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Terath -> RE: Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) (3/18/2008 10:43:10 PM)
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ORIGINAL: 1love1God1way
Well, of course. She's what? 15? She can't manage herself.
Another gripe of mine. She's only 15. Way too young to be getting into all this fame, if you ask me, no matter how grounded you are. You still miss out on a normal childhood. I'd have to say the youngest artist I'd ever support is Hayley Williams, who's 17, of Paramore. I believe Miley's career started when she was 14, right?
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Regardless, she's, as someone else mentioned, a better role model than Britney, Lindsey, Paris, or Mary Kate and Ashley. She seems to have a good head on her shoulders and good Christian parents guiding her in the right direction.
She's a better role model, yes, but in my opinion, people shouldn't look to some pop idol as a role model in the first place. I'd never look to pop culture for any role models, simply because pop culture is whatever is popular at the moment. Such temporary stardom is empty and it seems that scandals hit as soon as they can be invented.
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It's amazing how people complain that there's not enough good characters out there for kids and if there is, like let's say in this case Miley Cyrus, people complains how she's this and how she's that. Geesh...she's a teen pop favorite right now and in a few years, it'll be someone else. Most of us had our own favorites growing up and we all grew up. And in regards with merchandise....there is nothing new about it. I had my Tiger Beat magazines stuck all over my walls when I was in high school with Donny Osmond's pictures and Shaun Cassidy. I remember buying every magazines that had their pictures in it. My older cousins were into David Cassidy in the early 70's and they had lunchboxes, tshirts and such. It even goes back during the time when Elvis Presley was just a young guy. So I'm not sure what's with criticizing on Hannah Montana's merchandise out there. Plus it's the same thing with sports memorabilia and no one's complaining about it.
I can truthfuly say I can't identify with that in the least, and I'm rather glad I did. I didn't look up to or admire any pop sensation, didn't have the merchandise, nothing. I would also hold the sports memoribilia, like the pop equivalent, isn't necessarily harmful, I just see no point in it. My question is: why? I have no desire to be like most people, so why buy into the same untalented singers just because they have a pretty face, or the same sports stars just because of their batting average? I'm sure if I had exposure to such things as a child, I would have been a very different person today, and I happen to like the way I turned out a lot better. Granted, I'll never stand a chance at one of those remember the lyrics type shows, and I wouldn't know Derek Jeter from Ronald McDonald, but I see that as merely the sign of a culture headed for opulence. When a culture as a whole becomes, on a whole, entirely too focused on extraneous things and superficial issues, on temporal pleasures, it collapses. This is not some sort of "holier than thou" thing. Just look at the great empires of ancient times, from the Babylonians to the Romans. Babylon is the poster child for a culture corrupted by pleasure. The Romans stopped worrying about anything outside of Rome, so the the things outside of Rome simply came and conquered. This is not to say that somehow it's a good thing to go through constant hardships, but every culture needs some sort of goal or higher purpose to bond everyone together. For America in the post Civil War era, it was Reconstruction and Westward Expansion. For Cold War America, it was the arms race and self-preservation. A country united under something of permenance is one that has purpose. When America becomes as devoted as it is to the goings on of Hollywood instead of real issues, then I believe the whole will suffer. It does suffer. The lack of a firm foundation simply breeds relativism. Now, am I saying that Hannah Montana is somehow going to bring about the end of America? No, but she is taking part in the system that contributes to the general moral decline of America, which is a major factor in the survival of any nation.
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