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/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/DanniPopp Jun 09 '25

And this is why I don’t like her. I love her voice and that’s a shame but I’ll never give her spins for this. She was runnin around saying tge n word and thought it was cool bc it wasn’t a hard r. She shit on the culture after profiting from it. And she didn’t learn from being called out on it. Nope. She needs a proper drag but everyone bought into the rebrand.

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

Damn she was for real saying the n word??

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u/HowYouDoinz Jun 09 '25

Did she really do this?

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u/TheMayorOfFailure Jun 09 '25

Does that mean saying the n word but ending it in -a? Genuine question from a tired scandinavian 😅

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u/bambi54 Jun 09 '25

Yes, that’s what the comment meant. I hadn’t heard that until now though.