Destiny Hope Cyrus, better known as Miley, is a famous young performing artist who just recently labeled herself as a feminist. The question is; what characteristics make someone a feminist? Within the last couple of years, Cyrus has released some questionable music videos to the public while simultaneously calling herself a female supporter. Feminists are people who believe in equal rights, which Cyrus does agree with. However, what the singer fails to understand is that females are worth more than riding naked on a wrecking ball and using racist gestures to get their points across. Ultimately Miley Cyrus is not a female other woman should be looking up to due to the fact she degrades women in numerous music videos with her racy outfits, racist
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The almost instantly successful TV show led to Cyrus’s beginning of stardom. Throughout the seasons, the teen idol became increasingly more provocative. In her final season, parents began to wonder whether their children should be watching her show at all. Immediately after her show ended, Miley Cyrus took a year away from acting as well as singing. Miley excited millions of fans when she announced the release of her new album, Bangerz. However, when the music video for “We Can’t Stop” was released the following year, no one was expecting to see their idol dressed in a onesie while dancing on top of an oversized teddy bear. Cyrus defended the negative reviews by calling herself, “The biggest feminist in the world.”(Cyrus, TIMES) Despite her comments, most critics would agree that they were excuses for her impulsive decisions in the previous …show more content…
“The video features Miley writhing around in an all-white getup, surrounding herself with black people, who are supposedly her friends and party guests. She’s wearing a gold grill. Black women twerk around her in the background as she grabs their asses and sticks her tongue out cheekily at the camera.” and then finishes by writing, “Basically, as VICE says, it shows her accessorizing with black people, using them as props to boost her authenticity as she tries a different sound in her
The almost instantly successful TV show led to Cyrus’s beginning of stardom. Throughout the seasons, the teen idol became increasingly more provocative. In her final season, parents began to wonder whether their children should be watching her show at all. Immediately after her show ended, Miley Cyrus took a year away from acting as well as singing. Miley excited millions of fans when she announced the release of her new album, Bangerz. However, when the music video for “We Can’t Stop” was released the following year, no one was expecting to see their idol dressed in a onesie while dancing on top of an oversized teddy bear. Cyrus defended the negative reviews by calling herself, “The biggest feminist in the world.”(Cyrus, TIMES) Despite her comments, most critics would agree that they were excuses for her impulsive decisions in the previous …show more content…
“The video features Miley writhing around in an all-white getup, surrounding herself with black people, who are supposedly her friends and party guests. She’s wearing a gold grill. Black women twerk around her in the background as she grabs their asses and sticks her tongue out cheekily at the camera.” and then finishes by writing, “Basically, as VICE says, it shows her accessorizing with black people, using them as props to boost her authenticity as she tries a different sound in her