Which Musical Performance Was More Shocking?

[BubblyShell22]

Yes, drugs and alcohol do wreak havoc on people and if you have that, then you're pretty much screwed in the way of common sense. Sad but true. And if you don't have that parental influence in your life, that's another problem.

[CyberCubed]

Britney Spears was even worse when she had her meltdown. Don't get me stared on Michael Jackson or Mariah Carey.

I'll be very curious if Katy Perry manages to keep it together or will have a similar "nutjob breakdown" like the others. She's 28 now so she's past her child star years but who knows.

[Leo656]

Well, some of that depends on the people they surround themselves with. Who can say with rumors, but people "in the know" have implied that Britney's handlers were already keeping her good and coked up as young as 17 so she could make all those dates and do all those shows when the fame blitzkrieg hit overnight, which wouldn't shock me at all because it's happened before with people from Judy Garland to Marilyn Monroe; the companies marketing you as a product don't care about anything other than "Make the dates, do the performance, make people wanna f*ck you, and do whatever you have to do in between to keep it going so we all make more money." They don't *force* it on you, but it's encouraged, absolutely. I've been friends with girls who were teen models and according to them their "handlers" were openly pushing them to do drugs; parents are non-existent and completely shut-out by the "big shots". They don't want the parents around at all, for God's sake if most parents knew what their model/actress/singer daughter was getting into 18 hours a day they would lock them in a convent and say "f*ck it, it's only money, I don't want MY kid a burnt-out husk at 19." As for people who say "We all make choices, it's their own fault, their decision," honestly at that age nobody can make any kind of good decisions; more drugs means more work means more money, is how these kids are trained to think, and they have nobody telling them right from wrong. It's horrible.

The end result is almost always a Britney/Lohan situation. For her part, many people have claimed Britney was a full-blown crack addict by the time she shaved her head, and I absolutely believe that because I've seen enough of it to know what it looks like. Everything about her eyes, her face, I don't know, it's hard to explain, but even beyond her erratic behavior at the time, there was strong evidence to suggest she was on more than coke and pills. It also entirely explains the Federline situation. And that guy she was married to once for like a day has said many, many times the entire thing was because her and her friends all went down to Vegas, had a three-day massive coke binge and she was all, "I wanna get married y'all!", basically because she didn't want people treating her like a kid anymore. Is it any wonder she just spiraled down from there? That was already an early warning sign and nobody did anything to stop it.

Her Dad probably saved her life by taking control of it. She's a proven idiot. And to get back on topic, if Miley was smart she'd be studying Britney's path and try to do the opposite of it, rather than emulate it.

[Refractive Reflections]

Originally Posted by Leo656

The end result is almost always a Britney/Lohan situation. For her part, many people have claimed Britney was a full-blown crack addict by the time she shaved her head, and I absolutely believe that because I've seen enough of it to know what it looks like. Everything about her eyes, her face, I don't know, it's hard to explain, but even beyond her erratic behavior at the time, there was strong evidence to suggest she was on more than coke and pills. It also entirely explains the Federline situation. And that guy she was married to once for like a day has said many, many times the entire thing was because her and her friends all went down to Vegas, had a three-day massive coke binge and she was all, "I wanna get married y'all!", basically because she didn't want people treating her like a kid anymore. Is it any wonder she just spiraled down from there? That was already an early warning sign and nobody did anything to stop it.

Her Dad probably saved her life by taking control of it. She's a proven idiot. And to get back on topic, if Miley was smart she'd be studying Britney's path and try to do the opposite of it, rather than emulate it.

There's a lot of speculation that Britney is bipolar, which could explain things... Just throwing it out there.

[Leo656]

My jury is out on "bipolar" with some of these people. Because for starters, almost anyone can express enough symptoms to qualify, and it's very over-diagnosed, and secondly, it's a well-known fact that drug abuse can *cause* symptoms of bipolar disorder. So it's a real "chicken-or-the-egg" thing. Was Britney bipolar and thus did lots of drugs because she was already "off"? Or did she do lots of drugs and fry her brain, thus essentially giving herself a disorder?

If she was snooting toot at 16 or 17, I'd say the latter, because by most accounts she was pretty normal as a kid and heavy drug use at a young age short-circuits brain development (some parts of your brain critical to comprehension and decision-making, for example, aren't fully developed until a person reaches age 25). Especially if she was a heavy user. I've literally watched people coke themselves retarded over a period of years, it's f*cked up. And somehow they never even notice. It's gross.

[Refractive Reflections]

Miley Cyrus responds to you "haterz" about her performance with her first Post-VMA Interview clip:

http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/95135...tml#id=1713363

Enjoy!

[Leo656]

She was secretly auditioning for "Spring Breakers 2: Spring Break-ier".

[Refractive Reflections]

It's good to see Miley Cyrus inspire such artistic expression and student activism, and here people thought she was bad role model for the youth.

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[Guitar_Raph]

September 1977; Two girls appear on The Gong Show sucking orange popsicles. They were known as The Popsickle Twins.
http://youtu.be/tDxDYIQL6Nc
Viewers in the eastern & central time zones were offended, called NBC to complain. One congressman wanted to ban The Gong Show. This caused the NBC censors to remove that for west coast viewers. Chuck Barris got an earful from the President of NBC.

[shuriken]

Originally Posted by The Stryker

Atleast Janet gave us titty.

Nobody wants to look at Miley shaking her non-ass around.

I find myself agreeing with you more and more...
On that note I wasn't shocked as I was saddened. It was a terrible performance and Thicke just looked like he was trying to ignore her.
I was more shocked with Janet and her titty. But slight shock and sadness are two different things.