14 DAY TRIAL // Miley Cyrus has come a very long way from her Disney / Hannah Montana days, there’s no denying that. However, in a new interview with W magazine, which also comes with a very revealing pictorial, she goes to great lengths to explain the precise ways in which she’s no longer Disney.
We’ve already discussed some excerpts from the interview released online yesterday, but in the full piece, Miley strives to convince the interviewer – journalist Ronan Farrow, Mia Farrow’s son – that she’s the Joan Jett and Madonna of our times.
Miley lives punk rock attitude: she’s so indifferent to what other people might say about her that she’s going out of her way to annoy them, if possible. Not few are those who are saying that the entire piece comes across as a bit try-hard.
“I don’t love kids,” Miley says when asked if she likes kids. “I don’t love them because, I mean, I think I was around too many kids at one point – because I was around a lot of kids.”
She also hates the paparazzi and social media, though she finds no fault with them when she’s using them to serve her interest. “I think with, like, Instagram, Twitter, whatever, everyone is a paparazzi now. How scary is that? Like, you’re never safe,” she says.
As for how she’s punk rock from the way she lives her life to the way she dresses, Miley tries to argue that she’s actually empowering girls who look up to her, her impressionable fans.
“I just don’t get what half the girls are wearing. Everyone to me seems like Vanna White. I’m trying to tell girls, like, ‘[expletive] that. You don’t have to wear makeup. You don’t have to have long blonde hair and big [breasts]. That’s not what it’s about. It’s, like, personal style’,” she says.
“I like that I’m associated with the kind of punk-rock [expletive] where we just don’t care. Like Madonna or Blondie or Joan Jett – Jett’s the one that I still get a little shaky around. She did what I did in such a crazier way. I mean, girls then weren’t supposed to wear leather pants and, like, [expletive]-ing rock out. And she did,” Miley continues.
She also stresses that she’s no longer Disney because she doesn’t care whether she’s politically correct or not, as long as she stays true to herself, and explains that, in her opinion, boys spend too much time watching adult entertainment and, the weirdest comment of all, “I think water’s, like, a really important thing.”
The full interview is available on the official W magazine webpage.