[An Nahar] Miley Cyrus is grabbing headlines for the wrong reasons again. A public row with pop veteran Sinead O'Connor is raising questions over whether she may be the latest onetime child star heading for a fall.Old tasteless meets new tasteless.
The former "Hannah Montana" actress turned pop princess burst into the wider public's mind with her sexually suggestive twerking performance at the MTV video music award show in August.
Didja ever notice how these dipsy doodles all play likable, commonsensical young women and then drop sixty IQ points about the time they're coming up old enough to vote?
Then came the video for her latest single "Wrecking Ball," in which she swings naked on a demolition ball and licks a sledgehammer in an almost laughably suggestive manner.
The 20-year-old has defended herself by saying she is merely growing up.
Looked more like she's going the other direction.
And the publicity will certainly do no harm to sales of her records.
Probably it won't hurt her sales. Madonna's been doing such things for years.
But others warn she could be following in the footsteps of the likes of Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and more recently Zac Efron,
Who?
as she makes the transition to the grown-up world.
I know lots of grownups. None of them "twerk."
"There is such a thing as bad publicity," Robert Thompson, a professor of pop culture of Syracuse University, told Agence France Presse.
"Especially these child stars in their transition years, some of the publicity turns them from people who actually had promising careers to... objects of mockery.
"Lindsay Lohan really suffered that," he said, while Miley is "well on that path... Whenever you hear Miley Cyrus mentioned in the last couple of weeks, it's always been in a form of mockery, and often disdain."