Miley Cyrus launch new song 'Who Owns My Heart?': Miley Cyrus' new video for her song, "Who Owns My Heart?," is out -- and you'd think she had filmed herself stripping or simulating sex or doing heroin or something. It seems that many are upset, according to the Hollywood Gossip and other media outlets, over the 17-year-old's provocative look, her sexually suggestive scenes on a bed, her wearing of a blindfold, her skimpy attire. But is there really anything wrong with "Who Owns My Heart?"?
One would think that Miley Cyrus had prepared the world for her sexual coming-of-age long before the new video. In fact, one might think she was sending a message in the first single -- and video -- and title track released from her latest album, "Can't Be Tamed." Instead, most seem to have forgotten that the young megastar is nearly 18 years old and has been attempting to act older than her years for ... well, years.
Miley Cyrus has posed in topless pictures for Vanity Fair, tangoed with a stripper pole at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards, was caught on video grinding with producer/director/So You Think You Can Dance judge Adam Shankman, and simulating a very Madonna-like girl-on-girl kiss on Britain's Got Talent. And that is just a few of the things she's done that has been considered scandalous.
And all of those actions caused mini controversies -- except the Vanity Fair pictures, which caused a major controversy. Too revealing, some said (one picture showed the then 16-year-old topless, a sheet pulled up to cover her front, her back bare). Much ado about nothing, others claimed.
Miley Cyrus has been way too young, growing up too fast, and betraying her fans -- predominantly little girls and tweens -- since she was an early teen herself -- or so her critics say. Some, however, believe that the young singing star has carefully orchestrated her every move, her "scandals" all just part of a marketing blueprint that seems modeled after the very successful career of Britney Spears.At least she stopped apologizing for her more controversial "scandals"...