An Open Letter To Miley Cyrus: You’re Doing It Wrong

12/10/2012 2:00 pm by

My  dearest, dearest Miley. I don’t know you. I couldn’t name one song you’ve sung. (Wait – didn’t you have a song on the Tangled soundtrack? Okay, maybe I know one.)  I never got on the Hannah Montana bandwagon (mostly because I was in my 20s sans kids when that was popular), and continue to not care about your career as Miley Cyrus, pop-star extraordinaire.

However, when I opened up the Interwebs this morning, this story caught my eye:

Miley Cyrus dances with strippers at DJ Borgore’s ‘Christmas Creampies’ concert

Really? I mean…REALLY?

I get it. You’re 19 years old. Mom and dad can’t say much about your actions (WHICH IS SO COMPLETELY OBVIOUS) and you’re ready to show the world you’re your own boss. To be honest, your “haircut” was enough of an announcement. I don’t think you needed to take it any further. And yet, you have. (She also took that haircut even further as shown in this video and a recent post to Twitter. Le sigh.)

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Miley goes to the dogs.

Miley, do you see that headline up there? There is so much wrong in that headline that even I can’t make it right. To make matters worse, there’s video. (Do I need to put a disclaimer on this that it’s NSFW? I mean, STRIPPERS AND CHRISTMAS CREAMPIES. <— There. THERE’S your disclaimer.)

(ugh, flopping boobs.)

ANYWAY, do you see where I’m going with this? You have a voice. You have had a career. You’re taking things down a path that Britney Spears herself barely managed to come back from (and in all due respect to Britney, I don’t even think she’ll fully recover). AND SHE’S BRITNEY FUCKING SPEARS.

What’s more frightening to me, is that unlike Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Bynes and other Hollywood girls-gone-bad…I don’t think you have anything to blame but your own poor decision making. I mean, at least those girls were wasted and/or on drugs. You? I think you’re still trying to shake that Hannah Montana thing off your back. WE GET IT. You’re not Hannah Montana. Can you please knock it off now?

And I’ll only briefly pause for a moment to say WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN because since this is so incredibly far from your Hannah Montana character that millions of little girls emulated, what kind of message does this send to them? “Be cute and adorable when you’re in junior high and then when you turn 18 become a free spirit and dance at a Christmas Creampie show?” NO THANK YOU. Seriously, if my daughter had ever listened to your music I would be having stern talks with her about what is acceptable and what isn’t because THIS TOTALLY ISN’T.

I will say, thank you for keeping your clothes on.

In closing, you’re still young. You still have time to turn this around. Do you see the other names I mentioned in this letter? All of them are train wrecks. Only one made things right for herself, even if it was a little too late. I don’t like having to compare you to Lindsay Lohan, but if it’s the wake-up call you need to start acting like an adult, then so be it.

DON’T BE ANOTHER LINDSAY LOHAN.

xoxo -

Jenna

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About Jenna Marie Bee

Jenna, aka Mrs. Jenna, lives in Minneapolis and bows to the altar of Prince and the New Power Generation, as required by Minnesota law. When she's not being mom/wife/employee of the year, she blogs at Blogged Bliss and gets her Twitter on @jennamariebee.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/hypnotyza Mark ‘Hypnotyza’ Raich

    yeah, um, i wouldn’t consider what happened with Britney “making things right for herself”. i’d say when your parents step in and have a (if i recall correctly) court ordered conservatorship, you haven’t done it, as you say, for yourself. just nit picking a teeny tiny bit.

    to speak to the larger issue at hand, i get what you’re saying and mostly agree, but i consider this the least egregious stop on the “Hot Mess Express” train…of the aforementioned examples, this one doesn’t end with frappucinos as major sources of dietary intake, shifty dudes acting as “manager/agent”, shoplifting, multiple traffic offenses, etc.

    does it look bad? depends who you are. is her “talent” being put on display in questionable ways? absolutely.

    but is this behavior ultimately harmful to her as a person? i think maybe you might be projecting a bit. all she did was get a Hillary-Swank-in-Boys-Don’t-Cry haircut and make a couple questionable appearances. (yes, i’m including Two and A Half Men in there….because WINNING…)

    • http://twitter.com/jennamariebee Mrs. Jenna

      Yeah, I might be getting a bit ahead of myself, but like Darth Vader said, “The Force is strong with this one.” I feel like she’s at a turning point in her life/career where either keep her shit together or start joyriding with Lindsay.

      • http://www.waitinthevan.com Kristine

        Agreed. Preach, Mrs. Jenna.

  • http://www.facebook.com/traceygaughranperez Tracey Gaughran-Perez

    I just realized: Lindsay Lohan has fully become the new Britney Spears, hasn’t she? That’s equal parts sad and terrifying.

    • http://twitter.com/opticalens Mike Perkowitz

      Lindsay Lohan is at least 10x the trainwreck that Britney ever was. Britney had some low moments, but she didn’t have multiple years of breaking the law and/or getting publicly wasted pretty much weekly.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jennifer-Morgan-Knox/1537184132 Jennifer Morgan-Knox

    She lost me after she BUTCHERED “Smells Like Teen Spirit” while wearing a sparkly bra and some really unfortunate pants.

  • SuzyQuzey

    Uuuuuuuuuuuugh.

  • Courtney

    I think this is a tacky article. Just because she is seen dancing with strippers while performing does not mean she is going down a slippery slope. I am not a Miley fan by any means, I don’t enjoy her music. I do however support her for speaking out on gay and transgendered rights and growing up gracefully under the spotlight. As someone from a country background like she is it is not often spoken out for. She is supporting people like me who had no support no voice out here in the country. As I’m sure you have heard many times, don’t judge a book by it’s cover.

    • http://twitter.com/jennamariebee Mrs. Jenna

      That’s just it though…she’s overall been a really nice person and has done a good job of “growing up gracefully under the spotlight” – but lately there’s been no grace. It’s just a hard turn from her previous image.

  • the grumbles

    I’ll write her a warning just for the hair alone. Watch yoself Cyrus.

  • http://www.josetteplank.com/ Josette Plank

    “WE GET IT. You’re not Hannah Montana. ” I got it after the pole dance for the Party In The USA thing on some award show. Maybe she is just sowing wild oats, but when I did equally goofy things when I was her age, it didn’t become a public feedback loop. I could pretend it didn’t happen and for the most part it was forgotten.

  • Brittany

    this article is a little judgmental. I do not agree with everything that she does. but how does all of this(besides the hair cut) saying anything about who she is as a person? Maybe it might hurt her career if she keeps doing this, but it shouldn’t. She has a great voice and maybe the musical direction is off but again how does that say anything about her as a person?

    • http://twitter.com/jennamariebee Mrs. Jenna

      Oh, I judge. I think what one does says a lot about them. And this doesn’t really say nice things about Miss Cyrus.

  • ashley

    I don’t see how this performance or her haircut means she’s head down the path of Lindsay Lohan & the like. She was a special guest at someone else show who happened to have strippers. Omg you guys that means she’s totally spiraling out of control. And as for the haircut, how that hell is that “taking it far”? It’s just freaking hair. You’ve got to be kidding with this BS. So overdramatic.

    • http://twitter.com/jennamariebee Mrs. Jenna

      Maybe it’s just me then. The dominatrix-type outfit, gross strippers and name of the event alone skeeved me out. I just think it’s a poor choice for her career.

  • Tyskkvinna

    I think Miss Miley has been trying really, really hard to kind of emulate Lindsay and Britney and the like but doesn’t really know how to actually do that… She reminds me a lot of the well-off, sheltered girls in my hometown who get out on their own and want to be “bad” but never actually ride the drug train, aren’t in any truly hard situations, and instead just act out stupidly.

    • http://twitter.com/jennamariebee Mrs. Jenna

      THIS. She’s trying hard to be bad. EXACTLY.

  • http://twitter.com/notsuperjustmom Miranda

    And SHE gets to have hot, hot sex with Liam Hemsworth. ::sadface::