Miley Cirus show on VMA

[Pheidippides]

So, I don't get the outrage. Young people act sexual, on MTV? Next you are going to tell me that old people like early bird discounts at restaurants.

My wife and I had the exact same conversation this morning. I am sure there is an article coming soon from The Onion.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

So, I don't get the outrage. Young people act sexual, on MTV? Next you are going to tell me that old people like early bird discounts at restaurants.

Outrage isn't the right word to describe how I felt.

My thoughts:

1. She's talentless and I have no idea why she's in the position she's currently in aside from the fact that Billy Ray Cyrus had a shitty line-dancing hit 20 years ago that displaced another shitty line-dancing hit from Brooks & Dunn;

2. Because she's talentless and Billy Ray and his mullet can only take you so far, she and her PR people decide to extend her time in the limelight by having her stick out her tongue on stage and gyrate her hips in a more than usual suggestive manner.

3. Other people can do what Miley Cyrus did on stage, it takes no special talent. The reason they don't is either because they're not in the position to do it, i.e. their own fathers didn't have a shitty line-dancing hit 20 years ago, or these people aren't willing to humiliate themselves like that.

4. What was the point of this act? Was it envelope-pushing like Madonna's Vogue video or even her appearance singing Like a Virgin? Wasn't there some artistic merit to what Madonna was doing in the 80s and early 90s? Is anyone prepared to say the same thing about Miley Cyrus?

The thing that is irritating to me is this is someone with unearned fame (or a general lack of talent) who is now whoring herself out to just extend that fame a little longer. Somehow the Disney machine picked her up because her dad knew people. It's the same reason that everyone hated Paris Hilton.

I fully expect Miley Cyrus to be another Tara Reid a decade from now.

[MarkGrace]

So, I don't get the outrage. Young people act sexual, on MTV? Next you are going to tell me that old people like early bird discounts at restaurants.

Neither do I. It looked like most performances on the VMAs ever. Most of it is just cognitive dissonance due to the fact that she was strongly associated with the Disney thing not that long ago.

[MarkGrace]

What makes my mind boggle just a bit is that Robin Thicke is married. And not just married but married to that super hot chick from Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol. But apparently she gave permission for him to do the very NSFW music video for it. You know - the one where the models wearing nothing but a flesh colored g-string cavort around the entire time?

God bless her for signing off on the greatest music video of all time.

[old_gregg]

God bless her for signing off on the greatest music video of all time.

no joke.

[Donuthole]

God bless her for signing off on the greatest music video of all time.

I'm going to wait to issue that award until I see the Rolling Stones video Mick Jagger told Gene R. Cook about.

[MarkGrace]

I'm going to wait to issue that award until I see the Rolling Stones video Mick Jagger told Gene R. Cook about.

I don't remember the bit about there being a video.

[Donuthole]

I don't remember the bit about there being a video.

Then he told me he'd been in Mexico making a video because he could make it for about one third of what it would cost in the United States. He told me this was a great day for them because now instead of just having audio where they could portray some of what they wanted to about sex and all, they now had videos and could have the people both hear it and see it portrayed.

http://mormonmonsters.blogspot.com/2...ck-jagger.html

[MarkGrace]

Well I'm guessing they released it then. Wonder which one it is? Guarantee it doesn't top Blurred Lines in all its uncensored glory.

[old_gregg]

Well I'm guessing they released it then. Wonder which one it is? Guarantee it doesn't top Blurred Lines in all its uncensored glory.

the one thing it has on blurred lines is it probably doesn't have pharrell in it.

[Coach McGuirk]

Another

[Moliere]

I heard Blurred Lines on the radio today. It's not even a good song. And I had no idea that MTV was still on the air.

[Omaha 680]

More evidence of the damage Miley's performance has caused:

[Surfah]

More evidence of the damage Miley's performance has caused:

Nothing gets me in the mood more than Gidget doing handstands against a door and shaking her ass. Also, I love the roommate's reaction. She winds up like a cartoon character before she takes off. That is classic.

[DrumNFeather]

Nothing gets me in the mood more than Gidget doing handstands against a door and shaking her ass. Also, I love the roommate's reaction. She winds up like a cartoon character before she takes off. That is classic.

It's too bad that Alicia Keys "This Girl is on Fire" song isn't playing in the background instead...