These days, everybody’s talking Miley. Miley and her Vanity Fair photos. Miley and her so-called indecent photos by Annie Leibovitz. Miley and her official apologies for posing so undressed in Vanity Fair.
She features the June Issue of Vanity Fair, not even on the cover, and she already has the world talking ups and downs about the photo shoot. People are making financial assumptions (rumor has it there will be some stock effects on Disney), next you know, they’ll be making a subculture, a subreligion dealing with those pictures. What’s it all about? Well, this:
It’s not so damaging, right? Then again, it’s a 15 years old girl posing there… It doesn’t make it so normal anymore. Especially when reading that 15 years old Disney sensation Miley thinks that “This looks pretty, and really natural. I think it’s really artsy.” Besides an undead, unnatural, vampire-like look, I can’t see anything appropriate to her age in this famous sitting. But then again, that’s my eye and we all know how the world is hungry for another Brit case. Again, I’m not speculating, I’m not taking any controversial part, I’m just asking if this looks natural or artsy to you!
(photos via vanityfair)
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You know Kpriss, I always wondering why the (average) American are/is so prude. What’s the matter with these pics? Nothing, they are like Annie L. always take. It’s an artistic expression, these pics and I saw them all at the office are so innocent, that I really wonder why there is such a fuss about it. She even had to apologize? Is this all about her good name (till sofar) as Hanna Montana? Miley was actually proud on this pics and now suddenly if you read the US newspapers she isn’t anymore? These are innocent pics of a young girl who can make it in live (with or without Disney). It would be different if she did a shooting for Playboy and that kind of magazines. I’m really surprised what all the fuss is about and there is not any kind of controversy between you and me (this time) hahaha.
I forgot something. Since I’m living in Italy I can’t follow all the rumours of stories about her, but didn’t she has a huge singing? tour in the States? and was beloved by all the teens and even their mothers?
Hi kpriss, everything still fine overthere speaking about little girls? I hope so.
Coincidentally ‘Oprah’ which I hardly watch I can’t stand Ms Winfrey anymore these days….brrrrrrr….but sometimes I like to see her guests but more as a kind of observation. Anyway Oprah had Miley Cyrus and her father Billy Ray Cyrus as guests. After reading your piece and read all the fuss about this girl and that photo I found that interesting to watch being a foreigner, living in another culture. So I rushed to the tv last night. I know who she is and the hype around her, knows her father’s music so…..What I saw was not the usual 14 year old. She was 14 as she told the audience so this was clearly a repeat as we always get here.
This was or is a too young girl living a life of an adult but doesn’t go to school and has rules -after all this is Oprah- at home as every normal 14 year old. When Oprah asked if she found herself normal she answered with a firm “no” until my surprise. And she spent her “pocket-money” on a crocodile bag?? Of course she’s not a “normal” teen. While she looked like an older girl her daddy almost 50 tries to look as a 30 year old. It was beyond bizarre to watch these two! There were very young kids like 5 years old and even younger(!!) who got to see Hanna Montana as a well known Oprah-surprise. So not Miley Cyrus but Hanna Montana! They went mad, cried et all when they got confronted with their herion who did appear as Miley Cyrus by the way. The moms went mad when daddy came on stage. It was all too bizarre and very amusing at the same time.
Back to that photo. No, this photo doesn’t look natural or artsy to me at all. Not appropiate? Not in the eyes of a mother. What was Leibovitz thinking? What about the parents’ “normal teen rules?” It seems so normal these days to portray young girls like this. See the fashion industry too. Alas for Disney and miss Oprah but even more so for all her young fans Hanna/Miley isn’t that innocent young girl (anymore). That’s impossible with such a childhood. Leibovitz as well as Montana/Cyrus apologised to the mighty Disney company. What a joke! And hypocrite too. In no time Miley doesn’t need “Hanna” and therefore Disney anymore she made that clear to pose like this and does tour already in a bus with her whole family.
To me it is kid-explatation, same as in the fashion world. I’m not prudish at all. On the contrary. But there’s a limit for me when it comes to age in cases like this. It’s almost like being a kid isn’t allowed anymore……….
So this doesn’t look artsy or natural to me but more like to pleasure certain people? And Miley loves it that’s clear and knows exactly why she poses like this she can’t fool me and so can’t Annie Leibovitz.
(P.S. Sometimes it is so hard to make something clear in what’s not your mothers tongue I hope I’ve made some sense…here we go to click on submit…???? )
Artsy vs. Natural? Well, I guess if I had to pick between the two I would say that the photo is more “artsy” than anything else.
I don’t understand why people are freaking out. She doesn’t have a sex tape out there on the net, right?
the photo is actually beautiful. very artsy. nothing wrong with a 15 year old posing like that. it doesn’t look like she’s seducing anyone.
very nice photo of her. i love it.
@ Former posters, I must be old fashioned. I wouldn’t though if this was an older girl. But the signals she or/and Annie Leibovitz gives are very explicit. Some men get arrested for only own this kind of photos or has view them on sites. But if it is done by Annie Leibovitz……And I’m very protective towards young girls.
Maybe out of the context but if this is ok, why is Billy Bob Thornton’s 14 year old son a criminal because he has an affair -as it is rumoured- with a 22 year old girl? Or is the 22 year old girl the “criminal”? I’m confused now you see…….
Apologises to editor kpriss for the long replies. But I’m just aware of the phenomenon Cyrus/Montana.
It is a nice photo. Not that great. But the girl is too young to pose like that and therefore this doesn’t look natural or artsy to me.
I sometimes think that when dealing with public persons, everyone has their saying. And that wouldn’t be something wrong, of course everyone’s entitled to an opinion, but when talking about a public face 15 years old like she’s completely depicted of age it’s plain odd. It’s not puritanism, it’s not even exaggeration, it’s common empathy. For instance, if you take an average mother and ask her if she’ll aloud her teen age daughter to pose like that and having sent those picture all around the world, I highly doubt she would be so “understanding”.
When I first found the picture, I didn’t wanted to get to the moral bottom of the story, I just found her face strangely vampire-ish and led me into thinking she looked very much like a character played by Kirsten Dunst in the movie Interview With A Vampire (if you’re not familiar with the motion picture, the character was a little girl who became a vampire and later on, she realized the main disadvantage – she remained young/little forever even if she grew up in her head).
Undressed or provocative, Miley Cyrus is a media product and, as such, she should behave in the limits of her media personality. Unless she’s preparing to take over another media personality, this kind of pose is unlikely acceptable for her statute.
(Valerio, I’m no teenage mother, my kids are far younger than that… and no, I don’t fall into the Cyrus Senior fan category either, so, sincerely, I have nothing coming in the way of my fair judgment as far as these two are involved)
(Adriana, no need to apologize, we like comments full of substance, so when there’s something to say, don’t hold back on any account)
Kpriss I’m deeply sorry if you felt offended, by my words wasn’t she beloved by the teens and their mothers during her tour. My remark was meant for the general public and not to you personally. At the same time I understand what Adriana is saying about this 15 year old girl and her photoshooting. Let’s make one thing clear I still belive that there is no harm caused by this shooting. I actuall see these kind of pics more as photo’s which belongs in a family album rather then in whatever magazine. Arriverderci and I hope everything is alright with the little one and of course you and the family.
she looks awful, she does look like she step out of an interview with a vampire only that she forgot her clothes and had to wrap herself with a blanket, she looks pretty dead and vampire-like to me
she looks like the joker in dark knight, horrible and creepy!!!
No harm done, Valerio! I didn’t take it personally, just saying I wasn’t obscured in my observations by any admiration for this media-family.
Thank you, we’re doing fine, both girls in excellent health and condition and all the family ecstatic for the little princess!
Lula, Dulce, glad you saw the resemblance too! I was curious (when I first saw the pics) if this undead look was intentional!
I’ve seen that photo-shoot and the inteview on the Vanity Fair site some days ago. I’m far more disturbed now by the way father and daughter Cyrus do pose together……I leave it to this.
[...] It wasn’t that long that I asked myself (and everyone else) what was the story with the Miley Vanity Fair’s pictures, now this?! Well, Annie middle-name-Controversy Leibovitz, hasn’t this movie had enough publicity [...]
Miley has been my total role modle until now. she looks goth and she thinks this behavor is ok ya right! I know evrybody makes mistakes but think to yourself this girl is 15 and i dont know about you but i dont do dirty pics like that and nither do my friends or anyone i know of miley was totally in the wrong here!!! and if you think this is ok… well lets just say evryone is intitled to there own opinon!!! I want the best for miley and hope she makes the right choice next time and i think that friend of hers (dont know her name but that back up dancer shes hanging out with) is RUDE she dosnt let miley hang with her own friends anymore evryones going to HATE HER if she keeps this up!
in the ´comic`she doesn` t beutiful. In this fhoto she is stupid. And now I´m not you fa. sorry but is true
[...] do appreciate her style, and her magnetism. She seems to have not only an eye for art, but also for controversy. And she sure has a uniqueness to her work (at least the fashion magazines work). Love her or hate [...]
I think people who are saying this photo is revealing or horrible you are very wrong. Its not like miley was nude and showing off her body. The photographer was trying to create a message. And who really knows what that message was. But you should know that the photographer wasnt trying to create a dirty or vulgur message. She was trying to create art. Sure mothers and little children were offened by their dear “Hannah Montana” looking scary and in a sheet on the cover of a magazine. But miley is on to bigger and better things she is not the little girl she was when filming hannah montana she is 15 soon to be sixteen and if you take a look at society today normal teens are doing alot worse. So give miley a break for god’s Sake!!!!!
Just a question for Miley’s perspective: what’s the point of wanting to deliver a message if people don’t get what the message really is? What was the message for you?
If you think about it its kinda like one of those weird commercials where you have no idea why they are showing it or what its about but you are watching it and you have to take from it what you thought it meant and you cant go and ask someone oh what did you think of this commercial because each person will put it in their own point of view and if you took someone elses’s point of view then that means you cant speak for yourself and form your own opinion and that is what everyone else is doing to miley. Just becuase one ineresting photo was shot and one guy says “hey thats kinda provacative i bet i could sell it to the press and get a lot of money. And everyone else chose to beleive and go along with that story not giving any thought to what the picture actually could have been. I think that a message sent out that not many people might have noticed was that it is time for hannah montana parents to wake up because they were mostly the ones who were mad and i dont mean to be harsh but miley is moving away from hannah montana, and in the celeb world today young girls are doinh worse like vannessa hudgens naked schemme or sumthing or other and miley is growing up so people need to stop treating her so little. The way these photos were created was thgrough a vision and there wasnt really a message these photos were purely to sow art creativity and beauty and people who believe otherwise need to stop wathching so much tv!
There’s so little creativity in taking advantage of one’s early celebrity to turn everything into pouring cash. No matter how things are looked at, Miley still is a teenager, a delicate time in a girl’s life where messages shouldn’t be transmitted otherwise than in a natural progression of her age and status.
(btw - I never watch TV ;) you should try it from time to time, it’s refreshing)
Kpriss…I understand how you could interpret this picture as provocative but when looking at this photo in her eyes, do you see any kind of raunchy look or any suggestive themes at all? I am not a fan of her music, although she does have an amazing voice, but I can still see the innocence portrayed and I have no idea whatsoever why you would find this photo offensive at all. Now tell me. Look at this photo and tell me that these two are not artistically the same. They are both of young girls with the only part of their body exposed is their backs. The only difference is you will not look at this priceless painting and call her the next brittany spears or scorning this girl for posing for a purely artistic photo that shows nothing inapropriate whatsoever. She simply posed for a truely art orientated photo and of course, as with all young stars, the internet is a breeding ground for malicious and slanderous rumors. This 15 year old girl has done nothing wrong and if anyone has been inapropriate it is people like you who set out on a manhunt to find something wrong with every star.
Kelsey, if you would’ve read the article, it would’ve been clear to you that I don’t take sides nor do I judge her in any way besides her age and what 15 years girls are supposed to do at that moment in their lives. I only asked if the picture looked natural or artsy.
What I meant? Simple - a 15years old, charged with being her generation’s idol should know better than to set bad examples. Pictures of her linking to the media where she repeatedly exposes parts of her body in explicit provocative manner aren’t quite that innocent. Supposing this pose is unintentionally explicit, how do you explain the “natural pose”? The painting you used to exemplify your point of view is a relatively normal moment in a girl/woman’s everyday life, the mirror routine. Now if you look at Miley and tell me she’s in one of those routines, I’d say you’re imagining things. She’s posing directly to the camera. She’s looking strangely unchildish.
What I think she wanted to say by posing that way? That she wants to be taken seriously. That she wants people to see that she’s growing up. Fast.
Why I think this picture is completely inappropriate? Because young personalities are easy to tempt and because there are some personality disordered men out there very pleased by her tender age and daring pose.
People like me, people like you are entitled to an opinion. Seeing a manhunt in free expression is delusional.
miley cyrus looks artsy but nothings wrong with the photo its looks petty as what she said miley. people make it a big deal thinking shes going to change and going to get kicked of and have a horrible life cm people shes not naked in the photo shes covered.
Love the photo miley
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