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Miley Cyrus is the last voice to speak out about her Video Music Awards performance on Aug. 29 and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the 20-year-old singer doesn’t see what the big fuss was all about.

“Me and Robin (Thicke) the whole time said, ‘You know, we’re about to make history right now,'” Cyrus said of her stage show in an exclusive interview with MTV, filmed on Monday.

“I don’t pay attention to the negative because I’ve seen this play out so many times … Madonna’s done it. Britney’s done it. Every VMA performance, that’s what you’re looking for; you’re wanting to make history.”

Cyrus caught flack for her raunchy stage show —which started with a rendition of her party anthem “We Can’t Stop,” but ended with the 20-year-old singer stripping down to a nude, butt-bearing ensemble, “twerking” and grabbing all over the married “Blurred Lines” crooner, and simulating oral sex with a foam finger.

“What’s amazing is I think now, we’re three days later and people are still talking about it,” Cyrus said.

“They’re overthinking it … You’re thinking about it more than I thought about it when I did it. Like, I didn’t even think about it ’cause that’s just me.”

Mom’s trying to spin it the same way.

Miley’s mom, Tish Cyrus is proud of daughter Miley. “I’m so proud of her, and just honestly, I’m in awe of who she’s become as a performer,” Tish said, according to Cross Map.

Tish Cyrus also expressed her “awe” of her daughter Miley after the VMAs 2013.

Before the performance, Tish dished on what it was like to be the mother of a pop star.

“Miley performing at the VMAs is so exciting,” Tish Cyrus told Gossipdavid before the show on Sunday. “It’s just fun for me to be here because it’s been two or three years since she put out a record, and it’s gone so crazy. I’m so excited for people to finally start seeing her as adult and performing, because it’s kind of mind-blowing – it’s huge.” Tish said.

The manager loved it.

Miley Cyrus’ raunchy performance at the VMAs may have caused a stir on the Internet, but her manager, Larry Rudolph, is pleased with the outcome.

“We were all cheering from the side of the stage…It could not have gone better. The fans got it. The rest eventually will.”

But there’s no getting around the fact that rock bottom is rock bottom.

An older generation used to call the boredom of bad habits “reaching rock bottom”; the present variant perhaps is “jumping the shark” — that moment when the tiresome gimmicks no longer work, and the show is over.

In a moral sense, Miley Cyrus reached that tipping point for America, slapping us into admitting that most of our popular icons are crass, talentless bores, and that our own tastes, which created them, lead nowhere but to oblivion.

After all, what does an affluent and leisured culture do when it has nothing much to rebel against?

That was poor Ms. Cyrus’s recent dilemma at the MTV awards ceremony. There are no real rules about popular dance anymore: no set steps, no moves borrowed from ballet, not even a few adaptations from scripted square dancing. It is all free-form wiggling and gyrating — twerking — as if to shout out, “Who are you to say that fake screwing in a vinyl bikini is not dance?”

All who want to debate the question, can help themselves by admitting defeat a bit earlier by way of the test in my opening statement: Aging. Once the spectacle dazzles and disgusts, worry not about who’s “overthinking it” or “got it” or is fiddling while the empire burns, but instead: Is it brandy or fruit?

What’s going to happen at the next VMAs? It is true that if there is a recovery in store for us, we should expect it to take a good long time to get started. They usually do. It’s a lot of inertia. So we can expect much the same level of culture next year…and that’s unfortunate. But we we can safely presume no one will be trying to top it. No one is going to be sent out on stage to “do what Miley did.”

In 2016, nobody is going to be sent out to a presidential or vice-presidential debate to do it the way Biden did it. Easy call. NOW, it is. Hence my comment about aging. In the hours and days after Biden’s so-called “performance,” the very best and brightest among us — or those who thought that was their status — commonly wrote silly, silly things like this:

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s smirking, aggressive performance during the vice-presidential debate on Thursday could be seen as a message for his boss: Here’s how you do it.

Mmmmm, yeah. I don’t think so. And it isn’t my opposition to Obama/Biden’s positions on the issues that makes me doubt it, it’s the wisdom and improved perspective that comes with the passage of time. Right after the debate, the test was simple: If you leaned right, Biden was a buffoon, and if you leaned left he was a brilliant sage. It all had to do with what camp could claim you as a member. The latter talked up his antics as some kind of model for others to emulate, just like the Cyrus family is doing with Miley’s twerk-a-thon.

With just a few months of settling, it becomes fair as well as easy to ask the obvious question: Okay, who’s emulating?

Who wants to?

You know what this sad disease reminds me of: Fetch. They’re trying to make fetch happen. Or should we say, they’re trying to save some face by making fetch happen.

It’s not going to happen.

Gee, of the folks desperately defending the buffoonery of such “pop” idols, how many of them are facing
either an abrupt loss of peripheral “sweepings”, or an abrupt dunning of the bill come due?
- CaptDMO | 09/07/2013 @ 05:47
Yeah, that’s just it. It’s not just that a twenty-year-old decided to wag her scantily-clad ass on an award show that kids younger than her were watching. It’s that the allegedly responsible adults were okay with her doing it. Her parents, and her manager, and most importantly, the guys and gals at MTV and ultimately at Viacom.

And really? Nobody in the Democrats, nobody on the left, knew that Joe Biden was a grinning, babbling buffoon before Barry tapped him as his running mate, hell, long before Barry was a gleam in Soros and Ayers’ eyes? I don’t think so. They knew. They willfully chose to forget it, or at least ignore it, because at least short-term, they knew they could. They knew Joe wasn’t going to get the Palin treatment, because they knew the people who could have done it were on their side.
- Rich Fader | 09/08/2013 @ 12:57

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