As Miley Cyrus shook her ass at Sunday night’s VMAs, the world shook their heads.
Using a dance move as a gimmick is nothing new in pop music, but never has one been used so ceaselessly and aggressively, with Cyrus’s performance becoming a sort of ass-based game of whack-a-mole where the player doesn’t win anything and only ends up feeling a bit dead inside.
It wasn’t the level of nudity that was shocking though, nor the grinding with 16 years-her-elder Robin Thicke, nor even the furious simulated sex with a foam finger, it was Cyrus’ desperate attempts to shock that shocked.
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