Bangerz was definitely a statement era, the way PTA moms was trying to get her up outta here for standing on a moving platform with a pole on it, literally calling a 16 yr old girl a stripper and a slut was insane 😭 this is why I have a lot of empathy for child stars bc once they start growing up and start acting their age ppl try to tell them they’re wrong bc they didn’t age up the “right way”, and then ppl wonder why they have an identity crisis and go off the rails, and then with Miley in particular ppl were especially hostile basically calling her a prostitute and tried the guise that as feminist, I think the cultural appropriation was the most unserious thing about this era which is why I didn’t particularly like it, but I can see in retrospect how this was regarded as the era of all eras
I completed middle school and started high school during Bangerz era. I remember people including myself being shocked and freaking out when Miley started wilding lol! I still can't get over celebrities reactions to Miley's VMAs performance! Man, those were the memories. 🤣🤣🤣
I completed elementary school and started middle school around 2013, and this was the first time I really got into pop culture. A truly wild time. I remember the VMAs performance and my parents turned it off instantly lol
@@naomi.cannibalI was also a sophomore in high school at the time and to see Miley transition in the way that she did was mind boggling for us who grew up watching her on television because Hannah Montana was everything to our generation. Her transition reminds me of the controversial eras of Britney and Christina. We will never have another pop star that pushes boundaries like Miley did with the Bangerz era.
This was her "stripped/good girl gone bad" era. Almost all pop stars does this at some point of their careers. But honestly when the music is good and they are true to themselves, i actually like this type of eras.
I definitely think Mileys good girl gone bad era was one of the most memorable and iconic and legendary break throughs of the 2010s decade. although it is sad of what she was doing to herself at the time, she still ate the era up and really defined herself as who she really is as an artist. absolute legend
This album was groundbreaking for Miley breaking the good girl Disney mold and finally branching off. Some might see this Album as a more provocative record but it is also very vulnerable with songs like Adore you, and Wrecking ball. It showcases the versatility of Miley shown although out her career.
This is alongside Britney's Blackout, Mariah's Glitter and Taylor's Reputation one of the most controversial eras for an artist ever. People were slut-shaming her, calling her out of control, crazy and '' a bad example''... Miley was just young, silly, she just broke out of her shell, experienced adulthood and how hard it is, she deserves EVERYTHING and we adore Bangerz it's one of her best records if not the best and DEFINETLY alongside ESM her best era
@@Saintmiragex true, as a taylor fan myself, reputation was an album made to talk about her life after the fall of her reputation not to make controversies... she was barely in the media to begin with
lmao yeah that was so ridiculous the guy really thought he did something, ppl were even buying them a lot more after that for miley costumes so she even helped that nobody!
@@Dojafish everyone does that though and they have been for years. You can’t even do basic dental hygiene because people have made it sexual 😭 you can’t shame one person for doing something EVERYONE has/is done and doing
I will never forget growing up during the Hannah Montana & Bangerz era, watching Miley Cyrus completely shift her image the way she did was EPIC. She had the entire world watching & judging her every move without accepting the fact that she had grown up and became a woman & was no longer the little girl she had been known for. This was the moment she could finally be who she was and she made a HUGE statement, name, mark in the industry for her.
I don't care what anyone says. This Miley era will always be the best Miley era for me. So nostalgic and fun, I miss this time of my life. I don't want it back but I miss it.
Same. It was during my freshman year of college and I was lucky enough to see the tour live twice at East Rutherford and Philly. Absolutely the BEST concert I’ve ever been to in my life. The era all around was a blast and I glad I was at that age to experience it at its fullest
Miley really did gave credit to Amazon Ashley for teaching her twerk, she even went to the Bangerz Tour with her as one of her dancers, people just weren't paying attention cause thats just how it is. Also she recently apologized to Sinead but still said she doesnt regret anything about expresing her sexuality cause thats what she was feeling at the moment, she made the decision not others, sometimes she may have gone too far to affect her image but she was 20 after all, living her youth and now is in a different place
the fact that she was advised against working with pharrell because “he hadn’t made a hit song years” when he literally made happy from Despicable Me like 2-3 years prior to the release is crazy. we don’t even know how long the song they worked on together was from happy which is like even crazier to me. the music industry has a lot of nasty unfavorable people in it and everytime i hear about these things i’m still shocked. it’s appalling!
Happy came in 2014! I think he really started “coming back” w blurred lines/ get lucky, which hadn’t been released yet when met started working on bangerz
I remember this era😂I was in the eighth grade and it was wild. Everyone wanted to be like her and she was talked about for two years straight from all the free spirited things she did.
As a black women, I still have an issue with Miley dipping into black culture to show that she wasn't a child anymore, and then dipping out when she was done. I get it was fun and crazy, but I just know so many black artists that can't do the same. She said those dancer and crew were just her "homies" but where are they now? I'm not seeing any black plus size women, little women, or rappers in her new era. I also, also feel like she fumbled each interview that tried to hold her accoutnable.
Ignoring the fact that miley changes her working team every single era, Mike Will is still with her til this day, he worked with her in Dead Petz and her latest album Endless Summer Vacation, so that argument doesnt hold up. I agree with the rest tho.
They are still her friends including Mike Will who helped her produce the Bangerz album. They all still have a lot of love for Miley and she does as well for them. You don’t see them much anymore because every era she has is different but she still works with Mike from time to time
No, this was what Miley wanted, she even adressed this particular story with Sineard in her backyard sessions video talks. This era was so amazing and so iconic.
@@ValerieAbena she is 30 now, she was 20 then. she already grew older and talked about it, you are just projecting and wishing her intentions were what you wish they were.
@@carolinalopes7640 didn’t know there’s a cut off point for growing older 😂. She could still change her mind about it ‘when she’s older’ like I said. The previous response seemed immature to me
I remember when all this happened when I was about to start my sophomore year in high school gosh the drama, the controversy, the appropriation it was everything 2013. In retrospect I can split on the fact that some of the backlash Miley got was ridiculous and rooted in sexism bc she was not conforming to a specific type of femininity and making a “respectable way” of transitioning into adulthood but the other backlash it deserved for her cultural appropriation especially when the black hip hop influences were used for the shock value promo and barely there in the album and then when she stripped that down and said she was bored of it like … yeah it’s hard to take her seriously after that I still love plastic hearts and like a few songs off of endless summer vacation. In fact this situation back in 2013 helped me lean into the topics of cultural appropriation alongside Taylor swift twerking references in the shake it up video and Kardashians cosplaying into black womanhood aesthetics The album as a whole was a hit and miss there are some songs that are good/great and there are other songs that age like milk. I feel Miley is more better as a single artist than a album artist
That VMA performance was the last huge iconic moment from the award show. I honestly dislike it because it was very try-hard and unnecessarily cringe, but it definitely got people talking even to this day.
Yes. I think that’s honestly the last time I heard anything iconic and wild happen at an awards show. 2013 was pretty much the last year that pop music really was pushing the limits and Miley definitely pushed the limit lol
I feel like this album/era's influence is often understated these days.... Album eras have always been a thing since at least Madonna, but I'd argue this was one of the core albums of the 2010s to solidify the concept of eras as a cultural "moment" with very distinct visuals, sound, etc. for every single album - you can look at a picture of miley and know exactly what year it was taken in and what song(s) she was promoting, which I think has become much more common and defined after Bangerz (look at Dua, Halsey, Taylor especially from 1989 on, Billie, etc). Again this has always been a thing, and I think artists like Gaga and Rihanna especially helped contribute to it as well, but if you were to ask someone for pop albums they think of as complete MOMENTS wholly in and of themselves, Bangerz is probably going to come up a lot. I also think Miley helped pave the way for young pop girls to be this type of sexually explicit without as much backlash - people loved to call Halsey a Lana ripoff back in the day but (as someone who has been a fan of halsey since before her debut album even dropped) I would argue she owes just as much if not more to Miley, at least visually. I also don't know if Ariana's transition from teen idol to pop sex symbol would've gone as well for her if Miley hadn't just done the same thing but a lot messier lol. All that said, even though I like a lot of the songs and sympathize with Miley for all the backlash she received, this album has always left kind of a bad taste in my mouth for how it rode in so hard on hip hop/Black culture, to the point people credit Miley with things she was copying, and then she completely dropped all that once she got bored of it. I don't want to say this was never "authentically" her because I don't know her, but it does make me question to what extent she actually really loves/loved hip hop culture and all that, & how much of it was just her running from her disney image
Miley has always expressed love for hip hop wayyy before the Bangerz era so I don’t think it was her hopping on a phase of riding any type of culture. It was definitely authentically her at that time period and she was in her 20s. Most 20 year olds love to party 24/7
Miley Cyrus Albums Ranked 1. Plastic Hearts 2. Can’t Be Tamed 3. Attention: Miley Live 4. Endless Summer Vacation 5. Breakout 6. Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz 7. Bangerz 8. Younger Now 9. The Time of Our Lives 10. Meet Miley Cyrus 11. She Is Coming
When I tell you this album is a vibeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!😫❤❤❤ I completed middle school & gone through "my first heartbreak" when Bangerz came out. I listen to this faithfully especially when im cleaning my house 😂❤
this album spawned a generational anthem for me and this era hits home. I'm 30 and "we can't stop" is my generational anthem, that one song that defines a time, my generation, our early 2000s - 2010s millennial/gen z cuspers, whoever it is...this era is who we are and I'm not surprise it was Miley who ushered it in, she's a queen, a trailblazer to us! Love this era, it's truly a treasure! Defined a whole generation!
Bangerz certainly was Miley’s Good Girl Gone Bad era, that definitely had some bops; but I didn’t like how she essentially used hip hop culture as a costume and scapegoat for her outlandish behavior during that time. She made money off the black aesthetic and when she was done she took off that costume to be welcomed by white audiences
Yea, I agree that's my one quip about this era with how Miley treated black culture as disposable once it no longer benefited her. Still appreciate Bangerz to this day though and the pixie cut was iconic!!
she collaborated and shared that platform with many black artists and never claimed to invent any of that, actually when they started saying she invented twerking she was the one saying it was obviously not the case and explained were it came from and how her dancers influenced her, she also gave a platform to many disabled, queer and poc back when it was something still seen as uncool and could "ruin your career" so I don't really understand why ppl think that, she never claimed rock or country but has been influenced by that too but that was never an issue yet we keep ppl in the industry who have actually been racist or dated them sooooo
@@miguelstarboy5572Here goes the white person speaking on cultural appropriation. Rock and country are white genres. They originated in black communities but were taken over by white people. Which is an entirely different conversation, but that’s why no one cared when she was inspired by them. She belonged there. She had never shown interest in hip hop/trap up until she wanted to be rebellious. That’s the problem. Hiphop is synonymous with white people wanting to “be bad” or wanting to rebel against whatever they’re trying to rebel against. When they’re done, they move on and go back to what they were listening to before. She hasn’t done hiphop/trap since, and probably never will again. Why? Because she doesn’t actually care for those genres for herself. Which is fine, but that’s why it’s cultural appropriation. It doesn’t matter that she didn’t claim to invent anything or share a platform with black artists. It was still cultural appropriation.
@@aijsdijdni3401 I'm latino coming from a mixed family so don't speak about me you don't know me, how would she ever show interest in that before if disney controlled everything and never allowed her to express it? lol every artist goes through different phases, it does matter cause ya'll always say that she used it and claimed it as hers when she never did and she's always been involved with many sub cultures and discriminated minorities before ppl did it for clouth, stop reaching so hard to hate on her just for being part of a genre like the other ones I mentioned, that's my point sis I never invalidated anybody's feelings chill out
She also did outwardly state that she disliked hip hop afterwards and that it had little substance after the Bangerz era. That was my issue with her, how are you going to profit off of stereotyping black people and literally discard the aesthetic and genre to say you’re going “back to your roots”
Seeing this era in concert was CRAZY the set and all the visuals. I must’ve been a junior in hs, I didn’t know how iconic it would be. I never listen to any of the songs now but I remember loving Rooting for my Baby and GetItRight and I still think they are some of Miley’s underrated songs. I wonder if it has any replay value to others. It’s also kinda crazy how the title track had Brittany and they didn’t choose it as a third single. It’s interesting that Miley seems to regret most of her eras or doesn’t revisit them. I grew up watching Hannah/miley and have a soft spot for her but yeah the use of blackccent and twerking was….a choice 😶 I love the Kenya mention she’s one of my favorite creators.
honestly we need to talk more about Blurred lines, that song's lyrics are literally about how he doesn't care about a woman's consent and will keep pursuing her when she said no, i encourage you to read them it's actually disgusting. that guy makes me sick.
I love Bangerz era so Amazing because Miley felt like herself (a chameleon artist that can adapt to so many styles). Tbh half of the songs on the album for me at least aged like milk....but some of those aged like Pedro Pascal, like fine wine🍷
I loved this era and still to this day I get emotional thinking about her Bangerz tour. Nobody vibed with her back then, everyone called her ugly and disgusting - she wasn't catering to ANYBODY but herself and who showed up in her audience? Girls.❤ I admired how she expressed herself and her sexuality WITHOUT catering to men, she did what SHE wanted to do, whay SHE found hot even though it turned people away from her. She kept everything genuine to who she eas and didn't shy away from her impulses or desires, she took up space even though people demanded that she'd reduce herself. I admire shit like that.
I did love the Bangerz album and one song that she recorded with Tyler the Creator was called "The Way I Feel" and I wish she kept that song for that album but it ended up going to Jennifer Hudson and it was produced by Pharrell. I love her version so much.
8:55 One of the funniest parts is this guy talking about how Miley degraded an "honorable icon" referring to a damn foam finger lol. 😂 What about Robin Thicke? Also what??🤣
@@naomi.cannibal Especially once they get lit, I have definitely seen more than a dozen people being real raunchy with a foam finger in New Orleans during Mardi Gras 😂
The day after the We Can’t Stop video at school it’s all we were talking abt. Even our very grown ass teachers were weighing in on our discussions. Happy 10 years to the album that has everyone talking. Also when Miley commented on Kenya’s video I had to give her her things. Also wow Kenya’s power!
It’s interesting seeing remnants of the era still present today. I recently read that Yeeun’s “Cherry Coke” was a Bangerz outtake created by Mike Will Made It.
I was not a Miley fan prior to this album. Although, I obviously listened to Party In The USA. So to me this is one of her best albums she has ever made. I loved it.
Hearing that Miley’s not great singer in that article upsets me! Shame on them! By the way, I love this album 💿! Thanks for this amazing informative video ❤
I was only 14 when the Bangerz era happened and I like many others my age was shocked especially at the VMAs performance which imo will be the last memorable one.Looking back now,I realized the era was imtentional and Cant be tamed was just the starting point of her leaving her Disney image and for good reasons.The media judged her too harshly as a teenager and I can understand this era as her saying f you to people expecting her to stay squeaky clean.But I also understand the backlash like the cultural appropriation and how she used her privilege as a white woman to get in and out of the hiphop scene and also lash out at Sinead O Connor who was just being truthful as an idol to her aboit the industry and its nice to see Miley Cyrus acknowledge that and acknowledge her privilege when it came to incorporating black culture but also not feeling sorry for things that she didnt deserve to be hated on as a kid.Overall Bangerz was like a wild ride of a album rollout in a time of the 2010s that would change pop music and culture.
Ohhh I was such a fan when this all happened! I didn't care for her before but the vma performances made me see her differently and everything clicked when Bangerz dropped, great songs, great visuals, epic tour, I even loved her way of writing captions / tweets. I gave her a huge cardboard joint during her show in Amsterdam that I made for her when I was at school. Such fun times :) Also 4x4 deserved single treatment.
This album was 🔥🔥 i played the hell out of it lol. Cant believe jts over 10 yrs old already. And i loved that short edgy cut on her but i admit i didnt like her antics. I think drive is actually my favorite song on there and someone else. And i really liked the song with big sean. I gotta revisit that album its been yrs.
When you talked about VMAs I forgot about her dancing lol side note: Did Pharrell ever get hate for "Blurred Lines"? Because didn't he write and produce it?
This Era was truly iconic! I'm glad miley gave us an artist era we can look back on and tell our kids stories about. And what we were doing at the time 😂
To me despite her having amazing vocals she never fully realized her potential, however the bangerz tour is one of the best tours in recent pop memory imo. I’ve watched it back after years of forgetting abt it and i was so overwhelmed by the amount of color and chaos on the stage. If you wanna talk about diversity, she had dancers from the smallest to the biggest size, even including dwarf and so many different types of people. Insane stage set up, a huge inflated statue of her dog, a flying wiener (fr). Everyone seemed to have the best time on stage and miley had sm charisma, it truly doesn’t get boring for one second.. i just hope more artists would do such fun and colorful tours that just felt like a massive rave. I also heard miley funded the tour on her own and you can tell a lot of money and dedication went into it. Honestly watching this tour while stoned is a blast i highly recommend it
i LOVEEEEE Bangerz its legit one of my favorite albums, crazy i never quite liked FU specially bc FM ft’s on it. On My Own , GetitRight, 4x4 , Do My Thang , Someone Else , Bangerz EVERY SINGLE SONGGGGG i cherish the album so much for the way it introduced me to pop in my own way in it initial release and now being in my 20’s and re discovering the album as im actually experiencing the things being sung abt.
Unpopular opinion • Miley Cyrus used black culture to “shed her good girl image” and “make an impact on pop music” just to turn around 2 years later and claim that “Nicki Minaj isn’t a polite person.” Alluding that Nicki is difficult to work with. Even though it could be argued that Miley was in fact just trying to immolate the likes of a Nicki Minaj during her Bangerz era. That’ll always leave a bad taste in my mouth
2:18 i remember seeing that performance live as a kid and i saw nothing wrong with it until the next day everyone was saying she was a stripper, the media is wild lol
2013 was so epic lol, especially the latter half. Yours Truly, Pure Heroine, Self Titled, Bangerz, AND PRISM? Meanwhile this was when Vine was POPPIN’ and being referenced everywhere. It’s really no wonder I was so distracted in junior year of high school 😂 P.S: I’m sure you’ve had the idea brought up before, but I’d love to see an Eras Analyzed on Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” 🍋
The WASPs were absolutely hysterical when she did that photoshoot. I mean you woulda thought she had displayed some truly atrocious behavior but in reality it was a weirdly styled photoshoot (her dad in that one pic was the only "questionable" part).Very wild times for sure.
It’s insane to me how negative people view showing skin. Miley helped break the walls down so that being explicit, showing skin, being sexy, and a lil vulgar isn’t considered disgracing yourself.
I love this era. This era made people accept that Miley is an adult. People had to accept that she is no longer Hannah Montana or a child star. This album is amazing. Nevermind the antics and controversy the songs are great. The woke era could never give us such memories.
I HATED her during this bc of the culture appropriation 😭 and seeing all her tone deaf comments makes me feel justified. Otherwise the backlash she got for growing up is hard to hear about bc i started loving her during her plastic hearts era & now🫶🏾
In my opinion Miley has always been rock pop. From cant be tamed to her self titled album Miley Cyrus. Even in the song we cant stop what made it so iconic was the blend between this love child of hip hop and rock. That era was such a subversion from her pop roots and a clear departure from her previous reputation. Miley music and style now seems like a natural result of her evolution as an artist. She has both the signature blond and brown and her records definite leave an impression of all those sounds. She definitely paved a way for women in pop to be expressive and break out of the typical pop mold.
I remember my gay ass wanting the album but my parents were being h0mophobic so my cousin and aunt secretly burned me a copy and I played that in my CD player like no one’s business 😍🥰
Miley Cyrus’s parental guidance for ages. Hannah Meets Miley’s and her first two albums (G rated) Miley Cyrus’s 3rd album (PG/PG-13/14A Miley’s Cyrus’s 4th and 5th album (18A/R rated) Miley Cyrus’s now. Miley has matured with her 6th-8th album.
I knew very little of Miley Cyrus when Bangerz came out. I found her annoying, myself being a white European girl growing up on Jane and Finch one of the roughest neighbourhoods in Toronto where drill rap artists are murder victims. I can tell the difference when someone is collaborating with rap artists, and when someone is cosplaying. I felt secondhand embarrassment. However Plastic Hearts really showed off her voice
Miley Cyrus played heavily into the over-sexualization, objectification and "come seat on my junk" aspect of hip hop culture to get a rise from the public and distance herself from the girl next door Disney image. It seems she was a rich white girl that dabbled into the most surface level parts of hip hop culture as a means of young adult rebellion. Besides that I do love Wrecking Ball and this video made me want to listen to the album.
Actual fact Miley wrote Wrecking Ball. The internet is just full of conspiracy trying to relate songs to other artist. She wrote that song. And even wrote her feature on Beyonce's recent album!
"we're gonna come back to the twerking conversation here in a second," she said ominously.
lol that felt like when parents used to say we'll talk about it at home and u were like oh sh
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Bangerz was definitely a statement era, the way PTA moms was trying to get her up outta here for standing on a moving platform with a pole on it, literally calling a 16 yr old girl a stripper and a slut was insane 😭 this is why I have a lot of empathy for child stars bc once they start growing up and start acting their age ppl try to tell them they’re wrong bc they didn’t age up the “right way”, and then ppl wonder why they have an identity crisis and go off the rails, and then with Miley in particular ppl were especially hostile basically calling her a prostitute and tried the guise that as feminist, I think the cultural appropriation was the most unserious thing about this era which is why I didn’t particularly like it, but I can see in retrospect how this was regarded as the era of all eras
That pole thing wasn’t even bangerz era, did you watch the video?
@@xocremeI’m talking about Miley’s perception in the media in general leading up to bangerz and how ppl were treating her🙄
How did she get everyone to twerk to We Can’t Stop? it’s not even that kind of song
I twerk to we can’t stop
When twerk is life you can do it to anything boo.
Tbh,you can twerk to anything.I just saw a guy twerk to folklore by taylor
chile at that time she was gon twerk to anything or try her hardest to
@@mydung7251not folklore?!?!
I completed middle school and started high school during Bangerz era. I remember people including myself being shocked and freaking out when Miley started wilding lol! I still can't get over celebrities reactions to Miley's VMAs performance! Man, those were the memories. 🤣🤣🤣
Omg such a good time we had back then!❤🥹
I completed elementary school and started middle school around 2013, and this was the first time I really got into pop culture. A truly wild time. I remember the VMAs performance and my parents turned it off instantly lol
Yesss I was a sophomore at the time!
@@naomi.cannibal I’m guessing all of us were either teenagers or older kids at the time. (I was 11). What a time!
@@naomi.cannibalI was also a sophomore in high school at the time and to see Miley transition in the way that she did was mind boggling for us who grew up watching her on television because Hannah Montana was everything to our generation. Her transition reminds me of the controversial eras of Britney and Christina. We will never have another pop star that pushes boundaries like Miley did with the Bangerz era.
This was her "stripped/good girl gone bad" era. Almost all pop stars does this at some point of their careers. But honestly when the music is good and they are true to themselves, i actually like this type of eras.
I think Miley’s era of good girl going bad is definitely one of the most remembered, it was really SOMETHING but yeah it’s quite common to popstars
That’s what I’m saying!
Yesss I can’t wait to do a “bad girl era” video eventually
pls incl revival & confident as well as maybe bangerz influence on her disney peers ie bangerz being the first brick thrown !
I definitely think Mileys good girl gone bad era was one of the most memorable and iconic and legendary break throughs of the 2010s decade. although it is sad of what she was doing to herself at the time, she still ate the era up and really defined herself as who she really is as an artist. absolute legend
This album was groundbreaking for Miley breaking the good girl Disney mold and finally branching off. Some might see this Album as a more provocative record but it is also very vulnerable with songs like Adore you, and Wrecking ball. It showcases the versatility of Miley shown although out her career.
@@kaya856 yeah i think that issue is what really overshadowed this era and even Miley today doesn’t acknowledge that fact
Wrecking ball is actually a really artistic and beautiful song if you listen closely to the lyrics.
I absolutely refuse to believe this was a decade ago. Thanks for making this video, this era needed to be studied!!
Thank u! And right I blinked and 10 years went by
This is alongside Britney's Blackout, Mariah's Glitter and Taylor's Reputation one of the most controversial eras for an artist ever. People were slut-shaming her, calling her out of control, crazy and '' a bad example''... Miley was just young, silly, she just broke out of her shell, experienced adulthood and how hard it is, she deserves EVERYTHING and we adore Bangerz it's one of her best records if not the best and DEFINETLY alongside ESM her best era
Christina Aguilera stripped era was the same too.
And Nicki Minaj queen era.
Reputation was not controversial lmao. It was meant to be, but definitely wasn’t.
@@Saintmiragex true, as a taylor fan myself, reputation was an album made to talk about her life after the fall of her reputation not to make controversies... she was barely in the media to begin with
reputation isn't controversial it was inspired by a controversy, it's completely different
its funny, she was literally public enemy number one after the vmas… like why is the inventor of the foam finger coming out and saying all that 😭
lmao yeah that was so ridiculous the guy really thought he did something, ppl were even buying them a lot more after that for miley costumes so she even helped that nobody!
@@miguelstarboy5572Well he is kinda right to be honest .
She took something and make it unreasonable sexual .
@@Dojafish Ok but saying she ruined the foam finger?? that's a little bit dramatic.
We are a species of haters. It’s what we do tbh.
@@Dojafish everyone does that though and they have been for years. You can’t even do basic dental hygiene because people have made it sexual 😭 you can’t shame one person for doing something EVERYONE has/is done and doing
i would definitely consider “wrecking ball” a classic song. i remember coming home from school, watching the video, & being shocked.
"watching the video, & being shocked" ... as was the whole world!
I will never forget growing up during the Hannah Montana & Bangerz era, watching Miley Cyrus completely shift her image the way she did was EPIC. She had the entire world watching & judging her every move without accepting the fact that she had grown up and became a woman & was no longer the little girl she had been known for. This was the moment she could finally be who she was and she made a HUGE statement, name, mark in the industry for her.
I don't care what anyone says. This Miley era will always be the best Miley era for me. So nostalgic and fun, I miss this time of my life. I don't want it back but I miss it.
I love the plastic hearts era the best the bangerz put her on the map and helped her escape her Disney Hannah Montana image
literally same! she was so fun.
fr ppl took it waaaay too seriously it was just about having fun
Same. It was during my freshman year of college and I was lucky enough to see the tour live twice at East Rutherford and Philly. Absolutely the BEST concert I’ve ever been to in my life. The era all around was a blast and I glad I was at that age to experience it at its fullest
Its rihannas and 1D's reactions at the show for me😭
Miley really did gave credit to Amazon Ashley for teaching her twerk, she even went to the Bangerz Tour with her as one of her dancers, people just weren't paying attention cause thats just how it is. Also she recently apologized to Sinead but still said she doesnt regret anything about expresing her sexuality cause thats what she was feeling at the moment, she made the decision not others, sometimes she may have gone too far to affect her image but she was 20 after all, living her youth and now is in a different place
I absolutely loved this era! It got a lot of controversy but that’s why I loved it
the fact that she was advised against working with pharrell because “he hadn’t made a hit song years” when he literally made happy from Despicable Me like 2-3 years prior to the release is crazy. we don’t even know how long the song they worked on together was from happy which is like even crazier to me. the music industry has a lot of nasty unfavorable people in it and everytime i hear about these things i’m still shocked. it’s appalling!
Happy came in 2014! I think he really started “coming back” w blurred lines/ get lucky, which hadn’t been released yet when met started working on bangerz
This era is just ICONIC. It is a golden moment in the history of pop culture.
I remember this era😂I was in the eighth grade and it was wild. Everyone wanted to be like her and she was talked about for two years straight from all the free spirited things she did.
Miley’s response to Sinead O Connor showed her age. Sinead made good points and was trying to help her
As a black women, I still have an issue with Miley dipping into black culture to show that she wasn't a child anymore, and then dipping out when she was done. I get it was fun and crazy, but I just know so many black artists that can't do the same. She said those dancer and crew were just her "homies" but where are they now? I'm not seeing any black plus size women, little women, or rappers in her new era. I also, also feel like she fumbled each interview that tried to hold her accoutnable.
Ignoring the fact that miley changes her working team every single era, Mike Will is still with her til this day, he worked with her in Dead Petz and her latest album Endless Summer Vacation, so that argument doesnt hold up. I agree with the rest tho.
Latto does it with Hood culture. Both are wrong. lol I’m so tired of her pretending like she’s not Whitley Gilbert 🥲
They are still her friends including Mike Will who helped her produce the Bangerz album. They all still have a lot of love for Miley and she does as well for them. You don’t see them much anymore because every era she has is different but she still works with Mike from time to time
Sinéad worded it perfectly. The ‘they will cleverly make you think this is what you wanted’ is so beyond accurate and not just for the music industry
No, this was what Miley wanted, she even adressed this particular story with Sineard in her backyard sessions video talks. This era was so amazing and so iconic.
Exactly.
@@tomastelisek8843just wait until she speaks on certain things when she’s older and see if she says the same thing
@@ValerieAbena she is 30 now, she was 20 then. she already grew older and talked about it, you are just projecting and wishing her intentions were what you wish they were.
@@carolinalopes7640 didn’t know there’s a cut off point for growing older 😂. She could still change her mind about it ‘when she’s older’ like I said. The previous response seemed immature to me
Adore You is my mf songggggg.... can't believe we just rushed passed it like that.
I remember when all this happened when I was about to start my sophomore year in high school gosh the drama, the controversy, the appropriation it was everything 2013. In retrospect I can split on the fact that some of the backlash Miley got was ridiculous and rooted in sexism bc she was not conforming to a specific type of femininity and making a “respectable way” of transitioning into adulthood but the other backlash it deserved for her cultural appropriation especially when the black hip hop influences were used for the shock value promo and barely there in the album and then when she stripped that down and said she was bored of it like … yeah it’s hard to take her seriously after that I still love plastic hearts and like a few songs off of endless summer vacation. In fact this situation back in 2013 helped me lean into the topics of cultural appropriation alongside Taylor swift twerking references in the shake it up video and Kardashians cosplaying into black womanhood aesthetics
The album as a whole was a hit and miss there are some songs that are good/great and there are other songs that age like milk. I feel Miley is more better as a single artist than a album artist
Exactly. As much as some of the criticisms she got were very deserved, others were unfair. People really did want her to raise their kids
god damn they tore miley to shreds during this era 😭
Don’t curse God name learn some respect
@@CupcakeFairy777 LOLLL✋
Her best era ❤
That VMA performance was the last huge iconic moment from the award show. I honestly dislike it because it was very try-hard and unnecessarily cringe, but it definitely got people talking even to this day.
Yes. I think that’s honestly the last time I heard anything iconic and wild happen at an awards show. 2013 was pretty much the last year that pop music really was pushing the limits and Miley definitely pushed the limit lol
The appropriations Era 😂😂😂😂😂
I feel like this album/era's influence is often understated these days.... Album eras have always been a thing since at least Madonna, but I'd argue this was one of the core albums of the 2010s to solidify the concept of eras as a cultural "moment" with very distinct visuals, sound, etc. for every single album - you can look at a picture of miley and know exactly what year it was taken in and what song(s) she was promoting, which I think has become much more common and defined after Bangerz (look at Dua, Halsey, Taylor especially from 1989 on, Billie, etc). Again this has always been a thing, and I think artists like Gaga and Rihanna especially helped contribute to it as well, but if you were to ask someone for pop albums they think of as complete MOMENTS wholly in and of themselves, Bangerz is probably going to come up a lot. I also think Miley helped pave the way for young pop girls to be this type of sexually explicit without as much backlash - people loved to call Halsey a Lana ripoff back in the day but (as someone who has been a fan of halsey since before her debut album even dropped) I would argue she owes just as much if not more to Miley, at least visually. I also don't know if Ariana's transition from teen idol to pop sex symbol would've gone as well for her if Miley hadn't just done the same thing but a lot messier lol. All that said, even though I like a lot of the songs and sympathize with Miley for all the backlash she received, this album has always left kind of a bad taste in my mouth for how it rode in so hard on hip hop/Black culture, to the point people credit Miley with things she was copying, and then she completely dropped all that once she got bored of it. I don't want to say this was never "authentically" her because I don't know her, but it does make me question to what extent she actually really loves/loved hip hop culture and all that, & how much of it was just her running from her disney image
Idk Halsey had her/their own Tumblr swag.
For pop sure, but rock albums like paramore brand new eyes, all Mcr albums etc, had a huge difference from the previous and so on after
I think Ariana had a little less of a hardcore innocent image to break like Miley. Nickelodeon isn't known for a squeaky clean image
Miley has always expressed love for hip hop wayyy before the Bangerz era so I don’t think it was her hopping on a phase of riding any type of culture. It was definitely authentically her at that time period and she was in her 20s. Most 20 year olds love to party 24/7
i see you’re close to 100k and i can’t wait! rooting for you. also loved the video 😊
Thank you 🫶🏾
Miley Cyrus Albums Ranked
1. Plastic Hearts
2. Can’t Be Tamed
3. Attention: Miley Live
4. Endless Summer Vacation
5. Breakout
6. Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz
7. Bangerz
8. Younger Now
9. The Time of Our Lives
10. Meet Miley Cyrus
11. She Is Coming
Was it tacky? Absolutely, but seeing her do whatever she wants however she wants was so inspiring
When I tell you this album is a vibeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!😫❤❤❤ I completed middle school & gone through "my first heartbreak" when Bangerz came out. I listen to this faithfully especially when im cleaning my house 😂❤
Yessss SMS makes me actually wanna do chores lol
The Bangerz era is surprisingly my favorite era of hers. Followed by plastic hearts
Could you do MARINA's "Electra Heart"? The era was so iconic
Was thinking of a marina topic today (I think I have one)
thank uu@@naomi.cannibal
This is her best era so far in my opinion
excited to watch. Thank you Naomi.
this album spawned a generational anthem for me and this era hits home. I'm 30 and "we can't stop" is my generational anthem, that one song that defines a time, my generation, our early 2000s - 2010s millennial/gen z cuspers, whoever it is...this era is who we are and I'm not surprise it was Miley who ushered it in, she's a queen, a trailblazer to us! Love this era, it's truly a treasure! Defined a whole generation!
Bangerz certainly was Miley’s Good Girl Gone Bad era, that definitely had some bops; but I didn’t like how she essentially used hip hop culture as a costume and scapegoat for her outlandish behavior during that time. She made money off the black aesthetic and when she was done she took off that costume to be welcomed by white audiences
Yea, I agree that's my one quip about this era with how Miley treated black culture as disposable once it no longer benefited her. Still appreciate Bangerz to this day though and the pixie cut was iconic!!
she collaborated and shared that platform with many black artists and never claimed to invent any of that, actually when they started saying she invented twerking she was the one saying it was obviously not the case and explained were it came from and how her dancers influenced her, she also gave a platform to many disabled, queer and poc back when it was something still seen as uncool and could "ruin your career" so I don't really understand why ppl think that, she never claimed rock or country but has been influenced by that too but that was never an issue yet we keep ppl in the industry who have actually been racist or dated them sooooo
@@miguelstarboy5572Here goes the white person speaking on cultural appropriation.
Rock and country are white genres. They originated in black communities but were taken over by white people. Which is an entirely different conversation, but that’s why no one cared when she was inspired by them. She belonged there.
She had never shown interest in hip hop/trap up until she wanted to be rebellious. That’s the problem. Hiphop is synonymous with white people wanting to “be bad” or wanting to rebel against whatever they’re trying to rebel against. When they’re done, they move on and go back to what they were listening to before. She hasn’t done hiphop/trap since, and probably never will again. Why? Because she doesn’t actually care for those genres for herself. Which is fine, but that’s why it’s cultural appropriation.
It doesn’t matter that she didn’t claim to invent anything or share a platform with black artists. It was still cultural appropriation.
@@aijsdijdni3401 I'm latino coming from a mixed family so don't speak about me you don't know me, how would she ever show interest in that before if disney controlled everything and never allowed her to express it? lol every artist goes through different phases, it does matter cause ya'll always say that she used it and claimed it as hers when she never did and she's always been involved with many sub cultures and discriminated minorities before ppl did it for clouth, stop reaching so hard to hate on her just for being part of a genre like the other ones I mentioned, that's my point sis I never invalidated anybody's feelings chill out
She also did outwardly state that she disliked hip hop afterwards and that it had little substance after the Bangerz era. That was my issue with her, how are you going to profit off of stereotyping black people and literally discard the aesthetic and genre to say you’re going “back to your roots”
I love Sinead but girl... I will say though, Miley was even more out of pocket for the Amanda Bynes comment
No the way she wouldnt have gotten away with that today…. Idk how people reacted back then bc I don’t remember hearing people talk about it
Seeing this era in concert was CRAZY the set and all the visuals. I must’ve been a junior in hs, I didn’t know how iconic it would be. I never listen to any of the songs now but I remember loving Rooting for my Baby and GetItRight and I still think they are some of Miley’s underrated songs. I wonder if it has any replay value to others. It’s also kinda crazy how the title track had Brittany and they didn’t choose it as a third single.
It’s interesting that Miley seems to regret most of her eras or doesn’t revisit them. I grew up watching Hannah/miley and have a soft spot for her but yeah the use of blackccent and twerking was….a choice 😶 I love the Kenya mention she’s one of my favorite creators.
I cannot believe it has been ten years since Miley released Bangerz! I still listen to it all the time.
honestly we need to talk more about Blurred lines, that song's lyrics are literally about how he doesn't care about a woman's consent and will keep pursuing her when she said no, i encourage you to read them it's actually disgusting. that guy makes me sick.
Belieeeeve me I was heavy on tumblr when that song was popular so I saw the discourse!! I also talk about it in my banned songs video!
I love Bangerz era so Amazing because Miley felt like herself (a chameleon artist that can adapt to so many styles). Tbh half of the songs on the album for me at least aged like milk....but some of those aged like Pedro Pascal, like fine wine🍷
26:55 Calling Miley not a good singer... Deranged. Early 2010s media were something else
I loved this era and still to this day I get emotional thinking about her Bangerz tour. Nobody vibed with her back then, everyone called her ugly and disgusting - she wasn't catering to ANYBODY but herself and who showed up in her audience? Girls.❤
I admired how she expressed herself and her sexuality WITHOUT catering to men, she did what SHE wanted to do, whay SHE found hot even though it turned people away from her. She kept everything genuine to who she eas and didn't shy away from her impulses or desires, she took up space even though people demanded that she'd reduce herself. I admire shit like that.
I did love the Bangerz album and one song that she recorded with Tyler the Creator was called "The Way I Feel" and I wish she kept that song for that album but it ended up going to Jennifer Hudson and it was produced by Pharrell. I love her version so much.
8:55 One of the funniest parts is this guy talking about how Miley degraded an "honorable icon" referring to a damn foam finger lol. 😂 What about Robin Thicke? Also what??🤣
Right like… I’ve seen sports fans I’m sure worse has been done to a foam finger 😭
@@naomi.cannibal Especially once they get lit, I have definitely seen more than a dozen people being real raunchy with a foam finger in New Orleans during Mardi Gras 😂
The day after the We Can’t Stop video at school it’s all we were talking abt. Even our very grown ass teachers were weighing in on our discussions. Happy 10 years to the album that has everyone talking. Also when Miley commented on Kenya’s video I had to give her her things. Also wow Kenya’s power!
It’s interesting seeing remnants of the era still present today.
I recently read that Yeeun’s “Cherry Coke” was a Bangerz outtake created by Mike Will Made It.
I was not a Miley fan prior to this album. Although, I obviously listened to Party In The USA. So to me this is one of her best albums she has ever made. I loved it.
I was waiting for this one 🥰
Your videos are so detailed, you are the best
I love Wrecking Ball as a song but every time I hear it I picture Trixie Mattel pulling out her extensions and crying while she lipsyncs to it 💀
Hearing that Miley’s not great singer in that article upsets me! Shame on them! By the way, I love this album 💿!
Thanks for this amazing informative video ❤
I was only 14 when the Bangerz era happened and I like many others my age was shocked especially at the VMAs performance which imo will be the last memorable one.Looking back now,I realized the era was imtentional and Cant be tamed was just the starting point of her leaving her Disney image and for good reasons.The media judged her too harshly as a teenager and I can understand this era as her saying f you to people expecting her to stay squeaky clean.But I also understand the backlash like the cultural appropriation and how she used her privilege as a white woman to get in and out of the hiphop scene and also lash out at Sinead O Connor who was just being truthful as an idol to her aboit the industry and its nice to see Miley Cyrus acknowledge that and acknowledge her privilege when it came to incorporating black culture but also not feeling sorry for things that she didnt deserve to be hated on as a kid.Overall Bangerz was like a wild ride of a album rollout in a time of the 2010s that would change pop music and culture.
This was one of those albums that had more work done on the singles than the other tracks
Loved this album! I still bump FU, Get it right, and love money party whenever I'm feeling nostalgic 😅
Ohhh I was such a fan when this all happened! I didn't care for her before but the vma performances made me see her differently and everything clicked when Bangerz dropped, great songs, great visuals, epic tour, I even loved her way of writing captions / tweets. I gave her a huge cardboard joint during her show in Amsterdam that I made for her when I was at school. Such fun times :) Also 4x4 deserved single treatment.
This album was 🔥🔥 i played the hell out of it lol. Cant believe jts over 10 yrs old already. And i loved that short edgy cut on her but i admit i didnt like her antics. I think drive is actually my favorite song on there and someone else. And i really liked the song with big sean. I gotta revisit that album its been yrs.
LOVED this era and the entire album! The messiness is still unmatched! Thanks for covering this
Man I love this series I hope you do so many more
Thank you so much Naomi :)
I love wrecking ball, but I've yet to listen to bangerz in its entirety. Plastic hearts is probably in my top 25 albums though
When you talked about VMAs I forgot about her dancing lol side note: Did Pharrell ever get hate for "Blurred Lines"? Because didn't he write and produce it?
Would LOVE for you to do a break down of art angels Grimes era
6th grade me went FERALL over this album (and i still do)
This Era was truly iconic! I'm glad miley gave us an artist era we can look back on and tell our kids stories about. And what we were doing at the time 😂
I wouldn’t mind another Bangerz era not gonna lie 😂😂😂
To me despite her having amazing vocals she never fully realized her potential, however the bangerz tour is one of the best tours in recent pop memory imo. I’ve watched it back after years of forgetting abt it and i was so overwhelmed by the amount of color and chaos on the stage. If you wanna talk about diversity, she had dancers from the smallest to the biggest size, even including dwarf and so many different types of people. Insane stage set up, a huge inflated statue of her dog, a flying wiener (fr). Everyone seemed to have the best time on stage and miley had sm charisma, it truly doesn’t get boring for one second.. i just hope more artists would do such fun and colorful tours that just felt like a massive rave. I also heard miley funded the tour on her own and you can tell a lot of money and dedication went into it. Honestly watching this tour while stoned is a blast i highly recommend it
i LOVEEEEE Bangerz its legit one of my favorite albums, crazy i never quite liked FU specially bc FM ft’s on it. On My Own , GetitRight, 4x4 , Do My Thang , Someone Else , Bangerz EVERY SINGLE SONGGGGG i cherish the album so much for the way it introduced me to pop in my own way in it initial release and now being in my 20’s and re discovering the album as im actually experiencing the things being sung abt.
Rooting for My Baby is one of all time favorite Miley songs ❤️. while chaotic, that era gave us some true *Bangerz*
Unpopular opinion •
Miley Cyrus used black culture to “shed her good girl image” and “make an impact on pop music” just to turn around 2 years later and claim that “Nicki Minaj isn’t a polite person.” Alluding that Nicki is difficult to work with. Even though it could be argued that Miley was in fact just trying to immolate the likes of a Nicki Minaj during her Bangerz era.
That’ll always leave a bad taste in my mouth
Took too long to find a comment like this! Miley, like other white female artists use and put aside black culture aesthetic when it's convenient
Bangerz truly changed the trajectory of my life
2:18 i remember seeing that performance live as a kid and i saw nothing wrong with it until the next day everyone was saying she was a stripper, the media is wild lol
4x4 not being a single ....one of the most illogical choices ever made this era
Even when I was young I LOVED bangers. No one took her seriously! This video was fun to recap!
I'm so happy for this video
Bangerz made me realize what fun was and now the music is listen to MUST be fun
2013 was so epic lol, especially the latter half. Yours Truly, Pure Heroine, Self Titled, Bangerz, AND PRISM? Meanwhile this was when Vine was POPPIN’ and being referenced everywhere. It’s really no wonder I was so distracted in junior year of high school 😂
P.S: I’m sure you’ve had the idea brought up before, but I’d love to see an Eras Analyzed on Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” 🍋
I remember being in middle school and i downloaded 23 on my ipod and listened on repeat.
The WASPs were absolutely hysterical when she did that photoshoot. I mean you woulda thought she had displayed some truly atrocious behavior but in reality it was a weirdly styled photoshoot (her dad in that one pic was the only "questionable" part).Very wild times for sure.
Can please do a video on Ariana Grande during her “Dangerous Woman” & “Thank U Next” albums which was her most popular & controversial eras
It’s insane to me how negative people view showing skin. Miley helped break the walls down so that being explicit, showing skin, being sexy, and a lil vulgar isn’t considered disgracing yourself.
I love this era. This era made people accept that Miley is an adult. People had to accept that she is no longer Hannah Montana or a child star. This album is amazing. Nevermind the antics and controversy the songs are great. The woke era could never give us such memories.
I HATED her during this bc of the culture appropriation 😭 and seeing all her tone deaf comments makes me feel justified. Otherwise the backlash she got for growing up is hard to hear about bc i started loving her during her plastic hearts era & now🫶🏾
It was an amazing decision for her to work with MWMI.
you should do a video on miley cyrus and her dead petz!!
bangerz tour was sooo much fun live 🥰
I've been a huge miley fan since 2006 and the bangerz tour was my first tour i saw and It was life changing!! sooo iconic so much fun!
loved bangerz one of my fav miley albums maybe even my favourite
In my opinion Miley has always been rock pop. From cant be tamed to her self titled album Miley Cyrus. Even in the song we cant stop what made it so iconic was the blend between this love child of hip hop and rock. That era was such a subversion from her pop roots and a clear departure from her previous reputation. Miley music and style now seems like a natural result of her evolution as an artist. She has both the signature blond and brown and her records definite leave an impression of all those sounds. She definitely paved a way for women in pop to be expressive and break out of the typical pop mold.
The Hannah Montana soundtrack was a banger album ❤
Classics on classics
I remember my gay ass wanting the album but my parents were being h0mophobic so my cousin and aunt secretly burned me a copy and I played that in my CD player like no one’s business 😍🥰
Miley Cyrus’s parental guidance for ages.
Hannah Meets Miley’s and her first two albums (G rated)
Miley Cyrus’s 3rd album (PG/PG-13/14A
Miley’s Cyrus’s 4th and 5th album (18A/R rated)
Miley Cyrus’s now. Miley has matured with her 6th-8th album.
Favorite song: adore you!!
My favorite songs are definitely FU and Get it Right!!
I knew very little of Miley Cyrus when Bangerz came out. I found her annoying, myself being a white European girl growing up on Jane and Finch one of the roughest neighbourhoods in Toronto where drill rap artists are murder victims. I can tell the difference when someone is collaborating with rap artists, and when someone is cosplaying. I felt secondhand embarrassment. However Plastic Hearts really showed off her voice
Miley Cyrus played heavily into the over-sexualization, objectification and "come seat on my junk" aspect of hip hop culture to get a rise from the public and distance herself from the girl next door Disney image. It seems she was a rich white girl that dabbled into the most surface level parts of hip hop culture as a means of young adult rebellion. Besides that I do love Wrecking Ball and this video made me want to listen to the album.
Miley dead petz is one of the best albums I’ve ever heard. I’ll forever respect her for that project.
I remember watching that vms performance at like 10yrls and I was just like wtf 😳 😭😂😂
omg. i was like 13 when this album came out and we would go to a park and on the sling we would act like miley on a wrecking ball lmao such fun era
Actual fact Miley wrote Wrecking Ball. The internet is just full of conspiracy trying to relate songs to other artist. She wrote that song. And even wrote her feature on Beyonce's recent album!