At the 2013 MTV VMAs, Miley Cyrus’ performance left many parents of Hannah Montana fans dismayed, angry, and disappointed! In the onslaught of media coverage of her performance on the VMAs, I find myself asking this question: Why do we care so much about this pop artist’s performance? Before we point the finger at Miley Cyrus, we should point the finger at ourselves. Our society in general has honed the fine art of creating and feeding beasts like Miley Cyrus, Madonna, and Lady GaGa. We do this through our willingness to watch them for hours on end on whatever media that is out there for us to use. Once we have had our fill of the current spectacle, we get tired of the beast that we have created. Then after a while, a new shocking act comes along that captures our attention, and the cycle repeats itself! The author of Ecclesiastic captured this best when he wrote: “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun”. This observation is true, for Miley Cyrus is not the first young woman to do a sexually charged performance on the VMAs (that award goes to Madonna and her performance of “Like a Virgin”), and she won’t be the last either! I think as a society we need to ask ourselves whether we are angry with her performance, which was the same caliber as Lady GaGa, or are punishing her, because parents feel that their children have lost their role model that first showed them how teens were supposed to act. Perhaps we also expected her to show them how a young woman with fame and fortune should act in public.
If parents are angry with Miley Cyrus for any of these reasons, then let me be the first to say
- Reported by Nadia Johnson
W.O.W Radio Blogger
September 13, 2013
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