I still find it
ironic that MTV proceeds to host the Video Music Awards (aka the VMAs) since I
can’t recall the last time I’ve watched a music video on that channel. Today,
when I see the abbreviation on my television I think trash reality shows (that
all of America is guilty of watching). You know the ones: 16 & Pregnant,
Teen Mom (1, 2, and now 3),
True Life, Snooki & JWOWW, The Show With Vinny (since Jersey Shore is no
longer running on the air), and much, much more. Although, I do have to give
them props for concocting some television series like Awkward. and Teen Wolf
(at least those shows have more of a plot). Yet, that still doesn’t loosen the
fact that somewhere on that channel is making a complete idiot of themselves,
such as the most recent idiot everyone on the entire World Wide Web is ranting
about.
Yep, everyone is raving about Miley
Cyrus. I mention her name once more because someone broadened my closed mind
just a bit.
I have to admit that I relished
the fact that this ex-Disney teen star had fallen, that I giggled at a few
mortifying photographs (some of which were cartoon pictures off of Pinterest),
and I just had to share them because c’mon! They are hilarious! And when a
volunteer I work with at the local library voiced that Miley Cyrus’ actions was
actually a reaction to something, I
kind of felt a sting of ignorance.
I am about as unconnected to pop
culture as a…well, hermit. I don’t watch the news, I don’t read any magazines,
nor would I bother to keep up with the gossip of celebrity lives. I actually
didn’t even watch the VMAs; I watched Miley Cyrus’ performance fiasco on
YouTube since her face polluted the internet a day after. So, I assume I was
the last to know that Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus broke off their engagement
before she performed in the VMAs. Surprisingly, it was not after.
Anyway, the volunteer had told me
that Miley Cyrus tweeted something on Twitter about her performance. Why she
dressed in what she dressed, why she acted the way she acted. Her outfit in the
VMAs, the nude two piece represented her insecurity (I believe). That her break
up with ex-fiancé Liam made her feel insecure, or that he himself made her feel
insecure. As for her caressing a hammer with her tongue in one of her more
recent music videos, it represented that she loved the pain, the pain of the break
up with Liam. For her wiggling her tongue out and making obscene gestures with
a foam figure at the VMAs, I don’t know why she did that. Nor do I know how a
celebrity could justify those actions (not even on a tragic break up). After I
hear some the reasoning, I find it does make somewhat sense. Call me crazy, but
as a music artist I believe she was just trying to express how she felt. True,
she could have scribbled the agony into a song (like Taylor Swift does oh-so
well), but for the break up that just recently happened I take back joining in on
the mocking. I’m somewhat ashamed that I didn’t recognize her symbolism (yet,
who could unless she explained it like she had to?). Then I remember, I’m not
in the music industry to understand any bizarre music video that a singer or
band produces. It’s just easier for us (the public) to not attempt to
understand, and ridicule.
As a woman, I know I wouldn’t be
able to predict my actions as a cause of a break up with a fiancé. Everyone is
different at how they respond to pain; and Miley Cyrus’ response was just
different, too different for anyone to understand.
