This is hilarious. How did Miley go "the wrong way"? She's carved out an enormously successful career, far, far beyond her talents, she's doing what she likes to do and having a good time and as far as I can see, she doesn't appear to be harming anyone and is probably doing a hell of a lot of good behind the scenes that we know nothing about, like most successful people do. Not everyone has to be Taylor Swift to be successful.
She smokes legal drugs, drinks, and looks like she experiments with cocaine. Welcome to most pop culture celebrities that ever lived.
Yeah, I mean Miley Cyrus is no saint but as far as pop stars go I don't really see her as a particularly awful example.
If Miley Cyrus is such an appalling influence on her entire "target demographic" (which btw doesn't even exist) then I think that says a lot about the targeted demographic parents than Miley. No kid/teenager should be looking up to any celebrity/artist (that's what PARENTS are for) because at the end of the day they're just people trying to make money exploiting a system that's all about money. Don't blame Miley because she grew out of her "Disney princess" and is now a free, beautiful young adult doing whatever she wants and is having fun. Of course I don't listen to her music because its trash but at the same time I don't see anything wrong with what she's doing because she's not harming anyone and she's just having fun with her life. If anything I'm a tad bit jealous because I can never be half as free as she is. I'm 20 and I already have bills up to my throat, I hardly get any sleep because I work 2 jobs and I basically can't do the things I would like to do. Miley can while donating millions to charity and making a statement about body and sex positivism since the government is still trying to push 700+ laws regulating and womans body.
Miley's super-talented, intelligent and charismatic.
Since escaping the Disney corporate machine, she's now paid vast amounts of money to do whatever the hell she feels like doing. I did get a chuckle from the related feminism thread, where inbetween the constant stream of circuitous straw-man arguments and opinion dressed up as fact, it's been implied that wearing what she wants and doing what she wants without fear of judgement is somehow un-feminist. Nnnnope.
It's not like she's wandering around doing things for the sake of doing them. She has a shrewd public relations team and she knows exactly what she's doing. She is playing her particular game very well indeed. Hey you. You there. Yes, you. You, who despite not being her target market, are inexplicably sat at your computer talking about her. Hi. People talk like she's the first entertainer to do something shocking for attention.
It's all rendered kinda moot anyway, since whether some people like her or not isn't going to stop her making more money than she knows what to do with. She's not Paris Hilton. She's not Kim Kardashian. She's not famous for the sake of being famous. There's substance behind her, and if wearing hot pants / S&M gear / nothing / riding industrial machinery [delete as applicable] is how she wants to express herself, so be it.
tl;dr Yeah she does some weird things, but she's talented so it's fine.
