I know...Scary, right? Well unless you've been hiding under a cave for the last week, you would know that this image, and several others of this performance have been all the rave on the internet, since Miley Cyrus did... "Whatever the Hell That Was" on the VMA's last Sunday night. I told myself that I wouldn't watch, but then I got sucked into it just the same....And then I saw this...and whatever I ate that night, almost resurfaced..... Not because she was a former Disney Star....I could care less about that....Or not even because millions of little girls once looked up to her, but more importantly, because she just looked flat out disgusting.....Grinding up on a married man on national TV.....Is this what she thinks being sexy and provocative is? Is this what she thinks being an adult is all about? She tries so hard to shed her "goody-goody," bubblegum Disney image, but when you're on a show where your character's first and last name rhyme, and you've got dolls, backpacks, and other assorted "knick-knacks" made in your image; it's kind of hard to make people just magically forget that you were a teeny-bopper icon only a mere 2 years ago. There are other ways to go about presenting a more "grown-up" image to the public, but this definitely wasn't the way to go about it......And for the record, "Why on earth does that child always have her tongue out in every picture nowadays." SMH.....
I think that the collective looks on the faces of The Smith family, aptly described what we were all thinking:
Most importantly, I feel sorry for her father. Of course, he won't bash her in public...after all, that's his little girl....But I can only imagine the argument they must have had behind closed doors. You know she done broke that poor man's "Achy-Breaky Heart.".....Oh come on, you know you were thinking it too.... Perhaps the scariest thing is that Miley herself is not at all apologetic about what she's done. In fact, she loves all the criticism and controversy...and embraces it as "Free Publicity." Well at least for the time being, it directed all the attention of the previous week's hot-button topic: "Bat-Fleck."
That being said, Do You Think That Music Artists Have a Responsibility To Be Role Models, As Well? After all, they are people just like us, and many of which, even more screwed up than us. If anything, having all the fame, power, and money in the world only enhances what issues may have lied beneath the surface before becoming famous. Chime in, and let me know what you think.....