It's the age of 0bama ... no resistance ... voting present.
Posted on 09/03/2013 4:48:16 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
Was the MTV performance meant to be repellent rather than enticing?
An older generation used to call the boredom of bad habits “reaching rock bottom”; the present variant perhaps is “jumping the shark” — that moment when the tiresome gimmicks no longer work, and the show is over.
In a moral sense, Miley Cyrus reached that tipping point for America, slapping us into admitting that most of our popular icons are crass, talentless bores, and that our own tastes, which created them, lead nowhere but to oblivion.
After all, what does an affluent and leisured culture do when it has nothing much to rebel against?
That was poor Ms. Cyrus’s recent dilemma at the MTV awards ceremony. There are no real rules about popular dance anymore: no set steps, no moves borrowed from ballet, not even a few adaptations from scripted square dancing. It is all free-form wiggling and gyrating — twerking — as if to shout out, “Who are you to say that fake screwing in a vinyl bikini is not dance?”
The same is true of music and lyrics. You can talk to a drumbeat and call it music. You can hit the same chord ad infinitum and call it music. You can scream almost anything and call it music. Doggerel becomes lyrics. (snip)
Instead we live in a psychodramatic age of virtual oppression and feigned want, in which “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is updated with Oprah’s melodramatic account of being denied a closer look at a $38,000 Swiss handbag.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
It's the age of 0bama ... no resistance ... voting present.
VDH ping.
That picture certainly puts a bit of devilish taint to all of this
Lol after looking at Cyrus those cows look kinda hot!
If she had been one of the original Mousekeeters her career would be over for good...
Happened across one of her “music” videos this weekend. First and hopefully the last time I’ll see one.
Imagery, costume, and her cheap stripper act were all the same. Including the tongue sticking out and emulation of sex acts.
She has the body of a 12 year old boy.
LOL...
Boy did she ever hit rock bottom during that show. She looked like a complete idiot and proved she has no class. It was painful to watch. At least Lady Gaga can sing and shows some restraint though I don’t care or her that much. Miley killed what was left of her career.
Great pictorial....she obviously thinks that snake like tongue is sexy.....
With no talent how do you get to the top of your field? Try a gimmick of course! Unfortunately they all seem to go for the same gimmick. I’d like to see one try something new, maybe like supporting traditional values. To quote Chong; ‘they ought to sell allot of records with that gimmick....”
It's been said we'll never see another Rolling Stones or Elvis. To get ahead, performers play the celebrity game. And those entertainment manipulators just are not interested in an expensive group or act that does things their own way.
Miley Cyrus represents the same thing gangsta rap, the Kardasians, and extremely violent entertainment do. We've crash burned as a culture. How much longer can a civilization last after it is void of positive cultural values?
(I'm feeling a bit philosophical today)
“In a moral sense, Miley Cyrus reached that tipping point for America, slapping us into admitting that most of our popular icons are crass, talentless bores, and that our own tastes, which created them, lead nowhere but to oblivion.”
Bores should be boors.
one trick Do I Really Need To Say It?
her mother was in the audience and there is video of her wildly applauding her daughter’s slut show
therein lies Miley’s problem. Billy Ray must be too stoned for too many years to have done anything about the decline of his daughter into desperate exhibitionism
no one has asked miley or her parents if her 14 yr old sister enjoyed the show
Terrific comparisons! LOL!
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