Why does Miley Cyrus have so many sandals?
She shocks America with her provocative dancing and exhibitionism. What is Miley Cyrus the name of?
Miley Cyrus, "girl power" heroine or lost girl of America? This is the controversy that has been on everyone's lips, the subject of hundreds of editorials, feverish posts, biting forums for the past few weeks. It all started at the MTV Video Music Awards on August 25th. The 20-year-old singer, former Disney face, famous for her Hannah Montana character, engaged in a hyper-sexed twerk with singer Robin Thicke. Global buzz.
A few days later, on her momentum, she balances her new music video, "Wrecking Ball" online. This time again, it shatters all records and reaches the score of 50 million Views in a few hours. Is it because she wriggles, almost naked but in Doc Martens, on a wrecking ball? Or because she licks a hammer against the backdrop of an apartment under construction, filled with rubble and ruins? Why is young Miley so beloved and so controversial at the same time?
MILEY CYRUS IS DISTURBING ... AND DEEPLY DIVIDING.
In an America that is still sometimes very puritanical, and obsessed with “role models” - these inspiring personalities - Miley Cyrus is disturbing. And divides deeply. Penny Young Nance, president of a women's association close to the Republican right, declared for example this week on Fox News: "I worry about Miley Cyrus, and for the terrible impact that feminism has had on many. young women of our country [...].
They will grow up hoping that one day they can rub their asses against a Robin Thicke, and all because of these supposed women's rights! Some feminist associations also accuse her of cultivating sexist archetypes, of locking women into a hyper-sexual stereotype. Still others, a little more benevolent, see in this young woman always more trash than the symptom of a cultural industry that claims again and again provocation, buzz, click.
For Myriam Levain, co-author of "La Génération Y par elle-même" (François Bourin Editeur), "one might wonder, however, if Miley is not a new feminist figure, specific to her generation. She understands the system, she masters her communication, takes matters into her own hands ". And many of her fans are calling for an end to the "slut shaming": Miley Cyrus would be criticized simply for assuming a defiant attitude, that she would be too outrageously sexy.
The star hasn't really reacted, so far, to the countless reactions she has elicited. After a childhood under the sun, in a Baptist family where one did not joke with religion, she perhaps knows only how to let her shows and her music videos speak for her. His life is written in songs. There was the “Hannah Montana” silliness, the successive and teenage provocations of the past two years, zero ball and tongue sticking out in the Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera fashion. Perhaps tomorrow, like them, she will find a form of appeasement.
