In recent years Miley Cyrus has become notorious for outlandish, provocative, and often times unsettling performances. Miley Cyrus, the daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus rose to stardom in 2006 when she was the lead role of Disney Channels Hannah Montana. Cyrus appeared to be a wholesome teen with a squeaky clean image until September 2012. Cyrus debuted short, platinum blonde hair at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards. Additionally, she emerged with a considerably new edgy look wearing an all black, silk Emilio Pucci gown with a low cut detail revealing cleavage. It was apparent that Cyrus was making an effort to disassociate herself from the image she had portrayed for years. In the years following, Cyrus has become well-known …show more content…
Everything that 's legal, I 'm down with. Yo, I 'm down with any adult - anyone over the age of 18 who is down to love me. I don’t relate to being a boy or girl, and I don’t have to have my partner relate to boy or girl.” It is astonishing that this is the same Miley who wore a purity ring and declared she was abstaining from sex until marriage. Cyrus publicly kissed women such as Katy Perry, Stella Maxell, Frankie Rayder, Brooke Candy, as well as others. In society women are expected to be passive and have long hair, Miley Cyrus has short hair and is anything but passive. Moreover, Cyrus is the utter opposite of a gender norm. Cyrus was born in Tennessee and her Ethnicity is English, Scottish, Irish, French, Dutch German, and Welsh. Despite her Ethnicity Cyrus frequently wears grills and dreadlocks Cyrus has been quoted as saying she deliberately wants her album to have a “black sound”. During Cyrus’ peculiar 2013 MTV Video Music Awards performance, she exploited black woman. These women whom all had large backsides were dressed up as teddy bears. Cyrus made sexual gestures towards one of the backup dancers and Americans were exceptionally bothered and the performance was quickly labeled as racist. Sexuality is a considerably large part of Miley Cyrus’ image. Miley Cyrus identifies as pansexuality which is described as a person who is attracted to any sex or gender
In the essay, “Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect”, author Stephanie Hanes focuses on the sexualization of women especially young girls. Hanes explains how modern movies, magazines, and the internet force women to look and act a certain way which forces young girls to grow up thinking they have to be perfect. Hanes starts her essay off with a short story that the reader can connect with. Mary Finucane, the mother of Caoimhe, noticed that her daughter was becoming less and less interested in running, jumping and playing, but more interested in wearing dresses and waiting for her “prince.”
At the 2015 VMA, a famous pop-star by the name of Miley Cyrus was chosen to be the host. Miley has previous been called out for appropriating the culture of African Americans or plainly stated “acting black”. At the 2013 VMAs Miley was ridiculed for twerking during a performance as well as using black women and their bodies as props in her performance. Before the VMAs
To begin with, Miley Cyrus has made a lot of bad choices in her life. There has been numerous reports that she admitted
NEWS: Miley Cyrus Launches Foundation for Homeless and LGBT Youth. In effort to make that a reality, Miley recently launched Happy Hippie Foundation which fights to raise money and awareness for homeless and LGBT youths. She also travels across the world to help out. “I do these hearing aids for deaf kids in Haiti. We go to the schools and fit the kids for hearing aids, and than go back and give them to the kids. It’s the craziest experience, because you go in and it’s so quiet, because no one’s ever talked. There are people who are 90 years old who’ve never talked at all.” (Miley cyrus on weed and Molly,Interview)“ Unless they want a weed-smoking, liberal freak.” “But my dream was never to sell lip gloss. My dream was to save that world.” Miley isn’t all about twerking, she does care about youth, homeless, and people in other countries and stuff. Miley has had an amazing opportunities to travel the world and be helpful and people just don't see that. They see her on the VMA stage “twerking on Robin Thicke” and her tongue out and naked on a wrecking ball and licking a sledgehammer, but maybe that’s not how she wants to be remember in this world. Therefore, this is why Miley will leave a lasting
Like most modern celebrities, Miley and Monroe both received their fame due to the movie industry and modern technologies of the time. Without the technological advances of the time, neither celebrity would have received near the amount of fame that they do now. Miley Cyrus and Marilyn Monroe are also very similar in their great wealth and egotism that comes with it. Monroe once exemplified this characteristic when she demonstrated her great wealth by saying, “I always love finding new places to wear diamonds!” (Rudnick 2). Most of all, however, these celebrities are very similar in their complete lack of care for the socials norms and political correctness. Both have been known for performing radical actions that could insult specific groups of people, but they justify these actions with the fact that “heedless movie stardom defeats all common morality” (Rudnick 2). For these reasons, Marilyn Monroe can be closely compared to similar “star” Miley Cyrus in the media
It has been two years since the performance at the VMA’s and people are still talking about it. This is exactly what Miley wants and is striving for. According to Jib Fowles, “The desire to exhibit ourselves in such a way as to make others look at us is a primitive, insuppressible instinct” (Fowles 89). Miley is expressing her need for attention in an extreme way and it is working. By doing crazy and absurd things, she has gotten a lot of attention and people to talk about her and keep her name in headlines globally. Despite the criticism that she was receiving, her song, “Wrecking Ball,” became her first to be at the top of charts in 2014 (Biography.com Editors). A vast number of people still continue listen to the pop artist and fuel her success and desire for attention. She has succeeded in being successful by being deemed as number seventeen on Forbes Magazine’s 2014 list of the highest paid celebrities (Forbes.com). Her “fans” say bad things about her and judge her for her actions, but they still support her by purchasing and listening to her music. People everywhere cannot help but become so fascinated in what she is doing, despite whether they agree with her or not. Her ways are entertaining and interesting because they are bizarre, which society loves. Miley Cyrus has a large number of people that talk about her in negative ways, but this does not stop her from doing what she loves, which adds to her fame and success.
Miley is important to MHK students is that he supports the lower, working class of US citizens. He pays, “tribute to all soldiers who served”(USA Army) and goes to other countries to support families with a member in the army. Some people might not agree that paying tribute to other soldiers is supporting the lower class, but it is. It supports the lower class because most of the members who died were in the lower class, therefore it supports the families of the people who died. Also, supporting families who have members in the army is supporting the lower class because families with member in the army have to support themselves on one person's job, therefore making the income less. This is supporting the lower class because it helps to show that people care about the families in the
To illustrate, many still remember Miley Cyrus as the sweet pop-star and down to earth character from her role as Hannah Montana on Disney Channel. At some point many fans believed that the personality of Miley Cyrus corresponded to her role on Hannah Montana. In her authentic interviews and encounters with
Miley Cyrus can easily be explained through the eyes of Sigmund Freud, the father of Psychoanalysis. Freud was the first to develop the “talking cure”, in which one makes their unconscious thoughts, beliefs, and motives, conscious by means of catharsis, or a free discharge of emotions. In this approach, it is thought that our behavior is a result of our unconscious motives. Therefore, psychodynamic therapy bases its treatment of mental disorders on the relationship between the unconscious and conscious mind. After working with many different people, Freud came to the conclusion that repressed memories, fears, and emotions stored in the unconscious mind must be brought to light to the conscious mind, in order for them not to manifest themselves through symptoms. The key internal mechanism for change here is insight of how the unconscious thoughts influence their behavior.
Even after he was charged, he continued to show up on the set of a film Miley Cyrus was shooting her latest movie the last song at. He requested to speak to Miley Cyrus and was still obsessed with the thought that they were engaged. He was arrested August 6th, by security guards for Walt Disney Pictures. Mark McLeod was then warned to stay away from the island and 12 miles away from Savannah, the city where Miley Cyrus was living after he was charged on June 22nd with disorderly conduct and obstruction of a police officer for trying to cross a security perimeter at the movie set.
Most people don’t know that Miley is feminist. She stands for up for women’s equality and wants everyone to feel accepted for who they are in this world no matter what their story has been along the way. In an interview with BBC Radio 1 's Newsbeat Miley claims to be one of the biggest feminists in the world. As Miley explains:
To illustrate, many still remember Miley Cyrus as the sweet pop-star and down to earth character from her role as Hannah Montana on Disney Channel. At some point many fans believed that the personality of Miley Cyrus corresponded to her role on Hannah Montana. In her honest interviews and real encounters with fans, people connected with her innocence and deemed her as a suitable role model for girls
Nowadays TV nudity is seen more often than not however, images of women who are normal or bigger in size causes women to feel more positively towards women with larger bodies, which may lead to improved self-image. Whether or not Hannah Horvath character is a role model can be debatable but many, but there is no doubt that Hannah, is very comfortable with her body and her sexuality which is not the norm of society. When Patrick Wilson’s character Joshua tells Hannah she is beautiful, her first reaction is disbelief. It’s not because she believes herself to be ugly, but because it’s “not always the feedback that she usually receives.
Appearing naked swinging on a wrecking ball, many claimed this was inappropriate for young girls to see as their role model; but Miley seems to be trying to normalize this for women, allow them to control their sexuality, not allow men to define it. It’s consistently pointed out if star women are sexual but when male stars have naked women in their music videos it is not questioned. This double standard is furthered with the use of drugs; shortly before the release of the video, Miley smoked weed at a MTV Europe music awards in Amsterdam, which outraged people although drug use by male stars is widely
The difference is that now Miley has the chance to express herself without direction from others. “My whole life it was never about having control. Shit would just come out with my face on it, and that was it. So now nothing can have my face on it, my name on it, that isn’t dope -- that isn’t a part of the movement.” In an interview featured in her documentary, Miley adds a comparison between the lifestyles of other pop icons in their youth to her own. “Most people don’t have their kid photos put up and then be like, ‘She’s changed.’ Well, yeah. If you put up a picture of Lady Gaga at eight, and then Lady Gaga now, yeah, she’s changed” (Schillaci). Therefore, Miley’s new dubious movement into adulthood is not so out of the ordinary. Nonetheless, the essence of her movement embodies the revolutionary truth of self discovery, and teenagers worldwide who struggle with the fear of persecution should take note of her effortless ability to express herself.