Monday, April 28, 2008

Miley: not Fair!

You knew this was bound to happen in some capacity, sooner or later.

Miley Cyrus, the latest teen sensation for her role as "Hannah Montana" (I've never seen it, so I can't comment), is apologizing in advance to her fans for an upcoming photo spread in Vanity Fair magazine.

The photographer was Annie Leibovitz, who has built a legendary career since the early '70s for her work with Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. Remember the portrait of Demi Moore, nude and covered with a "suit" of body paint? That was vintage Leibovitz.

She didn't do anything remotely as radical shooting Cyrus, but the 15-year-old will appear in the magazine posing in "what appears to be a satin bedsheet with her back exposed," according to an Associated Press video about the young star.

Disney, which is raking in a ton of money courtesy of Cyrus, is critical of the Vanity Fair spread. That should be expected from the megacorporation, considering that Miley is "one of the biggest and most G-rated acts in the country," according to the video. Can't sully that image, even if many of Miley's fans are too young to know or care what Vanity Fair is.

I, for one, have expressed confidence with my admittedly scant knowledge of Miley Cyrus that she won't go the route of other teen stars who couldn't seem to make the adjustment to adulthood without embarrassing themselves on an almost daily basis.

But it's a good idea to watch what you do in front of the camera, even if there's a legend behind a lens.

3 comments:

Scott said...

Well, I've never seen her act or sing, and don't get the controversy over the photo shoot. The images that I've seen are beautiful and artistic.

Unknown said...

Agreed. I was expecting something borderline pornographic, but the pictures seemed overly tame after all the talk.

Harry Funk said...

I'm assuming Disney is behind the uproar. That's an entity with a lot of experience at copping a holier-than-thou attitude.

Once she's not marketable anymore for the Disney audience, we'll see what happens! Hopefully she'll have more sense than some of her predecessors.