Celebritology wrote an article that left my cold, black heart feeling kind of guilty for being hard on Miley Cyrus over the past few months. To wit:
I felt a little verklempt when I read about Miley’s 16th birthday bash at, of course, Disneyland. Because not content to let this girl — excuse me, I mean child — celebrate this milestone with a modicum of privacy, she was instead costumed, handed a mike and pushed on stage to perform four songs to an audience of paying ticket-holders.
“Miley is really hard to surprise,” dad Billy Ray Cyrus told the Associated Press. I’m sure that’s true, especially when the guest of honor is tasked with making good on those $250 tickets.
It goes on to analyze how Miley isn’t really living the life of a teenager. “That’s just my personality. I don’t get shaken or stirred up over anything. Which can be a problem sometimes. I’m just, like, so no emotions,” she said in that infamous Vanity Fair profile.
But I keep coming back to that Billy Ray Cyrus quote. “Miley is really hard to surprise.” So does that mean the event for which Disney charged $250 a head was supposed to be a surprise party, albeit one where she was contractually obligated to provide the entertainment? When does she just get to be a girl?
Btw, her real birthday isn’t until November 23 (which you’d hope her dad would know). I just can’t help but get the impression that Billy Ray is standing behind the curtain, whispering “dance, monkey, dance!” whenever Miley goes on stage.
If she’s sick of being the child celebrity de jour, I am certain there are millions of other teenaged girls who will be more than happy to take her place. If her father forced this lifestyle on her, than shame on him, and I hope she sues him for all kinds of horrid things when she turns 18. If she chose a public life instead of a private life, then she sold her right to being a child away in exchange for being adored. Cry me a freaking river.
Even more sad, this event took FOREVER to sell out. Closing the park early usually takes a hefty investment (corporate after-hours buy-outs costs hundreds of thousands, which I’m sure is why the tickets for her “birthday party” cost so much) and obviously Disney thought that making this investment was worth it and from what I have heard (from Disney insiders) is that the event was expected to sell out quickly but actually didn’t sell out for several weeks. There were probably a fair number of tickets given away and given as comps to guests who were angry about paying full admission and being asked to leave the park hours early, so I am skeptical that 5,000 tickets were ever sold.
Also, the weekend of October 4&5 was the unofficial “Gay Days” weekend at Disneyland, which has been a thorn in Disney’s side for quite a while. The Gay Days event isn’t acknowledged by Disney (allegedly because Disney doesn’t want to touch “sexuality” unless they’re selling it from their 15 year old poster children via Promise Rings and Annie Liebowitz photo shoots). The events take over quite a bit of space (if not all of the space) in all the local Disney hotels with meetings, meet-ups, hotel rooms, etc. This is a weekend that historically (for the past decade) has sold out tickets and hotel rooms (and Disney happily accepts gay currency!). Which means that literally tens of thousands of people will have been inconvenienced for this one “party” (which had lackluster sales) which isn’t even on/near her birthday. It’s highly unlikely that this was a “coincidence”.
Maybe homosexuals like Hannah Montana.
Some birthday party. You have to work…
Gay currency? what’s that, like, 3 dollar bills?
““Miley is really hard to surprise,” dad Billy Ray Cyrus told…”
Correction: ““Miley is really hard to surprise,” big brother and future murderer Billy Ray Cyrus told…”
bleh i am so sick of this kid. i’ve been reading about this “party” for a few months so i take it she knew about it. also, her birthday is a little over a month away. why does this thing happen at disneyland now? why ever really, but why now??
Seems that part of the point would be upstaging and effectively ruining Gay Days, but more obviously, it’s all just part of the money machine that Miley is to Disney and Billy. I kind of feel sorry for her. She really seems to be a machine.
“bleh i am so sick of this kid.”
Not to worry. She’ll be a cracked-out, booze-pig by 2010. You can spit on her lifeless corpse then.
Pastafarian - Gay currency actually comes in $6 and $9 bills…..
One More Year, One More Year, One More Year, One More Year, One More Year, One More Year, One More Year, (Plus 1.5 months…)
of what surprise he was talking about?? She knew about this party because she was talking about it and is not even her birthday party, so I dont feel sorry for her
“of what surprise he was talking about??”
“I’m not really your father. I’m actually your older brother! And now I’m going to kill you!”
I smell a t.v. special and DVD too.
Of course this was staged to milk Miley for all she’s worth before she’s too old for the Haus of Maus. Oh, I’m sure she’s getting paid a bundle and I’m willing to bet Disney will comp her a flashy new car and other gifts for her efforts. But it’s still lame to have to work at your Sweet 16 party. It’s like having to be the entertainment at your bat mitzvah party.
“of what surprise he was talking about??”
“I’m not really your father. I’m actually your older brother! And now I’m going to kill you!”
LOL, Snoop.
@”“bleh i am so sick of this kid.”
Not to worry. She’ll be a cracked-out, booze-pig by 2010. You can spit on her lifeless corpse then.”
Since when is that a good thing? Ideally, she’ll have disappeared from the public eye in 2010 complete with her ability to live a normal life. Annoying as she and her show and the endless stream of crap that comes along with it, I doubt she was capable of making an informed decision about how this lifestyle would affect her. She’s fifteen.
“She’s fifteen.”
And that’s what she’ll always be. Because Miley Cyrus will soon be murdered by her elder brother. And that’s a very good thing.