14 DAY TRIAL // If you’re still to overdose on Miley Cyrus, here’s a piece of news that might interest you: she thinks Elvis Presley was the original twerker and she’s quite upset that she’s getting called names but he wasn’t, because of “double standards.”
Miley is about to take her Bangerz Tour to Australia, and to promote it, she sat down for a chat with Chris Bath for Sunday Night. Excerpts from the interview have emerged online and are available below.
In the first one, she compares her raunchy dance moves to those Elvis Presley, aka The King, was doing on stage decades ago and says that there’s not much difference between them, except in the fact that he was a man and she’s a woman.
Miley also seems to live under the impression that Elvis was the original twerker, which explains why she’s so bad at twerking: she has no idea what it means.
“Like, no one wants to admit that he was twerking, he was. But no one would have ever called Elvis a [expletive] because he wasn’t a girl,” Miley says.
She’s trying to make a point that “double standards” mean that men in showbiz can get away with so many more things than women, and she’s right about that. Her choice for a term to compare her twerking to is what is wrong with her argument: perhaps no one called Elvis the S-word that is usually attributed to certain women, but he didn’t simply get away with the way he danced.
In fact, as Miley should have known, he was intensely criticized for it and even got banned on TV, in the sense that cameras were supposed to show him only from the waist up when he was performing. Priests preached from the pulpit against him and his evil ways that would eventually lead all the youths of the nation to perdition.
Miley needs to educate herself on what twerking is and what’s the difference between what she is doing and Elvis’ dance.
As the third video in this article will show, Miley is also somewhat uncertain about the meaning of feminism, and goes on the defensive the moment she’s asked if she’s a feminist. She needn’t worry, feminism was never about replacing “the male energy,” but always about equality.
She makes a valid point though about how her only goal is to be free because she has every right to be that, and how she never wanted to be considered a role model.
In the end, Miley is just having fun, like most young women her age do. The difference is that she’s doing it publicly and her actions are mirrored by millions of fans, but she claims no responsibility for them.
