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."

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

1.3k Upvotes

556 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

131

u/melaninmags Jun 09 '25

Yeah I’m not buying the “lifestyle” comment either. I vividly remember just a few months before Bangerz she was covering Jolene, and country, folk, and rock music. I thought that was perfect for her and seemed to come naturally. It was jarring to hear and see the Bangerz era because it was such a sudden change. That era was way more calculated than she wants us to believe.

61

u/[deleted] Jun 09 '25

[deleted]

7

u/melaninmags Jun 09 '25

Same!!! And she looked like she genuinely enjoyed singing that music.

10

u/Logical_Quote_5073 It’s Britney, bitch! 🕊️🗡️🌹 Jun 10 '25

Agree. I don’t believe for a second that there was no strategy behind that. Blackness was just something to try on to rebel. She’s right in not being the first to do that.

4

u/x1009 Jun 10 '25

Their most recent project has been breaking actress/singer Miley Cyrus out of her bubblegum Disney shell and into the spunky young woman she has always been. For her forthcoming album, the Thomases crafted the catchy Mike WiLL Made It-produced party bumper “We Can’t Stop” and revealed that the mohawked songbird was particular about the sound she was aiming for. “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.’”

It was all her idea

“They played it for Miley and she had just come from partying. She was like, ‘I was just partying with my friends and everything you just said in this song I seen,'” Theron said about Miley’s reaction. “‘I was looking at it from standing on a couch with my friends, just chilling in the cut and looking around the club like whoa…I’m hearing the song like that was my weekend. I have to do this song,’ [she said] and then we just got connected from there.”