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Miley Cyrus: Shut Up and Sing (?)
Posted by lotusb • 7/28/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Am I the only person who is tired of seeing this overly made up little girl splashed about in the tabbies and entertainment news?? She's like, what....15?? Why does she have so much make-up on...WHY did she already (at this age) have a photo-scandal....and WHY can't she stop putting her foot in her mouth??
www.people.com/people/article/0,,20215346,00.html
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Well, no...but I don't especially want to hear her sing, either.-
Amen!!!!
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yes, I just banned my tween from watching her on tv and buying any of her products.. i'm such a meanie-
Well, do what you can. Honestly I think this child is the second coming of satan.
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Yes. She's a perfect candidate for my new show, "Survivor; Moon."-
haha..
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I didn't know about her music really and all until her new album out just now. I like her new album. I actually think she could be the next Britney. She has big potential as a music artist.
I was online in the 1990s and they said the same thing about Britney. She would be around only a few years singing and that is it. This was in 1998. Sine then she sold 83 million albums worldwide. So I don't listen to anyone really. But I was right about Britney that she was amazing in the 1990s.
I'll see in 2018 how many albums Miley has sold. I think it will be very high.-
Then Britney Spears married an idiot, fell into drug addiction, went into rehab several times, almost went bankrupt, lost her career and her children and the respect of her music fans.
Bad reference honey.
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wow, that's my cousin - great to hear that people don't appreciate anyone who comes from the hills and can make a projected billion dollars at the age of 15, while everyone else wastes away bitching about there own lives and the lives of celebrities. Why does everyone care how someone chooses to live their life? I wish people would pay more attention to their own lives, they'd accomplish a lot more.-
Clive, generally I couldn't care less what people do with their personal lives, least of all celebrities. But as the parent of a 12-year-old, I'm delighted that my daughter has enough discernment to lose interest in celebrities who go the Lohan route. A 15-year-old girl hanging out in nightclubs in dresses that could easily pass for shirts doesn't impress me much, and I'm glad that she doesn't impress my child, either. It makes me laugh when people talk about her "coming from the hills" as if she were some impoverished trailer-park child who made good rather than having grown up wealthy as the daughter of a hugely successful musician. I don't think she's especially talented and I don't think that if she hadn't been born into the industry we'd ever have heard of her, but nonetheless I think it could have worked out a lot better and I'm sorry to see the direction she's taken (and a little surprised, in view of the fact that it hasn't been all that long since her father released a Christian CD)
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Clive, I appriciate your perspective. To explain where I'm coming from I'll put it like this. I grew up around music constantly. I've been playing insturments since I was 11. I love music, it's my heart. Lately, because of corporate funding, iTunes sales, and the rise of and fall of education, America has dumbed-down it's taste in music. This watered-down version of real music is being pumped out to our youth daily. With suggestive content, and slinky outfits on girls who are wearing too much make up. For most of America, the blind ones who don't like to take control of the life they've been given; this doesn't bother them. But for those with small children, or actual creativity running through their veins, or with a passion for their society, it does. I know Miley is just a girl trying to make a dollar out of 15 cents. But her actions are telling our youth that it's okay to act older than your age. And with the rate of pregnancy in this country....that is not a good look. Maybe you should tell your cousin to take it down a notch.
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@lotusb
"Lately, because of corporate funding, iTunes sales, and the rise of and fall of education, America has dumbed-down it's taste in music."
Right on, you took the words right off my keyboard.
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Music should be judged just on music alone I think, not also with someones private life. I never combine the two.
I probably would never listen to anyone if I judged their private life before I buy an album. Who is innocent in the music industry or anyplace for that matter?-
When someone's private life infiltrates our media outlets, it becomes our business. You can't turn your head these days without trippin over celebrity news. As a blogger I keep up with everything going on...political issues, local issues and yes music and entertainment. If you think these people we all worship and make rich actually want their privacy your trippin on somethin good, honey. They make their money off of scandal. If you don't belive me, ask any one in the PR biz. They promote a little dirt now and then so they stay hot. It's the truth no one likes to hear.
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I've heard about her but I've actually never heard her sing. Not sure why that is. But I never found her overly made-up ... I thought she was the sqeaky clean version of what Britney used to be.
But I dunno ... sex, drugs and rock & roll ... gotta wonder about any parent who is comfy sending their kiddies off into that world. If they have talent sure, but waiting a few years might be a good idea. It's not easy growing up ... and doing it in the public eye would be even worse. -
And I hope she stays that way
She is a great performer and seems to have a really good personality. I seen her at NYC here just last week on TV. The crowds were big. -
I am tired of seeing all of the "stars" especially the young ones thrown into the tabloids for doing normal things...it is normal for a 15 year old to wear makeup and to gossip about other kids.....it's a bad business move to do the gossip thing, but she is only 15.
What I find amusing is that she is trying to appeal to an older crowd when it's kids under 12 that really follow her music (my 6 year old niece is one of them).-
Keyster, I guess things are different where you come from. "Normal" 15-year-olds in my neighborhood don't go to nightclubs or pose nude in magazines.
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I didn't mean the nightclub thing by any means. I meant like the lastest thing that came across my pc that I paid attention to about her had to do with her gossiping about some girls on other shows....and the make-up. I actually hadn't heard that Miley was doing the nightclub scene, that is a bit strange for a 15 year old. I think she is trying to get the older crowd so she is doing things the older crowd does...it is a sad thing that children have to grow up so quickly in this day and as protective as I am of my niece and all kids, I am glad she only hears the music and doesn't watch Miley on tv.
but truly, if the media didn't feel the need to report everything these "stars" do, kids wouldn't know about it.... -
I was just made aware that our 16 year old baby sitter (kind of old to be a Hannah Montana fan?) that was hired for a few short hours during the holidays was a big fan and watched the program with the girls. Now my four year old is a huge Miley fan. That is just how infectious teen popstars can be! I find it rather disturbing that my child was so easily transformed into a groupie.
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What do you expect? With Billy Ray Cyrus as her dad. She's probably inbred -
First of all, I don't like her music either, and I never liked Billy Ray's music. Second of all - you don't have to listen to it. This sounds just as bad as the strip club that opens up in a small town, where everyone freaks out about it, and yet no one's making them go in. I just know that my family has been stereotyped simply for being from Kentucky, and yet the majority of them are multi-millionaires, and I've seen where they lived, and so anyone who bashes anyone else for rising above their upbringing is simply pathetic. It's not an accident that one of the most educated men in the world came from Kentucky and my roots, and if you don't believe me - go pick up a copy of Sacred Wind at your local Barnes and Nobles or rent The Songcatcher. I'm also sorry that I am related to Ashley Judd who is one of the strongest proponents for human rights of all time, and I'm sorry that Billy Ray Cyrus is such a philanthropist, but you know - I guess it runs in the family. There are two types of people - those who live their lives to the fullest and act instead of speaking, and those who just simply speak. I salute you for being weary of the short lived trends of society, but it sounds like you're attacking the person, when the problem lies with the icky-sweetness of the trend itself. I only defend my heritage because I know how hard those people worked to get out of it.
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My grandpa's family is from Kentucky. Wonderful people. Kind beyond belief.
I really do think it's more the media and they way we are shown people rather than the people themselves, usually. I take no issue with Mylie because, frankly, I don't know her and I don't know that what I am told in the media is true or not.
For those who are moms, it is their right to say I don't want my kids to see this and turn it off.
I think I might be one of the few that had no issue with the photos they got flack for...they were artistic. No nudity. Perhaps it was implied, but she was not nude. And they were in vanity fair. I don't know many kids that read vanity fair. And again, kids would never have heard it if a parent hadn't complained and it hit the media. -
Wait...you're related to Miley Cyrus AND Ashley Judd...most of your relatives are multi-millionaires...and still stuck on Miley "working hard" to "get out of" having been born rich to a famous father...interesting life you lead. Do you ever have trouble keeping the details straight?
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@ Clive (Cyrus?)
Music has shaped society since the beginning of time. Wake up. What you listen to and who is making it MATTERS. Music is the blood pumping through the veins of this world. It sells everything from sex to SPF 15 sunblock. Don't be blind to propaganda just because they wrap it up in a pretty little bow, call it "pop" and serve it to you on the Disney channel. They used to put cocaine in soda too...your living in the matrix.
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clive relax.
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Oh, no - I'm good. I just share a different philosophy. I'm just saying that a funky environment can make you work hard enough to get out of it.
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I think you've shot past the original point, which was an essentially kids' role model exhibiting inappropriate behavior. Sure, 15-year-olds would love to get all dolled up and hang out a nightclubs with an older crowd, they'd love to trash people on TV, they'd love to pose for sexy pictures (artistic or not). Their parents' job is to explain why those are inappropriate behaviors, to stop them from doing them, and to take away their tour privileges if they can't act responsibly in public.
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I don't listen to Miely Cyrus or whatever her name is - but truth be told, I too am growing weary of the Spears/Lohan/teeney boppers gone wild music scene.
It's just...ugh
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