Parents can be fooled. As I said, art can conceal corruption.
I won’t speculate on whether Miley Cyrus is going down the Britney Spears mess of a road; I can only pray she does not.
One thing this whole thread makes me think of is that the pursuit of fame is a disease in and of itself.
Oh, she is definitely going down the same path as Spears, and it isn’t the Leibowitz photos that make me say that either. Within the past month or so several pictures have surfaced on the internet that she took of her self in provocative positions and out right exposing herself. Her performance on American Idolatry a few weeks back also was *highly* Britney-esque.
I understand the sentiments that can see the Leibowitz photo as art...much of the Renissance art, some of the greatest pieces of all time, weren’t want one would call “modest.” In fact, Michalangelo suffered criticisms of the Sistine Chapel because many of the figures were in the nude. My objection lies chiefly with these: (1) Cyrus is 15 years old, and there is a long tradition of young female stars who have degenerated into abject whores (Spears, Hillary Duff, Jessica Simpson, Lindsey Lohan, etc, etc) and this doesn’t bode well, (2) Leibowitz has a long standing tradition of anti-white rhetoric and work...the Vogue magazine cover last month clearly demonstrates her views of white women, (3) I believe it was a publicity stunt, in the same spirit as Jessica Biel’s attempt to “break out of” the good-girl image of 7th Heaven, and Lohans similar shoot. I actually despise Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana, but the fact that her parents, (father more specifically), allowed her to sell herself for publicity’s sake, over shadows any artistic value the image might of had.
