Sexy Miley Cyrus Pics and Back-to-School Gear
My 16-year-old daughter, who is about your age, totally gets what you’re doing. You’re trying to be more of a woman, advance your career to more adult roles. Fine. Props to you. I hope you can do it in a way that doesn’t crash and burn like other Disney girls. Britney Spears – from Mickey Mouse club to panty-less skirts, disastrous performances, shaved hairdos. Lindsay Lohan – from double-twin Parent Trap cuteness and Freaky Friday success to drunken driving arrests and way too much partying.
But just when you’re entering womanhood, Miley, at the ripe old age of 15 – you come out with Hannah Montana back-to-school gear
Do we buy our young daughters and nieces the backpacks and binders and glitter diaries, and pretend the sexy adult Miley Cyrus doesn’t exist? Or do we tell them about Miley Cyrus nude in satin sheets? Or Miley Cyrus frolicking with a girlfriend? Or whatever else TMZ, Perez Hilton, and the paparazzi find?
Please, Miley. You’re sending a mixed message. And with a billion-dollar industry to your name, I have to believe that message is entirely calculated. Are you a teeny-bopper or a sultry siren? And if you’re both, which as a fifteen-year-old girl you very well may be, do you want all your seven-year-old fans to mimic your role model behavior?
Thankfully, my sixteen-year-old daughter can make up her own mind on this one. She won’t be buying any of your back-to-school supplies. And while she respects your move to womanhood, it quite frankly doesn’t figure into her own life at this point.
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Comment by NewWrldYankee
| August 4th, 2008
Yay I’m all caught up in Dad’s house – I swear you need a book deal – I was riveted. Crossing my fingers for your big 8!
On the Miley Cyrus issue – I kinda feel bad for her in this respect. Ok, so she’s way more risque than I was at her age, but she is in the industry after all. Around adults all the time, each telling her to do something else to feed her career. It is not easy to make a transition from child to adult star without losing the market. Few had the training from birth that the Olsen twins did. And like all of us before her, who put bad photos up on facebook, or chatted in chatrooms when we were too young to be in them, or dated people who we knew were wrong for us – she’s made some missteps. Difference being is that each one of those is splashed all over PerezHilton.com. I know I’ve said and done somethings that would be construed oh, so wrong, at her age. You live, you grow, you get a new facebook account.
Comment by Phil
| August 4th, 2008
Maybe I’m cynical, but I don’t think she has much say in her business career. Disney needs to make some more cash and they’ve still got a year or two left in her…
Scientists are worried that we are depleting the entertainment value out of Miley Cyrus at an alarming rate :
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/entertainment_scientists_warn?utm_source=onion_rss_daily
Comment by Cathouse Teri
| August 4th, 2008
I think Miley has been taken advantage of by just about every adult in her circle. The impression I get is that she really wants to present a clean-cut image. To show that a girl can be popular without becoming slutty. The Vanity Fair thing was entirely not her fault. And the licorice swap with another girl is hardly risque.
So that’s what bothers me about some of the recent events. If she didn’t personally care about her image changing, it wouldn’t bother me. But I think she does care. And I think the adults in her life are not being respectfully protective of that.
Comment by dadshouse
| August 4th, 2008
Phil, you rock – that video is HILARIOUS!
Teri – I agree, the adults in her life are helping her make questionable choices. Will Smith prided himself on keeping a clean image, especially in his rap music, and look where he ended up. It’s possible to keep it all clean and still be huge.
Comment by TentCamper
| August 4th, 2008
Thank you for that DAD!!!!
These teenaged actors, in y opinion are totally Fing up the heads of the , would be, innocent 10 through 5 year old kids. Our 11 year old thinks Miley is the best… I don’t know that she even knows about the “more adult” stuff. what happens when she sees that? She’ll want it too.
F! Disney!!!
Comment by Kat Wilder
| August 4th, 2008
DH, you did kind of hit it on the head when you said that, as a 15-year-old girl, she is a mix of sweetness and vamp. You don’t have to be famous to have that — every teen girl feels it. Being in the public eye in such a way is just, well, weird. (I’m guessing here.)
However, she has PR people and handlers and marketing types and parents and god-knows-who else advising her and cutting the deals. At any point, her parents can (and perhaps should) say: “No, nothing suggestive” or whatever. She’s a minor, and no matter how many millions she’s making, her parents are in control (as Cathouse points out) — or not.
All women, teens and at my age, get mixed messages; at some point, you’re able to figure it out for yourself. (hopefully!) I don’t think there’s anything wrong in a woman embracing her sexuality (in fact, there’s everything right about it), and by God, Miley is on the cusp of womanhood. People who read “tramp” into the photos of her in Vanity fair are displaying more of their own conflicted feelings about female sexuality than an accurate portrayal of Miley.
Comment by Single Mom Seeking
| August 4th, 2008
Embarrassed over here: We went clothes shopping this weekend, and my 8-year-old really needed a new pair of PJs. She begged me for the Hannah Montana PJs. I bought them (blush). I have such mixed feelings about HM.
You’re right: Miley is a sassy, smart 15-year-old teenager who’s dating boys… and she’s marketing to girls who are my daughter’s age.
I’m ambivalent. I’ve heard Miley on the radio and like how snappy and on-the-ball she is… but I don’t pay for cable (NO Disney Channel).
As Kat points out, our kids are getting their fill of Hannah Montana. My daughter listens to her on the radio whenever she can. As a parent, it’s my role to ask questions and open up the floor so we can talk.
Comment by Honey
| August 4th, 2008
It’s all very Lolita, and I agree, you have to wonder–is she putting it out there with that intention, or are we reading into it what we want? And to what degree?
Comment by dadshouse
| August 4th, 2008
Single Mom Seeking – don’t feel bad about buying your daughter that stuff! Clearly, she wanted it. And that’s part of my point with this post.
I think Disney’s problem is that their other characters never age due to the simple fact they are cartoons or computer animated. Maybe Disney simply doesn’t know how to deal with ageing (going through teen year) divas!
Kat – I had problems with the Vanity Fair pics, not because they look “trampy”, but because they look like she just had sex and she’s only 15. If a boyfriend took them after sneaking over to her house, that’s one thing (and common enough among our nation’s youth). But for a pro photographer to take them with her parents’ consent (they claim they weren’t in the room – and why weren’t they? ) means it’s a calculated move toward womanhood. Fine. Just don’t keep peddling kiddy merchandise! Eight year olds look up to you!
Honey – Lolita. Nice reference. Does that make me Humbert Humbert? Haha.
Tent Camper – I’m with you, here. F! Disney. I actually like some of their cartoon stuff, but their sales and marketing is all about making the big money. (I’ve had friends visit inside Disney imagineering, so I actually can say that knowing I’m speaking some truth)
Comment by justrun
| August 4th, 2008
Yeah, I still have hope for that one. I want to believe, I do I do!
Comment by Bekah
| August 5th, 2008
My son is only nine. He loves Miley Cyrus, her show, her music, all of it. He’d NEVER admit it to his friends, but he does. He has no idea of all of her satin sheet pics or licorice swapping shenanigans. I’m just going to let him continue to beleive she is two people… Hannah and Miley. He’s only nine, no need to bog him down with reality.
Comment by Bekah
| August 5th, 2008
And, wow… that Video Phil posted a link to was hilarious.
And I didn’t mean to sound like I am ignoring the matter at hand with my son….when he has questions I’ll answer them, but he doesn’t watch the news, doesn’t read MSN.com.. none of that, so for now he’ll stay in lala land.
Comment by Anna Balasi
| August 5th, 2008
I do feel somewhat bad for all of these superstar kids. They have no choice but to grow up in front of millions of people, and while technically, they *don’t have to* grow up where the rest of the world can watch, at 15, you really can’t be expected to make decision of whether or not you should quit the business because you “want to grow up like a normal kid” without your head exploding, and especially not when a bunch of adults are probably telling you to keep doing what you’re doing.
I hope, just like you, that Miley doesn’t crash and burn down the line. I’m at that age (30, actually) where I like seeing kids and other people finding success and happiness through hard decent work and doing what they like to do. I hope she’ll always love what she’s doing, and that she doesn’t feel she ever has to be someone (or something) else through sheer pressure and fame.
Comment by dadshouse
| August 5th, 2008
Bekah – I agree, if your son’s not aware of the “adult” Miley, no harm, no foul. I doubt kids his age are talking about it at school.
My teen daughter, on the other hand, talked extensively with classmates about Jamie Lynn-Spears (Zoey 101) getting pregnant (they all prefer to wait on becoming moms), and a bit about Miley and her Vanity Fair pic (basically that Miley is trying to break out into adult roles, and that’s why she did it. Sad they feel she needs sex to get there)
Anna – I’m totally with you on wanting to see younger people do well. I remember in Euro2008 watching Fernando Torres score Spain’s goal in the finals, and feeling really really happy for him. He’d worked so hard in the tournament and in that game for that moment to manifest.
I’d love for Miley to succeed. I hate that she feels she has to turn slutty/sexy to do it. It’s just music and entertainment. But that’s the nature of the business, I suppose.