Is Miley Cyrus the 2008 Lolita?
p2pnet news | TV:- With news of ’scandalous’ Miley Cyrus pix still being reported on and offline, in Guardian Unlimited’s commentisfree, Elana Schor offers an interesting take on Cyrus, aka Hannah Montana.
“As we Americans prepare to mark the 50th anniversary of Lolita’s first printing on these Puritan shores, a new and disturbing version of the Nabokovian prototype has whipped US daughters into a frenzy,” she posts, going on, in part:
“It’s not Lindsay Lohan, who my two young nieces couldn’t pick out of a line-up. And it’s not Jamie Lynn Spears, aged 16, whose pregnancy has somehow intensified the tawdry aura of elder sister Britney. I speak of Miley Cyrus, the under-age star whose TV show and sold-out concert tour are inspiring a wave of price gouging and mommy-backed fraud.”
Not only but also, “How is it,” Schor wonders, “parents can lament the celebrity culture that nurtured self-destructive starlets like Lindsay and Britney, then allow their second-graders to worship a girl whose goal is to make the cover of Us Weekly? One dad told the Memphis Commercial Appeal that ‘there are very few things parents can trust to be wholesome these days’ aside from Disney (Cyrus’ corporate sponsor) and Nickelodeon. The latter TV network, incidentally, is the home of knocked-up Jamie Lynn Spears and her show, Zoey 101.”
She adds:
Delving deeper into Cyrus’ family life only perpetuates the subtle likeness to Lolita, who was also a notorious acolyte of teen magazines. Standing in for Humbert Humbert, who catches Lo’s eye because he looks like a famous movie star, is once-famous father Billy Ray Cyrus.
After a brief career hitched to 1992 country hit Achy Breaky Heart, Mr Cyrus now plays the father of his daughter on her TV show and the Svengali of her music careers, both real-life and fictional. Amazingly, the Cyruses can win hearts as God-fearing churchgoers while Billy Ray cracks jokes about Miley’s underwear and escorts her to an extremely creepy “Purity Ball” where daughter pledged her virginity to father until marriage.
By no means do I want to see Miley Cyrus scrubbing herself even cleaner to avoid the nymphet curse that has haunted her fellow starlets into rehab, jail, and other ignominious ends. In fact, one hopes she’ll get a little dirtier to stave off any more overblown faux scandals about sleepover kisses and lingerie purchases.
Sex is complexity, after all – and Lindsay and Britney have become effective benchmarks at the low end of the behavioural scale for girls. I’d rather have a niece who knows that ‘pumping up the party’, as Cyrus sings about wanting to do, doesn’t always look squeaky-clean.
Stay tuned 
Also see:
scandalous’ Miley Cyrus pix – Online pix ‘nothing bad’ says Miley Cyrus, January 3, 2008
Guardian Unlimited – The latest Lolita, January 3, 2008
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January 4th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
miley who?
January 4th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
lolita who?
January 5th, 2008 at 1:03 am
And wat the heck is lolita????
January 5th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
heh well… …
January 5th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
whatare you talking bought
January 7th, 2008 at 12:50 am
Isn’t that a little mean of the writer Elana Schor, accusing a guy who could be anything BUT a creep of being some kind of pervert with an untoward fixation on his daughter?! Another feminist writer who seems to think that her ‘principles’ give her the right to unjustly and unfoundedly sling any mud at guys who may be perfectly decent. When a guy is undoubtedly victimising a girl or exerting a cruel hold over her, bring him to book. When his values simply clash with those of these anti-family, individuality-at-the-price-of-society, whining frigid b**ches, tough. This woman and the Guardian newspaper (I’m from the UK) make me physically sick.