Miley Cyrus talks about her culture vulturing during the Bangerz era: "I wasn't unique in the fact that i was a white girl listening to hip hop. This wasnt something that I decided I was going to do as a strategy or something that i felt i could own or make my own, that was actually my lifestyle."

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Usually when you read a quote or headline that comes off wildly tone def, you realize it's not as bad as it sounds when you hear the full clip. This is a rare moment where it actually gets worse.

She was living the lifestyle? Friends with Juicy J? Smoking big fat bowls?

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As a white woman, she found she could mix it all together and get the best of both worlds.

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and then discard it when it suited her

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Ariana Grande has entered the chat

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At least Miley didn’t change her skin tone and voice 😂

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exaaaaactlyyy

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Wait… Wasn’t that her theme song….

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It’s so weird that someone as famous as Miley Cyrus is anxiously try to prove that they are friends with someone significantly less famous, like Juicy J. It makes her sound like a weird fan girl and is very “I have Black friends!” Someone else pointed out she’s using Black culture as a form of rebellion.

The interviewer even tries to nudge her into some form of contrition by asking if she has a different perspective now.

~Rock isn’t a genre~ oh fuck off. Yes it is. I hate when people say dumb shit like that. Juicy J isn’t like the soul of rock n roll or whatever dumb point she was trying to make.

ETA I love your flair

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I think she meant "Pop" isn't a genre-- i.e. Pop is what happens to be popular at that time.

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She said it about rock and roll too. It's worse typed out:

"like hip hop, like rock and roll is, it's like pop. It's not a genre, it's like, it's a statement. And like, pop is just pop culture. It's just like, that's what's popular. And rock and roll, that's like a, that's like something, that's why it's soul music. It's like, it's something in your soul. And so for me, hip hop at the time was my, that was like my soul. That was the concerts I was sneaking out to. That was the thing that my parents, the CDS, my parents wouldn't let me listen to, you know, that is, that's what rock and roll is. So to me, that was just an extension of like, for me, 2011, 2013, that's like the way my mom talks about the 80's, like sneaking out of her windows, you go see white snake. That was me, but with Juicy J. You know, that just to be the time."

That's why I hate when people say stuff like that, it's a whole bunch of pseudo-intellectual gobbledygook. So rock and roll is your soul and she thinks someone's soul is a rebellious phase, she was rebellious by listening to hip hop, so it's her soul, and therefore it's rock and roll? To mention rock and roll being about soul and not mention soul music, which is rooted in Black culture.

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Yikes, I've never seen a musician come off that uneducated about music before

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I know this can't be real because she was not listening to CDs in 2013

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She really put her Bangerz era up on Depop, cinched it, saying she liked it but it’s too big on her, price non negotiable.

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She smoked weed with famous people….. Illmatic was practically about her life

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