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Even the Kids Are Turning Against Miley
From "Teen Queen" to "Worst Celeb Influence," what a difference a year makes for Miley Cyrus.
In case there are people out there who still think “she can’t be that bad if she’s on Disney," this news flash is for you: It took 44,560 kids’ votes in a poll at JSUK. (Just So You Know) to confirm that Miley Cyrus is the "Worst Female Celebrity Influence" of 2009!
Unexciting as this bit of information seems, the take away from this voting exercise is that kids are calling attention to the Miley Cyrus teen celeb travesty. Posing semi-nude in a bed sheet for Vanity Fair, pole dancing at the Teen Choice Awards, suggestive internet photos, and inappropriate lyrics in songs intended for tweens and teens are some of the poor choices the young artist has publicly made. Add the damaging over exposure on social media platforms -- namely Twitter and YouTube -- and you have a Miley publicity mess.
To observant parents, her antics are precisely the behavior battles faced in many homes; provocative outfits, questionable relationships, a distorted sense of entitlement, but I suppose she’s as much at fault as her own guardians.
This is what puzzles me even more. Aren’t the adults surrounding Miley Cyrus paying attention to the wooly ideals they’re thrusting on her?
Cyrus is a young, exceptionally gifted artist whose career dreams have been realized at an unprecedented pace, but it’s evident those dreams are being channeled through people who are more concerned with the bottom line; morally wayward business people interested in the dollar bills Cyrus is lining their pockets. Not of concern to them apparently: the shaping of this young girl’s ethics and those of the kids she influences -- some as young as 5 years old!
I’m talking about the kids who sleep in bedding with Miss Cyrus’ image stamped on it, have the CD permanently lodged in the family car’s music player, and the elementary school aged kids who wear her line of clothing, carry backpacks and lunch boxes with her photo to school. The same children who spend time in front of the TV set after school watching Disney’s superficially innocent Hannah Montana.
Though Miss Cyrus claims she loves to be creative and is just an artist expressing herself, at 16 she’s still too juvenile to be fully aware of the consequences of her sleazy behavior -- especially if her parents endorse it. Also clouding her judgment is the hands-off approach her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, has adopted regarding editorial control of his daughter’s work, a tactic which could be starting to backfire.
When asked by Access Hollywood about his under-aged daughter swirling around a pole while singing “Party in the USA” at the Teen Choice Awards he replied, “She loves singing [and] songwriting.”
“I always tell her to love what you’re doing and stay focused for the love of the art and not worry so much about opinion,” said Mr. Cyrus, adding, “I give my kids a lot of freedom to make the art they want to make and make it in their own voice. I think it’s important.”
The multi-talented starlet possesses a unique combination of qualities that could take her down a long and productive entertainment superhighway; her frank personality comes through in movies as well as on stage. But, she is running into similar bumps on the road as teen Disney-made stars Lindsay, Brittney, and teen-mom Jaime Lynn Spears, who are still struggling to avoid crashing and burning.
The Miley Cyrus phenomenon isn’t likely to fade away anytime soon (to the chagrin of many parents, and now teens too!), but maybe her present entourage could be readjusted to include guidance so she can live a less disoriented childhood, emerge as a stable adult, and later on won’t look back on her teen years and say to themselves, “What were we thinking?”
Perhaps the ingenuous awards on the teen website are a sign that Miley is flying too low, and the control tower is asleep on the job. Fortunately, the teen radar is fixed on her position of privilege and is beeping loudly indicating the bottom is near.
Wake-up up there! A child is again being misguided by the money-making machines too busy tallying up the fortune she’s producing for all of them – perhaps to her own misfortune.
Recently, much hoopla was made about Miley abandoning Twitter, but maybe it’s one of the few good moves she’s made and hopefully not the last.
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Anonymous Says
The fact that she's a celebrity and does this is completely different from a normal teenager. Miley's fan base mostly consists of little girls. She's trying to project the image that she's a mature adult trying to leave Disney, but she's stripping down on poles and posting racy photos on the Internet. She's obviously not capable of being mature if she's still making idiotic mistakes. Sure, we make mistakes thoughout our life, but we correct them, not go out and do it again. It proves she can't protray rolls past at least 16 without acting like a dumb teenager.
Adam Says
Learn to do your critical reading. Suzette is not Miley bashing here, she’s pointing out how the adults around her should help her not make what you all call mistakes.
Stan, I’m glad you’re not my father since you have a double standard going on with your parenting. You say your daughter would not be like Miley in any way, she doesn’t dress like her, or listen to her music, yet you are defending Miley as if she were your own. Showing body parts at the beach in a bikini is different from being naked under a sheet in a national magazine at 14 or 15. Would this be ok for your daughter to do? Maybe for a couple of bucks it would, huh. Oh, and being 17 in a couple of days makes a huge difference from 16, yeah.
And to kids Homer and Ashley who are drinking the Miley kool aid, hope your mommy knows you have a crush on Miley, and hopefully you ARE under the age of 18 because if not then it’s creepy, and how else would you explain your immaturity for writing on this site without supervision?
ashley gonzalez Says
i lov miley ! dont care if she makes mistakes we all do. some people out there r just haters. and the amount of people who voted are not even 1/7 of her fan base
homer Says
Suzette you are a misinformed little bimbo...44,000+ votes is a drop in the bucket compared to the millions and millions of supporters Miley has. Are you jealous of Miley cuz all you do for a living is write garbage on the web?
Stan Says
Please don't ask celebrities to raise my kids. I will do that. That is why my daughter doesn't care about how Miley may act or dress. She knows that Miley is 16(17 in a couple of days) and will dress differently and act differently than she will be allowed to at her age. IT"S CALLED Parenting. Miley Cyrus is very talented a both a singer and actress. In reality she doesn't behave any worse than the majority of teenagers her age. In fact she actually seems better. No drinking, no smoking, no drugs, the essential parts of her body are always covered, and I have never seen any picture of her that reveals any more skin than a typical teenager would show at the beach in a bikini. Everyone is trying to take her down. They hack her e-mails and web accounts. They take her actions out of context or exaggerate them. (Pole dance? Please it was an MOVING Ice Cream Cart with the umbrella pole on it, without the umbrella. She held on to it for support and bent down once while singing to get closer to the audience) I would venture that if you took almost any teenage girl and subjected them to the kind of scrunity that Miley is under, they would fail worse than she does. There are other stars her age who seem better, but they aren't scrunitize nearly as badly as Miley is.
Bottom line is Mature objective people see the good in her, like the Millions she gives and raises for charity, and the time she spends with kids in hospitals when she visits various cities she goes to. It's the people who aren't mature enough to teach and raise their own kids that find fault because this poor kids messes up sometimes. There may be something in her contract that forbids her from doing anything illegal, but there is nothing saying she cannot mess up even though she is a star and a teenager.