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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsMiley Cyrus is punk as fuck
(yes original headline)
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/miley-cyrus-is-punk-as-fuck
Punk rock is like art. You just sorta know it when you see it. After a while, you get pretty good at sifting out the real punk rock from the bullshit. As someone who has wasted his entire life in punk rockboth real and bullshit, I can authoritatively say that Miley Cyrus is the most punk rock musician around right now.
I want to be clear that I say that with 100% sincerity and without the slightest hint of the lame irony that people love attaching to everything these days. This isnt like handlebar moustaches which people love even though they make make dudes look like porn stars from the 1930s. Im saying I truly believe Miley is punk as fuck. More punk rock than all the mascara-wearing dorks playing the Warped Tour, more punk rock than old-ass bands on their third reunion tours, more punk rock than you or me.
How did Miley Cyrus go from being that cute little blonde TV character to being a punk icon? Well, after her Hannah Montana days where she...where she, um...actually, I dont know anything about the show now that I think about it. Didnt she wear a wig and live in a hotel with two creepy twin boys or something? Anyway, after she walked away from that Disney kiddie shit, Miley decided, Hey, you know what? Im young, Im rich enough to sleep on a huge pile of cash every night, and I have the body of a goddamn cheerleader. Its high time I started enjoying life! And she did. Emphasis on the high time part because to Miley, enjoying life means doing copious amounts of drugs, hanging out with every rich hipster in LA, and making videos about doing copious amounts of drugs and hanging out with every rich hipster in LA. And good for her.
The whole time shes been living her debaucherous post-Hannah lifestyle, shes had people telling her not to act a certain way or that its somehow wrong according to some bullshit set of standards the online community of P.C. fascist bloggers made up. Every other day theres some überliberal dork writing a piece for Slate or the Huffington Post entitled something like Is It Racist To Point Out The Sexism Of Something Something Miley Cyrus? But while theyre all trying to wrap their Ivy League brains around Mileys latest video where shes having her ass slapped by black ladies, Miley is already on to the next video where shes riding a wrecking ball naked, fellating a sledgehammer. Jokes on you, blogger dickheads!
*more at link*
Never thought of her as punk, huh.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)not buying it.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Taverner
(55,476 posts)The more I think of his article, the more I realize - he's not wrong, he just suffers from a limited experience.
No, for new punk don't go to the old Germs' records, go look at indie, and see where punk is just a mere flavor, on the palette of new music.
Chan790
(20,176 posts)Everybody else is writing about what a poseur Cyrus is so this vapid head thought they'd ascribe faux sincerity to Cyrus's posing to assuage their post-irony like of Miley Cyrus.
Lame.
Throd
(7,208 posts)Taitertots
(7,745 posts)Doing drugs and hanging out with rich LA hipsters? That makes it sound like she is a hipster.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)That's the author's point
Hayabusa
(2,135 posts)derby378
(30,252 posts)I'd like to see Miley compose and sing something like this:
lame54
(35,138 posts)but it would have a whole different meaning
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,299 posts)..."listening" to Wesley Willis.
I listened to the original link, and, apparently, many other Willis links after that.
That hopefully accounts for the amount of lost time in my life which cannot be accounted for.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)Amerigo Vespucci
(30,885 posts)Iggy Pop (with or without The Stooges) was/is punk as fuck.
The Sex Pistols were/are punk as fuck.
Lou Reed was/is punk as fuck.
Miley is a poseur, someone who is trying too hard. It should look effortless. With Miley, it's never effortless. And she's not a punk, she's just addicted to attention.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Yeah, look at me! I'm a little girl who throws middle fingers! I'm soooooo angry!
steve2470
(37,457 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Lindsey Lohan will end up being her idol.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Miley, not so much
Kablooie
(18,571 posts)It's more pony. Kind of horse mouthed.
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)Tikki
(14,539 posts)This a PUNK:
Tikki
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)From thy fancys chaste couch drive her. Hes a fool wholl strive to swive her! ...
-- John Barth
The Sot-Weed Factor
Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)Is this writer trying to get in her pants by blowing smoke up her ass? What a sycophant!
BTW, Miley. . .your music sucks, your TV was lame and your right-wing, douchey father can kiss my achy-breaky ass!
a la izquierda
(11,784 posts)JCMach1
(27,544 posts)better than anything she has done before.
However, it isn't punk.
Memo to Miley: do an unplugged show...! Get some music street-cred.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)he's making some kind of point, not sure exactly what. He's making fun of something, possibly his readers.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Hey @MileyCyrus! Haven't heard back from you on my article yet. Only every humorless dummy on the internet so far. http://bit.ly/16IAXp9
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)wyldwolf
(43,865 posts)... as her song goes, "and hell yes I'm your mother fuckin' princess!"