Old Lady No Longer Wants Girls Just to Have Fun

Just Wanted to Have Fun

Ripped from today's "Life at Five" by Wombat-socho at The Other Mccain:

Miley Cyrus' VMA Performance: Cyndi Lauper Says It Encourages "Date Rape" 

In a radio interview with Australia's Brig & Lehmo on Gold 104.3, the '80s superstar slammed the former Hannah Montana actress for her racy performance at Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards.

"That was girl gone wild. So sad, so sad," Lauper told the radio hosts when asked about Cyrus' bumping and grinding as the latter joined forces with Robin Thicke for a medley of their hits "We Can't Stop" and "Blurred Lines."

No Longer Just Wants to Have Fun

The 60-year-old Grammy winner, who recently earned a Tony for scoring the Broadway musical Kinky Boots, said she was disturbed by the musical pairing of the songs, saying it sent the wrong message to Miley's mostly adoring teen fans.

"She's in a song that literally says that the blurred lines allowed you to—when a woman says no, she means yes—and that's frightful because that's date rape," noted Lauper...

"And there she is, a young twentysomething trying to prove she can hang with the big boys and girls, you know, basically simulating a Girl Gone Wild video onstage. And I just felt like that was so beneath her and raunchy, really raunchy," added Lauper. "It wasn't even art."

She would have had more moral authority if she hadn't been an early advocate of the youth rebellion industry.  The very least she could do was admit to changing her mind a little as she got older.  Now she reminds us more of the mother in her iconic video...



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