Miley Cyrus: My Two Cents

We have all witnessed the rise and fall of Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan. Both girls enjoyed enormous success before age 18 (Britney at 16, Lindsay at 16) and both went on to self-destruct in recent memory. Both had relative potential in their chosen fields. Now, both are laughing stocks in the gossip blog world.

Will Miley Cyrus be spared the same fate?

I highly doubt it. Annie Lebowitz photographed the 15-year-old star for Vanity Fair. The pictures are really not that bad. Sort of artistic. A far cry from the ‘wardrobe malfunctions’ of her older predecessors. However, she is only 15. She cannot legally drive. Yet, she is being displayed ‘topless’ wrapped in a sheet for the entire world to see…and for her parents, magazines, and the Miley Cyrus empire to profit off of her.

My main problem with this whole scenario is girls are not allowed to be girls anymore. This teen queen has not even celebrated her sweet 16 yet, and she’s already posing provacatively and becoming the source of wet dreams for sickos everywhere. Her fans are in the same situation. Being 15 today is like being 25. And I, as a 24 year old woman, feel so far behind this underage jailbait movement that I may never be as ‘hip’ as they seem to think they are. You look at them, then me, and you think they are the 25 year olds. But in reality, I feel for them. I had a childhood. I sort of enjoyed that in between stage where I was “not [really] a girl, not [really] a woman.” I got to be 15.

Miley Cyrus didn’t cause this. Britney Spears didn’t cause this. Parents who allowed this trend to continue caused this. The media created an age where girls are pimped out so they (the media) can make a buck. And the victims? Just look at Britney Spears. She is a lost, spoiled, sick little girl who is in over her head, lost her children, and who is, I’d be willing to guess, the loneliest person in the world. Other girls suffer the same fate by turning to drugs, carelessness, and sex to validate their existance.

I feel sorry for Miley. She’s in for a world of trials before she’s actually an established, successful adult as she desperately wants to be in this shoot. At the end of the day, she is only at child.

~ by imtindomeiel on April 29, 2008.