Twenty-eight years ago a star was born in a small town in Tennessee. She was given two very powerful names such as Destiny Hope, but everyone knows her as Miley, a nickname that came from a very young age, since she was an always-smiling little child. And while Miley Cyrus’s smile’s still genuine, as well as her fiery charisma (she’s a natural born Sagittarius), in the meantime she has turned into a global popstar.
Singer, dancer, actress, producer, video maker and fashion icon: Miley has always mastered the arts&crafts of creativity and metamorphosis. She always played with her looks, with her music, with her cinematic roles. And she started doing it since a very young age. Only fourteen, she became a teen idol for millions of young girls and boys who used to see her on Disney Channel.
Hannah Montana shaped our childhood dreams and aesthetic. Miley’s spontaneous personality was irresistible. We loved to see her singing and dancing dressed up as a country bling bling popstar who wore camperos&glitters, and enjoyed sneaking into the backstage, where she got rid of her wig to turn back to an average teenager. She was just like us, a nice girl trying to grow in a complex world, always keeping a positive attitude towards whatever was going to knock on life’s door.
The whole aesthetic, made up of flamboyantly gaudy, almost tacky tulle skirts and colorful boots and bangles and jewels, will be forever in our hearts. Miley herself brought back that playful, 80s like fashion atmosphere by wearing loads of jewelry, such as @beabongiasca’s colorful rings, in “Midnight Sky”.
Being so young and vulnerable, Miley developed a love&hate relationship with her Disney alter ego. She first went for a darker, edgy attitude when she released “Party in the USA” or “Can’t Be Tamed”, all dressed up in black tight leather, which eventually got to the very extreme with “Bangerz”, her most disruptive project.
Back in 2013, she used to rock short platinum hair, dress up in tight nude bodies and show her tongue on red carpets. She turned into a never-seen nor never-imaginable Miley, who swung on a wrecking ball, twerked on MTV, and opened her concert by slipping from a gigantic floating inflatable red tongue.
Her disruptive image was miles apart from her role as a young, natural beauty in “The Last Song”. Not only this movie was an iconic generational teen drama, but it was also a cinematic Cupid. Miley fell in love with her co-star Liam Hemsworth, and they embarked on a nine-year-old, on-and-off love story. During her years as a wild performer, who also happened to play in small Californian clubs dressed up in candy necklaces and nude panties, the relationship knew a few ups and many downs.
Time passed, and Miley got quieter, approaching a somehow holistic lifestyle which somehow anticipated the Goop phenomenon. She settled down with Liam in a huge house in Malibu, that she turned into a country cottage populated by pigs, chickens and dogs. She started growing plants and writing music, and she released a very intimate album titled “Younger Now”, in which she talks about love and opens up about her past.
However, Miley’s life has always been like an amusement park, filled up with carrousels, and she’s always had the urge to try them all. She married Liam, and a few months later they got divorced. Once closed this hard chapter of her life, she decided to go back to her acting roots. She starred in a very controversial, and suspiciously autobiographical, Black Mirror’s episode, in which she played Ashley O’, a young popstar manipulated by the media and a diabolical aunt.
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And a few months later she dropped a very special project called “SHE IS COMING”, halfway between an artistic performance and a political manifesto. All wrapped up in red latex, she sang about feminism and emancipation in “Mother’s Daughter” video, which also starred models who embraced beauty through disability or unconventional body shapes. Miley promoted the album through playful and malicious ads in which she posed with juicy fruits who reminded the female genitalia. In “Cattitude”, featuring the one and only RuPaul, an icon of sexual freedom, she rapped (and she’s actually pretty good at it) about money and power and sex as if she was a man, wrecking the old stereotypes.
In a few days, we’ll be able to listen to her latest album, “Plastic Hearts”, amazingly anticipated by the single “Midnight Sky”. It seems to be Miley’s most personal project, an explosive mixture of rock and pop, and features legends such as Joan Jett, Billy Idol, and her colleague Dua Lipa. It’s going to be a glamorous voyage into the 80s glam atmosphere that she brought back with her look: a platinum mullet, a perfect shiny make up with red lips, the stamina of a rockstar and the breathtaking body of an athlete, dressed up in sexy Saint Laurent and Mugler creations.
We can’t help but love her. She’s one of our ultimate favorite muses: strong, bold, chameleonic and beautiful.
A very happy birthday Miley, we love you!
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