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So why a blog post about Miley Cyrus? As if there aren’t enough of those already; well in all reality Miley’s career is at a crossroads. She has to make the transition from teen TV star to a grown up artists. Sure she’s only seventeen right now but if one thing is clear she’s already bigger than herself as a star. People don’t use the term biggest teen star of all time very lightly but in this case it probably applies.

Hannah Montana is ending, Disney is currently filming the fourth and final season of the show. So after that it leaves a large gap, what will Miley do next? Actually quite a lot is known about that already. Though one note has to be made, Hannah Montana is ending but Disney is going to stretch it into 2011. They’ve pretty much had crappy airing schedules since the Writer’s Strike in 2008, doesn’t look like that is going to change anytime soon. Disney seems to be trying to hold on to Hannah Montana as long as it can. Personally I feel that this doesn’t do the show justice at all and I don’t actually know anyone who’s happy about the airing schedule. Nothing I say about it will change it though so I’m leaving the subject.

One “mistake” (it’s always a relative term, one thing can be right for one person and wrong for another) a lot of teen stars tend to do is that they stick with the wrong kind of movie. There are always girls who seem to go with the good girl image (e.g. Selena Gomez) and girls who seem to go with the bad girl image (e.g. Taylor Momsen). They go with roles that seem to focus on the short term, it’s all a bit of the same. There of course also are the actresses don’t really go for any image also because they operate a little more in the background (e.g. AnnaSophia Robb, Sofia Vassilieva, etc).

Looking back at former teen stars the main name which comes to mind is Hilary Duff, after she finished Lizzie McGuire she just stuck with teen movies, your run of the mill comedies and teen dramas. Right now she is struggling to get accepted as a grown actress while I feel like she can actually do it. When you watch the movie According to Greta you see that there is potential there but you can’t help but think “this is Hilary Duff”, someone you’ve seen play the same basic role over and over again but is now trying to change that. The bias of her being just another former teen star still sticks in your mind somehow.

Miley however seems to be doing it a bit differently, her first major movie after Hannah Montana is The Last Song, book and script written by Nicholas Sparks. Playing the role of a rebellious teenager, though the level of rebellion seems to be limited after reading the book, it’s not the most obvious choice. A lot of people would go the safe route and go with what they know which in this case would be teen comedy, instead she chose to go with a drama.

I however think that is a good thing to do, if she doesn’t want to get a certain image stuck on her she has to do things like this. Doing the same role over and over again would only hurt her career. Even though in the larger picture a Nicholas Sparks movie is still somewhat of a safe choice, as people know his movies and there usually isn’t anything too extreme in them and people more or less know what to expect. Whether she can pull off the role of Ronnie is something time will tell, I haven’t seen the movie yet and a trailer isn’t really enough to go by.

The movie roles after that also suggest that she isn’t planning on sticking to one genre. The choice of Wings as a project might seem odd as a lot of people already have reservations about her being in a movie about faeries (for the odd spelling of the word fairy you would have to read the book). Having read the book however I think there is some potential there, the book is actually more adult than it seems. Seeing the line “sex is just for fun” in a book which is targeted at teens it makes you wonder a bit. It all however depends on the writing and how well it translates to a script so only time will tell. While this is a movie targeted at teens it isn’t in the same genre as her previous projects, more a mix of genres really. That’s besides the main thing; it’s a different kind of character.

Then a couple of weeks a project with the weird title LOL (Laughing Out Loud) was announced co-starring with Demi Moore, a remake of a French comedy. While this isn’t official yet everything suggests that this is going to happen (main thing being Miley’s reaction to being asked about it). Yes this is a comedy, however the main subject is sex. I don’t think a lot of her peers with a Disney background would get right to that subject at only seventeen/eighteen. While it’s a very normal subject to talk about it seems that there are still some reservations about it. Especially in the entertainment industry things can get very prude, so I’m hoping the European touch won’t get lost in that movie. Even though I don’t actually know how far the movie goes, disadvantage of not speaking French and there not being subtitled versions of the movie.

So three very different movie projects in the making (there is a fourth one on several website but there has been no evidence whatsoever it’s happening), can she pull it off? I certainly hope so but in the end we will have to wait and see. Miley has stated that she’s going to focus on acting for now, of course she’s also a number one recording artist. She still sells records by the truckload. The most normal thing you’d anyone expect to do is to continue that and sell as many albums as possible. Does Miley do that? No, she does not. Yes a new album is in the making and will come out later this year, after that however it’s going to end for a while. She’s taking a break.

Sometimes I think Miley is a publicists nightmare, what recording artist goes around and say that the music they make isn’t the music they actually want to make? After the next album pop will most likely be gone, she’s going to try and find herself musically. Find the music she wants to make, music that means something. That in all reality is an extremely gutsy move, completely changing her music and actually not release anything for a while. I can only commend her for that, it again is not the most obvious and safest choice. This tells me one major thing about Miley; while she makes truckloads of money and is one of the richest teenagers out there she’s in it for the art and not for the money. Sure money is nice but if she were only in it for the money she would be making different choices, she is planning for a long career and not for a career that just lasts five years.

That impresses me most about Miley actually, she actually seems to stay herself and not who some random manager wants her to be. She and her management seem to do what is right for her in the long run and they aren’t afraid to make changes. That is actually what makes me think that Miley has what it takes to survive in the business the long run, everything just seems well planned out to develop Miley as an artist and not to let her stay the money making machine of Hannah Montana. I think the same can actually be applied to her personal life in some way, so as to what person she actually is.

With a lot of celebrities I’m not always sure who I’m listening to in interviews. Is it the celebrity or is it the publicist in the background telling them what to do and to say? Same goes for public behavior. She actually seems to be a real person when she’s out in public, she’s the person Miley and not the celebrity Miley. It even shows in things like appearance; how many young stars are there with visible body jewelry other than normal earrings? Sure the bellybutton piercing is pretty much a standard with a lot of people but a nose piercing (though I’m aware that she’s not the only young actress with one, just not of big a fame as Miley)? I’ve seen quite some people a bit upset about that thing, be it media or fans. Same goes with that tattoo of hers, she does know that it would get people to react and upset about it (I know that is an assumption but I just can’t imagine that she does not know). She however still does it, in a way that tells me she does what feels right for her and not what feels right for the public eye.

People even comment and complain about the clothes she wears. So she wears what she likes; I don’t see anything overly sexual in it as some people are suggesting. Yes there are outfits where I think “what is she wearing?” but then I move on. No point in dwelling over it, people seem to especially upset with her frequent wearing of short shorts. Honestly there are tons of celebrities who wear them but you never hear anything about it. Miley can’t really help it that it’s quite noticeable with her seeing her legs are 52% of her body length (based on her own statements regarding the length of her legs and her total length). So yes, when she wears short shorts she shows a lot of leg. Besides, everyone gets complaints about what people wear. Celebrities, me, you and whoever else, you can’t make everyone happy with clothing. Also a notable thing in her wardrobe; she wears things more than once which can be a rare thing in Hollywood.

Though sometimes I feel people complain about her just because she’s Miley. Only recently, she was part of the We Are the World 25 recording. Lots of people went on about how Miley ruined the song and it was a disgrace that she was allowed to sing after someone like Barbra Streisand. The key to what this people say what I think is that they know it’s Miley before having heard her sing. Other people who had no idea who was singing were impressed by one line of the song. Then they find out it’s Miley and are surprised. I think she has a great voice, others won’t think so. People also hate singers like Celine Dion though and people call her the best singer in the world. So she can’t be liked by everyone.

There just is such a big hipocrisy in Hollywood, they somehow want every young celebrity to fit to the template of the perfect celebrity. At the same time however they want someone unique, well you cannot be unique without being yourself. Best example of these two-faced people are gossip bloggers like Perez Hilton. They will say they love her one day but won’t hesitate to call Miley a slut the very next day without provocation. I can’t imagine having to live with that, people going out of their way to tell Miley that they hate her or they think she’s a horrible person or just judge her on every little thing she does; in most cases starting with negative assumptions about her. That besides the ever present desire for her wanting to fail because then the bloggers have something to write about and people without any kind of sympathy to laugh about. Those people can think and say what they want (though I wish they weren’t and they shouldn’t actually be doing it), I think Miley is in it for the long run. So they better get used to Miley because I think she’ll be around for decades to come just by being herself.

Doesn’t mean I can’t be wrong about it though, it’s only the impression I get. Who knows I might be all wrong, I sincerely hope I’m not though.

What can we compare them on? All three of them are active in the same segments of entertainment really, they each have their own Disney Channel show, they have a record deal with Hollywood Records and they do movies. So it should be quite easy to compare them on things, also included will be things like awards of course seeing that is everything the entertainment industry revolves around. We’ll even include some less obvious categories towards the end but we have to be thorough. Points will be awarded, 5 points for a victory, 3 points for a second place and 1 point for the last place.So lets start with the Disney Channel shows, Hannah Montana vs Wizards of Waverly Place vs Sonny With a Chance. Surprisingly when you put them all next to each other in ratings they aren’t actually that far apart. However, all ratings records are held by Hannah Montana and all stores are full of Hannah Montana merchandise and not of Wizards of Waverly Place and Sonny With a Chance merchandise. So Hannah Montana is the winner here, victory for Miley Cyrus. Second comes Selena and third Demi.

Next we get to the record deals, who is the best musician? The only thing that matters in that case is the number of albums they each sell. Miley and Demi have both been on #1 in the Billboard 200, Selena hasn’t even gotten close. So it’s between Miley and Demi, the thing however is that Demi has been on #1 once, Miley has been there five times. Miley’s albums also reached platinum status while Demi’s did not, so the victory goes to Miley Cyrus, Demi second and Selena third.

Movies, all three of them have done them. Lets just make this short, this is another victory for Miley Cyrus. She’s the only one of the three who has actually topped the box office, I will not count Horton Hears a Who for Selena since she might as well have not been in it. Selena however has been in movies that made it into movie theaters while Demi has only been in TV movies so far. So Selena is second and Demi third.

So now to the awards. Not really a point in making this part very long either, Miley has a closet full of surfboards and blimps while Demi and Selena only won a couple. Miley also has a Golden Globe nomination to her credit while that is something Selena and Demi can only dream of. So in this category it’s an easy order of another boring victory for Miley, second Selena and third Demi.

So that’s it for the purely professional comparisons, which results in a standing of Miley first with 20 points, Selena second with 10 points and Demi last with 6 points. So it’s pretty clear that Miley is by far the biggest star of the three success wise, that however isn’t everything that is to a person so we continue with some other things.

Lets start with charity, who’s the bigger philanthropist? Miley has raised millions for charity through her concert tours and also has her own charity. Selena might be an Unicef Ambassador but money wise you don’t really hear a lot from her. Who knows what Demi does for charity, can’t be bothered to find out. So it once again is Miley first, Selena second, Demi third.

The general biggest celebrity can easily be judged by the number of paparazzi pictures that is taken. That one is so easy it doesn’t even need clarification, here we look at the recent history, so the last couple of months. First Miley, second Demi, third Selena. We can also look at what big award shows people are invited to and then the order is almost the same but we just have to switch Demi and Selena.

The standing now is 30 points for Miley, 14 for Selena and 10 for Demi.

Now for the big one, which seems to be what is on the mind of most people. Who is the best role model? Lets look at all three of them individually for that just a little. Lets start with Miley. Miley has a tattoo, a whole array of piercings, she is involved in tons of scandals, even if they are created by the media they reflect badly on her. Her wardrobe choices also earn her a lot of criticism. Selena is a goody two shoes, she never says or does anything that becomes a major scandal, she always dresses appropriately doesn’t have any visual piercings and no tattoos. She can’t be caught in any scandalous outfits either. Demi is being accused lately of dressing too old and there have been some minor scandals. So I guess here for the first time we have an order of Selena first, Demi second and Miley third. Seeing Miley is such a horrible role model.

The end result however remains a land slide victory for Miley, 31 points vs Selena with 19 points and 13 for Demi. So now we once and for all know, Miley is the biggest Disney star.

If people haven’t started wondering by now who the hell wrote this, seeing it’s nothing like the usual blogs on this site; it’s written by the same person as always. I just did what everyone on the internet and in the media seems to do. They love to compare people, using all their own arguments for arguing why one person is better than another. Why? If you like Selena, go and like Selena. If you like Miley, go and like Miley. If you like Demi, go and like Demi. What is the point of trying to justify why you like one person more than another? There is none, it’s all a case of personal preference. So the first 850 words of this blog are completely meaningless, they are just there to prove a point. I don’t care who of the three has more success and I most certainly do not care about that role model bullshit, the concept of which as I’ve said before completely escapes me anyway.

In my eyes the people who try and justify their admiration for someone by putting down someone else are even worse. That’s what all this comparing comes down to and people will always find a reason to be right. So what if Miley for example won a big award, if she did she doesn’t deserve it and whoever gave her that award is pretty much nuts. If people just try to enjoy their favorite celebrity rather than be preoccupied by proving why they are the best to other people, life could be so much easier. Just like who you like and let someone else like who they like, it really isn’t that hard.

Simple enough solution, here is the annual list of rising starlets so now the 2009 edition. So young actresses and musicians in Hollywood who I feel have done the most improvement in their career rated by projects, popularity etc. Yes, it is full of my opinion so no one can tell me I’m wrong. Here we go.

10. Victoria Justice – Is getting quite a bit of attention for someone who isn’t on TV all that much. Sure she has her guest spots on Nickelodeon shows her and there and she did the TV movie Spectacular! She is getting an own show on Nickelodeon though for some reason it went a bit quiet around that.

9. Demi Lovato – Personally I think she should be up higher on the list, however I also think that she won’t get the same chances as other people might get. People see her too much as just another Disney star while I think she has more potential than that. This year saw the premiere of her show Sonny With a Chance which gets good ratings, however it doesn’t quite match up with other shows on the same channel. Her second album outsold her first album so that is going in the right direction, she’s developing her own sound.

8. Dakota Fanning – Dakota just had success with Twilight: New Moon of course though that isn’t really down to her. She however is continuing to show that she has some acting talent, the coming year however will be in the shade of Kristen Stewart a bit as she co-stars her twice, in both cases Kristen has the bigger role.

7. Selena Gomez – Continues to do well with Wizards of Waverly Place ratings wise, also has a movie coming out next year. Not too confident in her music career honestly but the main public seems to like her and the media makes her out to be bigger than she actually is. The media however is also of major influence in entertainment so that’s why she ranks higher than for example Demi Lovato.

6. Taylor Swift – Basically one of the best selling artists of the year if not the best selling one. For 2010 I however am not to sure, right now she is still milking the success of Fearless which was released in 2008. Even though it had a re-release with new songs she has to do something bigger fairly soon. Though she is now broadening her horizon into acting as well, so career wise that probably is a good thing.

5. Miranda Cosgrove – iCarly is pretty much the highest rated show in its age category, simple as that. She seems fairly settled at Nickelodeon though maybe just a bit too settled. She’s also recording an album, I hope it won’t be what she has been producing so far. So far she’s only been doing soundtrack work so I’m still hopeful that she can develop her own sound.

4. Jennette McCurdy – I’m probably the only person who ranks Jennette above Miranda in a comparison like this. She is also a major part in the success of iCarly, so in that part of the success I actually rank them equally. I however see more promise in her music career, unlike what most people would expect she didn’t sign to a pop label. She’s going into country music, with her voice I think she has potential there (if you haven’t heard her sing, just youtube her).

3. Kristen Stewart – Twilight, that’s what sums her up right now at the moment. Though she’s also doing The Runaways but I don’t think that will be that big a box office hit, don’t think it’s really supposed to be either. Twilight is also her problem though, right now she’s nothing but Twilight. Even I can see what it did to her name in Hollywood, despite me not actually liking Twilight.

2. Sofia Vassilieva – Visitors to this site (even though there aren’t that many) will know that I have a soft spot for her. In the past year however she has starred in a well received movie (My Sister’s Keeper) and not just because she shaved her head and eyebrows for it. Her show Medium also moved channels and what did that do? It only made ratings for the show either, quite an achievement for a show that has been on the air for that much time already. Is it due to her? Not in particular but she turns eighteen next year, which means producers for the show will be able to do what I think they have been wanting to do for a while. Give her a bigger role as she can start to work more hours. Only flaw I see is that she doesn’t really have any new movie projects lined up at this time.

1. Miley Cyrus – Yes, yet again I put Miley on the top. Why? Well, think about it. Who was the person with the most blown out of proportion scandals in the past year that weren’t actually true scandals? That’s right it was Miley. Did it hurt her career? If it did, I don’t want to know what would have happened if she didn’t have any of those scandals. We’d most likely be visiting churches devoted to Miley by now. She managed to crash Twitter (though there is no real proof for that, just rather curious Twitter crashed right after she deleted her Twitter) and expanded her career to include that of successful clothing designer. She however managed to do one major thing which is the most important; she managed to be Miley Cyrus. People keep saying she’ll have Hannah Montana branded on her forehead the rest of her life (though maybe that’s due to the show itself going down in quality), I think she already passed that point though. Next year will also see a movie in which she isn’t Hannah Montana and another album release. Nothing to suggest that she will go downhill, even if that is what certain media are trying to make people believe.

We all know by now that Miley Cyrus is the favorite “bad girl” of almost every celebrity gossip site or blog. Anyone who has ever seen this site knows that I have a soft spot for her, that however doesn’t change that I can be objective if I have to be. Especially seeing I don’t actually hate any celebrity, I might be less fond of others but when you don’t like someone, you don’t have to watch their movies, tv shows or listen to their music.

So Miley Cyrus has ten piercings and a tattoo, the horror. Last time I checked that isn’t illegal even though some gossip bloggers maintain that it is; it’s called parental consent. That apparently makes her a bad girl, that she keeps staying humble and that everyone who works with her seems to love her, doesn’t seem to matter. Yes there are a lot of paparazzi pictures of her but is she ever actually doing something bad in them? Not exactly, you can’t find her at a nightclub in the middle of the night. The one story TMZ posted that she was refused at a night club was already proven as being false by the night club owners. Would be a bit of a suicide for a business to be known for breaking a customer’s privacy (even though she wasn’t actually a customer).

The story is picked up by multiple gossip media and people are upset about how a girl that young keeps partying all the time. Thing is…… there is no proof that she does, it’s nothing but hearsay. With a good chance that the hearsay was completely fabricated, I can write anything on here if I just add “a source told me” but I won’t. If there is proof of anything it is of the polar opposite; that she doesn’t. Now to mention other people to illustrate the double standard. Selena Gomez was seen a couple of days ago leaving a night club, she was photographed by paparazzi. What she was doing there? I have no idea, don’t actually care either. There are plenty of clubs that have performances and things like that, so things that don’t actually involve the clubbing part. It’s not like she had to be carried out because she was drunk.

Selena however has been branded by the gossip media as a good girl, the opposite of Miley. Someone who can’t actually do anything wrong. Another fellow good girl of hers is in the same situation. Miranda Cosgrove is seen as very innocent and the anti-Miley. Fine with me, I don’t have anything against the girl. Yet again of her there are also pictures of her leaving night clubs, again most likely for performances but still. You don’t hear anything making a big drama about that. So for Miley to create drama it’s enough that there is some vague rumor that she was refused at a club, while Selena and Miranda can come out of a nightclub without it being a drama.

People will say that they weren’t there to party, which I actually do believe. However those same people have no clue what Miley would be doing at a club. Just because it’s Miley they are simply to believe everything. There could be even more extreme examples I could name but that would border on attacking someone else and I won’t be doing that. Then again….. I actually am attacking other people. I’m attacking those hypocritical assholes like Perez Hilton and Harvey Levin who dare call themselves journalists. They have their own agendas to only serve themselves.

These “people” (I use the term lightly here) feel they can get away with it, it doesn’t hurt them personally doesn’t it? That they are going after a teenage girl who can defend herself all she wants, some people still won’t believe it. Simply because she has been branded by these idiots as a bad girl. It’s a good thing that the industry doesn’t seem to see her that way, even though they would just love to see her fail. Where does this desire for failure come from anyway? Regarding any celebrity actually, just because they are famous they aren’t allowed to have success?

Yes I do talk about celebrities on here as well but at least I see them as human beings. With me there also isn’t a double standard, yes I favor certain celebrities above others. I however will never interpret a picture a different way, just to serve my own agenda. It’s just sad that it’s very normal to do just that these days. From my observations Miley is not a bad girl, as someone who has followed quite a few celebrities growing up over the years. There is nothing in her life that could make me believe that she will become the trainwreck everyone wants her to be. No I don’t see it in Miranda and Selena either, if I see it in anyone I won’t write about it here right now. If tattoos and piercings make someone a trainwreck; there are a lot of celebrities out there with those. I’d actually have a hard time thinking of anyone who doesn’t. They however aren’t Miley so it simply doesn’t matter.

This concludes my rant for now.

I’ve been around on the internet, visited numerous websites, blogs, youtube, forums and who knows what else. A lot of them deal with the daily issues of celebrities which in itself isn’t a bad thing. It’s just  a development, people have always been interested in celebrities.  Mostly in admiration of celebrities, as fans. There has also always been hatred of celebrities, with the internet however that hatred is more public than ever before. Though public it’s also easy, there is no one who will really hold you accountable for behavior on the internet.

What does that translate to? That there are a whole bunch of assholes who feel the need to publish their hatred for someone.  Yes assholes, do these people even know what they are doing? When you ask them about it, odds are is that they are only stating their opinion. Well actually…. No it’s not, it’s called cyberbullying. Just because they don’t know the celebrity personally it’s still nothing less than bullying.

Now it’s easiest to use an example. I’ve never seen so much hatred directed at any young celebrity as Miley Cyrus has endured (no, this has nothing to do with her having deleted her Twitter, thought he same principles apply there). She’s being called a slut, a whore and who knows what else on sites. The worst place for things like that are comments on blogs. People claiming to be parents of kids and then calling a sixteen year old girl they don’t personally know a slut or a whore. Stellar parents they must be, especially seeing they only believe what they want to believe instead of actually looking at a simple thing called a fact. Not to mention that I doubt that they would anyone making comments like that about their child.

Just because something is written on a blog, it doesn’t make it fact. Just like this blog, I see myself as someone who tends to look at facts but in the end there is always a personal opinion. My opinion on people who go out of their to hate people they don’t know is that they’re assholes. I would think they’d have better things to do than go on a rant about how bad a person Miley Cyrus is again and again. Sure I visit celebrity forums and blogs but on a forum I will only enter a discussion. Blog comments? Are a waste of time if i you ask me, you won’t catch me doing that (don’t hold the one or two times that I’ve done it against me).

Am I saying that people have to like Miley Cyrus? Of course not, it’s natural for people to dislike other people even on first impressions. That they don’t like her work is just an opinion and that is something they are entitled to. That is something people have to make up for themselves though, there is no need to go on a quest and tell people how horrible a person she is. How she has sex with everyone she bumps into, doesn’t matter if they are older than her.  Which is never an impression I got from her but people like Perez Hilton have said it so it must be true (as an experienced internet user I also know that sarcasm isn’t a concept understood by everyone, so here the disclaimer that that comment was indeed sarcasm).

I never got the relentless hatred towards Miley anyway. Is the jealousy really that bad? She is basically the most famous celebrity in all of history and that is something very few people will dispute.  Does she deserve it? She achieved it didn’t she? So why wouldn’t she deserve it? She worked for her success so who is anyone to dispute that success. That people think that she is only famous because of her dad need to look at it more closely. Seeing she surpassed her dad’s celebrity status by a couple of factors by now, not to mention the completely different starting fanbase. Even if the name helped her at times, who cares? She’d be an idiot for not taking certain advantages, I don’t think there isn’t any person who can say that they wouldn’t have done it if they had been in a position like that.

Hatred on the internet is pretty much pointless and in principle wrong.  Just because you don’t know someone it doesn’t mean that they’re fair game to bully. Bullying in schools has always been a problem and probably always be, it’s usually the weak ones that are a target. Now with the internet and celebrities it’s the bigger and the more successful they are that are a target. Because you’re so cool and tough when you call a sixteen year old that you don’t actually know a slut.

So the simple conclusion in the end? Those assholes should grow up and probably should go find something they enjoy rather than hate. That will make it a lot easier on everyone, the likes of me who look at the positive don’t have to deal with their crap. I know that these assholes don’t know who they are, seeing they are only stating their opinion but I still felt like saying it. I don’t expect it to change either, it’s just a sad fact these days. Perfect behavior can’t be expected anyway, everyone has their shallow and weak moments. There are just those who do it all the time and who lack all common sense to see what they are doing.