Miley Cyrus

Big Freedia Will Attempt to Set a Guinness Record for Twerking in Herald Square Today

If you happen to be walking past Herald Square around noon today, and you see hundreds of people doubled over, butts jutting: Stay calm. It's just Big Freedia and her army of twerkers. As a promotion for her upcoming reality show on Fuse TV, the New Orleans Bounce musician Big Freedia is holding a t ... More >>

The World's Greatest Works of Writing ... If They Were About Twerking

Look, I'm not going to spend a lot of time explaining why I just put the word "twerk" in some of the world's classic works of literature. Like, there's no logical or social commentary here, this isn't about Miley Cyrus, this isn't about education, this is an article born entirely out of ... I don't ... More >>

Twerk-Offs: Rightbloggers Ride Out the Summer With Miley Cyrus

It's hard and tedious, the day-to-day rightblogger work of promoting impeachment, stirring racial enmity, scrambling for a position that can encompass both a desire to bomb Syria and a desire to thwart Obama, and so on. Their traditional relief valve has been culture war -- shaking fists at some r ... More >>

Parents Television Council's Dan Isett Wants to Pass Legislation to Stop All Future Mileys

By David Rolland The fallout from Miley Cyrus' performance at Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards has run the gamut from discomfort to laughter to accusations of racism and sexism. But only the Parents Television Council demands legislation result from her tasteless performance. According to th ... More >>

A Brooklyn Bodega Is Selling a Strip of the VMA Red Carpet For $5,000

Just before Miley destroyed the world by dancing lasciviously with sad bears, the stars of Sunday's VMAs trotted their fit and happy haunches down the red carpet in front of a thirsty press corps eager to ask them who they were wearing and snap pics of them posing. Nothing too special, we suppose, c ... More >>

"Miley Twerking On Things We Should Talk About" Is a Tumblr We Should Talk About

The speed at which that story by The Onion savagely ridiculing CNN dot com's decision to put the "news" of Miley Cyrus' VMA performance on its front page yesterday was astounding. It filled Facebook and Twitter feeds--currently sitting at an astounding 243.5k FB likes and 13.4k Tweets. (Even more as ... More >>

Every Person, Place, and Thing on Magna Carta Holy Grail: A Checklist

If while listening to Jay-Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail, you experienced an indescribable sensation that you were actually listening to an encrypted invitation to a very luxurious party with a super exclusive guest list and even more ridiculous gift wish list, you were right!!! We made note of every pe ... More >>

Chippy Nonstop Wants To Marry Chief Keef (Even Though He Stole Kitty Pryde's Candy)

Editor's note: In "Tweets Is Watching," Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline. Chippy Nonstop is back in Brooklyn for the summer! Today she releases her new six-track EP; it's titled Finally Verified and is also being promoted with a Gif- ... More >>

Dissecting the Politically Charged Subtext of Miley Cyrus's "We Can't Stop" Video

Few starlets have undergone as drastic and public a personal and musical transformation as Miley Cyrus. She chopped off her long brown locks for a styled blonde Mohawk-ish thing. She exchanged her trademark country twang for a sheepish auto-tuned "baaah!" She dropped off her guitar and popped up he ... More >>

Miley Poppin' Molly: How Miley Cyrus Officially Made Singing About Drugs Uncool

It's not officially summer until a former tween star does something that sparks outrage across the world. This summer, Miley Cyrus is making a major comeback as the source of that anger with her new single "We Can't Stop," the Mike WiLL produced, beach-friendly jam that sounds more like a slowed dow ... More >>

Movie Stars And Singers Who've Built A Career On One Hit

Let's not stick to people who literally had one hit, necessarily, but who became defined by one hit and never quite surpassed it in the public's eyes, even if they had some other reasonable successes. I.e., they pretty much coasted. The folks at datalounge came up with the following names (and I'v ... More >>

12 (More) Big Deal Albums We're Hella Excited For

Hey: Albums! In case people still care about these things, here's a batch of potentially interesting releases arriving in the calendar year.

These Artists Should Sell Coffins As Merch

Sorry to throw salt in your New Year's revelry, but as something begins, so too something ends. And that makes us think about death. Because we're sick. And practical. Sickly practical. Practically sick. ANYWAY, the imminence of death begs an essential question: how will you be buried? It's never ... More >>

What Will the Miley Cyrus/Tyler, the Creator Collaboration Sound Like?

Why are Miley Cyrus and Tyler, the Creator collaborating? Probably because they know how awesome it will be. See Also: - On Odd Future, Rape and Murder, And Why We Sometimes Like the Things That Repel Us - Miley Cyrus Takes Her Party In The USA To Occupy Wall Street

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The Best Torso In Hollywood

Aussie hunk Chris Hemsworth, 28, has played chesty roles in Star Trek and Thor and he has a million more large-scale movies coming out, but the main things you need to know about him are: *His brother Liam is dating Miley Cyrus.

Running The Numbers: The Four-Disc, 73-Track Bob Dylan Covers Comp With Miley, Ke$ha, Lenny, And Many Others

​Today Amnesty International releases Chimes Of Freedom, a really, really huge compilation of bob Dylan covers by artists both canonized and obscure. Trying to analyze such a huge undertaking can only be done in one way: Mathematically. Amount of music in this collection: 73 songs on four CD ... More >>

Miley Cyrus Takes Her Party In The USA To Occupy Wall Street

​Here is a fun sentence to type: Miley Cyrus released a video in support of Occupy Wall Street! The clip, posted Saturday, pairs a remix of her 2010 song "Liberty Walk" with footage from the Occupy protests, and is so incongruous that when I first saw it I spent about five minutes verifying th ... More >>

Glee: The 3D Concert Movie

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Salvia Ban Looms in New York After Years of Fear Mongering, Bad Jokes

Drugs​Salvia divinorum, the drug used most publicly by Miley Cyrus and Arizona shooter Jared Loughner, moved closer to being outlawed on Monday when the New York state Senate approved a bill banning the sale of the hallucinogenic herb. John Flanagan, the lawmaker who sponsored the legislation, ... More >>

Miley Cyrus Should Be Left Alone in 2011

​She's been held up as some supposed role model for billions by puritanical types who will surely drive her to a nuthouse if they keep up with their absurd demands. Let the girl grow up! Miley is a good role model if she shows the world that she lives and breathes and experiments and grows l ... More >>

Young Famous Person Does Legal Bong Hit, a/k/a, Miley Cyrus's Worst Salvia Trip EVER (VIDEO)

via TMZ​Footage of Miley Cyrus smoking a huge bong filled with salvia, the completely legal and completely hallucinogenic herb, was released by TMZ this morning. Footage leaking = worst trip ever. Salvia is legal in California so the newly 18-year-old Cyrus doesn't have to worry about legal ac ... More >>

If They're In It, Stay Home

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A Nation of Justin Bieber Fans Threaten to Kill Miley Cyrus on Twitter

Last night, the Canadian industry savior and haircut titan Justin Bieber overcame a cold and a guest appearance from Sean Kingston to sell out Madison Square Garden. The performance was being taped for an upcoming 3D biopic, and thus Bieber brought out the big guns: Boyz II Men. (Usher, Jaden Smit ... More >>

'C' IS FOR CYRUS

Miley's musical taste inspires a cabaret

Wise Young Kids Just Don't Approve of Hannah Montana's Slutty Behavior

via New York Times​Kids, Miley is only Hannah Montana when she has the blond wig on -- gosh, how many times do your parents have to explain? So, when she's owning stripper poles, strutting her stuff in mesh everything, and dating older guys, she's no longer Hannah Montana. Got it? Except, not ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The-Dream, Miley Cyrus, the Great Dancehall Freeze Out, Jazz Consumer Guide, and More

Courtesy Def-Jam Records In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla marvels at the brilliant stupidity of r&b lothario The-Dream. Theon Weber examines the calculated rebellion of Miley Cyrus. Jesse Serwer reports on the Great Dancehall Freeze-Out of 2010, during which many of Jamaica's biggest act ... More >>

The Calculated Rebellion of Miley Cyrus

The shrugging-off-Disney phase begins with the sadly wan Can't Be Tamed

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A week of the very best Latin alternative music

Usher Is #1, But It's Still Justin Bieber Who Is Saving the Record Industry

​Usher's Raymond Vs. Raymond took the top spot on the albums chart this week, selling 329,000 copies in the wake of its March 30 release. But once again, this week's chart-related headlines belong to the impeccably blow-dried Canadian singer Justin Bieber. The Usher protégé and native Ontari ... More >>

How Justin Bieber's #1 Album Factors Into the Teen-Idol Solo-Artist Pantheon

Canadian teenpopper Justin Bieber bows at the top of this week's Billboard 200 with My World 2.0, which sold 283,000 copies in its first week at stores. The persistent Twitter trend and walking advertisement for blowdryers is the latest sheepishly grinning guy to hoist the teen-idol mantle, althou ... More >>

Hannah Montana Upstaged by Sea Turtles in The Last Song

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At Last, The Twilight Saga: New Moon Soundtrack Ends the Long and Terrible Chart Reign of Michael Buble

​Grizzly Bear, major cultural force in this country: the second Twilight soundtrack sold 153,000 copies this week, good for #1 and easily enough to knock international cipher Michael Buble to the three spot, where he plays runner up to Tim McGraw's Southern Voice, debuting at No. 2 with 137,00 ... More >>

Bow Down to Michael Buble, America

​Crazy Love is still very much #1 in the country. But The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack--a goofy melange of what's warm in indie right now, e.g. Lykke Li, Grizzly Bear, Thom Yorke, etc.--sold 115,000 copies, good for #2. Those bands selling that many records would be stunning if this wer ... More >>

News Roundup: Them Crooked Vultures, Miley Cyrus, the Walkmen, Yellow Submarine Remake

​--Them Crooked Vultures surprised fans by playing Belgium's Pukkelpop music festival yesterday (check out fan reports here). The band played the second stage between sets by Beirut and Wilco. The night before, the Dave Grohl/Josh Homme/John Paul Jones supergroup played their second gig at a s ... More >>

America Falling Behind in Celebrity Nudes; Lawyers Blamed

There are nude pictures out there, allegedly of Ashley Greene (Twilight), and her attorneys are scouring the internet with bolos made out of lawsuits to keep them from public view. (WWTDD seems to have a special dispensation to publish them -- run, you bastards!) As The Inquistr points out, this h ... More >>

Awful Pop Band Appears at Queens School's Career Day

We were tempted to discard this as an April Fool's Day joke, too, but the Queens Gazette doesn't roll like that, so we believe them when they say that the pop band Push Play (warning: link plays horrible noise), "an opening act for Miley Cyrus and featured on Radio Disney," came to P.S. 151's Career ... More >>

"Consumers Don't Want Double Packs"

Quotes from the Food and Agriculture Summit included, "What I think the consumer wants is value at point of sale. They don't want a lot of fancy promotions. They don't want a lot of double packs. They want a reasonable price point." [Reuters] In a survey of 8,203 people across the country, 2.55 p ... More >>

Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, Starring Fountains of Sticky, White Goo

For Your Weekend Snacking Pleasure

 I've got to admit to being a big fan of gummy candies, especially the super-sour type developed a decade or so ago. Nothing like a big hit of citric acid to set your teeth on edge. I know, of course, that gummies are not vegetarian--the gelatin in these gentle treats often derives from anima ... More >>

Formal Petition to Have Every Musical Performance on Television for the Next Six Months End with Lil Wayne Playing a Guitar Solo

Miley Cyrus, Teen Siren

Grading the iTunes Hits: Metro Station, Pussycat Dolls, Miley Cyrus

Two Birds, One Post: Mindy McCready and Miley Cyrus

Post-Oscars, the Dress Knock-Off Crowd Gets Busy

. . and the debate over copies crops up again

Things I Learned Watching Hannah Montana 3D

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