When you Google the word “celebrity” the very first image that comes up is of Miley Cyrus.
Apparently when you think of “celebrity” you think of a precocious 18 year old who’s only famous for having a one hit wonder dad, being a rubbish actress, an even worse singer and wearing as few clothes as possible, while being 100% annoying 100% of the time (what’s with the Hannah Montana lisp that Miley doesn’t actually have!?!)
In the past two months she’s hit the headlines for being filmed smoking a bong, been offered a job in porn, been slated for being too raunchy in her videos, split from her on-again-off-again boyfriend and been quizzed over her parents split. Not to mention the furore that’s surrounded her over the years; risqué pics, posing topless for Vanity Fair, giving a film director a lap dance… the list goes on.
Is THIS the type of “celebrity” people should aspire to be?
Why should a girl, whose likability factor is akin to that of Myra Hindley’s, have so much press coverage?! Whenever I’ve seen Miley being interviewed, she’s always come across as a spoilt brat who lives in her own little bubble far, far away from the real world. She seems to have the maturity of an 8 year old but the bank balance of a 60 year old oil baron. Yet the tabloids and mags all hold her up as a person every young girl should aspire to be! Surely it’s not just a case of “sex sells”, because there’s not one man I know that has actually said “Miley Cyrus… I so would.”
Why is she held up as the archetypal celebrity? Britney Spears has had a fair few controversies in her time and she had the kids and her bank balance taken away from her. Miley messes up and within a day it’s all forgotten and she’s ready to go out and make even bigger mistakes.
But when you strip away the marketing gimmicks – the dolls, duvets, DVDs, etc, what exactly is the point to Miley? Surely she can’t just be the “Bully’s Special Prize” that’s paraded in front of Britney in a “look at what you could’ve won if you hadn’t gone bat-shit crazy”. There's no outstanding talent in that Cyrus DNA!!!
There's only one person that can be blamed for this one dimensional caricature of a real life girl hogging our headlines – Disney. It just shows, if you throw enough money at something, people are bound to get brainwashed. Disney may know all about drawing mice, but naff all about how to create likeable people who have a natural talent that’ll still be there after everything else moves south! Don’t get me started on The Jonas Brothers!!!
I, for one, can’t wait to see how the career of Miley pans out when Disney finally tell her to sling her hook, when her looks start to fade and when the next big thing takes up her space on the walls of her fans.
Miley, can you say “Do you want fries with that?”
POINTLESS CELEBRITY #001: MILEY CYRUS
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