{"id":912,"date":"2011-09-08T07:57:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T11:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/?p=912"},"modified":"2011-09-08T07:57:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T11:57:06","slug":"miley-cyrus-or-miley-siren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/09\/miley-cyrus-or-miley-siren.html","title":{"rendered":"Miley Cyrus or Miley Siren?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about having her cake and eating it too.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hannah Montana<\/em> star <strong>Miley Cyrus<\/strong> seems ashamed of the squeaky-clean image she spawned and cashed in on as star of that show.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame, and it&#8217;s a part of the bad is good, good is bad mentality that so many people have in this day and age.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People see me as this perfect Disney star, and <a title=\"Miley Cyrus Thanks Joan Jett for Never Apologizing (People)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,,20525920,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">the moment I put out a record that says &#8216;I&#8217;m not 11 years old anymore,&#8217; people look down on me,&#8221; Cyrus told Jett, according to People magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cyrus is referring to rocker <strong>Joan Jett<\/strong> (&#8220;I Love Rock and Roll) as a role-model, an odd choice of someone decades older, and perhaps just an odd choice period.<\/p>\n<p>Cyrus, who has been photographed in provocative dress recently, seems torn for making millions of dollars as a &#8220;clean cut&#8221; kid who now wants to abandon that image but still be loved.<\/p>\n<p>You only need to watch about a minute of her video, &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Be Tamed&#8221; to see what direction Cyrus is headed in.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Miley Cyrus - Can&#039;t Be Tamed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sjSG6z_13-Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Being accepted for who you are sounds great and ideal, but who exactly is Miley Cyrus?<\/p>\n<p>Does she even know who she is or who she wants to be?<\/p>\n<p>Did &#8220;being good&#8221; as she was in Hannah Montana destroy Miley Cyrus?<\/p>\n<p>Or is pretending to be bad, as she may well be doing now, going to hurt her even more in the long run?<\/p>\n<p>To me, there was nothing wrong with Miley being cute, decent and sweet as a youngster.<\/p>\n<p>The mentality that we have to embrace &#8220;rotten-ness&#8221; as we get older as a sign of so-called maturity is just plain wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>FOR A LOOK AT THE SPORTS OF THE DAY CHECK OUT: http:\/\/www.heapsgoodstuff.com\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about having her cake and eating it too. 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