by MIA FREEDMAN
There is so much angst about tween girls. In the media….among parents…. I am guilty of it myself. I angst about tweens a fair bit. I have for a while now but it’s made worse by the fact my daughter is hurtling towards her tweenage years at the speed of Miley Cyrus. Gah!
And gulp.
I’m always on the lookout for bits of age-appropriate pop culture. People or things she can be interested in that aren’t, well, Miley Cyrus (who may well be fine for a 16 year old but not a 6 year old). Or Bratz dolls. Or Pussycat dolls. Or anything involving pole dancing or skanky music videos (I’m sorry but is there a better word than ‘skanky’ because I DON’T KNOW WHAT IT IS).
The problem is – I love pop culture. And by nature or nurture or both, my kids love it too. With the amount of media I consume, it’s challenging to quarantine them from everything, as hard as I try.
So whenever I OCCASIONALLY stumble across a pop culture thing aimed at tweens or young girls, that I actually like – I want to share it. I felt this way about Bindi last year and it inspired me to write this post.
Well, HELLO Willow Smith.
Yes, Willow Smith. Daughter of Will and Jada. Pop singer. Whatever your views about child stars (sometimes they turn out OK = Beyonce and sometimes not = Lindsay), Willow Smith seems to be walking that very fine tween line. And she’s walking it beautifully.
I love this video. I love the message, the lyrics, the melody and the clip. I love what she’s wearing. I love that she doesn’t get changed 10 times in her video. I love that she’s not wearing a weave and that she seems happy and goofy and mischievous and a bit cheeky without being overtly precocious.
I just love it. In fact I’m going to play it to my 6 year old daughter.
More Willow – and not a midriff in sight:
Willow Smith
It’s easy to diss the bad stuff but what have you seen around that is POSITIVE for young girls? Boys?
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I think it must be very easy to be liked for ” being yourself” when you are the daughter of universally liked and perennially cool Wil and Jada Pinkett Smith. In the real teenage world it is a difficult tightrope to walk.
I have a 14 year old son who manages to alienate himself at every turn, just one of those guys who does it wrong and it makes my heart break watching him. If he tries hard to fit in he gets teased and if he tries to be individual he gets teased even more. We have had the ‘conforming’ talk and we have had the ‘ being an individual but accepting that people don’t always like the individual’ talk. All I want is for him to be happy and prederably not picked on while he is at it. He is a genuine and sensitive kid and I think he is lovely and if I showed him the lovely Willows clip he would think she is great too. Unfortunately when he does go out wearing something a little different than the norm or asexual in nature he doesn’t have the cool movie star parent to back his individuality up, he just has me a normal, boring Mum in my Doc Martins and occasional quirky outfits. Good for Willow I say, and good for Wil and Jada too I am more than a little jealous that their daughter is accepted so easily but proud that she encouraged to be herself. I only hope that my son can find that peace himself and know that his mum watches proudly if a little tearfully while he does it.
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It’s going to be hard for him to be like that at 14. Just tell him that his time will come, and he’ll find his place. It’s probably just going to be after high school. But tell him not to worry. Just stick with what he loves, and he’ll find his place.
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14 is a vile age, I wouldn’t wish 14 or 15 on my worst enemy…and I’m watching my daughter try and deal with it too. In her case, she’s almost pathologically shy, and dealing with an anxiety disorder…and trying to watch her cope socially with all that stuff breaks my heart.
I reassure myself with the idea that she’s going to come out of this stronger and with a greater sense of herself and the world…and I think that same feeling I think applies to your son, too.
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Totally loved it and inspired by it – and I’m 32!
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Love this clip. For the exact same reasons as you Mia.
My daughter was watching it with me, liked it straight away and wants me to play it all the time now.
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Amazing! What a beautiful message! I am 32 years old and I can relate to this! Why do I let myself care what other people think of me, sometimes complete strangers. Why? Only yesterday I was a bit down on how I look it’s so silly, I know.
I am me! And that’s all that matters. I want my boys to be confident I their lives and it starts with me!
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Hi! I have 2 boys, 13 and 11, and I find my life has turned into absolute hell trying to only have what I consider age appropriate in our house! We need so much more NICE and appropriate songs/shows/movies for our children. They seem to jump from High 5 to the Top Charts.( which to me is adults singing about adult stuff! Have alisten to what the kids sing when the radio is on. Believe me, I dont have girls to worry about the brainwashing that is starting so young, but I worry just as much, because I dont want my boys with the same unrealistic ideas for either gender. I want my boys to respect! I believe in not arguing with my children………..I stand my ground, but am loosing the battle! My 13yr old tells me kids at school have porn clips on their mobile phones…..you ask….why are the allowed phones at school??? I’ve asked that too. They have lost that battle! They are not meant to have them on, but I have had to go to school, and see them in hand and earphones in, walking class to class. He has now been exposed to images that are not appropriate! This has been taken out of our control. SOCIAL MEDIA, the access that our children now have to the internet. Video music clips are appauling( on normal tv). Digital tv now gives them access to re-runs( on go and mate ) that were adult only tv shows when we grew up! I worry daily how our children are to grow up with morals. The daily fight because “everyone else” can do anything they want, and do not have rules, may kill me! My son is looking at the kids who have no rules, (they have always been there, I remember, I’m NOT that old! ). There does seem to be a lot more roaming kids these days. I know I am not wrong, and that I am the parent, that I will continue to have rules(age appropriate), and obviously we will continue to fight, because they are not an adult yet!
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Best of luck to her – her look seems less inappropriate now she is over 9 ( remember the article about her stylist ?)
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Wow she can actually sing. I must admit I wanted to face palm her after that “Whip My Hair” episode but after watching that I have completely jumped on the Willow train!
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I just watched it so it’s working again. I thought it was a boy. Very contrived and annoying tune. I have 16 and 13 year old girls. The 16 year old has a fear of flying, and now gluten intolerance because Miley has. Miley brainwashed her into thinking she could be a star if she really believed in her dreams and didn’t let anyone stop her. I battled her for 4 years about getting her an agent. I have been to 2. X Miley, 2 x Taylor, Justin and One Direction. The stress for everyone including the schools is ridiculous. The day the tickets come out, we all go into meltdown. I had saved up as a single mum to take my girls on a Easter break to an island resort. The taxi was out the front . Bag packed but the 16 year old got in her bed and wouldn’t come due to fear of flying. As i pulled her she told me to stop touching her or she would call the police.Needless to say one direction had arrived and she wanted to stalk them on the tv shows and around the city. The 13 year Old and I left her as she stayed with other overwrought girls. They follow these stars everyday on Instagram and twitter. I get daily updates about how Miley is feeling. Demi Levayo cuts herself. I have seen counsellors about my daughters. The verdict is clear, letting them live on daily doses of fantasy will set them up for addictions. I am doing my best with lots of distractions like shopping, bushwalks, cooking but I also work. I am close to taking laptops and phones and make them put them under my bed every night. All I can do is teach them, these celebrities have unreal lives and none of them seem to be happy. I worked with Michael Jackson and toured with many artists for many years. I have seen the dark side and watched Michael self destruct with the power he had. I cannot wait for them to discover boys, I mean serious relationships. Anything to get their minds out of this celebrity fantasy. It is a spreading disease. Watch your daughters and more importantly control their twitter and Instagram accounts. You won’t even realise what they do online. My 16 year old has 13,500 followers on her tumblr account.I am now unplugging the modem. They get two hours a night for their homework and after that it is off. But then there is 3G. And if they don’t have their phones…and now I hear Justin is coming back. This is now a money making machine. My daughters already have One Direction tickets for September 2013. You want them to enjoy their tween crushes like I was in love with David Cassidy but I only got to see him on tv every afternoon. This is a tsnaumi. Mia please help. Mia please be warned. I do not know what the solution is. Maybe the HSC?
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I think you have put into words what I have felt lately. I loved musicians and actors when I was younger, too. I think the difference is that I did not think I could BE that person that I admired. We had such limited exposure through television and magazines and it was special to find out something personal about your idol (he likes dogs! I like dogs). Now we know too much about everyone. I am not sure what can be done about this though, or how to teach kids that a Hannah Montana marathon on Foxtel is not a good thing, it is a way of “hypnotising” you into buying a lot of cheap crap and into wanting a lot of other expensive crap your parents cannot afford.
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Maybe you didn’t mean it to sound the way I read it, but it’s not very polite to call someone whose gender you can’t be sure of an “it”. I agree she looks very androgynous.. but maybe that’s just her at the minute
I hope things get better with your girls.
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I just watched it so it’s working again. I thought it was a boy. Very contrived and annoying tune. I have 16 and 13 year old girls. The 16 year old has a fear of flying, and now gluten intolerance because Miley has. Miley brainwashed her into thinking she could be a star if she really believed in her dreams and didn’t let anyone stop her. I battled her for 4 years about getting her an agent. I have been to 2. X Miley, 2 x Taylor, Justin and One Direction. The stress for everyone including the schools is ridiculous. The day the tickets come out, we all go into meltdown. I had saved up as a single mum to take my girls on a Easter break to an island resort. The taxi was out the front . Bag packed but the 16 year old got in her bed and wouldn’t come due to fear of flying. As i pulled her she told me to stop touching her or she would call the police.Needless to say one direction had arrived and she wanted to stalk them on the tv shows and around the city. The 13 year Old and I left her as she stayed with other overwrought girls. They follow these stars everyday on Instagram and twitter. I get daily updates about how Miley is feeling. Demi Levayo cuts herself. I have seen counsellors about my daughters. The verdict is clear, letting them live on daily doses of fantasy will set them up for addictions. I am doing my best with lots of distractions like shopping, bushwalks, cooking but I also work. I am close to taking laptops and phones and make them put them under my bed every night. All I can do is teach them, these celebrities have unreal lives and none of them seem to be happy. I worked with Michael Jackson and toured with many artists for many years. I have seen the dark side and watched Michael self destruct with the power he had. I cannot wait for them to discover boys, I mean serious relationships. Anything to get their minds out of this celebrity fantasy. It is a spreading disease. Watch your daughters and more importantly control their twitter and Instagram accounts. You won’t even realise what they do online. My 16 year old has 13,500 followers on her tumblr account.I am now unplugging the modem. They get two hours a night for their homework and after that it is off. But then there is 3G. And if they don’t have their phones…and now I hear Justin is coming back. This is now a money making machine. My daughters already have One Direction tickets for September 2013. You want them to enjoy their tween crushes like I was in love with David Cassidy but I only got to see him on tv every afternoon. This is a tsnaumi. Mia please help. Mia please be warned. I do not know what the solution is. Maybe the HSC?
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You sound like you’re having a really tough time with your 16 year old atm. As a mum of 20 something kids, all I can say is keep at it, no matter how wearing. Maybe you do need to take the laptops and mobiles. It’s a very hard one. I didn’t have celebrit fantasies, I had drugs with my oldest and now she’s a lovely young woman of 24 who can’t understand why she was the way she was.
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Hi Karen, please use paragraphs when writng long post, otherwise its so difficult to read.
You sound like you are having a really difficult time at the moment, you are aware of all your issues but things are a bit out of control?
My advice would be to enforce your oldest daughter gets a part time job and is financially responsible for almost all her wants (mobile phone, concert tickets and so forth). This will be a big wake up call for her! She will benefit from employment in a number of ways and it will help her grow as a person and learn budgeting skills. In a reality a girl who is 16 now probably wont even be ‘into’ One direction’ in Sept 2013!
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That’s really great advice, Jecoro. Nothing like having to pay for your mobile phone and internet connection to teach you how important/not these things are in your life. My son is in Year 7 and travels 40 minutes to and from school so we got him a mobile phone, but if he goes over a certain amount within the month he has to pay for it out of his pocket money. Hopefully this is teaching him some restraint and responsibility. Fingers crossed.
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Karen, you make some scary very pertinent points. This media crap machine is a tsunami. These so called role models are looking more like hookers every day and they’re barely out of adolescence! It is soul destroying and overwhelming. Tv, movies, mobiles, video clips, Internet is saturated with mind warping porn and garbage in general. No wonder parents are so worried. Too much is allowed, seems there are no rules when it comes to media. It has much to be blamed for. It could be used for so much good and inspirational things….
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To be perfectly honest…
Mia, I totally see where you’re coming from but, frankly, I don’t think Willow Smith is a great role model for young girls.
Firstly, she is so unbelievably cool and funky, even I feel inadequate next to her – and I’m a 30-something year-old woman!
Secondly, she is wildly talented, precocious and driven AND she has access to all of her parents’ connections. She has the best songwriters writing pop songs for her, the best crews producing and directing her videos, the best stylists dressing her, the best publicists promoting her, getting her into all the VIP events and coaching her on her interview techniques… no ‘ordinary’ girl would be able to understand or appreciate any of that. Heck, even Willow Smith herself is too young to understand or appreciate the fact that she’s never had to struggle as other artists have. She won’t fully ‘get’ this until she’s much, much older. At the moment, she probably thinks she’s living this life because she’s talented and works hard on singing and dancing – well, that’s only one small part of it.
Taylor Swift is a better role model because, as far as I know, she’s ‘made it’ on her own, without taking her clothes off, and has a real vulnerability about her that kids can relate to. Even Justin Bieber, who was discovered on YouTube by Justin Timberlake and then nurtured by Usher, is a more realistic role model. Closer to home, those who are having a red-hot go at it by putting themselves on a TV talent show (The Voice, X Factor, Australia’s Got Talent) are to be admired.
In any case, your daughter is probably going to like who she likes and you won’t have much say in it. When it comes to musical artists, if Mum and Dad have heard of them or, worse, listen to them, they’re probably not that cool after all – heh heh.
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The best role model for most girls is their mum. And Role Model IS a difficult word because suggests you should emulate everything about said model.
But I guess what I mean is that kids are always going to be interested in pop culture and there are some bits of it that are better than others…..
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Definitely agree re. mum. Growing up, my mum was my role model.
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I agree and it’s hard work at times! My teen daughter does pull me on things that I may be advising her on but that I’m not following eg. don’t go on twitter so much – but mum you’re on it all the time:)
I think it’s about being yourself and not perfect something women and girls really struggle with. So Willow’s words are pretty spot on!
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For her to have this message and belief early on is fantastic, to pass that on to any young girl trying to find themselves is great to me. I needed this running thru my head, all that comparing and thinking your not goood enough hurts when growing up. My mum wasn’t the best role model. I love her but she doesn’t love herself, she is small like me, maybe a size 10 constantly ‘I’m fat’ she, wouldn’t take any photos as she hates the way she looks. We look the same so how am I suppose to feel about myself?
I want that now.
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My 12 year old daughter is a huge Taylor Swift fan and I support it 100% all the way. I took her to the concert last year in Brisbane and I was thrilled at how lovely she is, how beautiful her songs are and how demurely she dresses. I am also showing my daughter this clip too because I love the message behind the lyrics – and I think she will too.
In all fairness – both Taylor and Willow have trainers and producers and a whole host of staff to help them succeed. They wouldn’t be celebrities if they didn’t. But it’s what they’re choosing to do with those talents that impresses the hell out of me.
My daughter has a range of obsessions ranging from Doctor Who to Japanese fashion. You can imagine, in grade 8 – that this puts her in the “Strange” basket. Willow’s song will give her the strength to continue being everything that she is – and to not feel as if she has to conform to the One Direction-Bieber-Miley-Demi-loving crowd. I can’t wait to show it to her.
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I reckon your daughter sounds awesome and interesting
I sort of marched to the beat of my own drum as a tween and teenager, and all my friends were diverse and different and didn’t fit into the other peer groups – not outcasts at all, but just not super studious, or athletic, or beautiful, etc. It’s only now as I’m in my early 30s that I realise how off track I went from my own authenticity during my 20s. I hope your daughter keeps her “strange”! 
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Taylor Swift did not make it ‘on her own’. Daddy gave her a big helping hand. He started his own record company so that Taylor could put an album out and he is quite wealthy.
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Oh, yes, speaking of age appropriate I’m impressed with the new Young Talent Time. The songs, clothes and dance moves are all great. Thumbs up!
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Lots of great messages there for young people. I want my daughters to feel that they can be themselves and not have to conform. No, shaved head and piercings not my cup of tea for a young person but hey, its not causing anyone any harm and she us sending out a powerful message that is ok not to have long straightened hair and sexy clothes. Like you Mia I’m always looking for age appropriate things for my 6yo and 3yo daughters. I’ve banned LMFAO’s I’m Sexy and I Know It (please don’t tell me I’m the only mum who does not think it cute for children to be singing and dancing to the song) and also Bratz Dolls.
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I agree with you Ladybug. You are not alone in thinking the likes of Bratz are NOT good for children. The brainwashing starts so young, it’s a constant battle for parents. Stay vigilent and don’t let the tsunami wipe you out…
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Mia, I am totally with you on this one. What a beautiful, positive message she is sending. And what a gorgeous voice! There’s not enough role models like this out there for young kids. For adults for that matter. Even if it is totally manufactured and staged (which my instincts tell me it’s not), what exactly is the harm in it? She’s singing about the value of being herself, choosing for herself, grateful to be herself and be free. Not “against” anyone, not “negative” towards anyone. She is just celebrating her own existence and the beauty of just being. Good on her I say. What a fine young girl the Smith’s seem to be raising if that is the message she chooses to project to the world.
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I loved this SO MUCH. It brought tears to my eyes. A good reminder from a little girl that there is nothing to be ashamed of about being different or being yourself; nothing to be gained from trying to fit in.
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I love this. My 8-year-old daughter loves young girl singers and I loved showing her Willow. Her comments were: This dog is so true for her; she isn’t like the other singers- she doesn’t have long hair and small dresses. I remember Will Smith said he decided right in the beginning of his career not to swear in his songs or films and he never has. Respect.
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Wow she looks so much like her dad
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WOW what a fantastic, inspirational song for anyone at any age. And such beautiful voice! Her parents must be enormously proud. I was just moved to tears.
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Thank you for sharing with us Mia. This is wonderful and I will be sharing with my 8yr old daughter.
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I have a 10 year old daughter and we are big fans of Taylor Swift. So far, she has not done anything to put me off her. I like this clip too. I think most 9-10 yr old girls like to think they are older than they are. So i dont think she is that different. I will forward it to my daughter too. Hopefully she will be inspired to shave her head and then I would not have to put up with hair tantrums before school
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I can’t get on board with Taylor Swift. So much of her music is about guys, and it’s almost cartoonishly stereotypical in it’s depiction of girls and boys. The popular girls are bitches and sluts, but if you wear glasses it’s fine to laugh at those girls and steal their boyfriends. Guys are either white knights or cheating jerks and so on.
There’s one line in her song Fifteen that makes me want to scream every time I hear it (which is often, it’s on repeat at my workplace) . Something about a friend losing everything she had because she had sex with a guy who later broke up with her. Because obviously all this girl had to offer the world was an intact hymen.
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Here’s a great article that explains why I’m not a Taylor Swift fan. Warning” may have NSFW language.
http://www.autostraddle.com/why-taylor-swift-offends-little-monsters-feminists-and-weirdos-31525/
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I get what you mean Mia, and I think there is definitely a need for better pop role models for tweens, but there is something about Willow that makes me feel uncomfortable. I feel like she should be doing all the things she is doing, but just not so publicly.
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It would be interesting to see a “role model” singing a song not about being free and being me, but being responsible and dependent and understanding that it takes a lifetime to self-actualize, not 9 or 10 years.
The subtext of this song is essentially convincing kids that they deserve to be marketed to, which, ironically (and a touch cynically), the song itself is doing, thereby rendering the kids not free at all. Sure, they are free from responsibility to do their homework and do what they are told (maybe their parents don’t know what is good for them?), but not free from the urge to spend money on fashion and personal branding.
I can just imagine a telco hi-jacking this ad to promote free SMSs to friends on capped mobile plans : )
Just because this is not as bad as Miley Cyrus, doesn’t make it good, it just makes it less bad.
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That’s not what I got from the song at all. The message I heard was that you should accept yourself for you who you are, being alright with the fact that you have flaws and that it’s ok to not be perfect. I think that is a nice message to send to kids.
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I didnt get this message from the song either. I took it that she was free to be herself and it didn’t matter what others thought of her.
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Having a daughter who is crossing over from tween to teen I would love her to get the “message” behind the words to this song however the reality is that she can’t go around shaving her head or wearing what she wants. She is at a school where those things would not be acceptable. If she tried to say “this is me, take me for who I am” she would be out of the school.
I understand that I am taking things literally but the line between letting them be who they are and them choosing to follow something a “celebrity” says is okay can be quite tricky.
And as budding teenagers they are quick to find evidence to back up any argument. I’ve told her that she can be as out there and creative as she wants outside of school but not during school.
It is difficult to balance thier desire “to be themselves” and also to conform.
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Not a fan. There’s just a touch of arrogance to me.
Maybe because of the attention given to her choices in clothing and hairstyles this seems to be a response to that, an ‘I can do whatever I want’ type thing.
Or I could just be conditioned to dislike the person responsible for that terrible whip my hair song!
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I agree. In those photos in the picture gallery I thought she looked like a child dressed up like an adult, not a child dressed up as a child. Certainly not the image, or the message, I would want for my 8 year old.
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She’s a teenager! A touch of precocious arrogance comes with the territory. I think she’s fantastic.
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She’s barely a teenager! She’s just a little girl which is why I find this off-putting.
I must admit though, I think my distaste comes from the fact that all of her ‘stunts’ and in particular her so-called ‘style’ is actually all set up. Some adult has made these decisions and is doing so for the purpose of publicity and making money.
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so much like her Dad! I actually like it, wasn’t a huge fan of ‘I whip my and forth ..” (..unless I’d had a few wines!)
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Miley Cyrus isn’t the worst role model in the world. I had similar feelings to you, Mia, until I watched this interview with her on The Conversation. While not totally appropriate for a sex-year-old, I think some of the sentiments voiced can be applied at any age.
http://www.theconversation.tv/episodes/missed-last-nights-conversation-watch-the-episode-in-full-here/
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A sex-year old? Lol!
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OMG, Freudian slip! Kind of undoes my argument, doesn’t it?!
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She isn’t the best role model either. Her images in media portray sex and barely there outfits. This image ain’t a good image. I have only been able to tolerate seconds of her precocious tv show, much like most American shows. My skin crawls as soon as she speaks, usually smart mouthed dialogue. She is so not real, whatever!
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If you watch the video I linked to, I think you’ll find Miley’s grown up a lot in the two years since “I Can’t Be Tamed” – by far her sexiest video – came out. And can we really judge her for a show she made when she was a pre-teen? I shudder to think of the things that came out of our mouths when we were Hannah Montana’s age!
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I appreciate that she may vocalise a different image in an interview, however, her images are sending their own messages out. I’m not judging her on the stupid show which she is not much younger than she is now. Not pre-teen. If she has good moral fibre vocally, why would she join the ranks of so many of these famous females who degrade the female race in general by the way they flaunt themselves. It would be so refreshing to see someone with class, not short skirts, tits and arse….surely they have enough talent to be noticed without resorting to this. I would watch the video, I appreciate your point but she’s annoyed me too much to spend time watching it. Hopefully she may show more class as she matures…Anyway we’re a bit off topic here but MamaMia is a great resource.
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We’ll have to agree to disagree, and I hope that Miley will exceed your expectations of her as she matures
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No prob. Honestly I have better things to think about. Just observing…..no expectations. After all she’s the one who can influence so many young girls in a positive way should she choose. It’s all at her fingertips….
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ha! “overtly precocious” is exactly the words I would use to describe her
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As a kid nothing in the world turned me off someone or something quicker than my mum trying to make me like it because it was ‘age-appropriate’. It just pushed me in a totally different direction.
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Nope.
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Beyonce was a child star??
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Not really. She had a band (that would later become Destiny’s Child) going since she was about 10, but they mostly did church related stuff, local events etc. til she was about 14, and she didn’t actually become a star until she was 16-17. Also while Destiny’s Child was big, Beyonce wasn’t personally a huge star until her 20′s.
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Shame she come from a Scientologist family.
MIA- How come all your posts have a picture of you on the main page?
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Because I love myself sick!
;P
No, actually because we do this with all our regular columnists. With the number of posts we’re publishing, it makes it easier for you to know who wrote what.
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LOL!
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mia,
did you watch the video suggested above, the conversation? worth a look x
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Because readers of this website often want to hear from Mia herself. It reminds us of the good old days when it was just Mia writing her blog.
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I do miss that!
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I like this music clip too but I must say that it’s a VERY small piece of Willow Smith that is age appropriate. From her shaving her head, to wearing bizarre 20 year old outfits and getting her tongue pierced (a fake publicity stunt I think), Willow is not really what I would like my 6 year old daughter looking up to. Sorry but one self affirming song does not make an appropriate role model.
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What is wrong with her wanting to have a shaved head?
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I would rather my girls looked up to someone who was happy in their own skin than say Lindsay Lohen, Paris Hilton…….
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I can’t get over how much she looks like Will Smith!
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Gosh, she looks like her dad!
This is far more stripped back than her other pop hit, Whip My Hair: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymKLymvwD2U
Looks like a strategic decision, as it was starting to appear as though she was growing up too fast. I saw her on Oprah and she was like a 29 year-old in a 9 year-old’s body – very well-spoken, but it was a bit much!
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Lovely
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Just letting you know that the YouTube video isn’t working – apparently its been taken down by the uploader
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