Life of Miley Cyrus: Looking beyond 'Hannah Montana'
She is practically two people — the real-life incarnation of Disney's billion-dollar "Hannah Montana" franchise, and Miss Miley Cyrus, a precocious Southern girl who just released 272 pages on the life lessons she has learned in all of her 16 years.
Here's the rest: Critics' Choice and Golden Globe nominations, an impressive Grammy performance alongside pal Taylor Swift, a Kids' Choice Award, the cover of Glamous Magazine, the premiere of "Hannah Montana: The Movie" this coming Friday.
And that's just been the first few months of 2009. Even at this young age she's more than just a starlet — Miley is a full-blown pop phenomenon. The line between Hannah the character and Miley the superstar is blurry at best.
The character takes on aspects of the real girl — both areTennessee natives dealing with a new life in Hollywood, and dadBilyy Ray Cyrus even plays her dad on the show. It's a level of fictional reality that makes perfect sense to teen viewers in this post- "The Hills" world.
"It's all very confusing,"Cyrus admits."It's not so separate. I think it's really proven that as much as Hannah changes and as much as Miley changes, then again it's all the same person."
She may be Disney's latest girl next door, but she has already weathered a few personal and professional storms that have portrayed her as not that innocent.
First there was the uproar over the Vanity Fair portrait that had her in little more than a sheet. Then came the personal photos leaked online of her posing suggestively in her bathroom.
Paparazzi follow her and her boyfriend everywhere. Miley's living out her teenage years while everyone's watching.
"She's just such a superstar that people are interested in everything she does, whether they love her or hate her. She's that one girl that everyone has an opinion on one way or another," says Matt Rettenmund, editor in chief of Popstar!Magazine. "She's as big or bigger than Britney Spear "People will always say that I'm over-exposed and that's what I want, all this attention," says Miley. "That's not it. What I love is the art of it all."
"Music is not something that was thrust upon her as another way to make money or make her name bigger. It's something that she genuinely wanted to pursue,"says Rettenmund.
And for all the control Disney could exert, she's a 16-year-old who does voice her opinion.
She is practically two people — the real-life incarnation of Disney's billion-dollar "Hannah Montana" franchise, and Miss Miley Cyrus, a precocious Southern girl who just released 272 pages on the life lessons she has learned in all of her 16 years.
Here's the rest: Critics' Choice and Golden Globe nominations, an impressive Grammy performance alongside pal Taylor Swift, a Kids' Choice Award, the cover of Glamous Magazine, the premiere of "Hannah Montana: The Movie" this coming Friday.
And that's just been the first few months of 2009. Even at this young age she's more than just a starlet — Miley is a full-blown pop phenomenon. The line between Hannah the character and Miley the superstar is blurry at best.
The character takes on aspects of the real girl — both areTennessee natives dealing with a new life in Hollywood, and dadBilyy Ray Cyrus even plays her dad on the show. It's a level of fictional reality that makes perfect sense to teen viewers in this post- "The Hills" world.
"It's all very confusing,"Cyrus admits."It's not so separate. I think it's really proven that as much as Hannah changes and as much as Miley changes, then again it's all the same person."
She may be Disney's latest girl next door, but she has already weathered a few personal and professional storms that have portrayed her as not that innocent.
First there was the uproar over the Vanity Fair portrait that had her in little more than a sheet. Then came the personal photos leaked online of her posing suggestively in her bathroom.
Paparazzi follow her and her boyfriend everywhere. Miley's living out her teenage years while everyone's watching.
"She's just such a superstar that people are interested in everything she does, whether they love her or hate her. She's that one girl that everyone has an opinion on one way or another," says Matt Rettenmund, editor in chief of Popstar!Magazine. "She's as big or bigger than Britney Spear "People will always say that I'm over-exposed and that's what I want, all this attention," says Miley. "That's not it. What I love is the art of it all."
"Music is not something that was thrust upon her as another way to make money or make her name bigger. It's something that she genuinely wanted to pursue,"says Rettenmund.
And for all the control Disney could exert, she's a 16-year-old who does voice her opinion.
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