Written by Regan Brown
This week is already halfway over, but that doesn’t mean people have stopped talking about the MTV VMAs that aired live last Sunday night. Yes, all the VMA mayhem is over until next year, but one artists’ performance still has people shaking their heads in disgust.
Remember when Miley Cyrus was a cute, innocent, little girl on Disney’s Hannah Montana? Well the “We Can’t Stop” singer made it perfectly clear during her performance that that girl is gone. The former Disney star preformed her hit single, “We Can’t Stop” and I don’t know about you, but all I could focus on were the giant teddy bears strapped to her dancers. That really freaked me out. But aside from the bears, it was the singer’s “twerking” that left audiences speechless by how trashy it looked, especially when the “Wrecking Ball” singer was doing it against married man, Robin Thicke, who made an appearance on stage with her. Not only was the “twerking” an issue, but also the vulgar and sexually explicit dancing didn’t help either (especially with what she did with the foam finger she was wearing). And I’d really not get into the lack of clothes she had and I don’t even know how to describe her choice of hair-do or the whole tongue thing she was doing.
When an artist’s performance is that bad and that looked down upon, it’s always best to have someone of more influential status in your corner. For Miley Cyrus, it’s Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award winner,Justin Timberlake. In a recent interview with NY’s Hot 97, the “Mirrors” heartthrob said this:
"She's young, take it easy on her…It's the VMAs. You know what I mean, like, it's not the Grammys. We're talking about Madonna in a wedding dress humping the stage; we're talking about Britney doing a striptease. This cycle is not uncommon.” Timberlake ended by saying, “If something like that doesn't happen at the VMAs, I feel like it was boring."
So, what do you guys think? Is the media being too harsh by not taking into account that Cyrus is only 20 years old? Are we guilty (the media) because we keep comparing her to her Disney days when she was a lot younger? And to be honest, Timberlake did have a point, it is just the VMAs and we all know the VMAs are not held up to the same light as the Grammys.
Let me know!
Source: Rolling Stone
