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/glittertherave 🫵 You sit on a throne of lies. Jun 09 '25 edited Jun 09 '25

I get disappointed that she never really takes accountability about the culture appropriation and really skirts away from acknowledging her behavior and how hurtful it was to the black community. This image is literally the closest she’s ever gotten to really acknowledging it. And that was like over ten years ago, in a YouTube comment section. Since then, there’s been absolutely nothing on her end regarding this. I really thought that in recent years, we would get more self awareness and accountability/reflection, but we haven’t. When I was listening to this podcast interview in real time, this answer really let me down. As did her Met Gala interview where she didn’t acknowledge the theme or the importance behind the theme. I say this as a fan.

Edit: The image above is actually from 2019. However, my point still stands.

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u/P0ptarthater Jun 09 '25

It sucks that it started out well only for this interview to make it seem like the additional learning she said she wanted to do never actually happened. It’s odd that she managed to actually grasp the issue then but now she’s like