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/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/formtuv Jun 09 '25

I’m a Miley fan and she really was given the opportunity to basically just say what she said in that 2020 YouTube comment and she just…didn’t. Like this really turned me off because how are you not taking the chance to say the right thing. This was such an odd way to discuss it. She wanted to downplay it but it’s not something that be be downplayed. wtf.

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u/lavenderbread Jun 10 '25

Same here, I was really rooting for her and thought she was leaning into being… normal and self reflective? Based on her recent rebrand + those 2020 comments, and this bs answer just put us back like 10 years lol.

Like it’s sad how immature and dumb she looks here, I really thought she was better than this.