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Representation Textual Analysis of miley cyrus: Adore you


In recent years Miley Cyrus has turned from the country singing Tennessee sweetheart daughter of the famed country singer billy ray Cyrus to this sassy skin showing diva that"cant stop" twerking. Since Miley killed off Hannah Montana and ripped herself away from the Disney franchise


She has taken a drastic left turn into ghetto vile and refuses to cover up in anyway shape or form. Some say that shes just trying to find herself in the crazy voyeur of the music industry while others feel that because of her Hannah history she is setting a bad example to children who still idolize her and feel she is showing young girls that its okay to whore yourself out for the enjoyment of men.

Miley's Most recent video Adore you is a classic example of voyeurism, if you don't already know what voyeurism is its the act of watching a person or people do sexually suggestive things without knowing your watching much like a peep show. The video is set under the sheets of her bed and also in a bath tub. During the majority of the video it looks as though she is touching herself extremely erotically and suggestively while filming it, for either porn's sake or for someone. This isn't really made clear.The camera has been made to make you feel as though you are under the covers with her, clearly appealing to male gaze. We see close ups of her hands running over her body and close ups of areas in which most would find extremely sexually provocative. I feel that she is wearing flesh colored underwear to give the suggestion of nakedness. Most countries will not allow a video to be shown if too much is on display therefor to get around that she wore the thinnest underwear imaginable and made it flesh colored to match her skin tone. She then takes the video even further to actually put her hands down her underwear to film or at least suggest the idea of her masturbating, followed by an ariel full body shot of her lying in bed touching herself.

I feel although the song is slow and there isn't a clear indication of tweking and butts in your face it makes the viewer feel even more so uncomfortable because she has made it look so intimate. She is trying her best to look as sexy and suggestive as possible although this would be acceptable for most other celebraties we need to remember that she has a huge child fan base.

i feel that in this video she is trying to represent herself as a sex icon while also appearing as fragile and quite shy. Although this sounds like an upside men actually find it to be more sexually appealing if a girl acts defenseless, shy and extremely fragile while also being sexually alluring. I feel miley was trying to represent herself as this shy virgin girl that most men love. Just before this video was released miley had a huge break up with ex boyfriend Liam Hemsworth. This could be a desperate attempt to restore his affection through many means possible.



Although this part may look extremely sexual and provocative (which to be honest it kind of is) i feel there is a deeper meaning to it. When she is seen in the bath bathing herself in the clouded water i feel this is meant to represent her washing away the past and getting clean to start a fresh new future.However when she touches herself its her remembering his touch and missing it. She is touching herself in all of the places he touched her and feeling happy but sad at the same time because she is unable to let go no matter how hard she tries. Maybe she feels the only way to get over it is to "whore herself out" and make videos like she does represented by the video recorder.