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posted on June 22, 2011
YOU guys, Miley Cyrus really wants to be a rock star. Like a lot.
From the minute she stormed the stage in leather hot pants, knee high boots and with her grungy looking band, Miley was making clear she was dancing on the grave she had starting digging for Hannah Montana last year.
The 18-year-old started her first Australian concert in Brisbane last night with a rendition of Liberty Walk that did not stray much from her album version as she proved something many of us may have doubted -- she can sing, actually.
Much credit is due to the pop star (sorry Miley, you are not a rock star) who sang every note of her concert, even going without filling tracks.
Her cover heavy set featured a Joan Jett medley of I Love Rock n Roll, Cherry Bomb and Bad Reputation which, after I stopped cringing, was actually quite good.
Though looking around the Brisbane Entertainment Centre there were not many fans who actually knew what she was singing after I Love Rock n Roll.
The girls aged between six and 16-years-old were subdued through the medley, probably due to confusion.
But that did not stop Miley who went on to cover Fleetwood Mac's Landslide and, bizarrely, Nirvana's Smell Like Teen Spirit.
I was not really concerned about Kurt Cobain turning in his grave as I'm sure he has not stopped spinning since he was buried, and Miley's version roused all her tweens while showing off her vocal range. She may have turned it in to a pop song but it was a damn catchy one.
However, Miley singing all these classics makes her a rock star about as much as sitting in my editor's chair makes me the boss.
She may be trying to grow up but her fan base is not. She filled the Entertainment Centre but I doubt she would fill a bar if she played an over-18s gig.
She may be taking herself a bit too seriously but there were moments of comic relief for the older members of the audience such as when she tried to thrust her groin suggestively and kept almost losing her balance in her sky high boots. I lost count of the thrusts at 148 I think.
Miley does put on a great show, and if she stopped trying so hard to be cool and did what came to her naturally then her show would probably be excellent.
But I guess the whole point of being a teenager is to try to be cool.
posted on June 21, 2011
Miley Cyrus has paid tribute to late Jackass star star Ryan Dunn by posting a snap of them together on her Twitter page.
Dunn was killed in a high speed car crash in Pennsylvania on Monday. According to West Goshen police, toxicology tests reveal that at the time of his death, Dunn's blood-alcohol level was 0.196 – more than twice the state's legal limit.
Cyrus took to Twitter to share a snap of her and Dunn, writing: "Just found this picture of me cracking up at Ryan Dunn. What a happy energy he had. RIP =[" accompanied by a snap of them together.
Jackass costar Johnny Knoxville also paid tribute to Dunn. He took to his blog to say "what I wished I could have told everyone then."
"I felt 34-percent funnier when I was with Ryan, but I guess everyone did," Knoxville said. "He had such a hair trigger laugh reflex. He lived his life wanting to laugh and wanting you to laugh with him. He would cackle really f**king loud, too, and it wasn't uncommon that he would fall over from it. Sometimes I would fall with him because his spirit was very contagious.
"A lion's share of [Ryan's love] went to his sweet and beautiful Angie," Knoxville said.
"If he wasn't with her he would be talking about her. More times than not he would smile wide through that filthy ass beard of his and say something along the lines of, 'How did I ever luck up and land her?' Well, it sure wasn't because of the way he smelled that's for sure. (Dunn despised water and rarely bathed.) It was because he had a pure, open heart, and many other qualities of which I am writing about now."
R.I.P.
posted on June 20, 2011
SHE might have just travelled halfway around the world for her first Australian tour but yesterday nothing kept Miley Cyrus from a day of girly fun with mum Tish in Sydney.
The Hannah Montana star and singer, who opens the Australian leg of her Gypsy Heart tour in Brisbane tomorrow night, slipped into town early yesterday and wasted no time grabbing a table at paparazzi-magnet Otto where mum and daughter ordered seafood and salads.
Evading photographers, they bypassed the boardwalk and made a sneaky exit through the Blue Hotel before jumping in a waiting van which whizzed them to Darlinghurst for serious retail therapy.
Cyrus, whose estimated net worth is said to be nudging $1 billion, blazed through a chunk of it at design store Matt Blatt before picking up a few items at sass & bide, Kate Sylvester and Shakuhachi.
"She paid for everything with a black American Express card," one eagle-eyed spy said.
"At one point she opened her wallet and realised she didn't have it but a minder ran back to the van and found it in there."
After a three-hour shopping session, the Cyrus duo returned to her Four Seasons room. There was no sign of Cyrus's Aussie beau Liam Hemsworth, said to be joining her during her tour.
Meanwhile Trish, who is chaperoning 18-year-old Miley on her world tour, recently halted divorce proceedings with husband and country singer Billy Ray Cyrus.
posted on June 17, 2011
Unlike Selena Gomez, Miley doesn't seem to care what her younger fans think about her racy image!
When Miley Cyrus introduced the world to her naughty side - right around the time she premiered her "Can't Be Tamed" video - the fans responded overwhelmingly negatively. But that hasn't deterred Miley from including seemingly topless photos in a shoot to promote her upcoming Gypsy Heart Tour!
This is, of course, not the first time we've seen Miley show some skin in a photo shoot. Do we need to remind you of the Vanity Fair fiasco in 2008?
Miley's fellow Disney superstar Selena Gomez made it clear she cares very much what her fans think of her image, though Miley doesn't seem to mind nearly as much. She's determined to make the world see her as an adult.
