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Talia Shahbaz writes about the things that piss us off, from
worldwide tragedies to display pic panic and the arduous battle
between our expression, exhibitionism and the urge to tell
everyone to go jump into a lake.
How could Miley do what she did on the
Video Music Awards 2013?
"Is a slut-over a genuine make- over?", one innocent former
Hannah Montana fan is now forced to ask another.
The Hannah Montana generation missed Madonna's frequent slut-overs in the last half century, actually. They have
no idea a slut-over is either legitimately feminist or wrong,
as in you-didn't-get-it-right-you-wanna-be. Is what Miley did
any more slutty than Pink's similarly aggressive dance moves,
Beyonce's frequent (excellent) twerking, or Eminem's misogynistic song lyrics ("Ass like that" etc.)? (For the sake of censorship
and basic decency, we will refrain from any implicit or explicit
references towards Nicki Minaj here.)
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PAPERAZZI MAGAZINE
2013
A friend posts an article about the recent VMA awards, asking the poignant question, "I wonder what her dad thought
when he saw it? ". People wonder away in horror, Miley's
latest stunt now reinterpreted in desi cultural mores. They
denounce Miley, who is obviously on drugs, our formerly innocent girl next door (really? Our?)
Facebook is a telling arena; now you will know for sure if anyone really cares. Or not. Scarily enough, all of this is recorded
in the Facebook database. If Mark Zuckerberg wanted to
give a million dollars to the most popular person in Pakistan,
he actually would be able to find that person. It's kind of like
the web version of a pretend funeral just to see how many