You have the major supporters: some have been fans since "Smiley Miley" was wearing her teeny bopper wig and singing about how none of us are perfect, but we should still work it anyway, and on this side you also have the people who thought Miley was for small children until she decided to embrace her edgier side and waltz around half naked.
Then you have the "haters." This is the group that takes it upon themselves to find every single detail about this poor girl's life and put her on blast for the entire world to hear about, whether they care or not. Their judgments normally range from her less than there outfits to her racy new lyric style.
HOWEVER, I'm holding on to every last hope that somewhere in society there is a group of people that tends to not care at all whatsoever about what other people do with their lives, such as I do. For the sake of argument and blog posts though I'll go ahead and explain what I believe to be, "The Miley Affect."
First of all, I have no idea why everyone is acting like the things she has been doing are such a surprise. Let's take a look at what we encounter on a normal day here in 2014 shall we? I mean there are some seriously praised music artists that do things that are much weirder than dancing around with a foam finger or strapping a giant teddy bear to your back. Like a meat dress for example, or one that can make you fly for that matter. You also see things like people in cotton candy colored wigs with lollipop boobs, or whipped cream shooters on their chests. No one questions that. I won't even start on the things that Nicki Minaj can get away with. Now none of this is to say that I'm not fans of any of these girls. You will find me giving miniature concerts in my car to (most recently) "Do What U Want," "Unconditionally," the occasional heart felt belting of "Wrecking Ball," and my sometimes impressive but usually sad attempts at rapping like Nicki, on a pretty regular basis. I do however question why none of these ladies have gotten the attention that Miley gets for doing relatively the same thing. Now I won't group them together entirely because honestly all of these girls are obviously very creative so you can't necessarily say that they do the same things, but the scope of the things they do is at least in the same universe.
So does it make it okay in the eyes of the disapproving bystanders to do those things if you're 27,29, or 31 instead of only 21? Or maybe it's because she was a Disney star first? Regardless of the reason the facts are simple. Those examples I gave earlier, you knew who I was talking about, why? Because all of them did something crazy and over the top to make an impression, to express something, and to be memorable. They're creating an image for themselves, and in doing so they're getting a huge leg up on the competition. Admit it, even if you're one of the "haters," you've still heard the songs and watched the videos, because part of you has to see what everyone is talking about. Didn't we see something similar with the Madonna era? She's still pretty infamous.
My point is, you can love her or you can hate her, it's not like she really cares what you think, but you're still supporting her career. Because you know who she is, you listen to the music, and you watch the videos, your intentions don't matter, you still do. She's making a name for herself, whether we agree with her approach or not. She's making herself infamous, and you hating her won't stop that a bit. If you ask me, even though I personally probably wouldn't do things the way she has, she's smart. She knows that pissing you and half of America off, will earn her millions. Which is more than I'll have done by 21.
So hats off to you Miley, you strange, yet brilliant girl you. Way to fool us all into making you a megastar.Now pardon me while I go get 23 out of my head...
