Spring Break
Young starlets
Role models or harlots?
Andrea Robertson
Issue date: 6/11/08 Section: Opinion
I recently received the latest edition of Rolling Stone, and upon opening it, I was immediately brought to laughter by an advertisement for Nashville Star, a television show hosted by Billy Ray Cyrus.
This man, whose one hit debuted before I entered kindergarten, has found his way back into the spotlight through his 15-year-old daughter, Miley Cyrus. Sadly, by using his daughter's coattails to gain fame, he will probably ruin this young girl-- or at least her reputation. Celebrities like Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera all have a few things in common: sex, drugs and Disney. I predict a similar path for Miley Cyrus.
First known for her mullet-wearing father and Disney series Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus recently had two new calls to fame: her underwear picture that was released on the internet, and her seemingly topless photo in Vanity Fair. Both of these photos were serious embarrassments for which Cyrus deeply apologized. Unfortunately, it seems that inappropriate pictures are the first step into the vortex of lost innocence for young Hollywood starlets.
Like Vanessa Hudgens from High School Musical, who had a mishap with nude photos being released, Disney is still keeping Cyrus on board. However, I don't understand how these girls should continue to be viewed as role models. These young women should have enough insight to know that if they take inappropriate photos, these pictures will somehow find a way to get leaked to the public and ultimately influence young girls to take their clothes off.
Cyrus says that she wants to follow in the path of Hillary Duff, rather than Lohan and Spears, because Duff has supposedly made it cool to be good. If that is the case, then why are there so many pictures of Duff in revealing clothes? Not only that, but Duff is a few years older than Cyrus, thus she can get away with wearing less clothing and it is more acceptable. Duff is a grown woman.
Cyrus is a 15-year-old girl who is posing as a role model for girls as young as five. She shouldn't be comparing herself to an adult.
Cyrus needs to take a lesson from other girls who have grown up in Hollywood and realize that by having such a public life, even if she tries to be the quintessential angel, she will more than likely be made to look like nothing more than a sex symbol.
These female stars seem to learn nothing from past examples; however, it is very possible for a person to be a celebrity and have a private life.
Mandy Moore, who also grew up in Hollywood, has little to no bad PR. Moore seems to keep her private information where it should be: private.
Perhaps in order to be a positive role model in Hollywood one must do everything she can to stay out of the spotlight, otherwise, as a young woman, you will become nothing more than the next good girl gone skank.
This writer can be contacted at opinion@theeastcarolinian.com
This man, whose one hit debuted before I entered kindergarten, has found his way back into the spotlight through his 15-year-old daughter, Miley Cyrus. Sadly, by using his daughter's coattails to gain fame, he will probably ruin this young girl-- or at least her reputation. Celebrities like Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera all have a few things in common: sex, drugs and Disney. I predict a similar path for Miley Cyrus.
First known for her mullet-wearing father and Disney series Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus recently had two new calls to fame: her underwear picture that was released on the internet, and her seemingly topless photo in Vanity Fair. Both of these photos were serious embarrassments for which Cyrus deeply apologized. Unfortunately, it seems that inappropriate pictures are the first step into the vortex of lost innocence for young Hollywood starlets.
Like Vanessa Hudgens from High School Musical, who had a mishap with nude photos being released, Disney is still keeping Cyrus on board. However, I don't understand how these girls should continue to be viewed as role models. These young women should have enough insight to know that if they take inappropriate photos, these pictures will somehow find a way to get leaked to the public and ultimately influence young girls to take their clothes off.
Cyrus says that she wants to follow in the path of Hillary Duff, rather than Lohan and Spears, because Duff has supposedly made it cool to be good. If that is the case, then why are there so many pictures of Duff in revealing clothes? Not only that, but Duff is a few years older than Cyrus, thus she can get away with wearing less clothing and it is more acceptable. Duff is a grown woman.
Cyrus is a 15-year-old girl who is posing as a role model for girls as young as five. She shouldn't be comparing herself to an adult.
Cyrus needs to take a lesson from other girls who have grown up in Hollywood and realize that by having such a public life, even if she tries to be the quintessential angel, she will more than likely be made to look like nothing more than a sex symbol.
These female stars seem to learn nothing from past examples; however, it is very possible for a person to be a celebrity and have a private life.
Mandy Moore, who also grew up in Hollywood, has little to no bad PR. Moore seems to keep her private information where it should be: private.
Perhaps in order to be a positive role model in Hollywood one must do everything she can to stay out of the spotlight, otherwise, as a young woman, you will become nothing more than the next good girl gone skank.
This writer can be contacted at opinion@theeastcarolinian.com
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Hmm
posted 6/18/08 @ 3:22 AM EST
In a world where people like Paris Hilton are glorified, anything is possible. It seems that "brain dead slut" is the flavor du jour.
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