Dear Miley,<\/p>\nI wasn\u2019t going to write this letter, but today i\u2019ve been dodging phone calls from various newspapers who wished me to remark upon your having said in Rolling Stone your \u201cWrecking Ball\u201d video was designed to be similar to the one for \u201cNothing Compares\u201d \u2026 So this is what I need to say \u2026 And it is said in the spirit of motherliness and with love.<\/p>\n
I am extremely concerned for you that those around you have led you to believe, or encouraged you in your own belief, that it is in any way \u201ccool\u201d to be naked and licking sledgehammers in your videos. It is in fact the case that you will obscure your talent by allowing yourself to be pimped, whether it\u2019s the music business or yourself doing the pimping. \nNothing but harm will come in the long run, from allowing yourself to be exploited, and it is absolutely NOT in ANY way an empowerment of yourself or any other young women, for you to send across the message that you are to be valued (even by you) more for your sexual appeal than your obvious talent.<\/p>\n
I am happy to hear I am somewhat of a role model for you and I hope that because of that you will pay close attention to what I am telling you.<\/p>\n
The music business doesn\u2019t give a sh\u2013 about you, or any of us. They will prostitute you for all you are worth, and cleverly make you think its what YOU wanted.. and when you end up in rehab as a result of being prostituted, \u201cthey\u201d will be sunning themselves on their yachts in Antigua, which they bought by selling your body and you will find yourself very alone. \nNone of the men oggling you give a sh\u2013 about you either, do not be fooled. Many\u2019s the woman mistook lust for love. If they want you sexually that doesn\u2019t mean they give a f\u2014 about you. All the more true when you unwittingly give the impression you don\u2019t give much of a f\u2014 about yourself. And when you employ people who give the impression they don\u2019t give much of a f\u2014 about you either. No one who cares about you could support your being pimped.. and that includes you yourself. \nYes, I\u2019m suggesting you don\u2019t care for yourself. That has to change. You ought be protected as a precious young lady by anyone in your employ and anyone around you, including you. This is a dangerous world. We don\u2019t encourage our daughters to walk around naked in it because it makes them prey for animals and less than animals, a distressing majority of whom work in the music industry and its associated media.<\/p>\n
You are worth more than your body or your sexual appeal. The world of showbiz doesn\u2019t see things that way, they like things to be seen the other way, whether they are magazines who want you on their cover, or whatever.. Don\u2019t be under any illusions.. ALL of them want you because they\u2019re making money off your youth and your beauty.. which they could not do except for the fact your youth makes you blind to the evils of show business. If you have an innocent heart you can\u2019t recognise those who do not. \nI repeat, you have enough talent that you don\u2019t need to let the music business make a prostitute of you. You shouldn\u2019t let them make a fool of you either. Don\u2019t think for a moment that any of them give a flying f\u2014 about you. They\u2019re there for the money.. we\u2019re there for the music. It has always been that way and it will always be that way. The sooner a young lady gets to know that, the sooner she can be REALLY in control.<\/p>\n
You also said in Rolling Stone that your look is based on mine. The look I chose, I chose on purpose at a time when my record company were encouraging me to do what you have done. I felt I would rather be judged on my talent and not my looks. I am happy that I made that choice, not least because I do not find myself on the proverbial rag heap now that I am almost 47 yrs of age.. which unfortunately many female artists who have based their image around their sexuality, end up on when they reach middle age.<\/p>\n
Real empowerment of yourself as a woman would be to in future refuse to exploit your body or your sexuality in order for men to make money from you. I needn\u2019t even ask the question.. I\u2019ve been in the business long enough to know that men are making more money than you are from you getting naked. It\u2019s really not at all cool. And it\u2019s sending dangerous signals to other young women. Please in future say no when you are asked to prostitute yourself. Your body is for you and your boyfriend. It isn\u2019t for every spunk-spewing dirtbag on the net, or every greedy record company executive to buy his mistresses diamonds with. \nAs for the shedding of the Hannah Montana image.. whoever is telling you getting naked is the way to do that does absolutely NOT respect your talent, or you as a young lady. Your records are good enough for you not to need any shedding of Hannah Montana. She\u2019s waaaaaaay gone by now.. Not because you got naked but because you make great records. \nWhether we like it or not, us females in the industry are role models and as such we have to be extremely careful what messages we send to other women. The message you keep sending is that it\u2019s somehow cool to be prostituted.. it\u2019s so not cool Miley.. it\u2019s dangerous. Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. we aren\u2019t merely objects of desire. I would be encouraging you to send healthier messages to your peers.. that they and you are worth more than what is currently going on in your career. Kindly fire any motherf\u2014er who hasn\u2019t expressed alarm, because they don\u2019t care about you.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Y’know, every so often as a gay man, I find myself wondering why the art of music is so often degraded by a term I like to call “bimboism”. I absolutely hate seeing music videos where women are degraded and maybe that’s a reason why I never liked rap music as a whole or why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,20],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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