"Pitchy Strippers:" Macabre Exhibitionists Take the Stage at Video Music Awards

When Lady Gaga seems wholesome by comparison, you've done something wrong.

Miley Cyrus, who is crazy but also rich so, like those totty English aristocrats who wander around their estates re-naming rabbits "Zobblydops" and birds "Fleegurrumps" like addled Adams in the Garden of Eden, she's allowed to remain free, or, should I say, at large.

The VMAs, which are a show, let's face it, pretty much just for children (do twenty year olds even listen to pop anymore?), is essentially now an X-rated show which should be called Baby's First Porn.

Here's Will Smith's family reacting in horror to what Cyrus is up to:

That isn't a joke, by the way. That's their actual reaction. (Update: A commenter says that I'm wrong; he says Rush says that picture was taken in reaction to Lady Ga-Ga's performance, not Miley Cyrus' is. I don't actually know.)

There's a bad video of the performance here; I don't see any good video of it out yet. She begins the show with some sexual pantomime involving teddy bears, and then it just gets distasteful after that.

It's like a Super Bowl halftime show if the two teams vying for the championship were the San Francisco Schizophrenics and the New York City Exhibitionists.

Oh No:

She sent me some tweets that I thought, frankly, were inappropriate.

Posted by: Anthony Weiner

More: Lady Gaga's performance can be seen here.

Kelly Clarkson apparently dropped a great burn on Twitter, saying that she just watched "a couple of pitchy strippers" on the VMAs.

Having now watched Gaga's act -- eh. Apart from near nudity (skimpy thong bikini), which frankly counts as "G" rated now as far as the VMAs go, the rest of the performance was just some old Quick Change act stuff. Yeah, for some reason, it has long been a staple of magic shows and variety shows to change your clothes quickly.

She does an especially lame version of a Quick Change act in which she just takes off or puts on small items of clothing, and wigs. And no point do you think, "Wow, how did she do that change?"

I have to think Will Smith's family was reacting to Cyrus, not Gaga. Confirmed: Fox and Friends says the Smith family was reacting to Cyrus. They have some short clips of the pitchy stripper.

posted by Ace at 12:36 PM

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