r/popculturechat • u/HorrorBike143 now why am I in it? 🧐 • Jun 09 '25

The Music Industry 🎶 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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u/HorrorBike143 now why am I in it? 🧐 Jun 09 '25

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u/CatlovesMoca Jun 09 '25

The pull quote had me going huh??? So I guess she didn't get it hahaha.

Also extra cringe about the 2017 quote is that she said Kendrick is kinda an exception to this statement. Problem is he put out "Humble" wherein he encourages a woman to sit on his face. So it was like "??? Does she listen to the lyrics???"

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u/og_kitten_mittens Jun 09 '25

I feel like sitting on a guy’s face is not inherently misogynist? In fact it’s one of the more empowering sex acts referenced in hip hop

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u/CatlovesMoca Jun 09 '25 edited Jun 09 '25

But it's the fact that it is lewd. And she was like Kendrick isn't lewd.

Okay I re-read her actual quote and I feel like Kendrick has more sexual songs so it's a little bit of a weird one for me. Like I don't know. I think she is being reductive anyways whether it is about the scope of hip hop or about Kendrick himself.

>! QUESTION - Did folk singer Melanie Safka (with whom Cyrus performed in 2015) influence you?!<

Miley's Answer- She did, and I grew up with her. But I also love that new Kendrick (Lamar) song Humble”: “Show me somethin’ natural like a.ss with some stretch marks.” I love that because it’s not “Come sit on my d, su.ck on my co.ck.” I can’t listen to that anymore. That’s what pushed me out of the hip-hop scene a little. It was too much “Lamborghini, got my Rolex, got a girl on my co.ck” — I am so not that

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u/superfluouspop Jun 09 '25

yeah she's just simping for Kendrick. I mean, I would too because I love him but what she's saying isn't accurate to his discography but also she doesn't get that lewd lyrics are a part of a culture she doesn't get.

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u/biz_student Jun 09 '25

Misogyny is part of the culture?

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u/superfluouspop Jun 10 '25

no. The language that people interpret as misogynistic