Poor Miley Cyrus is being unfairly criticized for being lewd and crude on the music awards. It simply isn’t true…according to today’s music-world standards. After all, everyone knows it is no longer enough just to sing, that is, if you want to sell your music. You must give performances and produce a video in which you dress minimally, take erotic stances, thrust your hips provocatively, lick your lips while letting your gaze wander into Wonderland, and engage in suggestive moves with co-singers or back-ups. It’s all part of the package. Sometimes people take it to extremes, which Miley seems to have done. But she has to if she wants to leave Hanna Montana behind her and be a success in the music world. What’s a girl to do?!
Okay. We old fogeys yearn for the day when we watched a singer perform and felt the emotion the words and music were trying to convey. We knew that sex was being implied in the romantic relationships being sung about. But we had an advantage over modern music-lovers: we had an imagination.