14 DAY TRIAL // Miley Cyrus is holding nothing back in her new interview with Marie Claire, in which she’s promoting her hosting gig at the Video Music Awards on August 30. In between calling out the industry in general for their double standards for male and female entertainers, she’s also calling out Taylor Swift.
Watch out, the claws are out!
Miley doesn’t like the “Bad Blood” official music video
As announced in the headline, Miley makes it clear that she doesn’t like Taylor Swift’s most recent music video, for the single “Bad Blood,” which is lifted from her hugely successful “1989” album.
So she’s definitely not one of the 428,177,039 views on YouTube (on the official channel) the video has as of the time of writing.
“Bad Blood” was Taylor’s idea and was clearly inspired by the Robert Rodriquez / Quentin Tarantino movies. It featured all of her famous friends, having her back in a fight to the death with her worst enemy, who was played by Selena Gomez and looked very much like Taylor’s former best friend, Katy Perry.
According to Miley, we should not rush to proclaim Taylor a feminist role model based on that video alone. This isn’t about girl empowerment, this is about violence and nothing more, she tells the publication.
As a side note, Miley is a bit late to the party because Taylor has already been hailed and crowned a feminist for the video. Few actually dared to publicly criticize her for releasing it: at the very least, they mocked the singer for using it to show off her famous friends.
“I don’t get the violence revenge thing. That’s supposed to be a good example? And I’m a bad role model because I’m running around with my [breasts] out? I’m not sure how [breasts] are worse than guns,” Miley muses.
She’s not limiting her criticism to Taylor’s music either. Miley says that Kendrick Lamar is praised for rapping about LSD because he’s keeping it real, but she’s getting called names for the same reason.
Miley isn’t in it for the money
If you were thinking that Miley Cyrus is the same entertainer you met on Disney’s “Hannah Montana” (only, you know, with less clothes, more weed and more attitude), you were wrong.
Unlike everyone involved in the business of entertainment, Miley says she’s not in it for the money. She stops of declaring that she does it for the art and for the love of it (because that would have been pathetic), but she infers as much when she complains about how people want to make more money than they could ever spend.
In rushing from one check to another, they forget how to live and that’s the worst part about it.
