Twerking Thursday

I can’t twerk, I look like I have ants in my pants whenever I try. So needless to say, this is not a literal title with a how-to video. I’m dedicating this post on this lovely Thursday to one of the people I’ve found myself wasting way too much time on lately – you guessed it, the twerk queen herself, Miley Cyrus.

Rolling Stone just released her cover shot and interview and after reading it, my weird infatuation with the little freak simply grew. As a PR person who checks social media 76 times a day, I love nothing more than a watching people react to a good scandal or crisis. When Miley cut her hair and started twerking up on any stationary object she could find, I IMMEDIATELY started following her on Twitter/Instagram. Why, you ask? Because it’s entertaining!

After the whole VMA’s thing with Robin Thicke, Miley became the most talked about celeb out there, but she also lost some fans. So let’s look at why, in my humble, unprofessional opinion, this was a good move.

1.       She’s 20-something, in celebrity years she’s basically 43. She literally CAN’T be the Hannah Montanna bubble-gum popstar that she was before. But because the general public has such a hard time dealing with change (i.e. Ben Afflect as Batman – c’mon guys, a petition, really?) Miley could only separate herself from that side of her by destroying the Hannah Montana image. Hence the haircut, tongue, tattoos, twerking, etc. She became the furthest thing from Hannah Montana as she could, showing people she’s just not gonna be that person anymore.

2.       There were like, 360k tweets PER MINUTE during her VMA’s performance. “Um, publicity? Yeah, you’re my bitch.” – Miley.

3.       As we can see from her 2 recent vids – We Can’t Stop & Wrecking Ball – she’s already starting to calm it down a bit. She’s not Billy Ray’s little princess anymore, but she’s also not Marilyn Manson. Once people begin to accept the new her, I bet she’ll slow down and transcend into a regular million dollar singer who doesn’t always lick everything. She admitted it in her Rolling Stone interview, stating that she’ll “probably never do that shit again,” when referring to the twerking and the licking. She’s set the crazy bar so high, that she can only go normal from here.

4.       Kanye texts her to tell her she’s doing it right.

She knew exactly what she was doing when she made this change and I applaud her for it. She dresses like tween going through an identity crisis, but the chick is cool as eff (completely basing this off of things I read on the magical interwebs). She knows what she wants and what she’s doing, it’s not a matter of rebelling. She’s a business lady (in the most unclassiest sense).

SO, that’s how I feel about Miss Cyrus. Let me know if you agree/disagree.

Wine at the time: none - I've gone through a stint of drinking craft beer. Sorry for betraying you, Wine Gods. But why not give Schneider Weisse Aventinus a try! It's delicious.