“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” Kurt Vonnegut.
What is the main topic of your conversation with your friends? Love, weather it is unrequited, dwindling, or epic. We as humans focus a tremendous time on love and finding a soul mate, time that maybe we could be spending on something more productive. Time we could be spending on something that wont just end in heart ache, pain, and hate. Back in the day women were taught that their main reason for existence remained bearing and raising children. The perception certainly changed from then till now, yet most women still grow up with the fantasy of a family and put a career second. “Where do you see yourself in 10 years” most 20 year old women would say engaged, or married with children.
How many people will chose to spend their lives raising children and being a housewives rather then pursuing a passion or career? Once you have a child your goals and now second to their own. If society only focuses on falling in love and having children, who will contribute to the progress of the world?
I grew up watching Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana on the popular Disney show Hannah Montana. Miley, originally from Tennessee, became a pop star from the hit show, and then soon released a few albums. Many Disney stars have a problem changing their image from teen-Disney star to an actress and singer that people take seriously. I found Miley’s earlier music shallow and innocent, for example “The 7 Things I Hate About You”. Her lyrics were catchy but reminded me of something a middle school aged girl would listen too. After she met Liam Hemsworth she continued to make music, but nothing I found notable.
Liam and Miley split in 2012, Miley shaved off her hair and changed her persona completely. She released “We Cant Stop” soon after, a song about not being told what to do, but also a catchy party anthem. The edgy and weird music video caused a bad first impression amongst most people who judged it very negatively. Many people criticized her and suggested that she “lost her mind”. Her new music, nothing we’ve ever saw from her before, showed a whole new side to her. Miley truly started making deep meaningful music. In Miley’s “Wrecking Ball”, a passionate song about how Liam broke her heart, she used metaphors and lyrics that showed her talented and edgy side as an artist.
Society still judged her based on the music video of her swinging almost naked on a wrecking ball. Some people even dressed up as a Miley and a wrecking ball for Halloween, picking fun at the video. Miley came back with a response saying how her crying in the video and her almost nudity was to show that she felt vulnerable. In 2015 she came out with “Someone Else” which was an upbeat song with deep lyrics about how her heartbreak changed her for the better. “We tried, we lied, Cannot pretend to take us back, To what we had, to make us feel alive again”, The sad true words of the song evoked real emotions in her fans unlike her music previous to the split. Instead of trying to get back with Liam after he hurt her, she took that pain and created her best music yet.
Her broken heart truly aloud her to find her real voice and her true place in the world. I imagine Kurt Vonnegut would have liked Miley’s new music and personality better then before her split since she is now embracing the loneliness and following her passion, rather then curing the loneliness with her boyfriend and cliché childish love songs.
Do you like Miley before or after her transformation?