Miley Cyrus

In our reading last night, I read that a rhetorical argument is a message sent through a text that challenges a behavior about what is appropriate or inappropriate, or good or bad. Hours after reading about that, I watched the Video Music Awards. My jaw literally dropped when Miley Cyrus performed her hit, “We Can’t Stop”. All I could think about was how inappropriate she was being.

I’ve seen the music video, and it’s crazy. Who eats bread and money sandwiches, dances with giant teddy bears on their backs and makes skulls out of French fries?

Her performance at the VMA’s was not much different. She came out in a tiny teddy bear costume, twerked with black girls and stuck out her tongue every five seconds. At the end of her song, she ripped off what little she had on and was standing in a little nude number (much like the naked girls in Robin Thicke’s music video.) Unfortunately, she was given a foam finger and she used it to stroke her privates every ten seconds.

She then danced and sang with Thicke for a duet of “Blurred Lines”. At one point, she bent over in front of him and grinded on him. Another time, Cyrus groped him and acted like she was kissing his neck. Towards the end of the song, she used her foam finger on Thicke’s privates. The performance left many people shocked and, for me, very disturbed. My timeline on all social media was filled with Miley comments for the next hour.

After going through and analyzing her performance, I can’t help but think this is exactly what Cyrus wanted. Twitter went crazy with over 300,000 tweets per minute during her performance. She was interviewed on the red carpet before the event saying her performance was going to be crazier than Britney and Madonna’s kiss. I guess she was right.

Here's a clip of the entire performance:Miley's Twerk Fest