Miley Cyrus is trying to breakout of her Disney role by introducing a more sultry side; but is the tween popstar moving to fast for her younger audience? Miley is doing things that no one under the age of 18 should do - which would be fine if she herself were not still 17.
Her new video 'Can't Be Tamed' is much darker seductive than her previous videos, that's a definite. If you haven't seen the video, yet, then I urge you to so that you know what I'm talking about for the rest of this review.
A video like 'Can't Be Tamed' would be a great release...if it wasn't released by a minor. I'm sorry, but could she not have waited a few more months to release it so she'd be 18?
The song itself is fairly decent; my only fault with it is the fact that she's screaming 'can't be tamed!' everywhere. But for a pop/rock song, it's not bad. I don't feel that her voice is powerful enough to pull it off with flying colours, but she did a fairly decent job.
But while the song is okay, it's the music video I have a difficult time adjusting to. While I like the fact that American artists are starting to pull in a lot of inspiration from Japanese and Korean music videos, it would be better if they stated that was their inspiration instead of acting like they came up with the entire concept on their own.
Anyone who is a fan of Asian music would instantly see all of the similarities pouring from this video.
Allow me to point out some of the obvious:
Take the bird-theme for the video (for this in particular, only the beginning); we see a woman with the birdcage head-dress. But wait a minute! Doesn't this have a strange like to a scene from Ayumi Hamasaki's 2006 video 'Ladies Night'?
And what about the bird-theme in general? Doesn't it seem odd that it resembles Koda Kumi's 2004 'Kiseki' video?
And, of course, the wings. I think I've seen this somewhere before.
Hm....
Also the nails. Japan is known for doing things with their nails, so when I saw how Miley had hers done in the video, I'm like, "Who does she think she's kidding?"
There's also traces of hints from Koda Kumi's 'Ningyo-Hime' and Ayumi Hamasaki's 'I LOVE' videos. In particular with 'I LOVE' is where Ayumi's in a birdcage. With Ningyo-Hime, it's where Koda Kumi's a trapped doll. So, let's face it. Miley Cyrus and her staff will never admit that this is where they're getting their inspiration and THAT'S what agitates me. Otherwise, the music video for 'Can't Be Tamed' as no originality whatsoever.
I like Miley, but the way she's going about this whole 'Breaking From Disney' thing is all wrong. She should have done a slow transition from cute and poppy to sexy and sultry. Most of her fans are still little girls and this is the role model they'll be looking up to?
At least with Koda Kumi and other artists, their music isn't meant for little kids; and the ones that are are very cutesy.
Sure, I've been a Koda Kumi fan since I was 12, and she's not exactly known for being modest, but at least her personality is modest. She's still a respectful person; and on top of that, she was 18 before she started doing things like that. Actually, she was older. She was about 20 - two years after debut. She wasn't a minor.
Their audience wasn't kid-friendly to begin with - that's what I'm getting at.
