*Miley’s performance starts at the 10 second mark. This was the highest quality video I could find, and it includes Christina Aguilera too, so I’m sorry. Some SPOILERS below if you haven’t seen last night’s DWTS yet*
Sometimes I’m so happy that I watch scripted dramas for the most part. While I was busy watching NCIS (which was good, and I was all “ZOMG did they kill Mike Franks?!?”), everybody else was watching Chad Ochocinco get kicked off. Who really cares about that, though? Because when you have an hour to fill on a dancing competition, why not bring in Miley Cyrus for a very special caged-bird routine? Honestly, I guess this performance wasn’t that so different from her video for the same song, “Can’t Be Tamed”. Although hearing it live – ouch – and seeing Miley perform takes the already-sketchy “whory bird” concept to a new level.
Many are asking aloud if Miley’s already vaguely not-safe-for-primetime performance was edited or censored. There are a few rough cuts and weird edits by the cameras, so it’s possible that Miley thought her performance would be made better by some Adam Lambert-esque grinding and motor-boating. There was even discussion that Miley was told by DWTS producers days ago to keep her performance clean.
Two more points: Miley’s legs are insane! I know she’s young and I complain about her Daisy Duke shorts and all, but her legs are really amazing, and she knows it. Second point: Does this performance remind anyone else of Paula Abdul’s video for “Cold-Hearted Snake”? Like, Miley is doing “Cold-Hearted Snake”… with feathers.
No way was she singing that live. They did their best to cut away from her mouth, but it was fairly obvious.
She’s not a “mistake” or a “fake,” are you sure about that Miley? It’s not like she’s had a such a hard life to struggle where she’s at. Spoiled wealthy brats don’t have much to rebel about. She still sounds like 14. Christina Aguilera had a stronger voice at that age.
it was so obvious i think my 6 year old could tell
@Maryjalane: of course she was singing live. you can her her getting tired and losing it toward the end. i’m no miley freak but she can sing.
I saw the show last night, Miley was in a real bitchy attitude, she hardly smiled at all the two times they announced her. It was weird to watch, maybe she had a fight with her boyfriend? Who knows, teenagers get really moody. Her performance was good, the song has a catchy tune, I bet it will be another hit.
She tries too hard and comes up too short.
i can’t wait to see what a used up old skank miley will be in a couple of years.
@ Missfit
Chritina Augilera had a voice most adults would KILL for at 8 when she auditioned for Mickey Mouse Club. No fiar comparing Miley to her when only a handful of people can even match her
just seeing her pic with a mic up to her mouth makes my ears hurt.
I’m not sure it’s possible to do that kind of dance* routine and not have your voice wobble as you’re jumping about.
*that’s not dancing.
Well obviously Xtina has a better voice that Miley (of course, I have a better voice that Miley when singing in my shower but whatever) I just can’t seem to get past that Xtina’s whole look now is a copy of Madonna from the ‘Human Nature’ period.
But Miley’s is worse-horrible dancing,just weird facial express, and god awful ‘singing’ Ick.
still awkward. still annoying.
Will never understand her appeal to anyone–don’t find her attractive and can’t stand to listen to her speaking voice. Also noticed that she was a total sourpuss last night.
She wasn’tlip synching. Her voice is much better than the live version last night. Also, there were hundreds of college kids in the audience, if there were something to gossip about from last night’s performance, it would have been seen by now.
she sounds like a hamster.
I dont find her legs attractive, actually she is pretty short and the those boots made her look shorter. The dancing was awkward, There are no real entertainers anymore, all these starlets are a copy cat of one another. NO ORIGINALITY.
i can’t be framed
i can’t be maimed
i’m so deranged
this song is lame
thank you, miley…thank you.
You know for the first time I think I get it. Bird in a gilded cage. She’s been this Disney star molded by others and she’s trying to break away from that which is a completely normal thing for a 17 year old to do. We expect our kids to try to break free from us by that age. I think in her own way she’s trying to say “Don’t tell me what to do” the way she’s been raised to do which is through her music. Unfortunately, she’s doing this in a very public manner so it’s even bumpier than the usual teen. For the first time I feel a little empathy for this kid.
I may feel a little more sympathetic if this whole thing didn’t feel like a marketing strategy. Britney and Christina were both cute Disney kids and then around the same age they both started acting this same way – Its like Disney raises these kids and then sexually exploits them. Icky no-nos.
Christina’s singing voice sounds like a high-note belch. She’s not a good singer, just a good screamer.
First I will say I just can’t stand her….never could.
This is the first time I’ve heard her “sing” not as Hannah Montana and I thought the song sucked, hard.
But the worst part was my husband sitting there saying “I think she’s really pretty”. Personally I can’t get past her ugly mouth.
Seriously, I can’t stand her.
Cant’s stand her, she sings through her nose, yucky!
She was singing live, she sounded AWFUL, just dreadful. She is way too young to be underdressed like that. They try to make her look more mature with all the makeup but you can still tell she is very young. This was all sorts of inappropriate. Two thumbs way down.
I can’t stand her either. I muted her “performance” as soon as it came on. I love watching Dancing with the Stars, but I hate it that they put on these singers trying to whore out their new albums so they can capitalize on the large audience of DWTS. I resent it that they try to force us to watch crap I would never ever watch otherwise. I don’t watch the show to see singers; its a DANCING show. Do they actually think the same demographic that watches that show would buy the crap that spews out of those singers mouths (and I am not just talking about Miley). An older crowd watches that show (I’m 48) and we actually remember when music and singers were GREAT; and believe me, the dreck they put out now is an absolute pathetic shame.
The song itself sucked. This is the first time I’ve punished myself by listening to her. She does not have a good voice.
And she can not dance.
Sad little girl.
It was hard to watch.
No originality, no vocal talent, dysfunctional and a true butter face. What more can you ask for in a no talent hack. The only thing she has going for her is excellent market placement and redneck father who was smart enough to lop off the mullet and jump on the “Exploitation Express”. Unfortunately, this ever evolving trend of mass marketing zeros has been the perfect receipe for fleecing the youth and misguided adults for the last 40 years or so. I lay blame on the first boy band “The Beatles” but hey at least they knew how to play three notes and could sing live once…. or twice.
This girl is a hot mess waiting to happen. She’s still a minor child. This is how Lindsay started. As a minor child, she was allowed by parents as well as security and law enforcement who knew where she was and what she was doing to become a train wreck of a drunk and addict before she was even old enough to legally purchase beer.
Miley, too, has parents who have allowed her life to be hyper-sexualized and her person to become a commodity before she’s even old enough to vote.
I can’t blame her at this point. I find the entire thing pretty sad. And…seriously, not to beat a dead horse, but this is the consequence of parenting which consists of shenanigans like that hideous video of the 2nd graders screwing the stage in lacy tube tops, boy-cut panties, and knee-high boots.
This is the result.
Agree with all the other posters – everything about that was laughably pathetic. I think she was lip-synching, but I could be wrong. Anyway, I thought she was done with “music.” I guess her film didn’t get as many suckers as she and her pr team/BillyBob thought so they are rethinking the marketing. Does anyone know how much she received for the Max Azria/Wal-Mart plugging; I’ve noticed her pictures are noticably absent from Wal-Marts where I live these last few months. I guess that venture didn’t pan out either; no-one asks her about these money making ventures. Why does DWTS need this junk; can’t they find a real singer; oh, that’s right, there aren’t many left. Miley can’t disappear too soon.
Oh, and I definitely think there was some “editing” going on. At one point the view shifted quickly and I said to hubby “Huh, wonder what happened there?”
ok TOTALLY off topic here and i apologize beforehand but kaiser brought it up in the write up, they killed mike franks?? big storm, lost cable, couldn’t watch…
Sigh. I guess it’s just not possible to simply be an attractive female singer anymore who can hold a crowd’s attention with her voice and a good tune. You have to be a borderline nymphomaniac too, complete with totally over-the-top writhing, grinding and thrusting to remind the audience that you’re just obsessed with sex all the time, lest they forget. God forbid any female pop star should attempt to perform a song without cages, stripper poles and a platoon of twitching back-up dancers in stupid costumes.
Julie – No, they didn’t! I thought they did for a second, but don’t worry!
oh thank god, and thanks for telling me! i was so mad when my screen (and the rest of my house) went black right when the opening credits ended.
It’s interesting that we all had such different opinions about whether she was singing last night- maybe they had her singing along to a tape, and that’s why it sounded so off in parts. Regardless- she sucks it hard and hopefully will fade into the night as she gets older. I thought Sara Mc sounded great!
Kaiser you make mention of the spoilers for those who haven’t seen DWTS yet, but fail to realise some of us (okay, possibly just me) taped NCIS while watching DWTS and could have used the heads-up on that possible spoiler! 🙂
Lock the cage and throw away the key.
Holy crap this is the most awful garbage I’ve ever heard in my life. Is this what the kids are listening to these days?
If Mad Max and the dance crew from Billy Idol’s Dancing with Myself got blind drunk, this performance is what they’d barf up the next day. Old, stale and derivative….
speaking of lindsay… she did the birdcage routine too. in Rumors.
Lindsay: Why can’t you just let me do the things I want to do? I’m only having fun!
Miley: I can’t be changed. I can’t be tamed. I want to go!
and ofc they’re both little girls in birdcages who just want to break out and be as sexualized as possible.
hmm
kinda boring…reminds me of adam lambart
Someone needs to tell Miley that she needs to drop that “fierce unleashed sexual tigress on the prowl” routine…and fast. It does not work for her at all. She looks completely absurd, it’s painful to watch. I know what she’s trying to do but yikes, she fails badly at it. She’ll never compete as a Britney-type pop-tart, she has to either tone it down or go more country or something because this stuff will kill her little career deader than dead.
I cant believe I’m going to say this, but I liked Miley’s song better then Christinas. Not that maybe Christina doesnt have a better voice, but the song was boring.
I love how she can barely move in those boots
The bottom line is the songs are awful. Both women have had better material in the past.
@BlahBlah:
That’s Taylor Swift for you 😉
what’s with the granny perm xtina