There was a time when Billy Ray Cyrus acted like a dad and not some creepy pedo uncle. I disagreed with him that Annie Leibovitz was trying to exploit his daughter, but it’s basically what you expect a dad to do when his teenager poses semi-nude without his consent.
WITH his consent, however, is a horse of another color. Here’s what he has to say about her controversial pole dancing during the Teen Choice Awards on August 10:
“You know what? I just think that Miley loves entertaining people,” Billy Ray told Access. “She loves singing (and) songwriting.”
And while some might have taken exception to Miley’s performance, her father encouraged her to block out the negative comments.
“I always tell her to love what you’re doing and stay focused for the love of the art and not worry so much about opinion,” he added.
Keep makin’ that money, girl! Papa needs to touch up his roots, because they’re showing.
(Post title courtesy of Reba, FYI, if you don’t sing as much karaoke as I do.)
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*Looking over shoulder* I’d hit it…
Not a karaoke fan. But, I already had “Fancy” stuck in my head before finishing the title. I had no idea that Bobbie Gentry wrote it until I clicked your link. Cool.
I can’t click on those links, or the pictures.
Stupid judge.
Uch, Bobbie Gentry. My parents had a duet album (Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry) when I was a little kid, and Gentry was in this GINORMOUS shoe-polish black bouffant and blue polyester jumpsuit, and now every time I think of country music, I think of that and I die a little inside.
Anyway–every time I read or see anything Cyrus-related, the phrase “Unca Daddy’s lap-bone” pops into mind. And then I die a little inside, again. Some more.
“Unca Daddy’s lap-bone” Thanks Beige, I feel a little sick myself now.
The window is closing on the Cyrus family’s chance to set this girl straight or she will be well on her way to becoming a ‘Lohanesque’ sort of mess.
Jrod, dude 16 gets you 20 in Rikers or the Tombs.
Bad call!
So you expect him to publicly criticize his daughter? Maybe he was critical of her behind closed doors.
No, but maybe pointing out to her beforehand that 16 is too young to be on the pole — especially at the Teen Freaking Choice Awards — would have been more fatherly.
In some states the age of consent is 16 – of course in the South that might make her an old maid – so Jrod can hit the prostitot, I mean Miley.
“The day that Billy Joe Mcallister jumped off the Tallahachee briiiiiiiidge.” That one’s for you Beige, heheh.
Yeah, this whole deal is so disturbing and unfortunately predictable. Let’s write out how her next couple years are going to go, based on all the Disney trainwreck kids before her, and check off the list as it happens. So sad. And thanks for thinking of the psyche of America’s kids for the sake of your wallet, Billy Ray. Not.
Octomom, looking surprisingly fit.
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DEATH to Fortunate_Son for bring up Octomom!!!!!!!!!
OOPS! Should be “bringing up Octomom”
Death to Swede for being a non-spelling knuckle-head!
Yep she looks fit. Nice “six-head”.
The best part of that Miley pic is this girl’s face.
(inside joke: “Mmmm, girl with green eyes!”)
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Why is Lo Pan there?
Oh I get it. Sorry.
@jimmy–On behalf of the Southerners here, I can attest that 16 doesn’t fall in “old maid” territory. Some of the other stereotypes, OTOH, especially those involving gun ownership, are right on the mark.
Re Octomom – note the TWO Starbucks cups, Starbucks bag…and no kids in sight.
Why is Octomom ALWAYS cold?
“There was a time when Billy Ray Cyrus acted like a dad”
You mean like his normal acting?? BAD lol
Ok being from Kentucky I can comment on a lot from the southern states. Yes age of consent is 16 here and in come counties 14. Also a lot of states allow pole dancers to be under 18 as long as they don’t serve liquor, ironic huh.
As for the guns, well I have a CCDW permit and carry every day.
Hm, you are usually all so observant.
Why does the teen choice awards even have a stripper pole on the stage?
Well there’s that too.
Holly, it could also be physical. I personally know someone whose “headlights” are always on, even when it’s hot outside. Farrah Fawcett IIRC was the same way.
@D—, I’m actually NOT that observant. If I were a private detective, I’d be standing over an open grave, going “You mean he’s DEAD?”
Swede! I looked over my shoulder! Geez!
It isn’t. She’s just THAT HAPPY to see paparazzi. Especially this late in her 15 minutes.
Speaking on behalf of the Triggered Turkey Pop-Up Timers Club…
99.99999% of us are smart enough to wear padded bras.
Minnow, I’m going to pass along that nickname to my friend. She’ll love it.
If you watch the video, Billy Ray has a look on his face that just screams “disappointment”. I think he’s just making the best of the situation.
The pole wasn’t on stage, folks. It was wheeled out on something that looked like an ice cream cart. Or something.
I suppose it was supposed to be like the pole the umbrella would be on if it were an ice cream cart.
Not that I saw that or anything. I just heard. Or something.
Personally, I think Octomom is always cold because she’s a reptile, but I digress.
And I think there’s a perfectly logical reason to have a stripper pole at the TCAs. Obviously it Miley was just trying to do her best impression of a tetherball game. This is an impression that will be very useful in her next line of work, once people realize she can’t sing worth crap.
That’s because she wasn’t being pelted with fivers.
@Beige re: Southern stereotypes – depends on where you live. But yes, we do like our guns. However, I still maintain that northerners are far more racist, as a whole, than Southerners. I base this partly on my post-Katrina experiences.
But, y’know. Biased. Daddy grew up on a farm and whatnot.
Also, I know Strippercise is considered good for fitness, but uh…16 is a little young to be having a practice pole installed in your My Little Pony themed bedroom.
The real deception is that Cyrus is being reported as being pole dancing; she crouched next to the pole once, and outside of that didn’t dance near the pole at all. If you watch the video it’s clear she doesn’t even come close to pole dancing.
I hate have to defend people who annoy me.
Can’t tell me NO ONE realized the suggestiveness of the “ice cream cart” pole. Why was she on an ice cream cart anyway? Methinks that Miley’s sexy-but-not-sexy acts are quite manufactured and managed, just like all the other pop tarts that have preceded her. Daddy is probably not so thrilled about it when he sees some of it, but how do you say no to your golden goose? Especially when all the handlers are “justifying” it as not that bad and implying that YOU are the dirty one for seeing the (real) meanings. This doesn’t excuse his behavior or inaction or whatever, but sadly, this is just another example of society oversexualizing young girls, only played out on an international stage.
I don’t care whether she did a stripper act or not, she danced around a pole. As far as teenagers pole-dancing is concerned, a miss is as good as a mile. We all know that she was trying to suggest pole-dancing; only the tiniest, slimiest loophole would deny that. I know teenagers try their hardest to act like adults and have since the dawn of time, but I thought parents were supposed to encourage them not to do that because teenagers still have the emotional maturity of children. (Some adults do too, but that’s something they have to solve on their own.) I can hear girls across America say, “Miley’s parents let her pole dance! Miley’s parents let her date 20-somethings! What is your problem?”
And speaking of which, Annie Leibovitz said that Miley’s parents were present during the Vanity Fair shoot. Doesn’t that equal parental consent?
On a similar note, I understand now how parents can be crazy in their youth and get conservative when they have kids. They don’t want their children to act like they did. I’ve caught myself muttering several times about “damned kids these days,” I’m not even dating anyone and I fear my transformation has already begun….
I guess we don’t have to wonder how JonBenet Ramsey would have looked when she grew up.
Can they find Miley a role model? What’s Mary Kay LeTourneu up to these days?
gross. poor billy ray is just a hillbilly who doesn’t care what his kids do.. as long as they bring on the cash.
*bring in the cash
bring in* the cash, sorry
Pearce–Good point, and absolutely right. (Re: Southerners, stereotypes, and a lot of people in the north.)
@AllyKat: I hadn’t thought about the plausible deniability angle before, but that makes sense, too.
Anna: Right you are. I mentioned this in my post from around when the photo scandal was fresh. Billy Ray went on the Today show and slammed Leibovitz for allowing it to happen:
Now he can’t plead ignorance. He’s her freaking manager. He was probably the one to submit the request form for the stripper pole.
Dating 20-somethings….well, I can’t say jack about that. All I dated in high school were guys in their twenties. Often mid-twenties, at that. ‘course, I was also a total prude in the sexuality department, and the 20-somethings were a lot more okay with that than the boys who were my own age.
…also, I didn’t think those other photos were all that provocative. THIS is provocative.
The expression on the girl with light brown hair behind Miley says it all. Don’t get me started on Miley encouraging teen and tween girls everywhere to find their inner stripper, and how this contributes to the incredibly destructive sexualization of young girls.
Oops, already started. Never mind.
Pearce and Beige, you may be right about prejudice here in the North. One reason is that beyond a few cities and towns, there just aren’t that many minorities around here. I’m always surprised when I visit VA/FL/CA and actually interact with black and Hispanic people.
I read Michael Graham’s “Redneck Nation” a few years back, and one anecdote stuck with me. He relates how he drove–I think it was from Alabama to Massachusetts–and as he pulled into a gas station somewhere in Boston, a guy noticed his Alabama license plate and remarked how he really admired southerners. Graham asked him why, and the guy replied, “‘Cause you guys really know how to handle your n****rs.” Graham was gobsmacked. So was I, on reading that. Say something like that in Birmingham, and not only are you marked as a lynch-mob arsehole, but you’ll probably be found in pieces next spring. My husband has a theory that for the most part, the American South has been forced to work out its race issues, while most of the north just assumed it was fine from the get-go.
There’s an old saying that blacks in the South could get close but not too high, while in the North they could get high but not too close. Maybe in staying separated northern whites have allowed their initial prejudices to harden.
That being said, though, for sheer gobsmacking racism, there’s nowhere like Russia. The way they talk about black people and Asians has to be witnessed to be believed.
Beige, that’s similar to what I ran into living up north. I had many a blank, slack-jawed “WHAT?!” moment…because that sort of behavior was completely foreign to me, despite the South being the first place people look to when racism is mentioned.
A few years ago, I read a Chris Rock quote in Essence or Ebony (actually two of the best women’s magazines I have ever read). Paraphrased, he said that people in both parts of the country are racist, the only difference is that Southerners will admit that they are prejudiced. Growing up, I didn’t even know what most slurs meant when I encountered them in books because I never heard them used (despite living in Virginia, a Southern state!) It wasn’t until I was almost twenty that I heard someone use an offensive ethnic slur (not in Virginia) in real life without quoting Mark Twain or something.
Actually, thinking about it, that’s not entirely true. When I was in fourth grade, a white kid and a black hispanic kid called me “cracker” every day on the school bus. I didn’t know what they meant until I read Roots a couple years later. I don’t know if they knew exactly what it meant, but they meant it to be hurtful. The black kid was elected Homecoming Prince our freshman year of high school, and that experience was all I could think about. Oh well, white girls from suburbia don’t get to complain.
It works both ways.
I can’t think of a more segregated area than that of Detroit and it’s suburbs. And it’s completely and utterly voluntary. 8 Mile is a real road which divides the area both culturally and racially. Many Detroiters won’t cross north to eat, work, or shop because they hate what the suburbs represent.
“Suburban” here is code for white and I’ve heard it spoken with more venom than I’ve ever heard the N word. Most southerners (black or white) would be scraping their chins up off the floor to hear a typical Detroit politician speak.
Oops, #51 is me. Apparently, I’m incognito today.
This is just the continuation of the normalization (like the alliteration?) of the “all women are whores so they might as well act that way” direction of our society. I cannot STAND the fact that looking like a streetwalker is consider sexy at 14 rather than just being skanky at any age; that stripper poles are now seen as “normal” and fun for exercise rather than a symbol of women who are available for sex at any time; that sexting (especially photos) is considered NORMAL rather than exploitative (even if they are exploiting themselves) and they are prudes or repressed if they DON’T do it. Even little girls clothing (I’m talking about toddler sizes) are just miniature versions of the sexy adult versions, grooming them to be sexual objects at an early age. All of this pressure is on girls to be sluts 24/7. They are being told every day that they must cater to guys basic needs for visual stimulation and sex without commitment if they want to be liked, regardless of their needs. Actually, most of this is IN SPITE of their needs. To them, being liked is the most important thing, not WHO likes you or why.
FYI, I am a woman & I totally disagree with Brazilian waxes and the pressure for women to look pre-pubescent. This society is veering very close to pedophile territory in that, even adult woman must look like a child or they will be considered “dirty”. If that is what turns someone on, then that is not the person for me. What’s next, all women start talking like 10 year old girls so they don’t appear too smart? Ooops, sorry, that already happened.
Taken to it’s extreme, in another 100 years, sex will reserved for girls 5-25. After that, even with all the grooming in the world, women won’t be considered for or ALLOWED to have sex because it is just SICK to sleep with the elderly (i.e. anyone who doesn’t look like a child)!
Amen, BB. I don’t think we’ll get to your dystopia, though. Think of all those Baby Boomers now hitting retirement! Soon there will be oodles of movies and TV shows trumpeting 60 as the new 40 and showing lots of grandparents scrumping.
Where I live (SW Georgia, in actual plantation territory), the segregation is practiced not only voluntarily but eagerly, by blacks. Churches and groups here do all they can to integrate, but it’s like trying to mix oil and water; people absolutely do not want to integrate. Desegregation took place, what–30 years ago? Forty? And this is how it is now. But we whites are the bigots, never forget.
MC Mom – Just don’t let them start talking about their bikini waxes. Ick!!
FYI, I am considered part of the “baby boomer” generation. I was born in 1960, the last year for “baby boomer” births, but I don’t feel a part of that generation at all. I think of them as the true hippie-era group, about 10 years ahead of me since I was under 10 during the 60’s. I don’t know what they called the next group born in the 60’s & 70’s, but that’s the group I belong to. T
Miley I WANT TO SE YOUR BOOBS!!PLEASE SHOW THEM IN ONE OF YOUR WEBSITES OR IN ALL PLEASE!!!
Why can’t people just leave Miley alone! Why do the papparatzi (dunno how 2 spell it lol) always have to stick there big fat noses in other peoples buisness, if I was out there pole dancing no one would give a damn! And for gods sake she is just a teenage girl tryin 2 hav fun! I take pics of myself at nightclubs pole dancing!