I imagined if back then I’d been offered the opportunity to see what MTV would look like 30 years in the future, I’d have initially been thrilled, and then when I got to see it I’d have been horrifically disappointed. It was one of the first contemporary music videos I saw. I remember Ronnie James Dio singing “Die Young” with Black Sabbath. I reflected on the time I first saw MTV, when it came out in the 80’s. They can win the top awards while people still need to reassure one another that they can actually sing at all. Somehow it doesn’t even matter anymore if they are second or third rate vocalists. Music has taken the backseat to acting, and the new superstars are performers rather than musicians. Music has become all about dancing, and whoever the front person or people are strutting their stuff and stroking their egos and crotches. Not one of the featured musicians played an instrument. When I made it I’d seen some of the video in question, but I haden’t watched the whole thing OR the VMA awards night performances. My original inspiration was to make one of my horrendously bad “ funny fan art” pieces celebrating the magical twerking highlight of Cyrus’s performance, but it ended up being a caricature, or even a political cartoon. Aside from the inappropriateness of her more lurid gestures (crotch grabbing and wielding a giant hand with an extended finger as it if were a cock), her tongue was out so much that dogs would think she was their mother.īelow is a selection of her more extravagantly trashy gestures and poses. I only know about her performance because a couple other bloggers I read posted links to the video of her “ twerking” (booty-shaking-dancing). Trashy because of the overtly sexual moves, and sad because they weren’t sexy. Miley did a performance that looked too much like part of a striptease dance, and too little like singing a song. MTV showcased this year’s Video Music Awards (VMA) on August 25th. Blaming Miley Cyrus for her catastrophic, soft-porn performance at VMA is like holding Frankenstein’s monster accountable for HIS actions. And as a friend of mine pointed out, Miley’s performance had to be planned, choreographed, and rehearsed. “Frankenstein” wasn’t the monster, it was Dr. She’s a puppet created by the music industry to generate revenue, and the people running the show are ultimately responsible for the tragedy. I don’t blame Miley herself for being a product prepackaged for teenage girls, or even for her (probably contrived) attempt to break out of the mold and emerge as an adult “bad girl”. For me listening to her tunes would feel so immature and boring it would be like drinking baby formula. I’m too old, too male, and overly fond of music. I couldn’t care less about it and I’m not part of the target demographic. Mil ey Cyrus i s a “teen idol” created by Disney who became an adult and decided to change her image. I say “this time” because I made a B&W drawing about a week ago, and didn’t say Jack Diddley about what the image was about. If you don’t know what this is all about – because you’ve been lucky enough to miss the whole spectacle – this time I’ll do some splainin’. A lot of people are complaining that I made her butt too big, but they are apparently OK with the tongue and the Tyrannosaurus Rex claw.
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