Miley Cyrus, Framed
Well, it had to happen--sooner or later, an artist was bound to repeat as a subject here in Framed--and this is our first time. And so we’d like to congratulate Miley Cyrus.
Miley is a flat-out phenomenon these days, and this week’s video, “7 Things,” is from her second studio LP, Breakout. It’s a doozy. Cyrus herself has said that “the lyrics are ‘Miley going through, like, 900 emotions while I'm trying to write a song,’” and it shows. She lists seven things she hates--and then seven things she likes--about her ex-boyfriend. Rumor has it that the song’s about Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers.
Is that true? Heck, we don’t know… but we have to admit that we like this video a lot. It’s cleverly shot, superimposing images of various tween girls onto Miley’s image, thus cementing the artist-audience bond. We’d like to also congratulate director Brett Ratner, who did a heckuva job here.
The bottom line, as always, is what you think. Please enjoy the video and our captions to the various frames we’ve pulled. But also let us know your thoughts. Miley’s best work yet, or not?? You make the call!
1 – Shocker! Gummo, The Sentient Bubble, is the victim of amnesia and now lives with a 12-year-old girl in Poughkeepsie, completely unaware of his Bubble heritage!
2 – “Tell me, Lord! Why have my thirteen years been plagued by gossip, teasing, and all manner of preadolescent pestilence? Why, Lord, why??!”
3 – …and the “I ♥ Boys” sticker warned off lesbians, men.
4 – Miley Cyrus, gettin’ high, part one!
5 – Miley Cyrus, gettin’ high, part two!
6 – “C’mon, kids, and get on board the ‘Makin’ pig noises train!’”
7 – With the revolution won, the next steps would be institutionalized peer pressure and governmental funding of anorexia!
8 – Pictures of pictures is what we do! Just because!!
9 – “I’m sorry, Mr. Muffin, but I must now gut you and use your inner organs as common packing peanuts.”
10 – Although Miley can be stumped by n-dimensional calculus, she’s actually a very good dancer!
11 – “What can I say? I’m trapped in the Framed universe, the most unfair in the entire uber-cosmos!”
12 – “I will now assume my natural shape, a quadrilateral, and then enslave humanity.”
13 – “Perhaps I’ll simply eat my erstwhile comfort object. As a sign of love, of course.”
14 – Miley’s cruel transformation into a rabbit was, in a way, disturbing.
