Miley cyrus

The Walt Disney Corporation was not a bit of outraged when its billion dollar child star Miley Cyrus appeared in Vanity Fair wearing only a bed sheet, as shown in the leftmost image above. The last cover of Vanity Fair magazine brought a considerable reaction on the American nation. People are concerned, especially parents of young children, they think the picture was very inappropriate for a kid of her age, fifteen years, and that children should not be portrayed as sexual beings. In the cover you can see Miley Cyrus, which is a singing and acting sensation known to her legions of teenage fans from the Disney Channel series "Hannah Montana."

There are pictures where she appears with her dad, but the one that is generating “embarrassment” is the picture where she is half nude. The photo, and subsequently released behind-the-scenes photos, shows Cyrus without a top, her bare back exposed but her front covered with a bed sheet. The Cyrus family was completely involved in the shoot, maybe which is why she looks natural, and pretty. It is art. Compare these photographs to other scandals and you can see is not that bad, the problem is that she is a young woman and a role model to younger girls.

According to the newspaper L.A Times the Vanity Fair site crashed because of high traffic Monday April 28, 2008, the day the photos were published online. The Vanity Fair shoot could have been an attempt to rebrand Cyrus as an artist in her own right, paving the way for a post-Hannah Montana career. Vanity Fair defended the shoot, reminding people that the young actress father also posed in the session.

In an interview with USA Today, Cyrus was quoted as saying her faith is "the main thing" and is the reason why she works in Hollywood. A Disney Channel spokesperson says: "Unfortunately, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a fifteen year old in order to sell magazines." Miley should not be blamed for the picture because she is too young to see herself in a sexy way, and probably the parents didn't think the picture would be taken that seriously. At the same time, she is growing up and singing her own music, with a more distinct personality, talking about relationships but in an appropriate way for her age. In the site www.metrolyrics.com, is possible to find the lyrics from the songs she is singing at the moment and being recognized for, such as the hit "see you again", which has this chorus "I knew you were something special, when you spoke my name, now I can't wait, to see you again". Her music sounds cheese, obviously sentimental, but is not infantilized nor too sexually advanced. In a couple years Miley is going to change her image from innocence to sexy when her fan base become teenagers.

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair photo that everyone from Cyrus to photographer Annie Leibovitz are apologizing and backtracking on the entire incident. This photographer is the same person that took the picture of Lebron James and Gisele, which also created a situation of controversy. The reality is Annie Liebovitz is the most iconic photographer of her generation. She is not culpable because probably there is a team of experts on images, professionals that are ready to look attentively and give their view on the circumstance. As stated by Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, since 1983, Leibovitz has worked as a featured portrait photographer for Vanity Fair, and I think she has personal experience to know the power of this magazine influence. The wikipidia display a statement that Leibovitz released saying:"I'm sorry that my portrait of Miley has been misinterpreted". Responding to all the media expressions and feelings, Cyrus apologizes: " took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be ‘artistic’ and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed. I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans that I care so deeply about." Hannah has expressed embarrassment about the pose. I'm sure she didn't have any problems with the pictures until she got some negative feedback. This is wrong, a fifteen year old girl perhaps don't relate with sexuality, and since she doesn't have the mental capacity to make adult decisions, her manager or parents have. They were all there to analyze the cover situation and concord with that. It is undeniable, that she is getting older and changing her manners. But she still a kid and can be manipulated, the adults involved need to be held responsible for her next moves, pay attention to not bring this kind of exposition again. She needs to focus on her career.

Magazines and internet are a vital source from which many Americans receive information. Both the publication and the singer Hannah Montana can help. Vanity Fair can start a campaign to achieve opportunity for poor kids. Poverty is something that not only effects adults, but children as well and is a growing problem every day. Also children maltreatment and abuse should be explored and communicated for all the readers. Miley Cyrus could get the money earned for the cover and voluntarily engage her in various sorts of children charity, doing an effort to help the disadvantaged kids, for example providing funds to financially support education for them. The Disney Channel should offer concerts with a charity purpose more often, since Miley is very well known person, her popularity can be intend to the benefit of helping people.

Of the many atrocities committed against the innocent youth of the world, the commercial sexual exploitation of children is perhaps the most abominable. Everybody worried with the Miley Cyrus cover should be preoccupied with real problems like child prostitution. According to UNICEF, one million children will enter the sex tourism industry next year. An estimated 1.2 million children were trafficked last year and exploited for various types of labor, including prostitution. A child deserves to be respected and safe. The quality of schools attended is important but for the children without access to education is important to have parents at least try to give expectations.

Some of the most preventable diseases known to humans are hate and gender differences. Instead of perturbation about the cover of Vanity Fair, those unoccupied have to bother about hunger children. Due to insufficient resources some families don't have food. This is also a disorder.

I think we have allowed the media to determine what is moral for us. In general, are they infecting our young people with these negative self-images as exploitation? People lately seem to see something perverted in everything they look at. Michele Combs, a spokesperson for Christian Coalition of America, told Usmagazine.com that “Disney should reprimand her.” I agree that young girls need positive role models, but this is a artistic image that should not be viewed at sexually, but rather artistically. It seems like people jump at any excuse to criticize, She is a teen and child symbol. The picture can be considered a transformation of a child to a young woman.

In this case there is no difference between a blanket and a dress. I don’t see the huge deal with this picture, is just showing her back, that picture is hardly exposing, would it be worst if she was wearing a small bikini.

The New York Times originally published a sensational front cover with the headline “A Topless Photo Threatens a Major Disney Franchise.” They are overreacting. Maybe the problem isn’t so much sexual promotion, but rather commercialization. The Times should go after the alcohol and tobacco industries, which is influential in a bad way and inadequate for children.

In conclusion, I must remind everyone that there is not one single consumer in the Hanna Montana universe who reads Vanity Fair, if children are too young to understand these pictures, and then they are probably too young to be reading Vanity Fair. From my perspective, there is nothing wrong with the picture, she was not exploited. I don't blame her at all. If there was a responsible should be the parents and her representatives. Now if a parent does not want their children idolizing Cyrus only because the picture is a little unsuitable, it is up to them to tell their children that is pornography, which do not qualifies. A little overexposed? Yes. Not indecent. Although I'm not too much of a fan with the music and shows, I am aware of the Disney image she's obtained and with or without these photos she is an icon for the next teenager generation.