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to think miley cyrus should stop now

127 replies

MrsBucketxx · 27/08/2013 08:34

Something about that girl gives me the creeps.

Maybe she is too masculine, to full on, to manic.

Its the same with riannah its not big and its not clever I wish they would vanish.

Aaarrrggghhh rant over

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NeoMaxiZoomDweebie · 27/08/2013 10:59

The issue is NOT her clothing...it's NOT her hair....it's not even fucking twerking on that Thicke man...it's the fact that her performance skills seem to have foundered.

Like her or not she is or was a highly talented singer, dancer and showwoman and now she seems to have lost that.

candycoatedwaterdrops · 27/08/2013 11:00

I don't think she's behaved any worse than any of the above mentioned artists. It did what she wanted - got people talking.

NeoMaxiZoomDweebie · 27/08/2013 11:00

Bollocks. She's on drugs and fucking up.

volvocowgirl · 27/08/2013 11:02

With the exception of about 6 seconds with a foam finger it all looks very choreographed, which isn't surprising considering the size of the stage. She just appears a little over enthusiastic,but from what I've seen she's often like that, it was just in that context it came across differently.

Personally I think it's no more inappropriate than 45yr old woman snogging a 21yr old at the VMAs ten years ago, (if that had been an older man there would have been uproar). Or what about Britney's almost nude outfit? Or Kanye West being the most disrespectful t@sser known to man? Or Lil Kim's boobage? Or just generally some of the violence that has been reported at the VMAs over the years?

Also VMAs aside, saying Madonna hasn't set a foot wrong is glossing over a lot of behaviour (and really terrible acting). But so what, it's up to her!

Miley's young and finding her place in the world, most people act out a little at that point, I feel for her because she's got the world's judgey little eyes on her and a while lot of people who can't help but wag their fingers and tongues at her in disapproval.

No one else seems to be getting this much rubbish slung at them over this incident and there would've been a lot of people with a lot bigger say in the whole display than her. Plus, whilst I'm moaning, I'm fed up with that fake Smith Family photo doing the rounds too.

MorphyBrown · 27/08/2013 11:02

Teddy bear furry bustier with the bear doing the tongue out thing.

She's just not very good at what she's trying to do. Unlike Rihanna.

MorphyBrown · 27/08/2013 11:05

'If that had been an older man there would have been uproar'

No, it wouldn't have been news because it's pretty standard.

pictish · 27/08/2013 11:09

It's a lot of fuss over fuck all.

Dahlen · 27/08/2013 11:34

Miley Cyrus may not be doing anything different to a multitude (of female) stars before her, and I have completely failed to be shocked by this, but I wouldn't consider it nothing. I think it's a sad reflection of how female performers have, in the main, have to conform to a fuckability standard in order to keep their star in the ascendent - something which has important ramifications for other women and in particular young girls who go around emulating the costumes and choreography they see on their heroines.

peanutMD · 27/08/2013 11:53

I think she's rebelling against the crappy image she was stuck with as a young girl, once you've been that sweet little teeny bopper I imagine its bloody hard to be taken seriously as a grown up artist.

That says I think her performance was awful from the start and RT's awkward posture when she was grinding up on him suggested to me that he was uncomfortable.

Either way she's cocked up but i'm sure she'll come back

brightnearly · 27/08/2013 12:08

I just wonder why there seems to be the equation of growing up = becoming overtly sexual in their performances instead of growing up = doing some really good, interesting music and image changes that don't hinge on sex alone.
It's boring this way!

peanutMD · 27/08/2013 12:12

Totally agree Bright.

Unfortunately though decent music seems to be a thing if the past as most "artists" seem to concentrate more on how they look or are being perceived rather than their musical talents (or lack of as the case may be)

50shadesofmeh · 27/08/2013 12:12

I don't like slut shaming other women and to be honest it's not much different to what Madonna did back in the day BUT the problem is she is shite.

118sbigmoustache · 27/08/2013 12:16

I think they become overtly sexual because up until that point they aren't allowed to be sexual at all because of whatever innocent character they are playing at the time. So they then go maybe too far or too extreme because it all happens at once. Kind of like how some teenagers will get everything pierced when they turn 18 after not being allowed even ear piercings before that.

FrigginRexManningDay · 27/08/2013 12:17

OP she is a woman not a girl.

It looked,to me,like she was taking the piss out of Rihanna,Beyonce and the like and their *Oh look at me,panting and grinding,I'm so sexy type of performance.

volvocowgirl · 27/08/2013 12:26

MorphyBrown - I do agree it's more acceptable (when it shouldn't be) but there's also huge backlash - look at Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchison.

brightnearly · 27/08/2013 12:27

moustache To me, the problem seems quite the opposite: very early sexualisation and awareness of it, and nowhere to go from there except outrageousness...
Also, when comparing Cristina Aguilera's Dirrty with this performance, somehow the former seems more genuine in that Aguilera comes across as knowing what she is singing about, whereas I think Miley seems fundamentally clueless.

NeoMaxiZoomDweebie · 27/08/2013 12:28

Does nobody else think her performance skills seem to have disapeared? She was very good at what she did a few years ago...

ShakeAndVac · 27/08/2013 12:32

I should imagine she has watched the video and is punching the air in triumph, while you lot clutch your pearls and pass round the smelling salts.
Job done.

Exactly this! I said the same thing on one of the other million threads on here about the same thing.
It's done to shock and get publicity, and the fainting and squawking outrage still works, and always has done - all these threads about it proves that!

Wheresmycaffeinedrip · 27/08/2013 12:34

less no she should concentrate on her talent. Which was supposed to be singing. If she wants to be taken seriously as a performer surely relying on talent rather than what she perceives to be "outrageous or sexy" of which its neither it's tacky and quite frankly revolting.

No one now will remember what she was good at, just some OTT grotesque dance routine that's been done 100 times before, it's boring and predictable and not one singer has ever lived that part down if they make it at all afterwards to look back ten years from now.

peanutMD · 27/08/2013 12:36

Hold up Volvo, you mean to tell me that people had heard of that Courtney Stodden person before big brother??

I was baffled when she announced that everyone was obsessed with her lol

NeoMaxiZoomDweebie · 27/08/2013 12:37

Shake what bollocks you speak....I for one am totally unshockable having had a very wild youth myself. I don't judge or feel disgusted by the way she dances....I am just worried she's on drugs and will have some kind of car crash situation soon.

Wheresmycaffeinedrip · 27/08/2013 12:48

And I have to say I agree with neo. If I saw anyone in a pub or club doing that my first thought would be drugs. Naive that may seem but that's not just moving away from a "clean cut Disney image" .

I would be worried for that woman if i was her friend or family.

ZolaBuddleia · 27/08/2013 12:51

It's the sheer scale of her tongue that upsets me. It's like something I saw being sliced in a butcher's in the 70s.

IfYouLoveSomebodyLetThemSleep · 27/08/2013 12:57

Can everyone who has commented on Mileys dress sense and her dance moves please, PLEASE take a look back on themselves at that age. Where you all wearing roll neck jumpers and not doing anything inappropriate?

She's a young girl who's going through a very normal rebellion stage, she just so happens to be doing it in front of the worlds press.

BramshawHill · 27/08/2013 13:07

I saw it just now, I'm not disgusted or appalled or shocked, I'm just embarrassed for her - the way people were probably embarrassed for me when I was younger and experimenting with my image. She's had to play a wholesome, good girl character for most of her childhood and now she's going off the rails exactly like Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Bynes et al.