14 DAY TRIAL // As a rule, Thom Yorke of Radiohead is not the type of guy to engage in public feuds, but the recent comments of teen star Miley Cyrus must have struck a chord with him. Speaking directly with Us Weekly, the singer issued a statement regarding Miley’s public threat of “ruining” Radiohead: the young Disney star needs to grow up and learn that some things just don’t happen because she so desires.
“When Miley grows up, she’ll learn not to have such a sense of entitlement.” Yorke said in the statement released to Us Weekly, in direct response to the Disney star’s diss. This, it has been stressed, was one of the most delicate and to-the-point ways of showing 16-year-old Miley that there was such a thing as professional courtesy and learning that some things were best kept out of the media.
The minor feud broke at the beginning of the month, when Cyrus told during a radio interview that the Radiohead guys had broken her heart by refusing to hang out with her backstage at this year’s Grammy Awards. The “insult” was even greater as Miley had reportedly already boasted to her friends that she would personally introduce them to Radiohead, which was “the reason I love music,” as Miley herself put it. When Radiohead’s publicist told her publicist that “The band doesn’t really do that,” Miley said, she was heartbroken.
Upset as she was, the singer, actress and songwriter left the building, but not before vouching she would “ruin” Radiohead, although failing to mention how she planned to do so. “The reason I’m in this business is to make people happy.” Miley also shared in the interview, somehow implying that Radiohead were not. “I left ‘cause I was so upset. I wasn’t going to watch. I’d already texted all my friends, we were all freaking out. Stinkin’ Radiohead! I’m gonna ruin them, I’m going to tell everyone.” Cyrus continued by pinpointing, threatening to reveal the “real character” of the Radiohead guys to the world.
In all fairness, this is not the first time that someone blasts Miley for occasionally acting like a spoiled brat who thinks she should be served everything on a silver platter, several media outlets are pointing out. It is, though, the first time that someone as famous as Thom Yorke actually has the guts to call her so to her face – more or less.