By TIERNAN O’NEILL – Web Writer
La-da-di-da-di please stop Miley. Don’t dance with Molly or Robin Thicke for that matter.
Cartoon by Mary Merritt
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for three months, you’ve probably heard about “the fall of Miley Cyrus”. Cyrus has been shedding her Hannah Montana “perfect child” image for some time now, and I’m not criticizing her for trying to ditch her Disney princess image. I think it’s only healthy to mature, I’m not Peter Pan. I can’t really criticize her for romanticizing the use of drugs, I listen to 2 Chainz too much to do that, but claiming that this for your fans is complete balderdash especially when most of your fans are 13 years old or younger.
Cyrus’s loss of innocence peaked last Sunday night with her pelvic-thrust ridden performance at the MTV Music Video Awards. Cyrus trotted onto the stage via a giant cyborg teddy bear, which, I’ll admit is pretty cool, then she started dancing around like a broken doll with haywire tongue.
After a bit of “twerking”, Cyrus began to sing her new single “We Can’t Stop”. But the performance didn’t really get bad till Robin Thicke pimp-walked onto the stage thus beginning the “Blurred Lines” portion of the performance. Once the song changed so did Cyrus’s outfit, she ripped off her crazy mouse one piece to reveal a nude bikini. They then walked towards each other and Cyrus began to twerk on Thicke and molest a foam finger. Her performance was one of the most classless and misogynistic acts I have ever seen. Yes, misogynistic. If using your African-American female background dancers as sexual props isn’t misogynistic, I don’t know what is.
There is a fine line between shock art and bad taste. And Cyrus definitely took a tumble on the tasteless side with her performance.
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