Post by MileySmiley08 on May 26, 2008 13:34:48 GMT -5
If I see another word about those photographs taken by Annie Leibovitz of Miley Cyrus, I think I will crawl up on the nude statues on the Music Row roundabout in Nashville and throw up. I have never in my almost four decades on Music Row heard of anything of so little substance getting so much mileage. All this carrying on has gotten completely out of hand and out of control because it is being said by "them" and not "us."
We are not talking about some smoking hottie Hollywoodite who's ready and willing to show it all because that's their only claim to fame. We are talking about native Tennessean Miley Cyrus, the 15-year-old daughter of Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus, who is so talented she landed her own television show and her own record deal. We are talking about the young lady named to Time magazine's list of the year's 100 most influential people. We're talking about the girl People magazine says makes a million bucks weekly. You got that straight?
Miley, an obedient child, obviously obeyed the photographer when she made suggestions during the photo shoot. I am so sure that's all there is to it, I'd stake my life on it. There was no ulterior motive on her part or the part of her parents. No thoughts of furthering a career that is already a multi-million dollar empire. Anybody who thinks otherwise is a hired troublemaker who specializes in such. Consider where you read the headlines.
Let me ask a question: Where did Vanity Fair magazine fit in all this brouhaha? Were they for or against the photographs? Doesn't the magazine have to approve all photos? Did they have the photographer take these photos to sell magazines? Another point: The pictures I saw show Miley wearing much more than a bikini -- beach wear for 15-year-olds and their mamas. Duh. It's warm weather.
Had Hollywood and the tabloids not got their mangy hands on the story, blown it all out of proportion and run with it, there never would have been a story. That is, unless Vanity Fair wanted to sell tons of magazines.
If I were the troublemakers, I'd be careful. Why? I remember the early '90s when Sandy Neese, PR person extraordinaire at Mercury Records, called to tell me about Billy Ray Cyrus from Flatwoods, Ky. "He's gonna be big as Elvis," she allowed. So I hauled it over to the label's office where label chief Harold Shedd played me the music. It took almost a year for me to close my mouth shut after hearing "Achy Breaky Heart" for the first time. Like Sandy, Harold and also A&R director Buddy Cannon, I knew they had something huge to work with. Read on.
On the strength of "Achy Breaky Heart" and his onstage dancing, Billy Ray's career bolted off like a racehorse in the Kentucky Derby -- so quick and so fast. Females screamed for Billy Ray like their mamas screamed for Elvis. It was the early '90s when in a snit (or jealousy) someone carelessly remarked, "All Billy Ray Cyrus can do is shake his ass." These carelessly-spoken words did not hurt Billy Ray's career as much as they hurt his feelings.
Whoa! Is history repeating itself? Could this be what is taking place with the Miley saga? Could the finger-pointers and accusers be the ones who fall by the wayside? Doesn't a teenager's apology count? It was an apology she didn't even have to make, but that's the way the child was raised -- just say you're sorry. Turning the other cheek is scriptural. Something her daddy taught her. We do that in the South.
www.cmt.com/news/hot-dish/1587249/hot-dish-media-should-leave-miley-cyrus-alone.jhtml
We are not talking about some smoking hottie Hollywoodite who's ready and willing to show it all because that's their only claim to fame. We are talking about native Tennessean Miley Cyrus, the 15-year-old daughter of Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus, who is so talented she landed her own television show and her own record deal. We are talking about the young lady named to Time magazine's list of the year's 100 most influential people. We're talking about the girl People magazine says makes a million bucks weekly. You got that straight?
Miley, an obedient child, obviously obeyed the photographer when she made suggestions during the photo shoot. I am so sure that's all there is to it, I'd stake my life on it. There was no ulterior motive on her part or the part of her parents. No thoughts of furthering a career that is already a multi-million dollar empire. Anybody who thinks otherwise is a hired troublemaker who specializes in such. Consider where you read the headlines.
Let me ask a question: Where did Vanity Fair magazine fit in all this brouhaha? Were they for or against the photographs? Doesn't the magazine have to approve all photos? Did they have the photographer take these photos to sell magazines? Another point: The pictures I saw show Miley wearing much more than a bikini -- beach wear for 15-year-olds and their mamas. Duh. It's warm weather.
Had Hollywood and the tabloids not got their mangy hands on the story, blown it all out of proportion and run with it, there never would have been a story. That is, unless Vanity Fair wanted to sell tons of magazines.
If I were the troublemakers, I'd be careful. Why? I remember the early '90s when Sandy Neese, PR person extraordinaire at Mercury Records, called to tell me about Billy Ray Cyrus from Flatwoods, Ky. "He's gonna be big as Elvis," she allowed. So I hauled it over to the label's office where label chief Harold Shedd played me the music. It took almost a year for me to close my mouth shut after hearing "Achy Breaky Heart" for the first time. Like Sandy, Harold and also A&R director Buddy Cannon, I knew they had something huge to work with. Read on.
On the strength of "Achy Breaky Heart" and his onstage dancing, Billy Ray's career bolted off like a racehorse in the Kentucky Derby -- so quick and so fast. Females screamed for Billy Ray like their mamas screamed for Elvis. It was the early '90s when in a snit (or jealousy) someone carelessly remarked, "All Billy Ray Cyrus can do is shake his ass." These carelessly-spoken words did not hurt Billy Ray's career as much as they hurt his feelings.
Whoa! Is history repeating itself? Could this be what is taking place with the Miley saga? Could the finger-pointers and accusers be the ones who fall by the wayside? Doesn't a teenager's apology count? It was an apology she didn't even have to make, but that's the way the child was raised -- just say you're sorry. Turning the other cheek is scriptural. Something her daddy taught her. We do that in the South.
www.cmt.com/news/hot-dish/1587249/hot-dish-media-should-leave-miley-cyrus-alone.jhtml
