All the talk about the "controversial" Miley Cyrus pictures in Vanity Fair has
just gotten ridiculous. It's a friggin' picture of a girl wrapped in a
bed sheet! A picture that I chose not to use because it's been overused and overanalyzed. All you can see is her bony little back. Nothing too risqué
and only slightly suggestive. Pretend the sheet is a beach towel and
you'll realize that she's not showing anything more than you might see at your
local beach. The fact that people are all up in arms over this thing
boggles my mind. Now I do understand that it does have a hint of the "come
hither" and no parent wants to think of their 15-year old daughter having
any kind of sexual attraction and/or interest, but we live in the real world. At 15, I’d venture to guess that some boy has
already actually seen a little of what’s under that sheet or at least copped a
feel of it. I’ll give her the benefit of
the doubt that she’s still a virgin because I don’t want to picture Hannah
Montana bumpin’ uglies with some sweaty, nervous teenaged boy. Heaven forbid!
The media has been pounding on this for over a week. The way they went at it, you would have thought the girl had made a gang-bang video instead of having taken a fairly innocuous photo. While I don’t think it’s really fair how the media and the conservative boneheads like Bill O (I refuse to type the bastard’s entire name) have jumped all over this girl, I don’t feel completely sorry for her either. I think there was a method to this madness. Just like every Teen Queen before her, Miley Cyrus is looking towards life after child stardom. Tweens have a short attention span and Disney is already grooming their next Lizzie Rayven McGuire-Montana to replace her. Miley is trying to keep getting paid by making sure the industry sees her as more than a cute kid with a silly show on The Disney Channel. She and her handlers know exactly what they’re doing. Look at how much publicity she’s gotten! She’s been the lead story on not only the entertainment shows, but “legitimate” news as well. I bet that issue of Vanity Fair sells pretty well too. More people have heard her name in the last week than they have in the last year. If she’s smart enough to parlay this into a lucrative career in her adult years and not just end up another former child star, I say more power to her. It worked for Jodie Foster, Britney Spears and to a lesser degree, Brooke Shields. They all went through some controversy for being teenagers behaving like naughty adults and they’re all still doing pretty well in the money making department. Miley needs to find the right precocious teenaged hooker role AND win an Oscar for it. Then she’ll be golden!















