Good Song, Okay Girl, Bad Habits, Stinky Video
It's a party song. It's about a girl, like Miley, going to the big city. She starts thinking about how different Hollywood is from Nashville and feels kind of homesick then she turns up the music, starts dancing, and just starts having a grand old time. I can't find anything particularly bad about this song nor can I find any good messages. It's clean. It's fun. It's catchy. Now I'm going to talk about the real problem.
Miley has had a few issues with growing up lately. She thinks she's doing it too fast when she's really going too slow. She's done some things that she thought were "artsy" and "natural" and I thought were distasteful. She says she wants to toss off the "security blanket" of Hannah Montana, a clean show, and start "working with life's real emotions." The "Party in the USA" music video was sad and inappropriate. "Okay," I thought, "Maybe she just made a mistake. She's a kid, she does that." Then I saw her on American Idol with that all-popular nail in her nose and I knew where she was headed. By the latest news I'm hearing, which I don't really feel like discussing, I was right. How can her parents stand by and let her act like this? She's 17!
Look, folks, let me explain something to you. If your kids watch Hannah Montana, they're going to love Miley Stewart. That's fine, so do I, though we'll see where it goes in the last season. (If Hannah hooks up with Jake, I'm going to have a few things to say.) When your kids learn that Miley Cyrus is an famous actor who only plays Miley Stewart, they're going to love Miley Cyrus. They're going to buy her CDs. They're going to learn everything about "the bestest singer lady in the world." They won't know she's doing bad things, they just know they want to be just like Miley when they grow up! I like Hannah Montana but this girl has lost my respect.