<p>Made me nauseous.</p>
<p>Not sure I want to watch it. There are some things you just can’t Un-see. :o</p>
<p>Nrdsb4 - If you watch anything, try to find the 90 second or so performance by 'NSync. They’ve obviously aged and can’t dance like they did fifteen years ago, but it really brought back memories of having a house full of 12 year old girls dancing to Bye, Bye, Bye.</p>
<p>D1 tweeted that she felt like she’d been assaulted by Thicke and Cyrusa after watching their performance. Good to know there are still some young adults who find it offensive.</p>
<p>The fact that she rose to fame on her appeal to a pre-teen audience, and that she continues to attract followers in this age group based on her early career makes it even worse.</p>
<p>I find the lack of talent much more offensive than her ridiculous performance last night.</p>
<p>Amen! She has a horrible voice.</p>
<p>The tongue thing was really annoying and unappealing, as was all her crotch focus, like she was channeling Michael Jackson or something.
Yuck.</p>
<p>Wow. Add me to the old fogey camp! The looks on the Smith kids’ faces are worth a 1000 words. Compared to Miley, Milli Vanilli has superb vocal talents!</p>
<p>Missypie,
LOVE your statement (post # 19). :)</p>
<p>I like #19 too. Add another island where the adults go who permitted this to air. A small, hot, rocky island. Send some more traditional child abusers there too. Heck, give them some video cameras.</p>
<p>I think the entertainment/music industry already lives on a island. They seem to think they live all by themselves and whatever they do has no effect on anyone else especially the young. It’s always “look at me!”, you’re just a prude, get over it attitude. That performance shows no respect for themselves nor anyone else. Unfortunately it is becoming more common than not. Not sure when tasteless, classless voyeurism became entertainment anyways. And so much for women complaining about being sex objects–if you can’t respect yourself why in the world would anybody else? Reap what you sow. And as for “well, everyone watched it!” We all watch train wrecks and car accidents too–it doesn’t mean we love them.</p>
<p>How can someone reap $120-150 million in net worth by age 20 with no talent and only classless voyeurism to offer? Who is providing that kind of income (I saw an estimate of $48 million in a 12 month period). Who buys her stuff? Who keeps her name in play?</p>
<p>I’m finding the whole current music industry not art any more. Just a bunch of young no talent individuals with no lasting power and on the wrong bus.</p>
<p>How can someone get 120-150 million? Good connections and “porn lite” for the masses.</p>
<p>Well, she may not have a gorgeous voice, but her songs, least the ones I have heard, have had good lyrics. It is not fair to say that she has NO talent.</p>
<p>Well, it is reassuring that older performers are still reaping at a fast clip. According to Forbes, Madonna personally took in $125 million between June 2012 and June 2013. According to them M is the highest paid celebrity in that time period. I do not understand why the young talentless group does not try to follow her example.</p>
<p>As to no art in the music industry–I think there is plenty of real art out there but you just don’t get to hear it. Good songwriters, good singers, great talent. We just get fed stuff from a small industry base.
Gotta laugh at the Madonna example though–she’s been vilified more times than I’ve got digits to count on. I always liked her but remember when the press said she couldn’t sing. I didn’t care at the time–she could put on a show. I did drop listening to her though the more she pushed the envelope.
Maybe Miley wants to be like her–unfortunately imitation doesn’t look that good on anyone. Maybe that’s the problem–it doesn’t seem a “Miley” thing to do–if it was Madonna out there bumping and grinding I’d probably say “oh well, she’s at it again–getting old”.</p>
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<p>I’d disagree. Don’t project what you saw last night on the whole current music industry. There are a lot of really great bands/artists out there making music… they just may not get the attention of MTV. I’m sure the parents of CC could come up with a decent list of great music being made (of course, keeping in mind what one person likes may not fall on the list of what another person likes).</p>
<p>“As to no art in the music industry–I think there is plenty of real art out there but you just don’t get to hear it. Good songwriters, good singers, great talent. We just get fed stuff from a small industry base.”</p>
<p>Agree! Google Lorde. She is a 16 yr old singer/songwriter from New Zealand with a lot of potential - my baby kiddo introduced me to her music a year before the radio stations picked up her songs. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that she would not cross into the “Miley territory”.</p>