Miley Cyrus in her new risqué music video. (Source: Breakfast) Miley Cyrus in her new risqué music video
Miley Cyrus in her new risqué music video. - Source: Breakfast
US pop singer and former Disney television child star Miley Cyrus
brushed off any suggestions that dropping her squeaky clean image was a
sign she was "going off the rails".
Cyrus, who starred in Walt Disney Co's 2006-11 Hannah Montana TV
series about a high school student with a double life as a famous
musician, told Reuters her newly cropped hair, tattoos and adult music
videos don't mean she is following the well-worn path to perdition
trodden by other child stars.
She's just growing up.
"I'm selling records and that's all I'm here to do," Cyrus told Reuters television this month.
"I don't care if people don't like my haircut or think I dress too this way or my video's too provocative."
The 20-year-old singer, whose latest "We Can't Stop" single is
currently No. 2 on the Billboard charts, said she was not like other
young celebrities who become obsessed with public image and
self-destruct under the pressure of media scrutiny.
"If I knew what people were saying, I'd probably hate myself," she said. "I don't look at that kind of stuff."
Cyrus said she was exasperated by the media focus on her new image,
which includes a video packed with drug and sexual references,
provocative poses and in which she jiggles her buttocks in a dance move
known as "twerking".
"You know, I built an entire empire for myself by the time that I was 11, but now I'm just the twerk queen."
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The daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus said that although she
has left the innocent TV teen image behind, she still considered
herself a good role model.
"I don't think it matters how much skin you show... I have a mouth of
a sailor, I just keep it nice for TV. But I don't think that makes
someone a good or a bad person."
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