To think that Miley Cyrus and her behaviour has certainly got the required result?

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I've downloaded three of her songs recently including a rather good collaboration with Snoop Lion. I wouldn't have given her music a second listen before but suddenly everyone's talking about her, she's all over the news so when her music comes on the radio I listen because she is in my consciousness and I have to say her new stuff is pretty good.

This huge uproar and shock about her behaviour and yet it got her exactly the required result didn't it?

A bit depressing really.

I wouldn't touch her or her music with a bargepole. I don't want to encourage that kind of role model for my children. So it hasn't had the desired effect on me and if you find it depressing it needn't have that effect on you either.

I don't know about that. I've never heard any of her music, and the recent furore would make me more likely to avoid I think.

If the required result is to make people think she's a twat, then yes, mission more than accomplished. Hadn't listened to her music before and I'm certainly not tempted to do so now, so I can't say it's been a universally successful experiment in that sense.

Do you really pick the music you listen to on the basis of what is a good role model for you children? You must end up listening to some awful dross. Some of the best stuff is produced by people I would have no interest in my children emulating.
I don't know Miley Cyrus' music. I have seen her recently though and I sort of feel sorry for her tbh. She's just a kid trying to find her place in the world and I think there are people taking advantage of her.

Of course I don't listen to music purely on whether they are a gokd role model but miley is teen pop so I'm not going to listen to her for my own benefit and definitely not for my kids.

Agree laymedown.

I don't seek her music out but I listen to a lot of radio and she gets a lot of air time.

I have two small daughters and actually felt really upset when I saw her Wrecking ball video. So this is what the 70s feminists fought for? Andrea Dworkin must be turning somersaults.

If she's on the radio a lot I've probably come across her music without realising it's her. On the other hand, teenage pop stuff is really not my thing, so it's probably the sort of stuff that makes me change the channel before reaching the end and hearing who it was.

Yes but the OP is not downloading it for her kids either, so your point is not relevant to her. You seemed to be implying that listening to music by bad role models was wrong. But this is not what you meant so fair enough.
I know what you mean btw. I wouldn't like DD to admire a singer who behaves like MC, because I wouldn't like her to feel under pressure to behave like that herself or think it is the right way to. But good music is good music and I wouldn't stop her listening to stuff just because I don't approve of the sinners lifestyles (my kids love the Rolling Stones!)