It seems that Miley Cyrus, tearing a page from the book of Britney Spears, is making a career out of fetishizing her former child star status by continually playing up the good-girl gone bad persona. Back in my day, Madonna never did this; she was slutty from the start. Spears broke new ground when she bumped her way through a Catholic school, mocking her former Mouseketeer days, in the video for “Baby One More Time.” Cyrus is going even further by creating a sort of child porn avatar: a barely-legal girl who emerges from a huge teddy bear, wearing a pedophilia-chic version of a kid’s pajama set, and copulates with over-sized stuffed animals. It feeds upon the worst fantasies of male child molesters. But, we must remember that these are the adult children who grew up playing with a Britney Spears doll.
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