Vanity Fair has behind-the-scenes video of Annie Liebowitz' controversial photo shoot of Miley Cyrus. (//%22http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/video/2008/miley_video200806%22)
Better known as 'Hannah Montana,' 15-year-old Cryus is a heroine to millions of preteen girls who enjoy her concerts and Disney cable show.
Is this art of softcore? Is this not some kind of child sexploitation? Where is the outrage when Vanity Fair mocks those who are concerned about the issue? From the video shoot introduction: 'Sweet niblets, Annie Leibovitz's photographs of Miley Cyrus sure have caused a stir. As this exclusive video shows, the nefarious photo shoot that has parents threatening to host Hannah Montana bonfire parties was actually a relaxed family event in one of the most picturesque settings imaginable: the green hills of Calabasas, California. Check it out!'
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Her dad wore a mullet.
Friends don't let friends have mullets.
Non-issue to me. Looking at someone's back is no form of porn what-so-ever. It is meant to be suggestive and provocative, but so are swimsuits (no real need for women's suits to ride up to the crotch), tummy shirts, short shorts, and a ton of other things. Which I often find distasteful for young girls to wear, but don't think the government should regulate.
The "OMG PORN" crowd can try to protect the masses all they want, I will remained unamused. Frankly, I'm just glad I don't have to turn myself in for thinking abusive thoughts about a 15 year old - since the photo is nothing special.
Well, except for the fact that she is nearly a BILLIONAIRE. Here comes those thoughts...
CF is aptly named: never fraid to jump right in the line of fire, no matter how dangerous or foolhardy! If any of you have not seen South Park's 'Brittnys New Look' (//%22http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/164365/%22), that when I saw the picture of Miley I sang that creepy 'Omen' theme would be lost on you.
For the record the picture is art, like Flo-rida's 'Low' is fine music, Golf is a sport, and Boone's Farm is an excellent beverage. We certainly do not need Congress looking at the issue: the last time they tried was with Sen. Gore, and since then the number of references to hoes and poles in the Top Forty has increased 1000%.
Miley is a cute girl, and for millions of boys from 12-17 the pic may be enough ammo to warrant a plastic sheet. Fortunately, at 18 yrs males possess the uncanny ability ability to distinguish between a child gussied up with lipstick and bedroom eyes, and a mature woman.
Fortunately, the market place has spoken - despite Vanity Fair's mockery of concerned parents, and the billion-dollar ABC/Disney product is close to losing her job. Also fortunate is that according to a Canadian article pedophiles are more likely to be Trek-heads than the general population Trek/pedophilia (discussed) (//%22http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/30/hopefully_the_last_post_on_the_star_trekpedophilia_connection.php%22). That ABC/Disney is considering throwing Miley under the bus when it had no problems with Spears' naughty-school-girl videos when she was under 18 is a joke.
Vanity Fair's treatment of the issue ('Sweet niblets') is worthy of some kind of sanction, and the editor who let that mockery go out should be reprimanded.
i think she looks gross. and now that I know her dad is akey brakey heart redneck, I think of her even less.
Sure thing, Inteller, but would a unabrow have helped? Or is the dark hair too ethnic? (JUUUUUST KEEEEEDEENG!! [:D])
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Sure thing, Inteller, but would a unabrow have helped? Or is the dark hair too ethnic? (JUUUUUST KEEEEEDEENG!! [:D])
i didn't know her dad had a unibrow...although it wouldn't surprise me and as far as I know her dad had black hair so I don't see your ethnic slant to it.
It mystifies me that anyone's making any noise about this at all. You see more bare skin at swimming pools. Big deal.
But my "protesteth too much" alarm is going off big-time. I have to wonder about those making the most noise about Miley and what sort of sick kink festers in their brains.
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It mystifies me that anyone's making any noise about this at all. You see more bare skin at swimming pools. Big deal.
But my "protesteth too much" alarm is going off big-time. I have to wonder about those making the most noise about Miley and what sort of sick kink festers in their brains.
My thought exactly.
What is humorous to me is that millions of Americans would never have even heard of this (or bought as many issues of the mag) if it hadn't been spotlighted in the media as 'controversial'.
Graydon Carter is laughing all the way to the bank.
Hook, line and sinker.
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Originally posted by cannon_fodder
Non-issue to me. Looking at someone's back is no form of porn what-so-ever. It is meant to be suggestive and provocative, but so are swimsuits (no real need for women's suits to ride up to the crotch), tummy shirts, short shorts, and a ton of other things. Which I often find distasteful for young girls to wear, but don't think the government should regulate.
The "OMG PORN" crowd can try to protect the masses all they want, I will remained unamused. Frankly, I'm just glad I don't have to turn myself in for thinking abusive thoughts about a 15 year old - since the photo is nothing special.
Well, except for the fact that she is nearly a BILLIONAIRE. Here comes those thoughts...
Personally, I find it offensive.
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Originally posted by rwarn17588
It mystifies me that anyone's making any noise about this at all. You see more bare skin at swimming pools. Big deal.
But my "protesteth too much" alarm is going off big-time. I have to wonder about those making the most noise about Miley and what sort of sick kink festers in their brains.
Big time? Fortunately I am not protesting or else that would qualify you for a whuppin'! [:D] Y'see, Rick, there seems to be an epidemic of teacher/student sex, incest, rape, and of course whacko-polygamists marrying kids about Miley's age. Since this is in the news so much I was wondering if anyone else thinks the steady barrage of images of sexed-up adolescents is unhelpful. This has hardly even been a blip outside the middle-school halls so I am surprised your alarm is going off 'big-time.'
Must be your 'They are going to catch me.' radar going off instead. Clearly, those who question the rationale for concerned parents to be critical of sexed-up adolescent television stars and the offhand, glib, dismissal of the purveyor of said material must be perverts. those who question the motives of concerned parents who object to the sexualization of children, are probably a child molester themselves. Present company excluded, of course.
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Personally, I find it offensive.
Why?
Are you offended when girls at Keystone are wearing swimsuits, backless dresses to the prom, or the fat chick at Lowe's I saw yesterday in a bikini top and short-shorts (the horror)?
I think it is in poor taste to pose a 17 year old this way, but I'm not offended. You are, which is fine. The bigger question is do you think the government should be in the business of telling us all what is offensive when it is clearly not pornographic?
Actually, the more I look at the picture the more interesting it becomes. The coloration is interesting, as is her non-expressive face. Looking at it as a head&shoulder shot (as I see it while typing this) it's an interesting picture. Claiming it isn't "art" is mighty obtuse - you can say it isn't anything you appreciate but narrowing the definition of art to exclude things you don't like is a dangerous practice (5x5 is tonight, there will be plenty of "art" there that I don't like, but it's still art. I don't like Pollocks most popular pieces, still art. Not a big Picasso fan... etc.).
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...or the fat chick at Lowe's I saw yesterday in a bikini top and short-shorts (the horror)?
I am not a chick. I just needed to run in and get some different plumbing fixtures.
Thanks for noticing.
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Originally posted by cannon_fodder
...or the fat chick at Lowe's I saw yesterday in a bikini top and short-shorts (the horror)?
I am not a chick. I just needed to run in and get some different plumbing fixtures.
Thanks for noticing.
Must . . . not . . . barf . . . [:D]
All the pedophiles and saying thank you to Vanity Fair. And doing unmentionables with that photo.
Poor judgement on daddy's part.....
I think the photo is interesting and intriguing. What I notice most is how the face, the eyes the mouth, is so unreadable, no expression....neutral. Whats she thinking? Whats this image trying to say? Its not a photo that flatters her or makes her "Miley Cyrus" look pretty, but there is something about the image and "the girl" that is beautiful.
As for the sexual aspect, one knows that girls and boys of that age are sexual " Juliet, of Romeo and Juliet, was younger...Ever seen the Frank Zefferelli version?". An adult can see and acknowlege that young love, dreams, romance and sexuality obviously exist. But realize it is not a proper place to tread any further. It belongs to those young people. It is not an adult place. Can an adult write about it "Romeo and Juliet? Or perhaps capture some part of those things, their world, in a painting, a photograph? Is showing that existance wrong? Was the intent of this photo to do that? Does it anyway? I don't really know.
I guess, as with any image or conveyance, there are both the intended meanings... and the understandings of them. There is always the possibility that proper or improper can exist on either side.
...I think the photo is interesting and intriguing. What I notice most is how the face, the eyes the mouth, is so unreadable, no expression....neutral. Whats she thinking? Whats this image trying to say?
The Niblets are coming to the BOK.
Conan, you still have your wrecking ball costume? I've got my teddy bear dance garb.
Quote from: Townsend on November 06, 2013, 10:12:37 AM
The Niblets are coming to the BOK.
Conan, you still have your wrecking ball costume? I've got my teddy bear dance garb.
That might be a record...thread resurrection over five years!
Kudos to you sir!
But yeah..I mentioned that to someone in the office..the first response I heard was "Wait, let me get my wrecking ball"...
Quote from: Townsend on November 06, 2013, 10:12:37 AM
The Niblets are coming to the BOK.
Conan, you still have your wrecking ball costume? I've got my teddy bear dance garb.
Oh yeah!!! I'm in!!!
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Oh yeah!!! I'm in!!!
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