good girls don't make history.

miley cyrus.
time to throw my opinion into the ring since virtually everyone else has.

i think she's doing it right.
her video "tamed" came out a couple of years ago and everyone was wondering where sweet little miley went...now people are clamoring to get "tamed" miley back because that was only the beginning.

she released her mega-hit "we can't stop" which references drugs, sex, and a general lack of caring about what anyone else thinks with an equally racy (and in my opinion, completely tacky) video and people wouldn't stop talking about it.

she posed nude for a campaign to get people to take care of their skin. the photo, which leaves hardly anything to the imagination, was emblazoned on t-shirts and are available for sale. both her and her mom (kinda weird) were spotted wearing them. that's some good watering-hole fodder right there.  

she sang the chart-topper "we can't stop" on the vma's dressed in a bear-costume (which eventually came off), grinding up against a man 16 years her senior, turning a gigantic foam finger into male anatomy, sticking her tongue out at every opportunity and sounding pretty terrible considering the fact that she can actually sing. the buzz was huge, people are still talking about it.

she called a paparazzi a really bad word. an ugly word that shouldn't come out of anyone's mouth. instead of letting the press get ahold of that news and spin it how they wanted, she posted a tweet calling out what she had done and seeming rather proud of it. she was talking about herself.
 
just days ago she released a new video for her song "wrecking ball" where she is featured licking a sledgehammer in her underwear and then riding on a wrecking ball completely starkers. in the first twenty-four hours of the video being released she had 20 million hits. i imagine it will be the talk of tabloids, entertainment shows, and the chatter around the college campus where i work.

she is doing it right.

she wants to be talked about, and by golly, she is being talked about.
america loves a good trainwreck and she is doing a fantastic job at playing conductor.
there is a saying, "good girls don't make history" and miley, it seems, is bound and determined to be remembered.

i think she's a 20 year old who is making the mistakes most 20 year olds would make when given that amount of freedom, celebrity, and money. i think that someday she will seriously regret these choices she is making. i think she is a terrible role model for little girls and teenagers. i know i felt sad for her when i watched her vma performance. but she is doing exactly what the industry wants from her and (as much as we may say we don't) what we want from her. we may think she's trashy and goes way over the line and hate her choice of hairstyle at the vma's but we can't help but wonder what she's going to do next. at least i can't. i just hope that she realizes that she's better than that before the train completely derails.

xo