Miley Cyrus

So, when we got some emails from readers last night who were all, "MILEY CYRUS IS A POLE DANCER!!!" I really just thought they meant she was DRESSED like a pole dancer. You know, that it was a metaphor. But apparently, no. Girlfriend ACTUALLY DANCED WITH A POLE. At the Teen Choice Awards. Cyrus family, you continue to make the most interesting choices. (The teen girl in the background of that photo is making an incredibly apt facial expression. Seriously. Our expressions were like mirrors of one another at that moment.)

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The fact that Miley here actually DID dance with a pole kind of takes the wind out of the sails of any crack I might make about her being dressed as a stripper, though. It'd be like saying that Katherine Heigl was dressed like someone who was likely to say something ill-advised from a PR standpoint later in the evening, or that Diane Kruger was accessorized with a hot dude. As we used to say when I was a teen myself, "no duh." So maybe Ms Cyrus is just playing defense, of a sort -- anticipating what I am about to say about her outfit and then DOING IT so as to step on my joke. If that's the case, I admit, I do look forward to seeing how one dresses as Cog More Easily Replaced in Disney Machine Than Anticipated, or Billionaire Girl Unemployed Thanks to the Rise of Selena Gomez/Demi Lovato/A Player To Named Later (Presumably Named Something Like Selemi Govato Just So We're Even More Confused) And Her Own Confounding Behavior As Re: Her Fan Base, And, More Importantly, Their Parents, The People Who Buy The Backpacks With Her Face on Them.
So, imagine our surprise when, over the course of the last two weeks, we realized that little Miley Cyrus has been looking sort of interesting whilst on the junket for Tyler Perry Presents: Hannah Montana: Book of Secrets: The Movie, or whatever that thing is called:

"We applaud Miley for taking a few risks on her world tour, as if she decided to take at least temporary inspiration from successful actresses and fashion darlings Kate Bosworth and Diane Kruger. It paid off with the edgy silver Hervé Léger minidress she wore in London, possibly the best look Miley's ever trotted out in public: fresh, current, and sophisticated, while seeming effortlessly so. We know; we're stunned, too. But just as big risks often reap big rewards, they can also turn you into Stumpy McNoNeck."

Read more of our take on Miley's evolving wardrobe at NY Mag.com. If I were a tween star, I'd give you the peace sign right now.
April 28, 2009

Fug or Fab: Miley Cyrus

On one hand, I think this is pretty cute: it's youthful but not skanky.

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On the other, it's eating her neck like a Subway sandwich and the item aRthat's doing the eating kind of looks like an Elizabethan ruff or something you'd see around the neck of a moderately subtle mime. Are the only options available to a young girl SKANKY or MIME? Because it seems like there's a lot of acreage in between those two.

Yes, that's right, you read the headline correctly -- this is probably going to be a really unpopular opinion, but I don't care. I am going to defend Miley Cyrus' Oscar dress. Because the more I read how much people hated it, the more I'm like, "... Wow, I really didn't think it was that bad at ALL."

To do it, though, I'm going to start with what she wore last year. Remember this?

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At the time a lot of critics -- including me, and I still stand by it -- thought this was overly aging. Like she was trying to be a demure 25-year old, and while I appreciate the instinct not to skank it up at her first-ever Oscars and ESPECIALLY at her young age, it came off more like she borrowed a dress from her mother. Under extreme duress. At the time Miley was 15 and whether you like her or not, she's got a really lively personality. She banters with Ryan Seacrest better than people twice her age, even if occasionally that banter is about how bummed she is that she got a hand-me-down Porsche for her birthday. (I mean, I hope she can also have her tight diamond shoes stretched so they don't give her blisters -- seriously, I've had the same Honda since I was 20, and I just found out the front undercarriage is being held together by a coat hanger. For real. I have no idea how it happened.) Yet somehow she hits this oddly entertaining combo of acting her age AND being personable, and this dress really wastes that.

So, now let's jump ahead to this year's Oscars and take a gander at what she picked:
I have it on good authority that Miley Cyrus is quitting Hannah Montana to become Mother Goose's chambermaid.

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If she allows TV cameras to follow her new career, we can look forward to countless exciting, conflict-packed episodes, as the lazy Lady of the Manor tries to figure out what rhymes with "Foo Foo," eats bonbons while penning soon-to-be-classic poems like "I Don't Want To Go To Mexico," and gleefully clapping as she pays a monkey $10 to make a weasel explode -- all the while poor Miley is on her hands and knees picking up scraps of mulberry bush leaves, patching up Jack's broken crown, and explaining to an uncommonly stupid spider that it's just asking for trouble by climbing the spout AGAIN and AGAIN. An instant Disney classic!
January 19, 2009

Best Of Both Fugs

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"WaitwaitwaitWAIT, I TOTALLY know what you guys are going to say, okay? I KNOW the boots look kind of like I accidentally left my Pocahontas costume in the freezer, and I KNOW the tights are totally refried Olsen twin. But listen, there's a good reason for those: I'm just REALLY bad at shaving! Like, to the point where I forgot I had to take the tights off first! Or that I could take them off afterward! Or that I shouldn't be doing it in the car while I'm drinking Starbucks and trying to get to Fred Segal! See? It's like I said! I'm really bad at it! I don't have a good excuse for the boots, though. My shoe closet was overflowing and the icebox was empty. Haven't we all been there? Look, if you burn the negatives, I promise I'll make it up to you by spending next week making out with my 20-year old boyfriend in front of, like, The Ivy. Deal?"

Some of our good will toward Miley Cyrus evaporated when she complained to Ryan Seacrest that the Porsche she got for her 16th birthday was USED, since it used to be her mother's. We assume her diamond shoes are also too tight and that she's not sleeping well because the piles and piles of money that make up her mattress aren't terribly comfortable. In short, WAAAAH.

But, it's also a VERY 16-year-old-girl thing to rib your parents about on TV -- well, if you are rich -- and it's nice to see a kid in Hollywood acting her age, even if what's coming out of her mouth is completely unrelatable to most of our lives. I'd prefer that than her being paraded around nightclubs like she's 25 so her mother can try and pose as her older sister.

Which is why I also liked her dress:

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So many people hated this. Maybe I'm just going soft, but I think it works. It's soft and sweet, and she looks like a young girl at an awards show rather than how stiff and stodgy she looked in her red dress at last year's Oscars. Okay, so the necklace disappearing into her cleavage is maybe not a great idea. And the cleavage itself, I can't decide if it's a lot or a normal amount -- from some angles it seems fine, and from others, I wonder. But overall we thought Miley looked charming. The two of us, thus far, have been on an island with that one, though. We don't mind being alone out here -- it's very peaceful -- but we'd PREFER it if we had some company, say, in the form of Sawyer sans shirt. Or Desmond, who could write messages in the sand and then read them aloud in his dreamy accent. I really hope they vote.

November 26, 2008

AMAs Fug or Fab: Miley Cyrus

At the beginning of the week, when I was eying this ensemble, I didn't think I liked it. Something about the black swatch felt a bit like she'd thrown a hissy-fit until her stylist agreed to belt her lucky blanket to the dress.

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But now? Maybe I'm just distracted by the prospect of turkey, or the sheer number of potatoes I am about to peel, or the fact that I have no completely healthy running backs on any of my fantasy football teams and at least one must-win game this weekend. Whatever it is, though, suddenly I kind of like this. What can I say? She looks well-supported; it's short, but not in a way that might entice an ultrasound technician to pop out of the bushes and set up shop; and it's both grown-up and playful. I wonder if this means I like Miley Cyrus now. Not that I didn't before; mostly I just didn't think about her, except to wonder if she went to Hilary Duff's veneers man. And now, to ponder why her necklace has chosen this exact moment to go bobbing for apples. I suppose we know what IT is thankful for this year.

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It must be really kind of hard to be Miley Cyrus: you pose in a sheet, and people FREAK OUT. You send sort-of-but-not-really provocative camera phone pics to your boyfriend, and people FREAK OUT. You make kind of snide remarks about said boyfriend's new girlfriend and people FREAK OUT. But who is there to freak out when Seventeen magazine Photoshops you until your head appears to be floating over someone else's body -- someone whose elbows have been surgically attached to her dress? I AM. I have commenced FREAKING OUT for you, Miley. You can thank me later.
Okay, Miley:

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Let's do some guided imagery. Imagine yourself in New York, in late July (which is where you are, and when it actually is). Now, imagine yourself in this outfit. Now take off those surely steamy, overwhelming, cankle-tastic boots and put on some sandals. Wiggle your toes. Don't you feel (and look) better now? I thought so. Now, let's work on the cap....

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