I'm not buying Miley Cyrus' embarrassment and apology over the Vanity Fair pictures. She knew what she was doing and was probably thrilled to be shot by Annie Leibovitz. As I've learned from my fourteen year-old niece, fifteen is the new twenty (in their mind, anyway). It's sad and disturbing, but true.
But that's to be expected. She wants to play in the big leagues and shed the good girl image and someone thought this was a good idea.
No, my issue is that regardless of whether fifteen is the new twenty and regardless of whether Miley Cyrus may be looking more to Lindsay Lohan as a role model than say Anne Hathaway or Jodie Foster, her father and "handlers" as well as Vanity Fair and Annie Leibovitz should have thought twice on this one (or at least once).
If these were photos of a fifteen year-old boy in a towel found on some high school teacher's hard drive, he'd be headed to jail right now. And that, frankly should be the smell taste.
Heck, even the picture of Miley with her father is kind of, uh, gross. Why someone would pose like that with his daughter is beyond me.
Having said all this, I'm not going to act all outraged like the NY Post or all the other media outlets and media empires whose content promotes and celebrates the exact behavior and attitudes they are now all feigning disgust over. They will use this to feast on and distract us from what really matters.
Of course, we let ourselves get easily distracted so we get what we deserve.
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Please! They're ALL in on it to sell freakin' magazines. No one has a career like Annie or Miley by sheer luck. They all know EXACTLY what they're doing. Remember sweet Britney and her snake?? Excuse me while I sleep through THIS one....
Not the point. Want to exploit kids and teens for money, go for it. Sex? That's a little squishy. Kids are sexualized enough, don't need Annie Leibovitz and VF to continue the push down to the gutter. Of course, both of the above lost their relevance years ago.
I'm more creeped out by the "daddy and me" shots. Ewww.
Oh, and I doubt that girl (or her father) ever heard of Leibovitz prior to the shoot. Someone probably showed her AL's portfolio and teen Cyrcus thought "neato, that lady took pictures of the lady that's married to Ashton Kutcher."
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