![]() ![]() Getting silly old crock Billy Idol in to share vocals on a song which resembles his White Wedding is not a move which will give Miley much credibility to fans of ‘proper rock’. Mileys new t-shirt range has ideas straight out of the Banshees/Fetish-era Antz wardrobe though, which at least shows she does her research. The type-face on the album sleeve is from the Plasmatics (in my opinion) a terrible schlocky-horror punk project who equated bared breasts to outrage and taking sledgehammers to TV sets onstage as subtle socio-political comment. The fact she is using what she regards as punk-rock iconography interest me as an ‘old punk’. ![]() I have a suspicion that she yearns for that elusive, indefinable ‘authenticity’ and respect from supposedly ‘serious’ rock music fans as opposed to the pop demographic. It is a fantastic piece of product – which her devoted fans will like. Plastic Hearts is not really the great ‘rock’n’roll’ album some of us are willing Miley to make. The recent superb covers of Heart of Glass and Zombie are extras on the digital edition of Plastic Hearts and to be frank, they are far superior to anything on the actual album. She has a fabulous voice and inhabits the song. I followed her career with interest, but as this excellent article proves, Miley is only truly unsurpassable as an interpreter of other peoples songs. Then I saw Miley sing with Joan Jett (and Laura Jane Grace) – and realised she was not too dissimilar to the former Runaway vocally and attitude wise. He thought these aspects would be of more interest to me than her actual music at that time. My son introduced me to her work when he was a teenager, highlighting her charity the Happy Hippy Foundation and the fact she broke-down in tears onstage, following the death of her dog, surreally, at the feet of a 30 foot inflatable replica of her beloved Floyd. My friends are probably right to worry when a fifty-six year old man admits to being obsessed by Miley Cyrus. ![]() Ged Babey (56) and Susan Sloan (a lot younger) give their contrasting verdicts. We all know Miley Cyrus: pop-puppet child-star who has grown into an iconic pop-cultural phenomenon, But why is a Louder Than War giving her valuable space? Well, because she has a great voice and this was trailed as being her ‘rawk album’ with punk influences. ![]()
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