The metamorphosis of Miley Cyrus, former Disney who popularized ‘twerking’
Miley Cyrus has had a hectic life since she rose to fame at the age of 11. She now she is getting married.
Dressed in an immaculate white long gown in the purest Hollywood golden era style and signed by British designer Vivienne Westwood, Miley Cyrus said yes to her partner, actor Liam Hemsworth. The ceremony, to which only very close family and friends attended, took place in Tennessee, where the singer is originally from. Cyrus was in charge of confirming the news through her Instagram account with a tender sequence of photographs of her and her newly released husband, accompanied by a brief: "10 years later ...", to when their love story goes back, and the date of the link, on the eve of Christmas Eve: "23.12.18".
The 26-year-old and Hemsworth, 28, met a decade ago on the set of the romantic movie The Last Song, and since then they have been in an on-off relationship that ultimately ended in a wedding. In 2012 they got engaged for the first time, they separated a year later and did not resume their romance formally until 2016, when they went together to live in a mansion in California, United States. The family home was devastated by the wildfires that devastated the area last month.
Despite their comings and goings, Cyrus (Tennessee, United States, 1992) and Hemsworth (Melbourne, Australia, 1990) are one of the most established and stable couples in the industry. He is a renowned Hollywood actor, brother of fellow actor Chris Hemsworth, best known for his role as Thor in the Marvel trilogy.
She began her career with the Disney Channel, starring in a series in which she gave life to Hannah Montana, a fictional youth star who in each episode sought a way to reconcile her mundane day-to-day life with her alter musical ego of her. The production, which aired between 2006 and 2011, catapulted her to world fame at just 11 years old. From that time came several record works and films, most characterized as the character of the series.
It was 2013 when Cyrus killed - metaphorically speaking - Hannah Montana. That candid girl with big blue eyes who had won the favor of the public with her innocence now appeared on the stage of the MTV Music Awards turned into an adult woman, openly, with short hair cut by the sides and dressed in a tiny bathing suit.
They were the most talked about six minutes and 32 seconds of the night and that would mark a before and after in the imagination of the millions of fans of the child star.
From that performance arose twerking, that hypersexualized and provocative dance attempt performed by the woman, in this case Cyrus, shaking the back of the hips against the pelvic area of the man. The lucky one, in this case, was singer Robin Thicke. To finish killing the myth, the young woman she rubbed Thicke's crotch with a giant foam glove and simulated fellatio with her finger. Coincidence or not, that same year Cyrus and Hemsworth ended their relationship and engagement, and the University of Oxford, UK, included the word twerking in its dictionary.
The whole world was shocked by the show and the avalanche of criticism that Cyrus received is only comparable to what Janet Jackson faced at the time after the 2004 Super Bowl show, in which Justin Timberlake discovered one of her breasts. The New York Times, for example, accused the singer of having committed "a sexual assault" against Thicke, who did not hesitate to blame her stage partner for all the controversy. If the strategy had worked for Timberlake nine years ago, why not him?
Cyrus's response came in the form of more controversial and self-assertive: the video for the song Wrecking Ball in which she appears naked on a wrecking ball. The young woman not only buried the adolescent idol, but also knew how to make it profitable: the single was the first number one she achieved in the United States and was the most played in history on the day of its premiere on YouTube: 17 million in 24 hours. Time magazine also chose her to be one of her Characters of the Year for hers.
