Just Say NO to Miley Cyrus & Disney! (A Rant)
Indulge me here ladies and gentlemen, because I need to get something off my chest. I can’t in good conscience sit around tight lipped anymore as the youth of America are stultified and our young women exploited by these assholes over at The Disney Company.
So let me get this straight: every day millions of youth are exposed to Disney’s uber consumer-breeding, attention span-eroding, mind-numbing, over-glossified, culture-homogenizing propaganda via the electronic babysitter known as television because their parents trust Disney to raise their children better than themselves. But when you look at the children of Disney, aka Miley Cyrus, Brittany Spears, Demi Lovato, and Lindsay Lohan to name a few, it looks like a Hollywood police lineup.
I don’t even understand what the hell is going on here. There should be widespread national outrage. People should be piling up Disney products in heaps and starting bonfires in protest, like they used to do with rock albums and pornography. Instead people are voyeristically glorifying the sluttification of an American icon who millions of little girls look up to, and continuing to willingly hand their children over to these monsters in lieu of true parental guidance and/or interaction. Our culture is so obsessed with youth, glitter, and fame, that all the women want to be Miley, and all the men want to fuck her, and her recent behavior only fuels the flame.
I’d rather have Darrell the local dime bag dealer come peddling to my offspring than expose them to Disney products. We should purge anything with mouse ears out of our society. We should push them out of our homes and communities. You can see the drug pusher for who he is. Disney is like the wolf in sheep’s clothing, the Trojan horse that comes into your home packaged as a holiday special 2 DVD combo with bonus footage, that turns your daughter into a slut with substance issues, and your son into a rapist starter kit in an Affliction T-Shirt.
The irony is thick when you have a foul-mouthed, anti-censorship asshole like myself teaming up with folks like the “Parents Television Council” to preach morality. But I don’t want Uncle Sam to take action, WE must take action. The tranquility of suburbia must be disturbed. Our young women must learn to respect themselves, because nobody else will. This is a fight for the souls of our daughters, and John Q Public can’t divest themselves from their boob tube and other beeping electronic devices giving them Miley updates long enough to appreciate this!
Hell, I don’t even have a daughter, and thank God for that.
Disney has blood on its hands. Their rabid yearning for profits is what led to the personal destruction of a girl who despite all her personal flaws and the illegitimacy of her popularity, is still a human. Let’s stop focusing on the effect, and mitigate the cause. I don’t even understand why Miley Cyrus exists as she does in the public conciseness. She has no talent. If it wasn’t for Disney manufacturing an otherwise heroically average girl, she would be taking her bong hits with the remedial class-skippers behind the gym after 6th period.
So I say fuck Disney. It’s time for action. When it comes to their Disney products, we need to start a new campaign for the safety of our children: JUST SAY NO. Friends don’t let friends do Disney.
I’m not any better than Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, or those assholes who pull the strings over at Disney. What sets us apart, and what makes me feel infinitely blessed, is that I have awakened from the suffocation of the mass media of which Disney is the biggest single entity of. Disney can’t control me, because I don’t want their stupid plastic shit, or their dumb over-formulated story lines, or their animated 3-D garbage, or action movies that insult my intelligence.
Your magic doesn’t work on me Disney.
Watch this heroin sheik bullshit done by a then underage Miley, and tell me why it doesn’t deserve to be doused in gasoline and torched.
December 13, 2010 @ 1:02 pm
Six million+ views on that video. I’m sad to be one of them just now. What ever happened to self-respect in this country?
December 13, 2010 @ 1:35 pm
It was sold for a big pile of money.
December 13, 2010 @ 1:08 pm
i completely agree with u 10000000 percent. its fuckin sick and pretty depressin that really we cant do shit about it….its the way it is
December 13, 2010 @ 1:38 pm
Screw that, I’m doing something about it. Or at least I’ll try. Even if the effects are inconsequential, when the archaeologists of the future are sifting through the rubble of our civilization after it collapses, maybe they’ll at least be able to see that there was some resistance to this shit.
December 13, 2010 @ 2:13 pm
AMEN
December 13, 2010 @ 2:13 pm
I grow them all day every day…the archeologists that is…I also try to point out places where they can commit to the struggle themselves. Unfortunately, at least half of my students manage to escape the classroom without reflecting once.
So tell us how you will fight it?
December 13, 2010 @ 3:02 pm
With my poison pen.
And eventually, with music.
December 13, 2010 @ 3:34 pm
Amen amen amen…….. Triggerman,
I learned a long time ago working as a social worker that one cannot save them all. You can only do what you can do where you are.
Of course, I almost went insane dealing with the court system and the idiot parents!! I did finally have to leave to save my health and my soul.
“Instead people are voyeristically glorifying the sluttification of an American icon who millions of little girls look up to, and continuing to willingly hand their children over to these monsters in lieu of true parental guidance and/or interaction.
Take it from me, the lack of proper parenting IS the crux of all these problems. I have one of those amazingly talented young women for a daughter, she has been told so many times that she has something special and she works all the time in the music business, but she has never been willing to sell her soul to anyone.
People thought I should “get her into modeling” or “on the stage” as a toddler. She was very precocious and talented, almost like a Shirley Temple and she learned to play violin very young and could sing every song she heard from beginning to end in tune at about 19 months, AND harmonize, God help us!! We let her grow up normally and do music the way she wanted to do it. She should be more well known than she is, just like Ruby Jane, but at least they’re not on the road to hell like Mylie. I feel sad for her.
December 13, 2010 @ 1:15 pm
http://www.theonion.com/video/entertainment-scientists-warn-miley-cyrus-will-be,14246/
Worst entertainment crisis the world has ever seen…
December 13, 2010 @ 1:42 pm
Art imitating life, but it’s true. That is the reason that Taylor Swift’s handlers made sure she didn’t win any big time awards this year. They don’t want to overexpose her and keep her celebrity at a sustainable level for longevity.
January 3, 2011 @ 3:18 pm
haha Funny, but lots of truth to it.
December 13, 2010 @ 1:50 pm
Oh, my achy breaky heart!
Disney isn’t old Walt and a room full of animators drawing cell animation anymore. And it’s not merely a peddler of fantasy and mediocrity via theme parks. It’s a corporate media monster that owns, among other things, ABC. That’s reason enough to distrust them.
The issue you raise isn’t specifically a Disney problem. It’s Big Show Bizness and the way the industry culture treats talent, especially women and children, like property. Just ask Judy Garland. Or the Our Gang kids. (Oh, wait…they’re dead. Except for Robert Blake.) It’s an old story.
But the bong hit flap doesn’t disturb me. At least it was Salvia and not that fake synthetic weed “incense” that all the kids are into. It kinda gives me hope that she’ll eventually graduate to ‘shrooms, buy some good records, and one day start writing real music.
December 13, 2010 @ 1:53 pm
You can tell the world Miley never was my girl
You can burn my Albums when I’m gone
Or you can tell your friends just what a fool Mileys been
And laugh and joke about Her on the phone
You can tell my arms to go back onto the phone
You can tell my feet to hit the floor
Or you can tell my lilps to tell my fingertips
They won’t be reaching out for Miley no more
But don’t tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
I just don’t think it’d understand
And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
Miley might blow up and kill this man
December 14, 2010 @ 11:37 pm
Aahahaha! sounds like a re-release to me. Send it to Miley we might get to watch the music video on C.S.I.Disney.
December 13, 2010 @ 2:03 pm
and now i ask you… is it any wonder why i hate everybody???
December 14, 2010 @ 11:41 pm
DAMN, Wayne! Now I know…It was Miley that came between you, me & “The New IMPROVED myspace”.
December 13, 2010 @ 2:13 pm
Oh man, that video is too much. All long legs and writhing on a bed. Ick. I looked up her age and she’s now 18, that’s the legal age of consent in the US right? I guess that’s why the video is so sexualised. It made me really sad, she’s a beautiful girl but she’s just that: a girl. I’d kind of had high hopes for Miley not going down that stupid starlet route. It seemed like she came from a close family and being southern I figured they’d be a lot more grounded and moral. Mind you, you know her parents just seperated right? Apparently the reason is her mum had an affair with Bret Michaels! Ewwwwwww.
December 13, 2010 @ 2:16 pm
It is my opinion that all children must be banished from show biz. There is not one case that I can think of where a child star became an adult success without any sort of fall out. And if they did, they failed to produce anything of quality later in life.
I vote we have a stardom legal age like a legal drinking age. You can’t enter the stage or the studio til you turn 21? Even that may be too young…
December 13, 2010 @ 2:41 pm
well now im 18 and play guitar and i’m big on music…so i dont exactly agree with yall….its all on how its handled
December 13, 2010 @ 2:43 pm
I hope this is true but show me an example of where a minor went from stardom to a successful career that wasn’t also fraught with trauma and drama?
And I sit there and watch Will Smith step right up and offer his darling daughter to the wolves and I shake my head…
December 13, 2010 @ 3:02 pm
Doogie Houser!
That kid from Growing Pains.
There are many examples of positive stories, but yes, the majority fail.
Another element here is you have kids like Hilary Duff, who starred in another big time Disney show, and then matured and kept on performing. I’m not saying I’m a big fan or anything, but she sings her silly pop songs and keeps her pants on and everything is fine. But she’s not selling out stadiums either. She doesn’t get nearly the attention as Miley because she respects herself. This controversy shit sells, that’s why it happens. I wouldn’t be surprised if Disney is behind this.
That’s why I think it is going to take somebody with explosive, undeniable talent and appeal to break this cycle.
December 13, 2010 @ 4:20 pm
Dougie Houser lmao. Did you see Harold and Kumar?
I think sex doesn’t belong with teen stars the way that ice cream doesn’t belong in the oven but the thing is that we all know that sex sells and that our idealized female bodies get younger and younger every day. With plastic surgery and implants, perfectly delightful looking ladies go under the knife to make their bodies resemble some sort of artificial ideal.
I’m looking for some idols for my 12 year old daughter to look to beyond Miley. She thinks Breezy Peyton is very cool and she has always loved Kim and Kelley Deal since we are friends with them and their family (not that they were good role models earlier in their lives). But the thing is, I focus on exposing her to LADIES because girls/teens are bound to screw up at some point which is apparently the path Miley is walking right now.
You are not going to find that person with explosive style and talent. Sorry to burst your bubble. The closest thing to this I’ve seen lately is Blues Beaten Redshaw and that’s because he is still really obscure. If you promote Ruby Jane, she will go up in flames. Sorry. I just see it that way. Let her do her thing in obscurity until she is in her late 20s and let it evolve naturally. Otherwise, Leanne Rhimes (spelling?) and Taylor Swift another one this way comes…
December 13, 2010 @ 6:05 pm
Ruby Jane will go up in flames? I’ll take that bet.
December 13, 2010 @ 6:58 pm
If she reaches stardom before she hits 25 or so? Yeah…I haven’t seen many examples otherwise. But she may not hit that level of stardom…she may keep it slow and low. That is what I would wish for a sweet girl like her…and for her to go to college and to learn to think. We all need that…
January 3, 2011 @ 3:23 pm
Well there’s your example of a success story, hiding in your comment. Will Smith =p
January 3, 2011 @ 6:42 pm
That’s a point actually…but he was 17 or 18 which is at least a bit older than Miley.
December 13, 2010 @ 2:55 pm
I understand what you’re getting at, but I totally disagree. It depends on the kids, and the structure around them. Clearly Disney can’t take care of their own, and the parents that bribe their children with Oreo’s to perform are the worst of the worst. But take for example Ruby Jane that just turned 16. It would be a travesty to keep her from performing. It is what she belongs doing, at any age, and she has grown up very healthy and adjusted. And her mom doesn’t push her at all, she calls all her own shots. Of course, 95% of America has never heard of her either, but i am working on that.
Ruby Jane and other young girl performers that actually have talent and respect themselves are one of the antidotes for this Miley mess.
December 13, 2010 @ 3:03 pm
We’ll see…I think time will tell on Miss Ruby. I’m not saying that performing is bad by any means…I think stardom is tragic for someone not yet developed enough to handle it. If you look at any developmental theory on children and education you will see that here in the Western world, we just aren’t ready to handle that kind of pressure until we have had time to grow into an understanding of ourselves.
December 13, 2010 @ 6:49 pm
“I think stardom is tragic for someone not yet developed enough to handle it”
Does that include people who are generally considered fans? Should there be an age limit on when people can look up to others as role models?
December 13, 2010 @ 6:54 pm
I think we need to know someone for them to be our role model…there needs to be a personal exchange. This is why I think that role models are ridiculous in popular culture. A youngster can admire someone for what they have accomplished or what they can do but to hold them up as a model for their future behavior in all parts of their lives is ridiculous.
I was referencing the negative effects of stardom on young performers of any kind. I fail to see many examples of where this has benefited (truly in a spiritual or deep manner…not financial) any child star.
December 13, 2010 @ 2:51 pm
She was 17 when she made the video, and there was a big controversy over it because of that.
In a lot of ways I think the age of consent thing is bullsh. I think it is 17 in Texas. Physiologically speaking, women are optimized to bear children between the ages of 15-18, yet we have decided that teens being sexually active at that age is morally wrong.
My bigger problem is that in a couple of weeks, millions of little girls are going to wake up on Christmas morning to find Miley Cyrus-branded products under their tree that are made to appeal to girls between the ages of 4 and 12, and have the Disney mouse ears on the package. Miley is still a Disney employee, first and foremost.
December 13, 2010 @ 2:58 pm
I wasn’t commenting on age of consent. But I don’t think that our biology is looking out for the best of us in general. I always think of the film Idiocracy when breeding is mentioned…
What I’m saying is that it seems to me that every child star (and I’ll take child to whatever age it takes to prove my point) ends up either with some sort of horrid addiction or seemingly insurmountable problem. They also aren’t taken seriously later in life. They have to prove themselves anew as quality musicians.
Fame affects everyone negatively. There is no way around that fact. And it seems to me to affect children even more negatively than it does adults…
December 13, 2010 @ 3:07 pm
The age of consent stuff was more aimed at Carla.
To say fame effects everyone negatively I think is unfair. For the majority, yes. But not everyone. We must have faith that the same channels that brought Miley to power, can bring someone more fit for human consumption to power who can be inspiring.
Willie Nelson is an excellent example of someone who has flowered with fame. It made him a better person. Before fame, he was a wife-beating asshole, by his own admission. Now he’s a Nobel Peace Prize candidate.
December 13, 2010 @ 3:14 pm
OK. Maybe I’m too harsh on fame…but I will stand my ground on children or young adults and fame…I dont’ think Willie Nelson was 20 when he was rocketed to superstardom and marketed by an organization as blatantly capitalist as Disney.
December 13, 2010 @ 3:14 pm
On one hand, I say that 17-18-year olds wielding their sexuality and experimenting with non-illicit drugs is pretty normal.
On the other hand, I am disappointed to see her fall into the role of the teen pop sexpot. Not because there is anything inherently wrong with it, but because it is just so damn unoriginal. A tired, tired cliche used to make money for bad people.
December 13, 2010 @ 3:30 pm
I’m not one to be preaching about morality in art. The difference here is that Miley’s “art” is targeted at girls of the Disney age, 6-12 year-olds. If she wants to be a more mature performer, get her face off of toys for toddlers. And you can be sexual without being slutty, or disrespecting yourself. Take Rachel Brooke, who I hoot on all the time around here. She’s hella sexy, but not in an undignified way. Is a girl being sexy to be sexy? Or is it an unveiled grab for sheer attention, rooted in self-esteem issues?
And Miley isn’t sexy. I think she’s gross. And I think the only reason others might find her sexy is because they remember their little Hanna Montana running around and they want to fulfill some bullshit adolescent sexual fantasy.
December 13, 2010 @ 4:23 pm
Careful Trig…the Ginger will throttle you if you start a feminist conversation here…that’s my territory…other than the kitchen.
December 13, 2010 @ 6:59 pm
I could never throttle Triggerman. He treated me to my first Wafflehouse breakfast.
December 13, 2010 @ 4:26 pm
Wow, you all are giving Miley and Taylor WAY to much credit and power, and time.
This is standard generational pop culture.
What did your parents say about Madonna. Before that is was Cher. Before that it was …who?
What are Miley and Taylor doing that is so different than simply having a huge legion of young people to follow them for no particular reason than young people follow dumb shit?
Maybe it is communicated faster through technology now, but seroiusly…
Eventually 85% of the girls/kids that follow them will grow up to be well adjusted adults. If you have to deal with them now, well that is to bad.
10% will have issues they would have had regardless. The other 5% that are influenced so heavily by Miley and Taylor they are going to ruin their life over it didn’t have a chance to begin with. They would have found something else to ruin it over had Miley and Taylor not come along because their parents probably missed the boat too.
December 13, 2010 @ 4:38 pm
I agree. Teen stars suck. Why even discuss them? I don’t care if they are the most important thing in music today…they aren’t new, aren’t interesting, and aren’t good role models for anyone. The commercialism of Miley or Taylor is worse than anything they could do to any music genre. It isn’t about music with them, it’s about cash, marketing and the capitalist mode of production.
I feel sorry for any youngster (young women in particular) who gets into showbiz of any kind. They are on a straight path to misery.
December 13, 2010 @ 6:24 pm
I’ve said before, it is important to draw distinctions between pop stars, and I honestly think Miley and Taylor couldn’t be more different. Taylor’s talents may be marginal, but she does respect herself, and is very aware that she is a role model for young girls, and says that often. She also doesn’t sing with Auto-tune (obviously) and does have maybe an elementary, but still a somewhat proficient understanding of music. Miley doesn’t even know what music is, or self respect. Miley Cyrus is a brand, a product, nothing more.
The straight path to misery is an individual not doing what they are supposed to do in life. And so if it’s one’s calling to perform, they must. Humans fail more occasions than not. Fame just makes the failure more obvious. What it takes to be successful is a strong will and wisdom, of which I think Ruby Jane possesses.
Example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu7ehKY31rA
December 13, 2010 @ 6:40 pm
I think I may be too punk to distinguish between pop stars. I just reject all youth culture really unless if it is a culture that raises the one finger salute at authority in a novel and heartfelt way.
I find this statement interesting: “but she does respect herself, and is very aware that she is a role model for young girls” because I seem to remember you complaining about her presentation of self and her emotional content and perspective in her music.
I’m not sure how I feel about anyone being a role model – except Nlindsay. I mean, to a certain degree, inauthenticity is bred by attempts to present self as something that is self aware and intentional. I don’t want my daughter to look up to any female star who is intentional in her presentation of self. I want her to look to women who are impassioned and driven to do what they do because they love it. I want her to look up to women who know themselves and who value their brains and their talents far more than their boobs or their brand named shoes.
I have to come back to this…I have to go take care of my daughter and finish arguing with Nick in FB.
December 13, 2010 @ 7:04 pm
I say fuck it, nuke the whales.
December 13, 2010 @ 7:06 pm
See? I’m financing a Ginger Summer Camp just so my kids can get somma this wisdom.
December 13, 2010 @ 7:07 pm
This……is the best way to get WHALE MEAT!
December 13, 2010 @ 10:01 pm
Best way to get whale meat? Maybe. Either way, the world needs more whale meat. It’s delicious.
December 13, 2010 @ 4:59 pm
I don’t need to watch it. I know all I need to know from the blog. Leave Willie alone, ya vultures.
December 13, 2010 @ 6:19 pm
Disney sucks, and this is just one example. At least she’s going by her real name now, so hopefully people won’t associate “Montana” with that garbage!
December 13, 2010 @ 6:20 pm
two things…
1. I said the exact same thing you did,
“(And let me tell you, I saw her hit that bong, and this was not her first time at the rodeo folks.)”
2. South Park exposed Disney in episode 13:
“March 11, 2009. In the episode, Kenny and his new girlfriend are encouraged by the Jonas Brothers to wear purity rings, which is secretly a marketing tactic by The Walt Disney Company to sell sex to young girls.”
December 13, 2010 @ 7:04 pm
Exodus 20: 1-6 (The house of the Mouse is a false idol)
And God spake all these words, saying,
I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
December 14, 2010 @ 11:58 pm
…I think that is the same speach they used when they kicked Michael Jackson outta the Jehova Witness’ 🙂
December 13, 2010 @ 7:25 pm
I totally share your rage Triggerman. As the father of a 12 year old girl
I long ago became sick of the mere sight of this non talented hack.
The final straw for me was when I saw Miley Cirus bandaids at my local
Ace Hardware. I knew the time would soon come when she would need
to reinvent herself, as my daughter has long ago outgrown her cutsey
wutsey tv show and torn down her posters off her bedroom wall.
So what she is doing is in the true spirit of the great American way,
and that is selling her sex like most media whores.
God bless America and the lowlife mentality of the Mcdonald fed masses.
December 13, 2010 @ 7:55 pm
Wow Pete, like minds! My rant mantra has long been “happy meal marketing” is dumbing us down and that includes American Idol and its products.
December 14, 2010 @ 2:42 pm
Nigga you should of recorded this on youtube no way Im going to read all this bullshit… 1 1/2 stars for effort though
December 14, 2010 @ 3:12 pm
Short attention span, huh. Must be a product of Disney.
December 15, 2010 @ 12:55 am
I believe Disney is just capitalizing on the greed of the parents. I don’t mean to minamalize it by saying “just”, I mean to say that Disney has gone 100% profit minded while trying to hold onto the “wholesome family” minded entertainment that was the main stay and the focal point of Walt Disney when he started. By holding onto that Wholesome Family base that Walt started they are manipulating the parents as well as their children into Adult Entertainment. Parents that grew up with Disney think, “well hell (or darn)…, if it’s DISNEY it must be right. MILEY’s main problem is the fact that her dad was a “one hit wonder” and when he realized it he saw that he had a young cash cow in the family room(stable) he said, D.I.S.N.E.Y. “Do. I. Sell. Nursery. Entertainment. Young.?” HECK YEAH!, said his little achey breaky heart, like all the greedy wannabe famous mothers and fathers before him and to follow!
December 15, 2010 @ 9:24 am
Yeah, sad thing is, I bet you have parents lining up left and right to have their child be the next Miley.
December 15, 2010 @ 10:02 pm
No doubt about it. Keep up the fight!
December 15, 2010 @ 9:16 am
I have a lot to say about this and yet… nothing at all. I don’t know. It’s hell what these people go through. Five hours of sleep a night from the age of fifteen. If they act out, they get sent to some psychiatrist (who works for their employer and will be reporting back to their parents, great idea) and put on whatever pills will make them easier to control, and they know if they actually admit that anything is wrong to this guy, it’s a one-way ticket back to Texas or wherever they’re from (and Mommy and Daddy don’t want to work any more so there had BETTER not be anything wrong with you). Their parents sell them out to gossip sites, force them to talk about sex – or lack thereof – in front of the world, and make them work these obscene hours; then, the kids have to tell everyone how their parents are totally not like Dina Lohan.
Once they get any level of fame, there is a never-ending line of people waiting to catch them messing up on video and an even longer line of leeches who want to use them, like Anna the girl who filmed that video of Miley (who was Demi’s tag-a-long “best friend”, then she became Miley’s personal assistant). The worst part, if there is a worst part since it’s all pretty bad, is how most of their supposed “real” friends become just like Anna after enough time in the spotlight; they all start loving the attention and using you to make themselves famous. This isn’t even taking into account a million other problems, like the mental stress that’s put on the ones who never wanted to do this in the first place and what they must think of their loving parents.
But Demi Lovato would have been messed up no matter what. There was no saving that one.
December 18, 2010 @ 8:01 am
I smoked some killer salvia a cople years ago. Blew my mind but ya, that shit is way more potent than weed. But fuck Disney and it’s evil ways and fuck the government. Fuck the law for keepin Ol Willie down.
December 26, 2010 @ 9:31 am
I also saw this video, many times.
and the girl didn’t even know how to light the bong so it obviously WAS her first time.
just sayin’ cause it seems you got some facts wrong.
August 26, 2013 @ 8:58 pm
Great Article. I cant help but ask but was the name of the dime bag dealer inspired by the late great guitarist dimebag darrell of Pantera? If it was very well played Trig.
August 26, 2013 @ 9:44 pm
No comment 😉
August 27, 2013 @ 4:51 am
When I was a younger man, growing up in Eastern Kentucky, we would travel across the bridge into Ironton, Ohio. It’s where you had to go if you wanted to drink a beer in a bar, our side was “dry”. There was a bar called, “Jimmy Changes”. The house band was “Slydog”. Lead singer? None other than Billy Ray Cyrus. A few of us guys decided to go check it out on “Ladies Night” to see what the “action” was like. When the band started playing, BRC jumped on stage wearing a one piece, “pleather”, red, jumpsuit. The wall behind the stage was mirrors from ceiling to floor, much like you’d find in a strip club. Mr. Cyrus spent about 90% of the time, standing at the mirrors, ignoring the crowd, and watching himself, hump himself in the mirrors. I’m thinking he may have invented, “twerking”. I guess my point is, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. I think the only way Miley’s dance would have been more fulfilling is if she had been wearing a mullet codpiece.
August 27, 2013 @ 12:28 pm
back in the mid or late 80s my local record shop was liquidating their cassettes and vinyl stocks in order to become an exclusively cd shop and one of their specials was 3 cassettes for ten dollars. one of the cassettes I bought was by T-bone burnett which the clerk recommended to me and it had this funny song. not a great song and not even an original thought since counter culture writers had been making the comparison for a while but I still loved hearing it in a song put out by a major label.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTAz-zBr7QQ
April 13, 2014 @ 11:34 pm
It’s really sad but I wish this Miley Cyrus was still around instead of the idiot she’s become.