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This month, Miley Cyrus will continue her long relationship with MTV by starring in her own “Unplugged” special.

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With smash hits like “Wrecking Ball” and “We Can’t Stop”, plus a number of controversial performances and appearances across various shows, there is no doubt that this next performance will be one to remember. (Kerry Washington, who passed by the soundstage earlier in the night, couldn’t make it, telling the waiting line of journalists to “twerk hard” for her.Miley Cyrus is one the biggest and most recognizable artists of the past year.

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She performed some covers – one obvious, one not so much – and even got two cast members from Scandal to join the audience because the series was taping on the same lot. Musically, it’s fresh and exciting for Cyrus to take pop songs with electronic and rhythmic production and reimagine them with an acoustic country sound it worked better on some songs than on others, but if nothing else, Cyrus was willing to take the risk. The singer thanked MTV as she finished the taping, calling the network “brave” for letting her attempt this production, although she probably deserves much of the credit. Later, she joked, “MTV is paying me in ones so we can all go to the strip club after this.” Her best line? “You can look at life one way or the other - half-naked or half-clothed.” It’s practically a mission statement. “I feel like I’m at karaoke but it’s only my turn,” she said at one point.

The best parts of the taping came in these moments, between songs unfortunately, you likely won’t see Cyrus gabbing with the crowd in the final show, joking that she’s ruined the SNL skit that parodies her because she now says “pretty fucking cool” instead of “pretty cool.” Cyrus is funny – you can’t twerk with a horse onstage and not be. Well, I can’t be stoned when I perform – that’s a little something to complain about.” “It’s pretty cool performing with Madonna.” She added, “It’s a great day.

“That was pretty fucking cool, you guys,” Cyrus told the audience between takes. Even when special guest Madonna arrived onstage toward the end of the show to duet with Cyrus (the two performed a mash-up of Cyrus’ “We Can’t Stop” and Madge’s “Don’t Tell Me”), not even Cyrus’s desire to rub herself all over Madonna distracted from the quality of the collaboration. Even in this taping of Unplugged, which saw Cyrus trade her cowboy outfit for a glittering pair of pants and bikini top partway through the show, she sometimes attempted to emphasize visual comedy over musical skill.īut ultimately, Cyrus is so talented a vocalist and so deeply invested in her own music that even crotch grabs can’t always distract from how seriously impressively she belts out her Bangerz ballads, as aided by a string quartet. Her single “Wrecking Ball,” a haunting ballad that packs even more power live, became self-parodying in her music video, allowing shock value to eclipse emotional impact. But she pays a price for that, relying on gimmicky visuals that too often overshadow the merit and sentiment in the music. Her cheekily calculated behavior arrives pre-packaged to go viral it requires little effort on viewers’ part to make her GIF-worthy antics iconic.

Over the past several months, Cyrus has turned herself into a meme, time and time again.

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