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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Billy Ray, y’all . . .

Once upon a time. . .

I feverishly hated Billy Ray Cyrus. His cruddy look, the cruddy music, the cruddy . . . everything.

Now, when I see my daughter being a fan of his daughter, my perspective is given a jolt. Miley (short sidetrack: Her name isn’t Miley - she got that nickname from her dad, the aformentioned and formerly reprehensible Billy Ray, who used to call her “Smiley Miley") is a well-adjusted “tween” star; my daughter looks up to her, and looks down on the Britneys, Lindsays, and Parises that pollute this world.

Though I still loathe everything Billy Ray Cyrus has done in his professional career (from the “Achey Breakey” to “Doc” on PAX), he has proven me wrong; I not only think he’s the man of the year - he’s the man of the last 1.5 decades. He is a great, great man, as evidenced by his daughter, Smiley Miley, whose biggest scandal is showing her bare back on a magazine cover.

I am proud that Myley Cyrus is one of my daughter’s idols; as a result, I am proud to say that Billy Ray is now one of my idols. He is clearly a gentleman with proper ideals and perspective, who cast away the temptations of stardom in favor of the lost ideal of “doing the right thing”.

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Anybody who would allow there 15 year old daughter appear in that Vanity Fair photo shoot is NOT man of the year.  He is allowing her to be portrayed as a sex symbol at age 15. 

How do you know she is well adjusted?  Every thing you know about Miley is based on a pre packaged PR campaign.  You probably thought Michael Jackson was a nice wholesome kid when he was with the Jackson 5 or Lindsey Lohan when she did The Parent Trap or Britney Spears when she was a Mouskateer.

Just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Lestat on May 18, 2008 at 01:05 pm

Well, for the record her legal name IS Miley.

Regardless, Lestat, there was nothing wrong with that Vanity Fair photo. A bare back? Really? That’s it? She was more covered than if she was wearing a bikini. Big woop.

There’s no reason to believe Lohan wasn’t a well adjusted child way back when. Fame tends to corrupt people. And even if Miley turns bad, like Britney did, there’s no reason to blame her dad for that.


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Kenny on May 18, 2008 at 03:53 pm
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There’s no reason to believe Lohan wasn’t a well adjusted child way back when. Fame tends to corrupt people. And even if Miley turns bad, like Britney did, there’s no reason to blame her dad for that.

Yes there is.  Her dad acts more like her agent than her father.  Any normal father of a 15 year old would be disturbed by those pictures.  He is selling the sex appeal of his 15 year old daughter.  The fact that he admits that he was on the set and nothing untoward happened just shows how out of touch he is.  He is more interested in her making money and being a star than he is in being her father. 

He is probably warped from his experience in the music industry, but that certainly doesn’t help her.

The guy is a creep.  He is not any different than most other stage parents. 

They are all creeps.

Lestat on May 18, 2008 at 04:50 pm
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What a creep.

Lestat on May 18, 2008 at 04:56 pm
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http://toppayingideas.com/blog/2008/04/28/miley-cyrus-vanity-fair-photos/

Here is a link to the pictures.  I couldn’t get them to upload here.

Lestat on May 18, 2008 at 04:57 pm

First, we have experienced over four decades in America of children being sexualized at beauty pageants, in commercials, in movies and on television. So, a big part of the problem is that people have become desensitized by seeing childrem dressed is sexually suggestive clothes, poses and engaging in risqué behavior.

Next, we have worshipped celebrity and praised people like Madonna for her sexualy suggestive material. We have pornography available to our children over the internet and on television. We have opened the door and sowed the winds of sexual license in this country at all ages and now we are reaping the whirlwind of sexual misconduct and people no longer having any clear rules of acceptable behavior.

Ultimately, the father and other adults involved in this affair have failed miserably to protect this girl, to help her mature normally and in all liklihood they are profiting from selling Myley Cyrus body and sexual image. Those that defend this behavior are only encouraging more of it and worse in the future. While ShoMart was right that it was only Miley’s bare back, no worse than in a swinsuit, the pose is clearly sexually suggesting and clearly at least the adults involved knew that when they encouraged her to pose.


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Neiman on May 18, 2008 at 05:08 pm

Kenny, her legal name was recently changed, yes, but the name her momma gave her is not Miley.

And are you so clueless as to ignore the fact that portraying a girl covered only by a sheet just might convey a message somewhat more lecherous than that conveyed by a bikini?  That it might suggest she was ready for something “in bed”?

Well, if you can’t catch on, you’d be in the same class as a dad who is blissfully unaware that Vanity Fair is notorious for provocative photo spreads.

Bike Bubba on May 19, 2008 at 11:07 am

I think all y’all need to lighten up. Yes, there have been a few “scandals”, but the Miley my daughter sees is the Miley/Hannah on TV, whom she looks up to. And I encourage that my daughter looks up to a girl with a clean image that happens to have a fantasy life (nothing wrong with dreams, eh?).

For all of that, I stick by my original statement about Billy Ray’s parenting. He did well.

ShoeMart on August 24, 2008 at 11:48 am
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