Not that Anyone Asked…

but here’s my take on this whole Miley Cyrus controversy.

I’ll make this short.  Who do I blame? 

HER PARENTS.

The night I saw her do her thing on the CMT awards, I said to anyone who would listen (read that The Sub and The Junior) that her parents should be taking notes from the Britney Spears story and the Lindsay Lohan story, because, from what I could see, with young Miley prancing about on stage in high heeled boots, little Miley was well on her way to being on the same train wreck that Britney and Lindsay were booked on.  And I was serious.  I really, really wanted her parents to stop for a damn minute and see what was coming down the track.  I just knew somewhere in my brain that with this amount of fame…what with the Hannah Montana show on Disney and the Hannah Montana product line and the music and the concerts that something was going to go way bad.

And then yesterday, the Vanity Fair photos (and I’m not going to link to them on purpose).

I was just sick.  Of all the times I live to be right, I was seriously wishing I had been wrong.  I wanted to go and find Billy Ray and just punch him in the face.  Of course, he and mom Cyrus are saying something like ‘oh we weren’t there so we didn’t KNOW,’ or some kind of bullshit like that.

(and from here on in, this is just directed to Miley’s PARENTS)

Well, try again, Miley’s PARENTS.  Your daughter was being photographed by a photographer known for her ‘edgy photographs.’  When they asked you to leave for the last few photographs and you did…you signed off on the deal. 

And really, Miley’s PARENTS, you can’t in all good conscience say you couldn’t see this coming.  You had the freakin’ blueprint on what happens to a ‘tween who suddenly becomes a WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON.  As parents, you should have seen this coming a way’s back.  You’ve surely seen the pictures of Britney and Lindsay and any number of other Hollywood starlets flashing their ladybits for all to see on the Internet. 

Was that really what you wanted for your little girl?

She is 15.  She is one year younger than my Junior, who watches Hannah Montana on Disney every single day…which means that my 9-year-old son also watches Hannah Montana every day…and he thinks she is ‘hot,’ in the way that a 9-year-old does. 

I would die if he saw the picture of that 15-year-old little girl barely wrapped in a bedsheet, looking like she’d just had a nice roll in the sheet she was wrapped in. 

BECAUSE HE IS 9.

Now, I’ve never really bought into the thing that every single NFL player is a ‘role model.’  So many of the NFL stars that get the tag of ‘role model’ are anything but…and hopefully, as parents, if our kids are role modeling after these NFL bad boys, we have the good sense to say ‘hey, these aren’t role models and this is why (fill in the blank why). 

However, when you have a kid, and she is just a kid, who is plastered on everything from sleeping bags to t-shirts, to bed sheets, to posters…directly marketed to LITTLE DAMN KIDS…she does get to be a role model…and then i think you, as HER PARENTS, should say… HEY, THIS IS SORTA WRONG…when she poses for provocative photos in Vanity Fair. 

Again, let me remind you that SHE IS 15.

Now, just me talking, not to her parents…just saying.

It is my personal opinion that Billy Ray is getting way to much of a nut being back in the spotlight again.  I can’t help but think that at least MOST OF THIS is because he is getting such a nut being back in the spotlight.  Before his little girl became this phenom, what did we hear or see from him? 

And really, I have to send a shot to the MOTHER who has allowed this to happen.  Yes, Mom Cyrus, you are married to a One-Hit Wonder and then mother of a child who is wildly popular amongst the Disney Channel crowd…but really?  As a mother, do you really, really think that allowing your 15-YEAR-OLD to pose for Vanity Fair wrapped in a bedsheet is a GOOD IDEA???

I am seriously thinking that these people are completely effed up. 

It comes down to this, you stupidass parents of these hugely popular little Disney Stars, you are whoring your kids out to make money.  Don’t come to me with the excuse that you just didn’t know…and don’t make your kid go to the public apologizing…YOU STEP UP AND YOU APOLOGIZE.  It isn’t her fault.

All you had to say is no.

And that is just my opinion.