Miley Cyrus's Video For "We Can't Stop" (Being Badass Means Sticking Your Tongue Out A Lot Apparently...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrUvu1mlWco&feature=youtu.be

gotta give it up for the bro chilling on the pile of white bread

why does Miley Cyrus make such boring "party" songs

http://i.imgur.com/5b8r3Qh.png

gotta give it up for the pinata full of hot dogs.

Cyrus is quick to point out that, having left one bandwagon, she's not about to jump on another. "I've always wanted country-rock influences, but now I'm moving over to a more urban side," she says. "It's not a hip-hop album, though-it's a pop album. I'm not coming in trying to rap. It's more like, 'I don't see any girls out there doing what Miguel and Frank Ocean are doing.'" Cyrus pauses, giggling. "We've been calling it 'count-step,' because it's like country, dubstep and a little trap," she says. "I love the Lumineers, but I also love French Montana, Juicy J, Wiz Khalifa and Dolly Parton. If you could put Dolly, some Adele and Juicy J together, you'd have that weird balance."

Cyrus pauses, giggling

sigh

gotta give it up for the pinata full of hot dogs.

This is without a doubt the greatest sentence I've ever read.

this entire project continues to be highly suspect but there's gonna be dope shit on this album

"We've been calling it 'count-step,' because it's like country, dubstep and a little trap,"

jumping on the 'cunt-punt' bandwagon, imo.

http://img3.etsystatic.com/000/0/5357185/il_fullxfull.81185647.jpg

I kinda doubt the beats will even be good, Mike Will didn't really give his best on the single

homegirl looks like she went to the producer and just shouted WITE RIHANNA PLEASE

*nicki minaj voice* "i am the female bieber"

The "fieber," if you will.

pinata out, weiner

its like a weird disney version of that old fiona apple video.

I haven't seen this video yet, but my interest was piqued by this:
http://www.complex.com/art-design/2013/06/art-references-miley-cyrus-we-cant-stop-video/

Some of those feel like kind of a stretch, but others feel pretty dead on.

i always said "dirrty" should have been slower

considering hannah montana started in 2006, and can't be tamed was in 2010, she's been in "i'm actually quite naughty" mode for nearly as long as she wasn't.

i watched the video after seeing an article on billboard called "new miley cyrus video is absolutely INSANE" or something but then i watched it and was basically like *shrug*

i mean la di da da di, she like to party

white bread partying

a lot of her hip-hop signifiers feel v "very interesting, miley, you are very interested in black people" 2 me

xp i thought that shot basically summarized it all

now if THIS were her new video, we'd know she was serious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8nrF5aXPlQ

a lot of her hip-hop signifiers feel v "very interesting, miley, you are very interested in black people" 2 me

― battle hyrr of the shepublic (m bison), Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:29 AM Bookmark

uh huh

love the die antwoord song/video. yolandi is a great rapper.

She was like, 'I want urban, I just want something that feels Black.'

Rock City, those fucking hacks

remember a few years ago when she was like "I've never even heard a Jay-Z song"?

glaring error leaving this out of the art references article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPMFhcC4SvQ

you people. "I'm moving to a more urban sound" is literally the same line every Disney/teenpop/boy band/girl band singer in history has given when promo-ing their solo work. it is as cliched as "it's our best album yet."

put another way: I don't like Miley's new single at all but there is no way she isn't receiving a disproportionate amount of shit because "Miley Cyrus" is still a punchline.

i wouldn't change the channel if it came on the car radio. i kinda like most things that sound like this on the radio. cuz they sound cool. but i'm not crazy. i don't think its a great song or anything. lacklustre even! i can see members of the random generation digging the video.

a lot of her hip-hop signifiers feel v "very interesting, miley, you are very interested in black people" 2 me

― battle hyrr of the shepublic (m bison), Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:29 AM Bookmark

uh huh

― The Reverend, Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:16 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

almost get a vibe like...i dunno maybe one or both of her parents are racist or something, has that kinda vibe like she's cluelessly rebelling against that in a really awkward way

you people. "I'm moving to a more urban sound" is literally the same line every Disney/teenpop/boy band/girl band singer in history has given when promo-ing their solo work. it is as cliched as "it's our best album yet."

put another way: I don't like Miley's new single at all but there is no way she isn't receiving a disproportionate amount of shit because "Miley Cyrus" is still a punchline.

― katherine, Thursday, June 20, 2013 8:30 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dunno. a couple years ago Demi Lovato had that line and had some awkward Timbaland club songs on her album, but there was no twerking w/ Juicy J or whatever. even Britney working with the Neptunes back in the day was kind of polite and dignified in comparison to what Miley's doing.

So this is what you guys were talking about when you wanted to name the rolling rap thread "nurse ratchet"?

even Britney working with the Neptunes back in the day was kind of polite and dignified in comparison to what Miley's doing.

i don't think the difference between this video and "i'm a slave 4 u" is that the latter is "polite and dignified" when britney was in the middle of a fucking orgy in that clip

there's nothing undignified about orgies, necessarily. there is something undignified about that miley video, especially wrt the way she tries to incorporate elements of hip hop culture and imagery.

have you seen the "i'm a slave 4 u" video

the better touchstone for miley is obv xtina's "dirrty" tho, both were going for that LOOK A FURRY thing rather than just sweaty humpa pumpa

also if we're going to talk about a short-haired white lady in a white tank top incorporating elements of hip hop culture and imagery we should probably acknowledge gwen stefani.

gwen pulls it off better. the reason this doesn't work isn't so much about cultural appropriation -- which is a fraught issue i don't want to get into bc i am not sure what my feelings are, really, on that topic as a whole -- as it as about the fact that the hip hop stuff seems lame and forced.

britney and xtina similarly had swagger and stage presence. miley lacks charisma.

oh yeah it's definitely less spirited than xtina or gwen's forays

i like the artier, surrealisty elements of that video sort of. although i don't really understand why miley cyrus is a pop star. that sounds harsh, but i don't think there is anything distinctive or compelling about her.

for some reason i have trouble picturing people playing this song at their high school parties or whatever. maybe it'll be background music for the next morning when they're all hungover, cleaning up broken beer bottles and vomit or something.

the kids still listen to broken english for that.

but yeah, the song sucks and i don't think it will catch on.

I don't know how hard you'd try to misinterpret that incredibly heavy handed deal w the devil stuff instead of the obvious answer that she got asap & Kendrick confused but sure

I get pop stars confused all the time. Glad pop stars themselves are not immune.

"It's both of them that is making it all about Nicki. She is just saying something is wrong here."

Um, Adam, Nicki did make it about her, as well as the bigger issue, from the off, specifically mentioning the Anaconda video. And the last two winners of best video were Miley and Taylor so if she didn't mean them who did she mean? The broader point stands but there was nothing selfless about it. She's a pop star pissed off about being snubbed - everything else she said stemmed from that.

Pretty sure she mixed up Kendrick and Rocky though, which is ugh.

By she I mean Miley

I don't know how hard you'd try to misinterpret that incredibly heavy handed deal w the devil stuff instead of the obvious answer that she got asap & Kendrick confused but sure

― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, September 4, 2015 3:46 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm not saying it's the more likely scenario, i just think there's a chance

Kendrick's goddamn Lucy bullshit is what has kept me from listening to that album after week 2 or so.

She might have mixed up Kendrick and Asap but honestly, her point stands. Miley making songs about acid is treated differently from male artists making songs about acid. She's an incredibly easy target right now but there's no reason to bury her point about gender under the Miley is rascist lead.

There's levels to this

Her awkwardness is not there, the new album is not psych or crazy or weird or anything it sounds like very safe and boring (stoned/spaced out) pop music. I made it til halfway through "Space Boots" before realizing it was just going to be this safe coffee house friendly music with the occasional line about weed and a viral marketing campaign. It sounds like a decent lofi attempt at pop but it is not weird or strange. Even compared to her pop contemporaries (esp Nicki Minaj).

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, September 4, 2015 11:20 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ this is exactly what I like about this record (except it's not really lofi at all, just has that aesthetic). I have been playing it in the background, it's relaxing and pretty, but not like wallpaper because every now and then there's a kinda clever lyric or production touch I can admire before going back to what I was doing.

She might have mixed up Kendrick and Asap but honestly, her point stands. Miley making songs about acid is treated differently from male artists making songs about acid. She's an incredibly easy target right now but there's no reason to bury her point about gender under the Miley is rascist lead.

― longneck, Friday, September 4, 2015 7:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i would say this cuts both ways, and more in her favor than against -- the day after the VMAs, there were all these stupid "Kanye admits to smoking pot before the show" headlines, which of course were contrasted with no headlines about Miley referencing pot all damn night.

Listening to this passively and then I hear the line "I once heard Grace Jones say 'I have my own concept of time.'"

xpost

Her point doesn't stand at all. It's incredibly tone deaf, actually.

Actually, listened to this again with more concentration, and everything from I Get So Scared to the end is a miss, except 1 Sun and Evil is But... still enjoy the first half of the album though, even if I didn't feel like putting anything on repeat.

"Lighter" is pretty strong. It fits in w the "Bangerz" sound, kind of an extension of it.

I like this:

http://flavorwire.com/535803/whats-good-miley-her-new-album-actually-in-a-masturbatory-wayne-coyne-influenced-way

Thanks for linking to that review. It's the first one I've read that actually engages with the music. Over the past few days, I've fallen in love with this music. It's a vanity project in the best sense and I don't understand how that's suppose to be a criticism of her. I never even liked the Flaming lips much but the ballads on have won me over.

Black males really get a free pass with drugs from America, Mikey, great point

Does it ever occur to her that Asap & Kendrick might have grown up in places where there was more at stake than getting criticized on Twitter?

In general terms I'd say you were right but ASAP Rocky rapping about LSD comes off as a fashion statement. If there's more at stake for him it's lost on me.

Asap has a ton at stake that she will never have every day of his life, because his dad is not Billy Ray Cyrus and he wasn't born rich

She can fuck around and "rebel" with Wayne and it doesn't really matter

So her (musical) rebellion will never count because she was born into money? And A$AP's shitty music will always matter because he was born poor? I'm not even saying Dead Petz is all that but this doesn't sound quite right.

No, but don't sit there and talk about boo hoo these guys get all the breaks they can really about drugs and no one gets mad life is so unfair & ignore the lives you and they have had, it's fucking gross

And if we've decided this mess is better than asap and Kendrick I missed the memo

Do we have to treat Kendrick and A$AP as one entity though? Kendrick is obviously leagues beyond almost everyone else these days. The A$AP album was DOA to me, as in there's no life in it. Dead Petz is a mess but I still vastly prefer a handful of Dead Petz songs to all of the empty vessel A$AP album.

Miley can't get the difference
And that's not my point anyway

better than the Miley record: https://youtu.be/6jYMP1tz02Q

gosh i'm glad i was away for the various beefs

despite coyne (spit) this is pretty likeable ephemera that's endearing even when it's annoying and is occasionally actually properly good ("1 sun", "lighter"). i really like her 60-a-day husky singing voice, it holds her material together in a very effective way

obv nothing here is on the level of FUCKIN BANGERZ but it does its job well enough

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hdbX29VzIbw/TPSh7RsZCeI/AAAAAAAACSk/nK-H2h5gQ2I/s320/YesterdaysNews.jpg

sorry i was having a nice time in toronto rather than on the internet permanently ready to deliver my hot take

haha, i'm sure you had a wonderful time and honestly you didn't miss much here!

I keep reading Dead Petz as Dead Prez.

hah me too!

Her SNL songs seem to be bringing more people around to this.

^^Unscientific monitoring of my FB feed

this album sucks ass

her performance of the twinkle song on SNL was really moving

There should be a 12" single for "Bang Me Box."

Can this be gotten anywhere or is it still just available as a stream?

Can this be gotten anywhere or is it still just available as a dream?

Her SNL songs seem to be bringing more people around to this.

― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Tuesday, October 6, 2015 10:34 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^Unscientific monitoring of my FB feed

― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Tuesday, October 6, 2015 10:35 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

on twitter the 30 seconds of her screaming "WHAT DOES IT MEAN" made for a pretty good meme for a couple days

this album sucks ass

― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Wednesday, October 7, 2015 4:11 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:(

roxy otm

yeah this album didn't really last EXCEPT "1 sun" which is kind of astonishing still - the new anohni song made me think of it, these incredibly passionately sung, propulsive environmental anthems

With all the "Can't you see it's we who own the night" and the subject/object reversal of "We run things / things don't run 'we'" (not reverting back to 'us'!) and so on, this is such an anthem for this decade.

the latter line is the subject of a lawsuit

i hate every sound in this song

the latter line is the subject of a lawsuit

Oh!

Miley Cyrus was sued for $300 million on Tuesday by Jamaican songwriter Michael May, who claims the singer’s 2013 hit “We Can’t Stop” infringes upon the a song he released in 1988 called “We Run Things,” according to Reuters.

Cyrus is one of several writers credited on the song, along with coproducers Mike Williams (a.k.a. Mike Will Made It), Pierre Slaughter (a.k.a. P-Nasty) and Theron and Timothy Thomas (a.k.a. Rock City), along with sampled or interpolated contributions from rappers Douglas Davis (a.k.a. Doug E. Fresh) and Ricky Walters (a.k.a. Slick Rick).

Didn't know Slick Rick got a slice of this song, too.

la da di da di

https://youtu.be/Kdv27kfziQo?t=4m10s
4:10 to whom it may concern

I like a couple tracks on the new EP. The one with Swae is pretty good, and the sort-of-country one at the end feels like it could be a crossover hit.