How Is This Different From A Motley Crue Show?
Tuesday, August 27, 2013 at 12:01AM Apparently the world is imploding because Miley Cyrus was suggestive on the MTV Video Music Awards Sunday night. I didn't even watch the awards show because I don't really listen to pop music and metal never gets covered on the VMAs.
Anyway, everyone at work was talking about Miley so I watched a clip on YouTube. Granted, you'd never see me prancing around on stage like she did Sunday night... I'm also not a famous singer trying to make the jump from teen star to adult icon. Quite frankly, she looked like a Motley Crue backup dancer to me. Anyone who owns the Carnival of Sins DVD knows what I'm talking about. What Miley did wasn't original in my book. It always seems like when a woman acts suggestive on stage, media types go bonkers. When a man does it, the world yawns. Discuss.
Reader Comments (34)
She stacked the deck, whore'd it up and rolled, slithered & simulated self gratification sex all over an MTV Awards show stage in a slutty version of a wedding dress.
The shock & outrage of that single 3 & 1/2 minute performance made her brand new 2nd LP a huge smash, and launched her career into the stratosphere.
I wonder, What ever became of ol' Madge?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXPMLTmpPpY
They actually kept your attention by playing well written pop/metal tunes & had a great "rock & roll road warrior" stage persona. The fact they they were only minimally adept at their instruments didn't matter. They knew how to rock, even if it only took 2 chords. They knew how to groove!
Unfortunately drugs,excess & apathy set in & they got lazy, and individual band members thought they were better than they really were. And then it all turned to sh*t.
2 sexy backup singers added to the band was one thing. Needing a sluttified sideshow onstage with you, to show how badass you think you are, just proves how badassed you AREN'T. They should have hung it up for good at that point.
But... Those Livenation checks for millions of $$$ sure do come in handy, when you're selling your self out & you have to keep bailing your alcoholic murdering singer out of jail on a consistent basis.
After one of his solo shows in '96, while hanging out with Vince Neil and Jani Lane, Vince was talking about getting back together with the Crue. His exact words were "I f***'n hate those guys but you know what, for a million bucks, I'll do it"
I'd say the cash grab has been going on for a lot longer than 10 years.
The haircut has to go too.
The more things change...
Living through the 80's with my mind still firmly entrenched in the gutter, I gotta yawn and congratulate Cyrus for accomplishing her goal: attention/any pub is good pub.
With social media the world is like high school. Lame reasons for fatish mothers to complain and type on their Iphones while eating snickers, watching Oprah instead of cleaning the god damn house while her husband punches the clock. Janes said it right "nothing's shocking".
Wake up glammers.....keep the spirit alive!
Miley is a role model to preteen girls (for better or worse), and should be conscious of that when shamelessly whoring for publicity on a national platform.
Neither the virtually talentless Madonna, Cyrus or Spears can carry a tune, write their own stuff, choreograph, etc., and can barely dance. And though GaGa can twerk with the best of them and showed more a*s than anyone during the broadcast, she didn't do the former and didn't need to do the latter. The difference with her is it's not just about shock, it's about art. Pop Art.
GaGa topped 'em all.
That's painfully obvious on two fronts...
1) The Music, which ROCKS at a Crüe show and does the opposite on the VMAs. Where, oh, where did Rock & Roll go?
2) With Crüe, all the twerking, etc., is done by backup dancers, whereas with Cyrus, she is the main performer, if you could call what she's doing "performing".
Still, to be quite honest, I found the show quite fascinating from beginning to end. The real winners of the show, in my mind, are all the set designers, costume designers, choreographers and producers. As stupid as it was at times, this years VMAs broadcast was one of THE most entertaining in recent memory.
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And MB, you're so correct about GaGa's ability. Girl flushes more talent every morning than the 3 you mentioned.(Although I will give Madonna credit for having incredible business acumen)