Her VMA performance this year did more than to inspire a wave of bad Halloween costumes

Dec 3, 2013 13:09 GMT  ·  By
Miley Cyrus has been selected by Time Magazine as candidate for 2013 Person of the Year
   Miley Cyrus has been selected by Time Magazine as candidate for 2013 Person of the Year

It's like the start of a bad joke: what do Miley Cyrus, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr., Mark Zuckerberg and Vladimir Putin have in common? No, it's not the fact that they all belong to the species homo sapiens, or the fact that they all breathe oxygen, it's the fact that they all could be Time's Person of the Year at one time or another.

In a most intriguing turn of events, teen pop star and world class twerker Miley Cyrus is currently first runner up to win this year's prestigious Time Magazine poll Person of the Year, with only 2 more days to go until the voting actually closes.

She holds 20.2% of the votes, followed closely by Egyptian Defense Minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi with 18.6%, and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan who's holding out on 18.3%.

Although readers have the option of voting for their favorite in this race, ultimately it's the editors of Time that will choose the Person of the Year and, from 44 people on their list, they have plenty of options to pick from.

The list includes famous politicians, scientists, sportsmen, actors, entertainers, bankers, CEOs, presidents, ministers that have all left their mark on humanity this year.

Time's choice of adding Miley to the list might be viewed in the light of changing the world's perspective on feminist issues and the way women are viewed in the entertainment industry, because Miley sure came in like a wrecking ball on some of those walls. But that doesn't mean there's not a lot of eyebrows being raised left and right.

Another explanation might be that, maybe, Time Magazine is looking to grab the attention of a younger demographic, because the reader votes are cast from Twitter but are also hosted on their page, and Miley already put up a tweet on her profile asking fans to go to the webpage and vote for her.

Miley's popularity should not be taken lightly however, as Yahoo just posted an article revealing that the teen singer was indeed the most searched person on their search engine in 2013, adding even more fuel to the former-Disney-princess-turned-twerker fire that is raging online these days.