Miley naked for Rolling Stone
Miley Cyrus posed topless and got a tattoo for her first Rolling Stone cover interview.
The 20-year-old star appeared on the cover of the magazine’s October edition, and had the words "Rolling $tone" tattooed on her feet during the interview to commemorate the occasion – joining her already large collection of ink that includes a dreamcatcher, a peace sign and a Leonardo DaVinci sketch.
In the interview, Cyrus opened up about her now-infamous VMA performance with Robin Thicke, calling out a "double standard" in the criticism of her behaviour.
"No one is talking about the man behind the ass," she told Rolling Stone. "It was a lot of ‘Miley twerks on Robin Thicke,’ but never, ‘Robin Thicke grinds up on Miley.’ They’re only talking about the one that bent over. So obviously there’s a double standard."
"America is just so weird in what they think is right and wrong," she continued. "Like, I was watching Breaking Bad the other day, and they were cooking meth. I could literally cook meth because of that show. It’s a how-to. And then they bleeped out the word ‘f**k.’ And I’m like, really? They killed a guy, and disintegrated his body in acid, but you’re not allowed to say ‘f**k’?
"It’s like when they bleeped [party drug] ‘molly’ at the VMAs. Look what I’m doing up here right now, and you’re going to bleep out ‘molly’? Whatever."
She also brushed off criticism from people her criticised her raunchy performance as unsexy, saying: "I wasn’t trying to be sexy.
"If I was trying to be sexy, I could have been sexy. I can dance a lot better than I was dancing."
"People are like, ‘Miley thinks she’s a black girl, but she’s got the flattest ass ever. I’m like, I’m 108 pounds! I know! Now people expect me to come out and twerk with my tongue out all the time. I’ll probably never do that sh*t again."
However, she did reveal to Rolling Stone that she was bothered by criticism that her performance was racist or the equivalent of "blackface" because she appropriated twerking, a dance style common in black ratchet culture, and used black backup dancers like props.
"I don’t keep my producers or dancers around ’cause it makes me look cool.
"Those aren’t my ‘accessories.’ They’re my homies."
She also slammed criticism that she’s "playing black", telling the magazine: "I’m from one of the wealthiest counties in America. I know what I am. But I also know what I like to listen to. Look at any 20-year-old white girl right now – that’s what they’re listening to at the club. It’s 2013. The gays are getting married, we’re all collaborating. I would never think about the colour of my dancers, like, ‘Ooh, that might be controversial’."
"Times are changing. I think there’s a generation or two left, and then it’s gonna be a whole new world."
Read the full Rolling Stone interview here.
