Tuesday Trash

Is it Tuesday already? There's 3 good things about it being Tuesday.

• It's no longer Monday.
• We're closer to Friday.
• We get to talk about celebrities!

Told ya!! 3 good things!! This editing of Tuesday Trash is going to center on the ever present Ms. Miley Cyrus. I mean, what happened to her? Seriously. She was an adorable child, a popularly cute teenager, and now .. well .. I'm not sure what she is. As much as I had to admit it, she's still a beautiful girl, she's just presenting herself all wrong. 

She was born Destiny Hope Cyrus on November 23, 1992. She was given the nickname 'Smiley' by her parents which morphed into the way we know her today as Miley. She officially (and I'm assuming legally) changed her name to Miley Ray Cyrus in 2008. When Miley was 11, she was cast on the Disney© series Hannah Montana© and shot to stardom. I believe she would have been in the spotlight, eventually, even without the help of the Disney Channel show - simply because of who her father is.

While it wasn't MY favorite show, my daughter absolutely LOVED it, so we watched a LOT of Hannah Montana. I'm not kidding. We watched a LOT of it. We watched Miley Stewart masquerade as Hannah Montana and live The Best of Both Worlds (yeah .. I went there). We watched Miley and Lilly and Jackson and Oliver. We watched a LOT of Hannah Montana. We even own Hannah Montana: The Movie. Then .. something happened. 

Miley Cyrus wanted to break free from the squeaky clean image that she had spent years making. She wanted the world to know that she wasn't Hannah Montana anymore, and that she was more than okay with that. I'm just not so sure everyone else was as comfortable as she was/is. 

We've all seen this video, and if you haven't, well .. there you go. You've been warned, she swings naked on a wrecking ball. She licks a sledgehammer. And, the most annoying thing about it (well in my humble opinion anyway) is that she has very visible spit strings in her mouth during the close up shots. Yes. That's what makes me uncomfortable about this video. Not the nakedness, or the making out with inanimate objects. It's the spit strings in her mouth.

Then of course there's the MTV VMA performance with Robin Thicke. I'm not sure exactly what that was .. and I'm not going to share that video, because, well, it's wildly inappropriate. Now. Here's how I feel about why she's doing what she's doing. It might not make sense to a lot of people, but, she didn't want to be always identified as Hannah Montana. I think she's succeeded at that. She was afraid that image would get lost in the shuffle of Hollywood, so she created a new one. Guess what? It worked. We're ALL still talking about her, and wondering what she'll do next. As much as I hate to say it, it's brilliant. The more over the top things she does, the more she stays relevant. People like me (and the ones that actually make a living off of talking about her) will continue to feed the beast, and she'll continue to stay relevant. 

Love her or hate her, I don't think she's going anywhere any time soon. 

How do you feel about Miley? Are you a fan ...or nah? Let me know what you think.

Until Next Time ..