Miley Cyrus & Flaming Lips Planning Naked Concert (http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/miley-cyrus-and-flaming-lips-planning-naked-concert/ar-AAfq6lG?li=AAa0dzB)

I've been a Flaming Lips fan for years, but Wayne going off the deep end in this midlife crisis is making it difficult to defend him.

https://33.media.tumblr.com/14bf1559d1aa777f518cc244f4e45941/tumblr_inline_ninm9381RV1r9aung.gif

Anything related to Miley Cyrus I can't get behind. I have never seen such a disgusting individual.

It's been a reason I have stopped paying much attention to Wayne Coyne lately.

Anything related to Miley Cyrus I can't get behind. I have never seen such a disgusting individual.

It's been a reason I have stopped paying much attention to Wayne Coyne lately.

Really?

I wouldn't go as far as disgusting individual. I mean she isn't my cup of tea but there are worse folks out there.

Only 5 more years until Miley can join the "27 Club". J/K of course.......
The shock value will only take you so far especially when there is no musical chops or substance to back it up. Bowie and Cooper are ashamed im sure.

Really?

I think a lot of what she does is purely disgusting. Disgust is a personal opinion, of course. So what I find disgusting, someone else may find pleasurable. Which of course is fine with me. We all have our own tastes.

Will this be known as the Fizzles & Fossils Tour?

Only 5 more years until Miley can join the "27 Club". J/K of course.......

Still horrible.

from the link:


where "white stuff that looks like milk" will be "spewed" everywhere. The concept is for a video, he continued, for the song "Milky Milky Milk."

It was done better in 2002


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVL1u1eLX3I

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I did that too. Vodka and Papa Murphys.

I am in no way a Miley fan. I find her to be completely irritating and annoying, and her act banal. That said, anyone who thinks she's talentless or doesn't have musical chops is either letting their low opinion of her as a person wrongly inform their assessment of her talent, or is not good at recognizing it to begin with. The fact that she HAS so much talent is what makes all of her surrounding ridiculousness so maddening.

I agree. She is a terrific entertainer and quite the actor also. Pretty well rounded talent wise. I just think her recent behavior is quite repulsive.

catch22, you may want to reconsider a bit. Her new record is very good, IMO.

I am in no way a Miley fan. I find her to be completely irritating and annoying, and her act banal. That said, anyone who thinks she's talentless or doesn't have musical chops is either letting their low opinion of her as a person wrongly inform their assessment of her talent, or is not good at recognizing it to begin with. The fact that she HAS so much talent is what makes all of her surrounding ridiculousness so maddening.

Being an actor and pop entertainer is a unique skillset, so I'll give her credit for that, but her music chops are garbage. Her albums are produced to death, her live voice is always flat and she has horrible technique. Her musical ability is not why she's famous.

She is going through the same thing Lady GaGa did. Otherwise talented singer that has to continuously shock. Been there done that....nothing new to see. She will stop when another starlet starts to outshock her.

Gaga has largely grown out of it, but Cyrus's strain of weird seems to come from a much darker place. Like, nobody who is mentally all there tries this hard. Her incessant need for attention reeks of someone with daddy issues. OMG watch me twerk! I am so edgy aren't I? Well now I am SMOKING MARIJUANA! OMG aren't I cool? Don't you love me? You don't, well now I am going to sing completely NEKKID!

I can't just rag on her though. Beyond disturbing that she is hanging out with a dude that is literally older than her father. Did Wayne Coyne take some bad mushrooms about 3 years ago? Because ever since then, that dude went off the deep end and has not been seen since. TBH, I get weird Oedipal Complex vibes from both of them...GROSS.

I wouldn't go as far as disgusting individual. I mean she isn't my cup of tea but there are worse folks out there.

I love Miley Cyrus. I love the time she came out on a talk show with an open shirt, braless with a sticker on each nipple. She told of how she was so offended from the sight of the older people when she went to a nudist resort. So she was asked, if she was going to put on more clothes when she gets old. She said no, then would be a good time to get back.

I'll see your "Miley Cyrus is disgusting," and raise you a GG Allin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GG_Allin).

I'll see your "Miley Cyrus is disgusting," and raise you a GG Allin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GG_Allin).
How about a little GWAR?

Being an actor and pop entertainer is a unique skillset, so I'll give her credit for that, but her music chops are garbage. Her albums are produced to death, her live voice is always flat and she has horrible technique. Her musical ability is not why she's famous.

Ever hear her raw voice tracks? I have. Both memo-recorded demos and in the studio as "...and her Dead Petz" was being mixed. She can sing.

I am old and set in my ways. If I want a circus, I will go to one. Maybe that's why I like the Blue Door. Just folks singing and playing their instruments without flying monkeys coming out of their posterior.

I ran across this one day listening to all the covers I could find of Jolene*. Nice work by her on it and on some of the other recordings of the group, like Lilac Wine. Of course, that was then (2012). And none of it is really spectacular, just good.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOwblaKmyVw

*White Stripes and Slow Ass Jolene are my favs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFZsunzjDXU

Being an actor and pop entertainer is a unique skillset, so I'll give her credit for that, but her music chops are garbage. Her albums are produced to death, her live voice is always flat and she has horrible technique. Her musical ability is not why she's famous.

BTW, I'm not disagreeing with the last line. Her musical ability is about 4th or 5th down the list of reasons why she's famous. I'm only saying those who dismiss her as a no-talent hack are wrong. She might be a hack, but she has talent.

BTW, I'm not disagreeing with the last line. Her musical ability is about 4th or 5th down the list of reasons why she's famous. I'm only saying those who dismiss her as a no-talent hack are wrong. She might be a hack, but she has talent.

In my opinion, she's heavily processed/produced and is of average talent musically. She's famous because she's the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus who had contacts at Disney. Yes, there's a long backstory about being "discovered," but at age 13 she became the tween sensation - the sweet and innocent Hannah Montana - and the rest is history. It's such a shame that a young lady so loved by millions of kids would morph into a soft porn entertainer who lives to shock and provoke. Sadly, she's a ticking time bomb.

How soon until her sex tape gets "leaked" ? over under 4 years?

In my opinion, she's heavily processed/produced and is of average talent musically. She's famous because she's the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus who had contacts at Disney. Yes, there's a long backstory about being "discovered," but at age 13 she became the tween sensation - the sweet and innocent Hannah Montana - and the rest is history. It's such a shame that a young lady so loved by millions of kids would morph into a soft porn entertainer who lives to shock and provoke. Sadly, she's a ticking time bomb.

People don't stay Disney princesses forever.. the bubble gum loses its flavor. most Disney folks rebel and go off the rails and then if their talent is enough to keep them on track after that they can make a decent life out of the rest of their Career.

I'm not sure how you can reasonably expect a 20ish year old millionaire to maintain a Disney manufactured persona.
Yeah her and Bieber both act like complete asses. I would hate to see what shenanigans I would have been involved in at that age with that amount of disposable income. Quite often I was a complete ass without millions on hand.

catch22, you may want to reconsider a bit. Her new record is very good, IMO.

Her new album is actually the best Flaming Lips record they've done in a few years. :) Much better with Miley singing instead of Wayne. And yeah, Miley's overprocessed on most of her songs, but her voice is actually pretty damn good. Don't wanna see her or Wayne (or Steven or Michael) naked, though, ever, ever, ever.

Miley can't sing so she has to resort to shock value to sell tickets.

She is going through the same thing Lady GaGa did. Otherwise talented singer that has to continuously shock. Been there done that....nothing new to see. She will stop when another starlet starts to outshock her.


I think Lady Gaga is far more talented than Miley Cyrus. Honestly I think Gaga continually having to one-up herself is what really hurt her popularity. In 2010 people were comparing her to Madonna, the Beatles, and the Stones in terms of cultural impact. Here we are five years later and few people listen to her anymore and its been a couple years since she's even had a hit. If she would have done what she does best; make good music, she might still be topping the charts.

Miley Cyrus on the other hand is riding the wave of her early Disney fame and she has to shock in order to stay in the spotlight and sell tickets.

I think Lady Gaga is far more talented than Miley Cyrus. Honestly I think Gaga continually having to one-up herself is what really hurt her popularity. In 2010 people were comparing her to Madonna, the Beatles, and the Stones in terms of cultural impact. Here we are five years later and few people listen to her anymore and its been a couple years since she's even had a hit. If she would have done what she does best; make good music, she might still be topping the charts.

Miley Cyrus on the other hand is riding the wave of her early Disney fame and she has to shock in order to stay in the spotlight and sell tickets.

I agree. If you ignore the shock and glam, Gaga actually has made a lot of pretty good music, whereas Miley's stuff is the kind of generic pop that you can't honestly differentiate between that of a number of other artists. Gaga's stuff has Gaga written all over it, but literally any pop star could sing a Miley song and you'd be hard pressed to see the difference.

I'm not sure how you can reasonably expect a 20ish year old millionaire to maintain a Disney manufactured persona.
Yeah her and Bieber both act like complete asses. I would hate to see what shenanigans I would have been involved in at that age with that amount of disposable income. Quite often I was a complete ass without millions on hand.

True. Nobody would expect her to remain a Disney princess. But a lot of those Disney stars were simply mousketeers (Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Ryan Gosling, etc.) Miley had her own TV show that she starred in for 4 years. A little different as far as influence. I don't think being a Disney star (or having a lot of money) pre-destined her for a career as a soft porn entertainer. That's been her choice. They all aren't ticking time bombs either. Sadly, she is.

... literally any pop star could sing a Miley song and you'd be hard pressed to see the difference.

Rebecca Black's cover of "Wrecking Ball" is a definite departure from the Cyrus original.

Rebecca Black's cover of "Wrecking Ball" is a definite departure from the Cyrus original.

Has WIlliam Hung covered it yet?

I think Lady Gaga is far more talented than Miley Cyrus.

I don't think there's really any room for debate on that one. I'm not a fan of either, which is just taste, but any objective person can easily see a major difference in ability:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPAmDULCVrU