Keith Girard
Miley Cyrus isn’t interested in repeating history as host of the MTV Video Music Awards. So what can we expect? (Photo: MTV)
Viewers expecting an all out Bacchanalia complete with nude twerking girls may be in for a disappointment.
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Miley is all about nudity, but her head is in a different place now and she’s not interested in repeating history. You may recall, Miley touched off a firestorm with her raunchy performance with Robin Thicke to his tune “Blurred Lines.”
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“Even people around me really judged me. People that I really loved and thought were my friends judged me for it. They were like, ‘You were on drugs when you did that performance.’ I did nothing! I still don’t get it,” she told The New York Times.
“I still love it. But I now watch it, and I see someone that isn’t me now.”
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Cyrus says one of the things she learned out of the uproar over her performance was her ability to command attention. That caused a bit of an epiphany.
“I knew who I was, and I knew the power that I held, but I don’t think I realized my full power until that show. I didn’t realize I could make such a big reaction,” she says.
Miley says she’s a different person today and the embodiment of that was her non-appearance at the 2014 MTV VMAs. She was slated to accept the Video of the Year award for her “Wrecking Ball” video.
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Instead of taking the stage, she sent Jesse Helt, a 22-year-old homeless man in her place to highlight the plight of homeless teens.
Helt, reading from a prepared statement, accepted the award on behalf of “the 1.6 million runaways and homeless youth in the United States who are starving, lost and scared for their lives right now. I know, because I am one of those people.”
It was more than a publicity stunt. It was the unveiling of the new Miley–social activist.
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“Now is just the beginning for me,” she said afterward in a statement. “We gotta start somewhere.”
Miley has since gone on to create the “Happy Hippie Foundation,” a non-profit group that provides support for homeless transgender youths.
So this year’s MTV VMAs may involve racy dancing and over-the-top moments. After all, Miley also supports the “free the nipple” movement.
But she’s more likely to make the evening heavily focused on social issues.
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Still, MTV isn’t taking any chances. It’s imposing a seven-second delay in the broadcast to catch any overt nudity or inappropriate language.
It wouldn’t be a shock if isn’t necessary.
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