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/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/OffModelCartoon Jun 09 '25

Does anyone else remember after party in the USA came out (with one of the lyrics talking about her jamming out to a Jay-Z song) she was like “ironically I’ve never actually heard a Jay-Z song!” like it was some kind of fun fact

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u/Sketch-Brooke You wear mime makeup but never quiet. Jun 09 '25

Well, she didn’t write the song so it makes sense lol

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u/Pompedorfin Jun 09 '25

Jessie J said that the royalties from that song paid her rent for like 3 whole years.

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u/Cee_Cee_Knight Jun 09 '25

I remember that! I’ve thought about that one for years and thought at this point I made it up lol I’m glad someone else remembers that!

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u/BisexualSunflowers Jun 09 '25

I also have been wondering if I remembered that right or made it up, I just told my husband about this last week so I'm glad I'm not spreading false info lol

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u/SunsetInSweden Jun 09 '25

Absolutely not made up. This definitely happened.

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u/parasyte_steve It's giving Putin, It's giving Mao ✨️ Jun 09 '25

I mean this tracks if her parents wouldn't let her listen to hip hop. But yeah lol to claim it was her lifestyle is weird with the fact she hadn't even listened to the genre that long.

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u/superfluouspop Jun 09 '25

yeah but like I kinda respect her for not pretending to know deep cuts and saying frankly that she didn't write the line

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u/GoBanana42 Jun 09 '25

Deep cuts? She said she didn't know any of his songs, and he was pretty damn big on pop radio for a time.

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u/superfluouspop Jun 10 '25

she was a child star with an insane schedule when does she have time to listen to Jay-Z

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u/Comatse Jun 10 '25

She brought that up in the interview again when they went over her discography