Representation of Women in the Media

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

The love of movement and connecting that she had two songs of another icon, Mariah Carey, she was eventually

As Miley Cyrus’s audience matured, she purposefully changed her image by creating a new star text that was the polar opposite of her previous. A star text is everything that we associate with a start, including their promotion and body of work. Her hit sitcom Hannah Montana built her previous brand identity that connected with her audience of adolescent children. Miley’s original image was known for being a sweet and innocent teenage girl. Now her current start text identifies with heartbreak, drugs, activism and nonconformity. The extreme change of start text shocked and dismayed individuals. Many social media users and celebrity journalist wrote the transformation off implying it as a lost girl in her twenties making slipups she will eventually regret. Despite the negative comments, Miley has embraced her star text using it for free publicity and media attention. Despite Miley Cyrus’s claims that her controversial change was not for reward or fame. Her old star text became mundane to mainstream media and her maturing audience, compelling her to reinvent her star text in order to continue being famous and successful in the music industry.

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.

In today’s popular culture a big topic of discussion is pop singer, Miley Cyrus. She was a former star on Disney Channel’s Hannah Montana and now we have all seen her transformation from a girl to a woman. To avoid fading away like many other celebrity teen stars as they aged, Miley decided to reinvent herself as an adult musician by pushing the limits. Many people only see Miley Cyrus for her unadulterated VMA Performances and her frowned upon behavior, which most individuals don’t care to get to know. There is another side of Miley that has made a huge impact on society and has reached new levels in giving back to the community. Miley has dedicated herself to feminism, improving society’s image of women, leading the fight against LGBTQ discrimination, charity work, and using social media to expose societal issues.

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

It’s very important for entertainers and athletes to maintain moral authority, with Miley Cyrus as a great example of this. Disney understands the importance of the entertainers under their umbrella of actors, influencers, and icons. These are some

We all know Miley Cyrus, the former child star whose loud and awkward transition into adulthood reached its climax with her performance at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. From major news outlets and pop culture tabloids to social media, all anyone could talk about in the following days was Cyrus and her attempt at twerking. Due to this notorious live performance and Cyrus’ “We Can’t Stop” music video where she is once again seen twerking while surrounded by black backup dancers watching her in awe, Cyrus has been criticized for using both black women and black cultural elements as props (grills for example) in order to add authenticity to her hood persona (Stewart, 2013).

As a singer, songwriter and actress, Miley Cyrus has always been the center of attention. Ms. Cyrus starred on Disney Channel’s show Hannah Montana. Ever since then, Cyrus was admired by thousands of young girls across the world. Although Cyrus was admired in recent years, as she grew older her reputation worsened. Miley Cyrus said goodbye to her innocent years and became the rebellious teen that she aspired to be.

Miley Cyrus is usually in the news for misbehavior but no one ever takes account for all the accomplishments she has had in her life, the influential roles she has played and her involvement in charity. Every little girl's dream was to be Hannah Montana when they were little. Miley was 12 when she came to the audition of the TV series Hannah Montana (Cyrus). Miley got the leading role on the hit show Hannah Montana in 2004 (Miley).

Being seen as the ‘good girl’ that never did anything wrong, Miley felt lost and unable to be a unique individual. After ditching her acting career to focus mainly on vocal performances, she has left her old self behind in the dust never to be back again, forever changing

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

Miley’s most prominent spectacle was showcased at the Video Music Awards on August 25th. In pro-twerker fashion, Miley launched her presentation with a performance of her summer hit single “We Can’t Stop” appearing on stage with a company of dancing teddy bears. Frequent tongue wagging and butt slapping also transpired.

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