Miley Cyrus’ Father Reacts To Wrecking Ball Music Video: What Does He Think?
September 12, 2013 by Hollywoodite
Just like the week following the MTV VMAs, this week has been all about reactions to Miley Cyrus.
This time, it’s about the release of her Wrecking Ball music video that was intended to be divisive rather than artful, timeless or even good. It didn’t matter. So long as it shocked, trended, and was talked about. So, to that end, she succeeded. Getting a record-breaking number of VEVO views in the process.
90210′s Shenae Grimes reacted on Twitter saying Miley looked like she needed a “hug” and needed to “bathe twice” in a video dismissed as vulgar. For which Grimes got death threats and reacted to those too.
It’s a few days later and Cyrus’ father, Billy Ray, has offered his own reaction to the video in which Terry Richardson directs the 20-year-old to take off her clothes and grind against industrial equipment. “I’m a song man. A musician singer songwriter who loves all style of music. But again… I come from the old school where it starts with an artist and a song …colliding if you will …in a moment where the song, the singer, the producer, the band and the listener become one,” he tells Entertainment Tonight’s Nancy O’Dell. “It wouldn’t have mattered if Miley would have worn jeans and a flannel shirt …a Tux …or a nuns habit. The song’s a smash …and her performance vocally on the tune reflects her roots and sheer God given talent.”
Later, on Twitter, he added this gem…
Trying to type ,tweet, twerk and ride a wrecking ball naked all at the same time while carrying a sledge hammer is proving difficult ! PEACE
— Billy Ray Cyrus (@billyraycyrus) September 9, 2013
The same day, Miley defended the song on the Elvis Duran and the Z100 Morning Show. “The song is a pop ballad that everyone can relate to; everyone has felt that feeling at some point. If people can take their minds off the obvious and go into their imagination and see what the video really means, it is so vulnerable,” she said. “Actually, if you look at my eyes, I look more sad than actually my voice sounds on the record. It was a lot harder to do the video than it was to record the song. It was much more of an emotional experience.”
In other Miley news, she’s confirmed her own MTV documentary, Miley Cyrus: The Movement, of which she says ”I want all my fans to come with me to the studio, on the road, performances. There’s going to be a lot of ups and downs. It’s going to be completely insane.”