Miley Cyrus---It's a Big No No! by Commonsense4Ever

The Miley Cyrus Uproar
April 30, 2008

Readers with little girls at home don't have to be told who Miley Cyrus is. Their daughters want to be Miley Cyrus. The Disney Channel singer/actress is the star of "Hannah Montana," one of the most popular shows on TV. Her latest album is No. 3 on Billboard magazine's bestseller list. Reports estimate that she will bring in $1 billion in business to Disney this year.

She is also 15. Thus this week's uproar over a seminude photo by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair magazine. The photo – showing Miley draped in a sheet, back bared, hair tousled, with a come-hither smile – upset countless parents who immediately grasped the photo's essential vulgarity.

Such ordinary wisdom apparently escaped every so-called grown-up involved in the photo shoot. The sophisticates at Vanity Fair defended the picture as a "beautiful and natural portrait." Absent sensible adults, Miley herself stepped forward to issue a statement saying that the now-embarrassing photo shoot was supposed to be "artistic."

Next to what crosses TV and computer screens every day, Miley's photo is relatively tame – save for the fact that Vanity Fair was trying to lower the bar on this stuff to the age of 15. Parents have enough difficulty teaching their daughters how not to expose their bodies in a vulgar way; this makes it harder. If there's good news here, it's that folks in Buffalo, Charlotte or Iowa City are still insisting on cultural norms alien to the elites of Manhattan or Hollywood.

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Miley Cyrus---It's a Big No No! by Commonsense4Ever.

I must say that I feel bad for Miley Cyrus and she is

young and did make a bad judgment on the pictures that she

took for Vanity Fair. I mean she had to think hmm well

does this match with the image that she has been

portraying in her music and tv show, etc.

I could see if she was 18 or 19 but not 15. I do not

understand why her parents or even her publicist did not

step in and say hey no this is not a good idea. The

pictures are nice and they artsy but it is not appropriate

for her age. So I think that she unfortunately damaged her

image. She is not an adult so I believe that someone

responsible should have made the decision on whether those

photos should be done.

It is hard enough for parents who are trying to shield

their children away from sexual and violent matters. I do hope that she will

be able to recover from this mess and it will blow over. I

hope that in the future that she will have better consultation

to help her in making appropriate decisions in her career

and more importantly her life.