I love Miley Cyrus

[Don Coyote]

Sweet Jesus on a saltine. Her head is full of stupid. "Anti-female way" what the fuck? Wait...she means *ahem* "Act like a proper young lady, and sit up straight."

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I was hoping he'd just missed it in the shuffle. To be charitable to RWHN, it must be pretty overwhelming when every post you make is immediately followed by tons more which take an aggressive tone to you.

But yeah. The fact that someone like him supposedly works with children genuinely horrifies me. I'd say I didn't believe it, but he does remind me of some of the teachers I suffered through.

He just can't help that everyone else is so stupid, you guys.

Just seeing the name "Miley Cyrus" sets his heart racing, his palms sweating, his stomach churning while he starts looks around for exits and checking for his remote, while running through immediate action to get his remote working so he can quickly change the channel. If he were to so much as hear her voice, he starts feeling terrified and increasingly watchful and observant for hidden hordes of screaming preteen girls. If he were to so much as catch a glimpse of her his bowels and bladded begin to void uncontrollably as he dry heaves, pounding his fists into the walls.

Sometimes he has DREAMS. Unspeakable DREAMS about MILEY CYRUS that make him SCREAM.

[Don Coyote]

I was hoping he'd just missed it in the shuffle. To be charitable to RWHN, it must be pretty overwhelming when every post you make is immediately followed by tons more which take an aggressive tone to you.

But yeah. The fact that someone like him supposedly works with children genuinely horrifies me. I'd say I didn't believe it, but he does remind me of some of the teachers I suffered through.

He just can't help that everyone else is so stupid, you guys.

Just seeing the name "Miley Cyrus" sets his heart racing, his palms sweating, his stomach churning while he starts looks around for exits and checking for his remote, while running through immediate action to get his remote working so he can quickly change the channel. If he were to so much as hear her voice, he starts feeling terrified and increasingly watchful and observant for hidden hordes of screaming preteen girls. If he were to so much as catch a glimpse of her his bowels and bladded begin to void uncontrollably as he dry heaves, pounding his fists into the walls.

Sometimes he has DREAMS. Unspeakable DREAMS about MILEY CYRUS that make him SCREAM.

That's why he drinks so much coffee. It's to calm the demons of the horrors that is the Disney Channel. Because we all know kind of drug fiend he is.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

For the record, this is what Cyrus' label tried to turn her into when they decided it was time for her to transition to sexpot pop star:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjSG6z_13-Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySsbkLVuYOs

I much prefer her under her own direction. Yeah, it's ugly, it's uncomfortable, and I don't much like the music (other than Wrecking Ball, which I actually like) but it reflects the vision of a smart, self-directed young woman with ideas and a future that belongs to her, alone. I'm old. I don't belong in her future; I don't have to like it, I'm not invited to the party. That's OK.

Those two videos reminded me why I never liked her at all until now. The first one is a Britney video, essentially. With Raquel Welch hair ca. 1967 or so, but still Britney. The other one is just...WHOSE FUCKING IDEA WAS THAT? 

It's not my future, either. But it's WEIRD. Like if Zappa had been doing a Glen Campbell thing, and then one day he just said "FUCK ALLA YAS" and started being himself. ON THE FUCKING VMA's.

I don't have to be at the party to enjoy THAT. 

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I was hoping he'd just missed it in the shuffle. To be charitable to RWHN, it must be pretty overwhelming when every post you make is immediately followed by tons more which take an aggressive tone to you.

But yeah. The fact that someone like him supposedly works with children genuinely horrifies me. I'd say I didn't believe it, but he does remind me of some of the teachers I suffered through.

He just can't help that everyone else is so stupid, you guys.

Just seeing the name "Miley Cyrus" sets his heart racing, his palms sweating, his stomach churning while he starts looks around for exits and checking for his remote, while running through immediate action to get his remote working so he can quickly change the channel. If he were to so much as hear her voice, he starts feeling terrified and increasingly watchful and observant for hidden hordes of screaming preteen girls. If he were to so much as catch a glimpse of her his bowels and bladded begin to void uncontrollably as he dry heaves, pounding his fists into the walls.

Sometimes he has DREAMS. Unspeakable DREAMS about MILEY CYRUS that make him SCREAM.

That's why he drinks so much coffee. It's to calm the demons of the horrors that is the Disney Channel. Because we all know kind of drug fiend he is.

One, two, Miley's coming for you,
Three, four, better lock your door,
Five, six, grab your crucifix,
Seven, eight, gonna stay up late,
Nine, ten, never sleep again.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm having tiny strokes, yo.

[AFK]

I'm calling it now, Miley goes full-Lohan in the next 5 years.

[EK WAFFLR]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/arts/music/get-back-and-just-let-miley-cyrus-grow-up.html?_r=1&;

[Don Coyote]

I'm calling it now, Miley goes full-Lohan in the next 5 years.

Anyone else find that this above this

Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

to be ironic?

[Reginald Ret]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/arts/music/get-back-and-just-let-miley-cyrus-grow-up.html?_r=1&

I agree with that piece.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/arts/music/get-back-and-just-let-miley-cyrus-grow-up.html?_r=1&

I agree with that piece.

Absolutely, and I'm glad that there are those in mainstream media who have the acuity to pick up on these points. Some choice quotes:

"This is all thought out in my mind," she said. "It's not a transition. I'm the same human, I've got the same heart I did five years ago."

While her performance might have scanned to many as a hot mess, Ms. Cyrus said that it was "a strategic hot mess."

It's a far more lucid statement of purpose than Ms. Spears could have given in her prime. Ms. Cyrus saw the awards show as a stage on which she could make a loud splash, and splash she did. To those who dismissed her performance as lame salaciousness, she shrugs her shoulders. The show, she said, was "obviously funny" — which it was. "If I really wanted to come out and do like a raunchy sex show, I wouldn't have been dressed as a damn bear."

Of course, Ms. Spears doesn't fully understand Ms. Cyrus, who's closer in spirit to Madonna, of all people — the stadium-size provocations, the image malleability, the willingness to cause a commotion to make a point (or for the commotion to be the point). But Madonna had no Madonna of her own to react against. Ms. Cyrus is channeling, chewing up and digesting several generations of transgressive pop divas. Her spectacle isn't about the size of the shock, but the unexpected twists and turns on the way. It's sloppy and invigorating and, at its best, interesting. She's experimenting with the shape of pop stardom — let her live.

The documentary is also a good strategic move; many people are defending their insistence that she really didn't know exactly what she was doing, now that she's come right out and said that it was meant to be funny, by squawking that she is only claiming intent to be funny after the fact. The documentary follows her in the two weeks leading up to, and backstage at, the VMAs, which is going to make it awfully hard to continue with that "after-the-fact" bit.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't know if anyone watched Cyrus on Saturday Night Live, but she was hilarious. The tiny strokes line broke me.

And Roger, you might like her voice better presented this way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOwblaKmyVw&feature=youtu.be

[AFK]

I'm calling it now, Miley goes full-Lohan in the next 5 years.

Anyone else find that this above this

Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

to be ironic?

I find it ironic that a pack of Discordians are fawning over a pop princess.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

You know, I tried to do a sketch of Eris back when I was in college. It looks an awful lot like what Miley's done with her image lately.

[AFK]