Tuesday, 3 September 2013
[Gallery Updates] Heading to a recording studio
Wearing a vintage Versace shirt and denim shorts (get them HERE), Miley was pictured arriving at a recording studio in Studio City with brother Braison, yesterday (2nd Sep). She tweeted: "Versace. Versace. Versace. I wear that vintage Versace."
She also posted a photo of her and Braison saying "#SugaBearRecordz @Braisoncyrus".
Check out the candids in the gallery.
Monday, 2 September 2013
[Articles] The slut shaming of Miley Cyrus
I didn’t watch the VMA’s earlier this week. But while it was on I kept seeing posts on Facebook and Twitter about Miley Cyrus, how shameful she was, people wondering what happened to her, or commenting how her parents let her down. Not having seen her performance, or even knowing she had performed I wasn’t sure what was really happening. I thought maybe this was another case of a young starlet on a downward spiral.
Then I saw the video. To be honest, I didn’t really see what the issue was. Yes, it was a sexually charged performance. But so what? It’s not like this is the first time the VMAs have gone down this path.
I think what bothered most people is that the former Disney “good girl” is now a 20-year-old-woman embracing her power and sensuality. Our puritan society does not like that — or when any woman is sexually free, for that matter. But we especially don’t like it when our sweethearts — our “good girls” “grow up” — we assume that they must be spiraling downward. Something must be wrong with them.
But there’s another issue at hand, and one many seem to be missing: There’s an uproar over Miley being too sexual but nothing is said about Robin Thicke grinding on her or singing about the “blurred lines” of consent. This double standard is exactly why we have rape culture.
Robin Thicke was an equal partner in that exchange, yet he’s received very little criticism. Even his mother talks about Miley’s grinding on her son and not her son grinding on Miley. It’s the same reasoning behind why women who date younger men are called cougars but men who date younger women are just men. Or girls who get pregnant in high school are chastised and considered trash. The boys who got them pregnant get little more than a slap on the wrist.
In our society if a woman is overtly sexy or sexual, if she shows too much of her body, or if she, heaven forbid, likes sex she’s a slut and should be ashamed. And if she’s raped after being overtly sexual or showing too much skin, then she was asking for it.
As a mother of a young girl I’m often torn between society’s belief that I should raise her to “respect herself” by dressing modestly and the feeling that I want her love her body, no matter what it looks like. I don’t want my daughter growing up to think there is anything wrong with her body, that it’s dirty or shameful. I don’t want her to feel that if she is showing “too much” skin she’s diminishing her value. I want her to embrace her sexuality, not hide it or feel ashamed of it. I want her to not only find strength in her sexuality, I want her to feel power in it.
Why must we deny that we are also sexual beings to do that? We don’t just have sex to procreate. We have sex because we enjoy it. It feels good. It’s fun. It’s a way to connect with another person. And that’s all okay! It’s not that we don’t, or at least I don’t, want men to think of us (me) as sexual beings. It that we don’t want them to see us as just sexual beings.
Even if you don’t agree with me that Miley and Robin’s sexually charged performance was just fine or that Miley’s outfit wasn’t that big a deal, at least make sure you are holding both of them to the same standard. Don’t chastise Miley for being sexual but ignore that Robin. And don’t give him a pass for writing a song perpetuating rape culture and trying to pass it off as a feminist statement.
Sunday, 1 September 2013
[Fashion] Get the look update
Topshop Monster Sweat ($70) - Get it HERE
Topshop Monster Jogger ($70) - Get them HERE
Chanel Heart-Shaped Vintage Bag (Sold Out)
Unicorn Slippers ($30) - Get them HERE
Adidas Firebird Track Pants ($41) - Get them HERE
Adidas Trefoilssage Slides ($45) - Get them HERE
Similar top to the one from Missguided ($6) - Get it HERE
[Interviews] Miley admits she's 'messed up' in her most honest interview ever
Former Disney star Miley Cyrus has sensationally spoken of her fears for her health, admitting: “I’m messed up.”
In her most honest interview ever, the 20-year-old who shot to worldwide fame as Hannah Montana, told the Sunday People : “I have so many f***ing issues. I am so f***ed up – everyone does dumb stuff when they are messed up. I don’t have a normal life. I take a hiatus every now and again but I’m not good at that.”
I interviewed her as she promoted her hit UK single We Can’t Stop five weeks ago. She took the opportunity to discuss how tough she finds the travelling that comes with her job and how it leaves her with little time to eat or sleep. That, she says, is something she has to put up with.
Miley – daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus – said: “All I do is work, so I eat to live and to keep going. People are impressed with me because I can sleep for just 45 minutes – I’m used to it. I suppose I am a workhorse. I love being in the studio and when I take vacation I get so bored. I think of work as something I have to do. I’ve made a record so I have to promote it so I have to work to get it done – and then pass out. Because I work so much, I’m always on the road so I eat healthily. I have to give my body what it needs to keep going and if you don’t then you will crash and burn. I love soda (fizzy drinks) but I haven’t had one since I’ve been here in the UK. If I have a Coke I’m going to be ‘Aaargh!’ and in an hour I’ll crash. I don’t get to work out. I do yoga and 30 push-ups every day and try to get my mind right.”
Miley insists she never let herself become the goodie-two-shoes she played. She said: “During Hannah Montana I think people knew I was acting. I’ve never been able to hide anything, a bit like Justin Bieber. Others who have been on kids’ shows try to act like their characters – but I’m not like that. I never pretended I was as good as the Disney Channel writes. I don’t wear bright-coloured T-shirts and talk like this all the time. You will be amazed at some of the notes I got. Parents wrote in with messages saying things like, ‘I can’t believe she spoke to her dad like that’ or ‘I can’t believe she wore that shirt’ or ‘I can’t believe the lead actress has boobs’. It’s crazy. But they can’t make people not grow up.”
The MTV furore proves once and for all Miley is all grown up. In the wake of the show, she told fans her performance attracted an incredible 306,000 tweets a minute. That outstrips the Superbowl, the ratings-topping climax to the American football season.
And she quoted music mag Rolling Stone: “Miley was the one star in the room who understood what the awards are about. Thanks, Miley.”
Friend and ex-Disney star Selena Gomez also defended her, saying: “Amazing. It was awesome.”
[News] Una Healy defends Miley
The Saturdays singer Una Healy says pop star Miley Cyrus should have the freedom “to express herself” and be “herself”.
Healy supports the “We can’t stop” hitmaker for her controversial performance at the MTV Video Music Awards last week.
“Miley is going down a different road now that she’s a grown woman rather than a Disney teenager,” Healy posted in her blog for Heat magazine, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
“Personally, I don’t see why she shouldn’t. She’s her own person and she should be free to express herself,” added Healy.
The 31-year-old also feels Cyrus is behaving no differently than the likes of pop stars Madonna and Lady Gaga. Healy says she enjoyed Cyrus’ performance.
“Madonna was always controversial with her outfits and performances and of course Lady Gaga has shocked people in the past. I can see how it might offend some people but personally I really enjoyed it,” said Healy.
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