In a combative interview with Harper's Bazaar, teen sensation Miley Cyrus addresses the controversies that have tailed her meteoric rise and laments that she still doesn't know who she is. Photo Credit: Harper's BazaarJanuary 06, 2010, (Sawf News) - In a combative interview with Harper's Bazaar, teen sensation Miley Cyrus addresses the controversies that have tailed her meteoric rise and laments that she still doesn't know who she is.
About her risqué photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair in April 2008, Miley says:
"Here, my parents are thinking they're seeing a beautiful picture by a major photographer, and the people of America want to see something dirty in that?
"It doesn't make sense to us because [my family] doesn't look for negativity. But people don't want to say 'What a great performance' or 'What a great shot.' No one wants to look at something like that and see the positive because it doesn't sell a magazine."
About her stripper style pole dancing at last August's Teen Choice Awards, Miley says resignedly:
"People like controversy because that's what sells,"
"My job is to be a role model, and that's what I want to do, but my job isn't to be a parent," she says. "My job isn't to tell your kids how to act or how not to act, because I'm still figuring that out for myself. So to take that away from me is a bit selfish. Your kids are going to make mistakes whether I do or not. That's just life."
Miley is excited about her upcoming film The Last Song, due in April. The film heralds her bold and early transition from teen to mature entertainment.
"People will be really surprised when they see it," she says proudly. "It's pretty deep. I want to do edgier movies—movies where you walk away feeling fulfilled."
She fondly recalls the anonymity that she enjoyed in Tybee, Georgia, where the film was shot.
"I got on the plane [to Georgia], and I was lying in my mom's lap and crying and saying, I'm so happy to be getting out of L.A.," Miley says.
In Tybee, "I went out every night with my friends. I did karaoke. I danced. All this stuff would've been such a big deal in Los Angeles: Who's she with? Why is she dancing? I felt alive and real."
Miley who wound up her Wonder World Tour 2009 is already working on her new album.
"I'm doing a record right now that's another pop record, and then I want to come out with an album that's really who I am." She pauses. "I don't know exactly who that is yet."
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