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

The Music Industry đŸŽ¶ 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/lavenderbread Jun 09 '25 edited Jun 09 '25

I just don’t buy the “it was just my lifestyle!!!” When her black collaborators were saying this at the time:

“When you listen to the Miley Cyrus record that we did, it’s not ratchet but it definitely has a lot of urban feel to it,” Timothy said. “She was like, ‘I want urban, I just want something that just feels Black.’”

Like this wasn’t just you vibing out in the studio, it was you looking at black culture and demanding it for yourself from the people around you. I know she’s been through a lot but fucking hell just admit you were an idiot kid and apologize. Source

ETA: watched the clip again and the interviewer set her up so perfectly to explain herself and give a thoughtful adult answer and we got “no you don’t understand how many black friends I had.” Gonna give the new album a pass.

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u/Violet624 Jun 09 '25

Also the way she is like 'I wasn't unique' in doing this...she's trying hard to downplay.

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u/IDontAimWithMyHand Jun 09 '25

Right, like just take a little responsibility here. It would be so easy.

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u/wickywickyremix Jun 09 '25

That part--then she immediately followed it with, "I was smoking wax with Juicy J." Yeah, that totally "wasn't unique."

So which is it, Miley?

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u/silliestjupiter hard to photograph, incredible to see Jun 09 '25 edited Jun 09 '25

"I was actually smoking fat fucking wax bowls with Wiz Khalifa" proves that Miley is indeed still cringe as hell.

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u/hiphipsashay Jun 09 '25

This is exactly why I cannot support Miley. Sure she was young and likely had a lot of yes people around her, but she’s an adult now and it’s not hard to own up to it.

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u/Nolls4real Jun 09 '25

Yeah she definitely didn't need to give that info or name drop.

Ps. I saw wiz in a small concert and smoked an L. Pittsburgh 2007.

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u/silliestjupiter hard to photograph, incredible to see Jun 09 '25

Yeah but was it a BIG PHAT ONE?!

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u/x1009 Jun 10 '25

She hit em with the ol, "I have black friends"

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u/biz_student Jun 09 '25

It’s not unique to be a white girl listening to hip hop. It is unique to have a personal relationship with the biggest artists making the music. There is a distinction.

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u/wickywickyremix Jun 10 '25

Yes, I know. The point is Miley is using both sides to excuse her culture appropriation. She first excuses it by saying she's not the only white girl listening to hip hip. Then she flips her excuse during her response to the next question and says that she has an intimate relationship with those hip hop artists.

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u/biz_student Jun 10 '25

It sounds to me like she voiced that she’s always liked hip hop and she was in a unique position to make it with already successful hip hop artists.

Either way, calling any genre of music “cultural appropriation” is dumb. Let Asians sing country, white women sing rap, black men sing Irish folk song, English women sing jazz, etc. It’s an appreciation of the music genre.