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Speaker 1: a Disney star almost twenty years ago. She played Hannah Montana,
Speaker 1: and since then she has faced her fair share of controversy. Yes,
Speaker 1: there was a weird tongue thing at the VMA's swinging
Speaker 1: on a wrecking ball and saying drugs are for idiots
Speaker 1: and then doing some drugs. We've looked into her whole life.
Speaker 1: We did a big episode on Miley right after she
Speaker 1: won her first Grammy in February this year, and what
Speaker 1: you're about to hear about is our favorite moment. It's
Speaker 1: about an open letter Miley received just after her iconic
Speaker 1: VMA's performance, an open letter from Snead O'Connor claire. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you work so hard that Shaneade must say something. She
Speaker 1: is a singer of nothing compares to you, and she
Speaker 1: felt compelled to publish an open letter about Miley that
Speaker 1: she would post on the Internet for everyone to read.
Speaker 1: This was also in twenty thirteen, So we've got VMA's
Speaker 1: I think it was. In the weeks afterwards, she releases
Speaker 1: Wrecking Ball. I came in like good and banger another
Speaker 1: absolute banger. I look back, I go the film clip
Speaker 1: was a bit of fun. Why do we all have
Speaker 1: our panties and or not? She was naked on a ball,
Speaker 1: It's great, loved her hair anyway. In that time she'd
Speaker 1: also done the Rolling Stone story about how much she
Speaker 1: loved the drugs. Here are some excerpts from Shaneade. She
Speaker 1: did say at the beginning, this came from motherly place,
Speaker 1: so important context. I am extremely concerned for you that
Speaker 1: those around you have led you to believe, or encouraged
Speaker 1: you in your own belief that it is in any
Speaker 1: way cool to be naked and licking sledge hammers and videos. Wait,
Speaker 1: really did she say the sledgehammer bit? Yeah, yep, Oh
Speaker 1: my god. It is in fact the case that you
Speaker 1: will obscure your talent by allowing yourself to be pimped,
Speaker 1: whether it's the music business or yourself doing the pimping.
Speaker 1: She goes on, the music business doesn't give a shit
Speaker 1: about you or any of us. They will prostitute you
Speaker 1: for all you are worth and cleverly make you think
Speaker 1: it's what you wanted. And when you end up in
Speaker 1: rehab as a result of being prostituted, they will be
Speaker 1: sunning themselves on their yachts in antiqua, which they bought
Speaker 1: by selling your body, and you will find yourself very alone.
Speaker 1: I would be encouraging you to send healthier messages to
Speaker 1: your peers that they and you are worth more than
Speaker 1: what is currently going on in your career. Miley was
Speaker 1: very mature in her response. She wasn't. She wasn't. She
Speaker 1: got on Twitter and she said, Shanaide, I don't have
Speaker 1: time to write you an open letter because I'm hosting
Speaker 1: and performing on SNL this week. She then compared Shanaid
Speaker 1: to Amanda Bynes. Amanda Bynes was having a rough time,
Speaker 1: and then she screenshot a tweet where Shanade had talked
Speaker 1: about her mental health and where it was clear that
Speaker 1: she was, you know, in a low moment. Shanaide replied.
Speaker 1: Then Miley replied, and there was a lot of back
Speaker 1: and forth, and in the meantime, Robin was in the
Speaker 1: corner humping while his mother got angry at any woman
Speaker 1: who walked past hump. Okay, what I will say about this.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing the Shanade O'Connor letter at the time
Speaker 1: and agreeing with it. Okay, I think I was a
Speaker 1: prude in twenty thirteen. Yeah, we were all prused in
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. But here's what I'll say about shanaid it's
Speaker 1: a really enlightening letter, and I thought about why she
Speaker 1: made it open and not closed, and I think she
Speaker 1: was trying to convey something not just to Miley, but
Speaker 1: to the culture at the time, which is that this
Speaker 1: is a product and a machine. It's being made by
Speaker 1: men behind the scenes. So it was like she was
Speaker 1: embarrassed for Miley, and she kind of wanted to explain.
Speaker 1: She had some good points about people profiting off your body.
Speaker 1: She's the word prostitute wage man. Yeah, no, no, no, it
Speaker 1: was inappropriate. I liked the detail about antiquity. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: did like that she had some points, But I think
Speaker 1: maybe the twenty twenty four version of that is it's
Speaker 1: actually not an open letter to Miley. Yeah, it's bigger
Speaker 1: than that, And when you look back, it seems absurd
Speaker 1: that a woman was speaking down to another one about
Speaker 1: how she was presenting herse Miley was fine, and I
Speaker 1: feel like I understand Miley's defensiveness as well. Yeah, wasn't
Speaker 1: there a celebrity who when she did that? Twenty thirteen
Speaker 1: BMA's performance said something about like, don't stick your tongue
Speaker 1: out when it's coated. I've always thought about that because
Speaker 1: she quoted yeah and drugs. No, it's sort of had
Speaker 1: like a white coating. Oh no, maybe she had her
Speaker 1: thrush Yeah, well okay, I found it. So Cher told
Speaker 1: USA today, I'm not old fashioned about Miley. She could
Speaker 1: have come out naked, and if she just rocked the house,
Speaker 1: I would have said, you go girl. It just wasn't
Speaker 1: done well. She can't dance. Her body looked like hell,
Speaker 1: the song wasn't great. One cheek was hanging out, and chick,
Speaker 1: don't stick out your tongue if it's coated. I'm sure bitch. Yes. Now,
Speaker 1: there was all this discussion and there were all these
Speaker 1: articles about why was her tongue coded. One was apparently,
Speaker 1: if you've recently taken antibioty, then it's like killed the
Speaker 1: good bacteria or something. Well, isn't that when you get
Speaker 1: a bit thrushy? Yeah? I think you get a little
Speaker 1: bit thrushy. So she needed a probiotic, Yes, that is
Speaker 1: what she is saying. Is it defamation to suggest someone
Speaker 1: has oral thrush um? Yeah. So then Chare's comments went
Speaker 1: viral and she clearly felt a little bit guilty for
Speaker 1: accusing a woman of having oral tsh. Yeah, and she said,
Speaker 1: I'm a little ashamed. I didn't keep my big opinionated
Speaker 1: mouth shut. What I should have said is I didn't
Speaker 1: like the performance that much, but she's pushing the envelope
Speaker 1: being an artist. She's talented and didn't commit a felony.
Speaker 1: I think she really was a bit like, I don't
Speaker 1: know why I said that about the tongue. Do you
Speaker 1: believe in holding yourself? Yeah, the tongue. But the second
Speaker 1: bit said to clarify, I hated the performance, and I
Speaker 1: was like, no, no, we got that, Yeah, we got
Speaker 1: the hated it. To listen to that entire episode, just
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