Miley Cyrus spoke about her MTV VMAs performance, her image as a provocateur in pop music, her views on drug use among other hot button issues that continue to swirl around her in an interview with the New York Times.
The 21-year-old spoke with the New York Times’ Jon Caramanica who branded her “pop’s enfant terrible” and noted her transition as such from “directionless ex-child star.” Considering the fate of many such ex-child stars — especially those from the Disney Channel — it is, as such, an accomplishment. It’s one thing to sing about molly and another to find one’s life derailed by drugs.
It’s a point not lost on Miley Cyrus who said ” I went from people just thinking I was, like, a baby to people thinking I’m this, like, sex freak that really just pops molly and does lines all day. It’s like, “Has anyone ever heard of rock ’n’ roll?” There’s a sex scene in pretty much every single movie, and they go, “Well, that’s a character.” Well, that’s a character. I don’t really dress as a teddy bear and, like, twerk on Robin Thicke, you know?”
Yes, of course, she was asked about the MTV VMAs performance which launched a discussion which months later has not ended. Specifically, she was invited to comment about the pop-cultural impact of the performance, and her awareness of that impact, and she told the Times, “It’s actually really funny how many people could watch my performance, and they think it was, like, sexist and degrading to women, and somehow people found that it was racist, which I couldn’t even wrap my mind around.”
She went on to note that she was “not putting down women” and “people got a rise out of me saying that I was a feminist, but I am.” She added: “I’m telling women be whoever you want to be.”
The interviewer asked her if she watches what other pop stars are doing and she said, “I watch everyone’s music videos, to the point where I’m O.C.D., looking at every single thing they’re wearing and what they’re doing.” She contrasted this with her earlier days when she didn’t have her “own personal self yet” and felt jealous of others. She said that she came to realize that others weren’t being themselves either.
She elaborated: “You don’t have to be signed to Disney Channel to be put in a box, or to be rated PG.” She spoke of being with other artists and not having the liberty of taking pictures without being asked to delete them at times. She added, “I don’t have a bunch of celeb friends, because I feel like some of them are a little scared of the association.” She mentioned Ariana Grande as an example, as she has a dual life both as pop star and as Nickelodeon channel star.
Asked to comment about Joe Jonas’ New York Magazine interview in which he said that she and Demi Lovato introduced him to marijuana, she said, “If you want to smoke weed, you’re going to smoke weed. There’s nothing that two little girls are going to get you to do that you don’t want to do. I thought maybe he was saying that like it was going to make him look badass.”
She did make it clear that she does not want to be seen as someone who encourages young people to try drugs. She said, “There was a thing that Kurt Cobain said, something like, “There’s a special place in hell for people that glamorize drugs” and I never want to be that person that’s, like, talking to 16- and 17-year-olds and being like, ‘Smoke weed.’”
The full interview is here.
While the weeks leading to the release of her album, ‘Bangerz’ were marked by this kind of nonstop discussion, it will not die down anytime soon as Miley Cyrus embarks on a tour in support of the album which will begin in February 2014. As with her recent string of performance as a headliner in the Jingle Ball Tour for the holidays — which saw her twerking Santa Claus, Christmas trees, etc. — the new tour will offer plenty more opportunities for the provocateur to be provocative!
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