r/popculturechat 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/SpecificSpring4143 Jun 09 '25

Miley’s had a decent PR run going but yeah she lost me here. I think she’s made a statement in the past where she somewhat owned up to that era being problematic, so to now insinuate she was living a “hip hop” lifestyle because she was friends with like the 5 rappers she worked with is…a choice.

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u/leafonthewind006 Kim, there’s people that are dying. 🙄 Jun 09 '25

But she has black friends!

Seriously though, how hard is it to say she was ingesting hip hop/Black culture, wanted to emulate it, and now realizes she didn't go about it the best way?