many people and caused some harsh criticism for the young singer, Cyrus insists that she is being outlandish on purpose and using her odd appearance and actions as “performance art.”
In an a recent interview, Cyrus was asked if she was deliberately trying to provoke controversy. She responded by saying,
“At the end of the day, I’m just trying to be true to myself. I’m having fun, I’ve never been happier, and I’m following my instincts. I don’t think I’m doing anything that outrageous but people are free to say what they think. I try not to judge people and nobody would have been talking about the VMAs if I hadn’t given that performance. It was all about not taking ourselves so seriously.”
Cyrus doesn’t have to defend herself too often, she has plenty of celebrity friends that will do it for her. Stars such as Demi Lovato, Britney Spears and even Paul McCartney have publicly defended her appearance, performance and over all transformation. Maybe Cyrus knows what she’s doing after all.
Twerking sensation Miley Cyrus, who is presently in an online feud with Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor, failed to take any jabs at the elder, former pop star during her latest hosting stint on Saturday Night Live.
It was almost as if some sort of mockery was missing from the show – Cyrus had already taunted O’Connor about SNL on Twitter:
Sinead. I don't have time to write you an open letter cause Im hosting & performing on SNL this week.
The tweet is so snappy, as O’Connor infamously tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on live television, after a performance on SNL in 1992. That was a much bigger deal than any twerking madness, at the time. Post-Dworkinite feminists attempt to tie politics to Miley’s drymouthed tongue wagging and cellophane tank tops, but her antics are small potatoes compared to O’Connor’s intense display of political and religious idealogy, almost exactly 21 years ago. O’Connor was subsequently banned from Saturday Night Live, and her career and public image were never the same.
Still, Miley, or the handlers of Miley, decided it would be tasteless to make mention of anything O’Connor during her hosting spot, and her appearance on the show was a bit tasteful. No twerkin’. Miley even explained her lack of twerking – “I used to think twerking was cool,” Cyrus explained during her monologue, adding, “but now that white people are doing it it seems kinda lame.” But you… were… white.. always.. too? I never get the jokes.
At this writing, Sinéad hasn’t yet said anything about not being mentioned on the show. It would be quite surprising if she were able to remain quiet, but it’s unlikely. It’s like telling a toddler not to push a button that looks and tastes just like pink Starburst. How could Sinéad not push this button of instantaneous recognition, perceived redemption, boosted metrics, etc?
It’s news you never get tired about hearing, whether it’s displayed in the impulse buyers section on the magazine rack at a grocery store, or it’s your Facebook feed; America’s sweet hearts are Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus. The child stars are buddies, and since Cyrus has been in the industry longer, she consoles Bieber in a business where the wild public degrades you for your behavior, and you never get a moment of privacy.
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone Cyrus revealed that she provides some sage wisdom and peace of mind for Bieber.
“I’m not much older than him, so I never want it to feel like I’m mentoring him,” Cyrus said. “But I do mentor him in a way. Because I’ve been doing this for a long time, and I already transitioned, and I don’t think he’s quite done it yet.”
Though Cyrus doesn’t often hang out Bieber, with whom she describes as a “Baby” singer, she still deeply respects the artist and cares for him. Back in May during the Billboard Awards 2013, Bieber faced a wave of boos as he thanked Jesus Christ.
“He’s trying really hard,” Cyrus said. “People don’t take him seriously, but he really can play the drums, he really can play guitar, he really can sing.”
“I just don’t want to see him fuck that up, to where people think he’s Vanilla Ice. I tell him that. Like, ‘You don’t want to become a joke. When you go out, don’t start shit. Don’t come in shirtless.’”
Ah yes, Miley Cyrus. It was July, 2009, and I was walking down Butler Avenue in Tybee Island, GA, looking for some sort of bait. Or chum. Or whatever. My second fiancé and I had been arguing over the difference between SweetN’ Low and Splenda, as well as over my general chain of life-failure. So I run oft. I saw people catching these petite sharks off the pier, and I wanted one. So I got these shrimp at the IGA, and then ran into Billy Ray Cyrus on the street. I said I was from Kentucky, relatively. He said that I should follow my dreams. I’d already met Macgyver at this point, so I wasn’t very starstruck, but I’d followed him anyway.
Ended up at a bar called Sting Ray’s. The girls there were cold tripping when Billy Ray appeared. He kept saying “follow your dreams.” He eventually told me to follow my dreams again. I took some pictures, and forgot about the shark:
Billy Ray, fostering dreams, at Sting Ray’s:
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I ran back to the hotel, and showed my lady the proof of Billy Ray, but then inadvertently added to my chain of failure for not realizing that Miley Cyrus was filming her insipid 2010 coming-of-age-teen-romantic-drama-film entitled “The Last Song” on the island all the while. I’d thought I knew some special secret about dream-followings and my new, close friend Billy Ray. Wack. Miley Cyrus was henceforth forever etched into my subconscious, as I’d just looked uninformed again and still couldn’t find any Splenda.
Well, Miley appears to again be having another kind of coming-of-age entertainment extravaganza; a sort of bucking Rumspringa, like those Amish reality show kids who go to NYC to get Nikes and teeth have. Um, here’s Miley’s “Wrecking Ball:”
Ahem.
Britney Spears is foxy. Her handlers were aware of this, and her “I’m not a girl, not yet a woman” brand was spot-on. Girl just got it. Or, had it. She’s somehow allowed to shave her head and chase people with umbrellas. Alas, poor Miley Cyrus does not have it, and won’t seem to get it. And the controversy surrounding her confounding, digitized letting of her hair down is not likely to remain a sustainable cash-cow in the long haul. And when I say confounding, try watching “We Can’t Stop” with the sound turned off:
It looks like not-smart people made the video, and that perhaps edgy brother Trace was brought on as a consultant. Eh, but it does document supposed Western problems set to pop music, with vocal inflections seemingly borrowed from the superior entertainer Rihanna. Miley sings a somewhat sad, yet inspirational song about the grind of being exhausted with pleasure from partying too hard, but also that one must never stop partying, and that God wants one to party, and that caffeinated content-writers like myself need to step off. Still, it’s somewhat of a magical stitch in pop culture, because Miley likely has no idea how a typical 20-year-old might act, as she’s lived a very atypical life since childhood, and that her “savage” looking party was carefully calculated by a team of experts. Experts of parties. I wonder who’d thought up the waggy-tongue thing and the flaming dustbowl-era prison inmate from Tulsa hairdo?
Though, looking back over the video for “Wrecking Ball” one might wonder if Cyrus’ Sinéad O’Connor-esque mugging in the beginning of the clip might serve as some poignant, lonely-girl-w/-$150-millie revelation of self-awareness. Like what happened to Skynet in the Terminator franchise. A beautiful sadness, representing all the suffering ever experienced by every sentient being ever to exist in every possible universe, encapsulated in a single, glistening tear. Withal, the singer is soon licking a sledgehammer, and making everyone wildly uncomfortable.
Either way, the singer’s latest clip has reached almost 10 million viewers in less than 24 hours.
In yet another instance of people taking social media and teens too seriously, Miley Cyrus has yet again felt the dark side of having a Twitter account. Ms. Cyrus, 19, is suffering backlash for posting a picture that some of her followers deemed to be a blasphemous slight against Jesus. Cyrus tweeted a photo of theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss, featuring a scandalous caption that read:
“You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements (carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, all the things that matter for evolution) weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in stars. So forget Jesus. Stars died so you can live.”
Cyrus also added the word “Beautiful” to her tweet.
A teen pop idol, calling high school yearbook-level existential detritus on her Twitter account that mentions the words forget Jesus “beautiful” is not good sometimes in America. So, some of her followers chimed in, many offering predictable replies that questioned her faith, and whether or not her fame has caused her to backslide. Here are a few more surrounding Cyrus’ new science:
