Miley Cyrus: “I'm not just this ratchet white girl. I work really, really hard"

[MmeVertigina]

I think one of the issues here is that she doesn't have anyone to tell her "no, stop". I can only imagine what coming into one's own and figuring out your sexuality would be like when it involves unlimited access to expressing yourself and stirring the pot on such a large scale. She is young, feels great, and has a very free life, but no one is telling her that she is coming across as revolting instead of provocative. Or, if they are, she isn't listening. *eta, by "no one" I mean no one who is influencing her. Terry Richardson is a leech and will suck anything he can from her by helping her to exploit herself. Maybe Anna Wintour was trying to help by cancelling her Vogue cover. I am curious what someone like Mario Testino has to say to her, since I think she values his opinion.

[Makisa]

Her tween fans are going to love this so hard they're going to shit themselves and I hate this song/video so much I can't even articulate it.

You wre-eh-eh-ecked me. Fucking earworm.

[SillyME54]

She looks like a worm on a fishing hook in that video. She my be thin but her naked body grosses me out. She's the antithesis is sexy.

[Air Quotes]

Her spit on her teeth. Fuck.

[Annika]

i'm intrigued by her almost non existent pupils.

[Kittylady]

She seriously needs to learn that sexy doesn't equate sexual gestures and being naked.

THIS! Sexy is attitude, it's the way you look at someone, the way you move, and it's something indefinable that comes from inside. I remember reading a review of a show by Eartha Kitt (my adopted dad is a huge fan) and the reviewer commented that even in her 70's (as she was then) she was making men in the audience blush and put programmes over their lap with just a few words and a sly look. Sexy can be ageless once you know how to project it.

[MsDark]

More than being told "no, stop", she needs someone to tell her this: "No, that's not how you do it. That's not sexy, girl. That's stupid looking. You wanna be a joke?"

[JWL]

Her singing is so annoying, I guess this is the only way she can get people to listen, but unfortunately her sexual prowess is worse than her singing.

[greysfang]

Shockingly, I don't mind the song.

[witchcurlgirl]

Her singing is so annoying, I guess this is the only way she can get people to listen, but unfortunately her sexual prowess is worse than her singing.

did you fuck her?

[Shinola]

I like this cover of "Wrecking Ball"--see, you're not crazy if you like it; it's a nifty little song:

[MissVenus]

I like the song (first time hearing it), but I think she really needs to realize she doesn't need to sex EVERYTHING up. Just fucking stop already. We know, you're 20, not not little Hannah Montana anymore. She seriously needs to learn that sexy doesn't equate sexual gestures and being naked.

There were so many different ways she could have gone about making a video for this song. Some aspects I liked, some were stupid (licking the sledge hammer, really??) and some that just made me roll my eyes (almost naked throughout the entire video, then naked, swinging on the wrecking ball, reallY??) Fuck off with that shit now, it's tired and pathetic.

Oh, and the constant rope of spittle while she was singing was kind of icky, too.

Hello! Agree with everything you said... uh, except the part about liking the song!!! She doesn't seem to get it that if she wants to be taken seriously then she shouldn't belittle her music (her *ahem* art... shudder!!!) with trashy porno videos.

[olivia]

I like the bluegrass version of the song. Miley's version is way too repetitive, same version of the chorus over and over again, every intonation identical, but hey that's what Beyonce and Rihanna have turned female singers into - 4 stanzas spliced into a whole song.

I can't blame Miley for her recent vulgar incarnation. She doesn't seem to have the perspective to see that she is doing nothing new. Every singer is following Madonna's template and it appears to keep working. The only thing I give Madge is her dancers were better when she was out to shock the world. Obviously my taste doesn't count since I think it's so damn boring to watch or listen to this crap.

I take heart in country music, where women are still singing complete songs, in their own unaltered voices, from excellent song writers, not just phrases that get looped.

[JWL]

did you fuck her?

Never quite sure how to take your comments to me, so I guess I'll just take it at face value and say no, and just say that IMO that seems to be what she is trying to project.

[DAP]

She got the soccer moms riled up with their "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" hysterics.

She's alright in my book.