These are photos of Miley Cyrus as she prepares to perform for “Good Morning America” in Times Square yesterday. Miley totally got down by twerking while wearing a fuzzy diaper, and I’m sure that the television audience at home was all like, “Wha…t?” Make no mistake though — while we are all giggling at Miley with her stellar legs and cringeworthy new video for “We Can’t Stop,” Miley is toking the last toke with a new VEVO viewing record. Yes, Miley scored 10.7 million views in 24 hours, which means that she’s surpassed the previous record held by Justin Bieber for 10.6 views for “Beauty and The Beat.”
So what does this mean? Miley is succeeding through her new sexy image. Yes, those of us who have witnessed her crooning “Lilac Wine” or “Jolene” will probably never see the wish of a Miley-recorded country album come to fruition. How did this happen? Well, I’ve been thinking about this (really), and the only explanation I can come with is that Miley signed with Larry Rudolph (Britney Spears’ manager) about three months ago. Rudolph is a freaking PR genius and not only masterminded Britney’s original entrance onto the pop music scene in 1999, but he also engineered her post-KFed comeback in 2008. In other words, Miley will likely secure mega sales for her upcoming album, and here’s what she had to say to the haters who made fun of her weird-ass video:
On beating Justin Bieber’s VEVO record: “I’ve got a really bomb fan base, the Smilers. They’re the ones that are getting [my ‘We Can’t Stop’ music video] to be at 33 million views. Haters are going to hate, but haters are also going to click on your YouTube video to watch it, so I don’t really care. You helped me break the record. And if you were watching just to hate on me, now I hold the record, so I win.”
Is she still engaged to Liam? “I’m wearing a ring, so…”
[From GMA]
I like how Miley never actually comes out and says whether or not she and Liam are engaged. She just lets the ellipses do the talking, which is probably a very smart PR move as well. Here’s her aforementioned “GMA” performance in case you’re curious:
In addition, Miley also stopped by (in a pantsless state) Jimmy Kimmel to talk about her friendship with Snoop Dogg, with whom she recorded “Ashtrays and Heartbreaks.” Miley says they basically bonded over their mutual love of pot: “We’re more alike than you think … we’re very similar. That’s because he’s so high he doesn’t know what his name is. Me too, so it’s fine! We both are. That’s why we get along so well, I guess.” Video of Miley’s Kimmel appearance can be found here and there. Miley has definitely won the PR war for now.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN
Dear god these clothes…but then again, if I had THAT body, I might walk around in fuzzy undies too
yeah, even with that kick butt body the fuzzy diaper would be a no for me.
the “smilers”? they sound like they’re going to drink the poison kool-aid any moment..
I like Miley, I like Rihanna. Are they a representation of how I would want my children to behave; no they are not.
I think it’s because they are celebrities who are living their lives free. What I mean by that is that they are not hiding behind some fake public persona or image of what they want the world to believe is true about them (side-eye to Goop & Beyonce). I think what we see with them is who they really are; public image be damned. I just hope they don’t venture too far off track and is able to maintain some self-control.
@V4real excellent point – gimme a dube with Miley over a cleanse with Goopy any day 🙂
I think that, as much as Beyonce is faking her public image, Rihanna is doing the same thing. Her image is just on the opposite spectrum. The real them is probably somewhere imbetween.
And as much as I dislike Beyonce, I’ll take her over Rihanna any time. (the fact that she can actually sing and did write some of her songs also helps).
“I think what we see with them is who they really are; public image be damned.”
I disagree.
I heard something on NPR that discussed former child stars, and I think it applies to her.
For many female childstars, they try to rebel against their former image which is usually wholesome because they think that image isn’t “the real” them. They then go to the opposite extreme, which is usually hyper sexual…but that isn’t the “real” them either. One example of this is Drew Barrymore. Remember the Poison Ivy, Playboy, and flashing David Letterman? The real Drew ended up being more daisies than stripper poles.
When they are going to this extreme to rebel, I think it can damage their self esteem. She might act happy to be in videos on all fours with her toosh in the air and legs spread, but I think at some point she is going to feel like she compromised and degraded herself in order to shed Hannah Montana.
If a person is really being “themselves” they don’t interrupt Jimmy Kimmel to point out that they are as high as Snoop Lion. She literally was saying “Me too! Me too! We both are!!”
Her body is so sick, so why dress it in that garbage?
I get that she’s young and wants to have fun but this is just….BAD.
My mom would always say the way you dress is how you want to be seen in the world. I guess this is the way she wants to be seen.
@V4Real- I have to disagree that Miley doesn’t care what people think. I think if that were true she wouldn’t have produced her own “twerk” video and wouldn’t have made those comments above about winning. I think she’s a young women trying to find out who she is and seeking approval in all the wrong places. Even though Miley tends to grate on my last nerve at times, I still hope everything turns out ok for her.
@Marty I never said Miley didn’t care what people thought, I said she’s not hiding behind some façade of who she really is. Right now she is not too concerned with her public image bad or good. If she is a young girl out there trying to find herself she is letting us make that discovery with her.
I apologize, that’s the way I interpreted your comment when you wrote “public image be damned”. Again, sorry.
I just don’t think she is actually is genuine, I think she is trying on personalities and seeing how they fit. Which is what a lot of people do at that age, I just wish she didn’t feel the need to try so hard at showing the whole world that.
Oh Marty please don’t apologize. I should have seperated the public image be damn line because that’s more me saying that her image might suffer even though she’s living her life the way she wants to live it for now.
I still believe she has a lot of growing to do but she’s actually letting us see the process instead of hiding behind some PR machine that tries to spin her life in the same manner that they tried with Britney Spears. Remember they tried to market and sell Britney as the sweet innocent little pop princess and that spun out of control real fast. Most people were shocked at the things Brit did because we only saw the persona that they wanted us to see.
I absolutely agree with that assesment!
Still want to say I’m sorry. I know over the Internet it can be hard to make your point across clearly. Please consider this my make up gift?
http://wtfhemsworth.tumblr.com/post/52506792280
Miley has had her teeth fixed with too large veneers for her mouth. She now looks buck-toothed. When she first had them bonded, they looked more natural.
I’m not saying she’s ad idiot and her music sucks, which.. well, they do a bit. I’d just be grateful if she’d only dress a little better and not in that trashy way that is not cool or punk or whatever at all.
Exactly! Her outfit! Wtf! Why?!
Peopl are watching the video to witness the trainwreck not because you are so awesome & sexy, dear.
But she says she doesn’t care as long as long as people watch, so I guess I win cause I didn’t watch it.
Exactly! Haha, we win!
Care for a Wintini? 😉
But haters guna hate!
*smirk*
Whatever. I have long been a Miley apologist, but she has definitely lost me with her behavior in recent weeks.
Did this PR guy buy her the top of the Maxim list, too? Just curious if that’s one of those purchasable commodities, like People’s “Most Beautiful.” Anyone know? It’s interesting that PR works by convincing the public that someone is very successful, thereby making them successful. Do they then last? One wonders. Britney was at the top for a long time. Did she have any discernible talent? I never paid that much attention to her, until after her breakdown (and now I just feel sorry for her, but I’m not sure I’d pay money to see her perform).
Britney’s voice had the same appeal as Jennifer Aniston–bland, pretty, non-threatening. She was a good dancer and played to the audience well. She had Madonna’s skill set but none of Madonna’s intelligence. She used sex and controversy, but had no statement behind it. Miley seems to be doing the same thing, but is being more upfront about the bubble-gum, frothy aspect of her music.
That’s not true, some people say she had a better voice than Aguilera when she was a kid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TwWDlz7O8s
Oh no, that wasn’t good at all.
@Liv, who wrote: “That’s not true, some people say she had a better voice than Aguilera when she was a kid.”
You know, you can train your voice so you can sing on key, and learning how to breathe properly will give you better control, but you are either born with a good voice or you’re not.
There is no way Britney Spears had a better voice than Christina Aguilera when they were children.
Christina Aguilera has a 4 octave range (how singers are gauged/measured/ranked), which is impressive. Her longest true note held in a live performance was 20-seconds (Mariah Carey has done this as well), which is friggin awesome.
Britney Spears is reported to have a 2 octave range, which I don’t believe for a minute.
To give you a basis of comparison … Adele, Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson and Pink all have a 3 octave range; Whitney Houston had a 4 octave range; Mariah Carey, Julie Andrews, and Maya Rudolph’s incredible late mother, Minnie Ripperton all have stellar 5 octave ranges.
Aside from being damn good singers, these ladies are all strong vocalists.
Having said the above, in my opinion, the only female singer who is as weak a vocalist with an even more limited vocal range (especially when she first started out) than Britney Spears … is Madonna.
what is twerking?
Not what Miley’s doing.
LOL!
Haha! Good one!
It’s a dance where bottom half is working it in a provocative way but I don’t know what to call Miley’s Dance but it isn’t twerking that’s for sure
Here is a link to the video on Perez
http://perezhilton.com/2013-06-26-miley-cyrus-we-cant-stop-fall-down-good-morning-america-video#.Ucwl6mS9Kc0
What a HORRIBLE song. Even the professional dancers can’t do anything with it! Miley seems out of it. Lots of 8 year olds screaming for her.
Awful in every way.
I know! The back up dancers look like they were told to freestyle dance around the stage, and their thinking how do I dance to something this slow and boring?
It could be people are logging on watching the first five seconds then give up and leave. Much like I did. It’s an awful video she looks like an idiot in it and in the fuzzy diapers. She won’t be taken seriously as a singer neither is Justin and Britney was a joke for years. Miley doesn’t even have good songs but Britney had some really catchy tunes that is a huge difference. Why does Miley think going around saying she is stoned all the time a smart thing to do? Parents don’t want their kids believing that is a great thing to do she is as dumb as Beiber maybe they should date.
Mr and Mrs Diaper, nice.
I can’t stand her.
+1
+2
Not to mention her use of the word “hater”. Anyone who uses that word sounds like they’re still 12.
Don’t really like the “funny drug user” meme. It reminds me of Dean Martin during his heyday, joking about how he was constantly drunk.
Enjoying a doobie or a drink at a party is one thing, but being so high on a daily basis that you don’t know your name is a loser-ville.
She does have a good voice, though.
Miley has a good voice and she made it sound like utter crap. This somg is hard on thr ears. You can do whatever you want with your image and music as look as your talent shows through. Please refer to Kanye West for any examples.
Larry Rudolph…so my first thought “she sounds like low budget Britney” has a reason.
I guess I’m out of her target age demographic, so I don’t get it. But what I’ve heard of her cauterwauling in stores has been enough to keep me from ever going to check out her videos on Vevo or anywhere else. And her appearance and antics make her kind of gross and off-putting to me. I know this is shallow, but at least Britney was pretty. If you have no talent you should bring something to the table.
I highly doubt that Snoop would appreciate her accusing him of being so high he doesn’t know his own name. Especially since he says it in almost every song. LOL
They are obviously not friends. She really is not down.
Oh Miley….God just face palmed so hard volcanoes are erupting *shakes head*
What is it with her sticking her tongue out all the time? Is it supposed to make her seem irreverent and edgy? Maybe someone should tell her in actuality it just makes her look like an even bigger hillbilly moron.
She looks more like one of those panting dogs with her tongue hanging out like that.
Everything she does with her mouth annoys me. From singing to talking to mouth-breathing to tongue flapping. In my mind her mouth has it’s own persona & life source & exists soley to torture our ears.
The Mouth makes me stabby.
THIS!
I bet she practised that tongue out of mouth a lot in front of the mirror. Because I just tried it and it feels totally uncomfortable and it makes me drool.
her tongue is so gross ..she is the biggest try hard and i really wish she would just go away
Miley is utterly low-class and trashy, and she looks ridiculous. I don’t hate on her, because I really don’t care that much. I am annoyed at how Lainey at Lainey Gossip likes her now and writes about her all the time… I mean, this is Billy Ray Cyrus daughter – white trash personified. She is not cool. She is taking the rebellious, act out, look like a hooker thing a bit too far and I fail to see how it is in any way interesting or unusual.
And I can’t get over how the poor girl was unfortunate looking, then she starved herself and suddenly people think she is beautiful? WHAT? The face, the hair, the way she acts…..just NO.
It looks like she’s doing her best to be the ugliest girl on earth. apart from the clothes she looks horrible with that haircut, make up is too harsh, crazy claw like nails, trashy tongue always sticking out… i’m so glad i didn’t have all this access to internet when i was in my 20s because i’m sure i would be dying of embarassment if i had a chance to watch now how i looked then. and i wasn’t as bad as miley. but we all did something or worn something wrong in the heat of the moment.. i’m so glad all my evidence is just in a few pics and not some video on youtube.
I was thinking exactly the same thing!
Thank GOD the internet wasn’t around when I was Miley’s age…there would be some really embarassing footage of me in full on crunchy/nature girl mode. Phew.
Does anybody still wonder why Liam Hemsworth got cold feet with Miley? She was raised, or allowed to be, a wild child. He had a tighter family structure, which probably means a more traditional upbringing.
Miley is out of control, testing every boundary and sense of who she is, which I seriously applaud. She’s a nice package for some lucky guy. I just don’t think that guy is Liam Hemsworth.
If they ‘do’ miraculously get married, there is no way it will last.
She’s not really a “wild child”, though, is she?
She’s a bored teenager who thinks she’s the first person to cut her hair and show a little belly, whilst releasing middle-of-the-road, derivative pop music written by committee and tweeting for attention.
(And no-one who still uses the phrase “haters are going to hate” after the age of fourteen is mature enough to get married!)
Tapioca-THIS.
I agree. Some people say “oh, he should love her no matter what,” but this is more than changes in appearance.
Miley, with her new starved ‘punk’ image, now comes across as a character straight out of Li’l Abner. I’m sad that this low denominator entertainment is being embraced by consumers and often feel we are already living in “Idiocray”.
Trashy
Tacky
Hooker-clothes
Her downward spiral has begun.
It’s been hot and humid as hell here in NY this week. I don’t know how she wore those fuzzy shorts, they look like angora.
I don’t know, part of me thinks we are watching a new LiLo being born here.
YouTube views doesn’t guarantee success. Just means a lot of people watched that hot mess of a video. She looks so desperate. She is coming across like the unpopular kid who is trying so hard to fit in and be considered cool. I don’t know much about Liam but I really don’t see them getting married.
I’m embarrassed for her.
Uuuuuuuuuuum, the SMILERS? LOL someone got shafted with their fanbase moniker!
Fine, I’ll say it, I like the damn beat, and can dance to it as they say. The diaper was weird, but I liked the fairly casual performance.
Some of her older interviews demonstrate she is fairly intelligent. She’s playing around with her interview stupidity and is being the stupid kid she never got to be. Plus there’s apparently family and Liam stuff going on.
No, I wouldn’t consider myself a fan, but y’all surprise me with your vehement hatred for this innocuous song.
Also, her boots are killer.
Yes, those boots are killer.
Nothing screams “punk” louder than a pair of $2000 Loobs and porcelain veneers you bought with Disney Princess money though, eh?
Airhead, annoying attention seeker.. really reeks of flighty fool..
LOL I might be the only one that actually likes Miley. I didn’t like her in the Hannah Montana days and her face was everywhere.. but now that she’s grown up and got away from Disney she is likeable. She seems okay with who she is and open about it.
So…walking around wearing an adult diaper for the world to see is how you prove that you have grown up and are no longer a child star? That is the brilliance of Miley Cyrus, I suppose.
Yah she’s annoying and my kids like her dumb show……but hey she’s young and crap she rocks them fur shorts…signed mom
What a complete idiot try hard.
When Miley is high, she wants to go out and twerk, stick her tongue out and be photographed. When I’m high, I’m paranoid hiding under the bed with a kit-kat and sour patch kids waiting for the cops to arrest me. I can’t even check the mail when I’m stoned! I don’t know how she does it.
Omg! Dying laughing over here!
Holy try hard.
If she wants to have a music career as an adult, I think she needs to work on her voice and choose good songs. This dressing like a muppet prostitute and being “crazy” is just lame.
.she can do so much better, but she chooses this for herself.
I wonder if she knows that talking about being high all the time isn’t cool? I mean, fine if you want to get high all the time but bragging about it gets old really fast.
And she needs a twerking intervention. She doesn’t look good doing it – she doesn’t look sexy or cool – she just comes off as incredibly desperate for attention.
And really, a tacky lap dance on stage? We get it already. You’re not a Disney princess anymore. Now please stop making a fool of yourself.
For a long time I thought she was just trolling… Having fun. But she seems hell bent of being edgy and controversial.
We’ve got enough Madonnas wannabes as it is, it’s not special anymore. If you want to be really different, do more stuff like that lilac song.
If I had her body I would be SO much better at dressing it..groan when are the high waisted mom shorts going to end? They don’t look good on anyone especially when they’re fuzzy
I have to remind myself that she is just a really immature 20 year old try hard that was clearly raised by parents that chose to be her friend & not be parents! Great example of the lack of respect she has for them is her recent tweet to her father!
If my 20 year old ever bragged about smoking pot & dressed like a hooker, she would totally be grounded!
I just don’t understand what Liam is doing with her, if indeed they are still even a couple.
The word “hater”really needs to be done away with.
This girl is what gives marijuana a bad name. It doesn’t make you so high that you act like a whore. You don’t run off at the mouth. You don’t get so high you don’t remember your name. You’re perfectly functional and aware of everything that you would be sober. Weed doesn’t mess you up in the ways that she’s describing it. I live in Washington and it’s legal here. Not one person who smokes that I know acts like Miley or the way she describes it. You’re telling me that Snoop Dog gets so high he doesn’t know his name? Uh no. You build a tolerance pretty easily to marijuana which does mean it takes more but it never puts you in the state that your memory is fucked.
She acts more like she’s on coke rather than smoking. He probably doesn’t remember her name because well look at her. All she’s done s further other people’s opinions that weed is that wacky tobaccy that everyone should steer clear from.
I’m ready for her fame to be up. So tired of little girls wanting attention so they drop a name or this or that.
@Dommy, well said. I’ve smoked weed for years and never been so messed up I can’t remember my own name- not even after eating seriously potent brownies. The most that’s ever happened to me is having a bag or Doritos and jar of salsa mysteriously “vanish” over the course of an evening. Her recent behaviour seems more stimulant/cocaine related than weed related. Being so high you can’t remember your own name sounds like something that would happen from using ketamine or (god forbid) large amounts of DXM.
“this girl is what gives marijuana a bad name” — THIS!
seems like she’s trying to use smoking weed to ‘be cool’ with the name dropping and other references
nothing worse than a thirsty try hard.
This is the first time I’ve looked at her and thought she was too skinny…
No, talking about being high and thinking it’s so cool is something that teenagers (like 14-17) do. I think perhaps Miley was pretty sheltered until a few years ago which is why she comes across as being so damned immature. Granted she is only 20 but you’d think growing up in show biz, she’d be TOO mature.
I used to really like her too. Until she became so try-hard it was painful to watch.
Thats a horrible outift!!!
On Jimmy, you see a lot of her profile and I swear she reminds me of a young Madonna in the face and hair.
I love how in her video and in her performance she’s like “my girls with the big butts” and out comes a black lady to shake her butt. Miley’s always gonna need the token black girl for that part of the song. Her whole ratchet persona is annoying. This is how she wants to break away from the good girl image.
I love how she’s said that this album feels like her first and she’s so disconnected from the others. Honey you’re doing what you’ve always been doing. Being the pre-packaged popstar. Your image, your look, your music, everything was decided basically for you. You just feel like you’re more in control now because they let you say some things here and there and respond to your haters. Same with Rihanna. This is all it is a concept. It doesn’t last. You are just doing it to make money.
And I heard her say Molly and it sounded like she switched it up to Miley later. And as annoying as she is, at least she sounds like the song when she’s live. Selena needs to take note.
This shows exactly what kind of ppl who are high are like. Idiots. No offence but yeah.
Not exactly. Really sick of that stereotype.
This is what, the kind of people who are high but can’t handle their shit (Bieber, Miley, Amanda Bynes), are like. You’d be surprised how many pot smokers are contributing members of society and responsible users, but can never admit as much due to the stigma.
+100 to anon33
the stigma needs to die. immature tw-ts like Bieber, Miley and Amanda Bynes are what keeps the stereotype going.
Yup…
You know it’s going downhill when you start giving drugs a bad name
+1 to anon33
Your statement is beyond false. People who smoke weed do not act the way Miley or any of the other young kids do. If anything they’re snorting so much cocaine and blaming it on marijuana. Educate yourself and look up what actually goes on when a person smokes weed versus street drugs. You’ll find the way Miley, Rhianna, Justin, Amanada (all those ‘smokers’) does not fit the criteria of marijuana but other things that are actually bad for your body and mind.
I swear the ignorance of marijuana needs to be cleared up and that should start with not allowing these young celebrities to even name drop it. It gives everyone who does actually smoke it a bad name.
Really tired of artists thinking that this pot smoker,sexy dancing and rebellious image sells,when the fact is that it looks so ridiculous and immature,there’s no uniqueness..they look and act all the same way,ugh!
I have nightmares about that hair, teeth, lipstick combo.
Except that the “record” for most viewed video in 24 hours isn’t that impressive; I think Psy surpassed that number by a lot. The only difference is that he doesn’t have Vevo.
Seriously. Psy was beating all the records. Mileys fans probably keep refreshing it to make numbers bigger.
Oh to be young and wear whatever you want! 😀
Hopefully she will record that cool country album someday, but let her be young and have some fun first! Ya gotta live some before you can do a great country song some justice! 🙂
*so annoying*
She’s just goofy. No amount of sexy dressing and being provocative and trying to be edgy will make her look like anything other than a gawky tomboy dressing sexy and looking like she’s playing dress-up. What happened to her teeth? That’s all I ever see. I don’t remember those big teeth years ago.
Those boots are amazing. That is all.
Perhaps she should have to changed the lyrics of “Jolene” to “jones-y, jones-y, jonse-y. I’m begging of you please don’t take my man…”
Wow those Lilac Wine and Jolene covers are heartbreaking…in a good way. What a shame this is the direction she decided to follow. I hope it’s a phase. She could actually have a career as a serious artist.
I don’t think she won anything. That Rebeca Black had millions views for that Friday thing and where is she now? Vanished.
Miley doesn’t understand how much many people hate her now after all that aggressive PR. She can’t undress herself in every video now. I wonder if she can go on tour and have public for it.
Yeah and it still looks like Liam dumped her and she won’t let him go. And that they will officially broke up after her album will came. Like Pattinson and Stewart.
She wears pretty much whatever she wants and does as she pleases with her physical appearance. To some that’s somehow ‘bad’ or ‘problematic’, but I say it’s harmless fun and more power to her, even if it doesn’t always look good.
Some very interesting stuff. It isn’t everyday I find something worth reading on the web.