Have a friend that's done you wrong? Disney is now providing you with an unintentional revenge opportunity: a five a.m. wake-up call from their controversial tween money-machine Miley Cyrus.
The back-to-school site Hannah Montana Calls is a Wall-Mart campaign purportedly for parents trying to woo their kids out of bed in the morning with a semi-personalized phone call from the singer.
But since you can type in any phone number into the website, it has a great potential for misuse. Like sex predators hounding their prey. CONTINUED »
Miley Cyrus has taken a break from leaking scandalous photos to talk to Seventeen magazine about her former secret relationship with Nick Jonas. Keep in mind the two are 15 years old as you listen to Miley rehash the greatest romance of our time:
When Miley Cyrus was chosen to host the Teen Choice Awards, which was filmed last night and will air tonight, we’re unsure whether or not the producers expected her to hog the spotlight as much as she obviously did. Judging from the pictures, she treated the entire awards show like one of her infamous YouTube videos, including her BFF Mandy in most of her bits and ruining a perfectly good LL Cool J performance.
Miley Cyrus‘ Good Morning America performance today in Bryant Park further cemented the theory that she is a miniature Britney Spears in the making. The choreographed dance moves, the giggly interviews — she’s a pro at the ripe age of 15, which means she’s due for a rehab stint within the next three years.
Just imagine what Miley Cyrus could've done for Vanity Fair's September issue. After all, the racy pics of the 15-year-old shining beacon of the American economy in the June issue have landed Graydon Carter his best-selling issue of the year. A very respectable 435,000 units moved on the newsstand. And she wasn't even on the cover.
With the numbers in hand, we can finally analyze what this issue became: An exercise in publicity.
It's likely Carter and photographer Annie Liebowitz didn't know they were sitting on circulation gold; they just thought they had secured pop culture's biggest rising star for a photo spread in the well. Instead, once the photos hit, they were met with cries of exploitation, which forced the Cyrus camp to claim the girl was taken advantage of, while Carter and Liebowitz stood by their decision.
When it came to media coverage, the story wasn't just relegated to insider media coverage — there was the celebrity factor too, which meant Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood were weighing in, splashing the magazine's cover (of Bobby Kennedy) and the Cyrus pictures in an endless loop of free VF advertising. The magazine racked up countless millions of image exposures — as 915 letters and a 20X traffic spike on the website — and left the confines of anything Conde Nast publicity could control.
And when it comes to the numbers, it was to their benefit.
But not every magazine can capitalize on continuous drum beating about a controversy inside their pages. And that includes a Conde Nast cousin. CONTINUED »
Vanity Fair's scandalous photos of 15-year-old Miley Cyrus in its June issue generated the largest outpouring of reader mail the magazine has ever seen. Some 915 notices arrived at the magazine weighing in on the pictorial, pushing the response from Jennifer Aniston's cover to second place (only half as many people bothered to write in about her). But if you consider all the discussion about these pics, 915 letters is actually quite a low number — the number of comments plastered across the Internet about the ordeal probably number in the hundreds of thousands. But those people know how to use computers and email, and do not have to rely on the 17th century hobby of scrawling ink across parchment to have their voices heard.
To drum up buzz for her single "7 Things" and its Brett Ratner-directed music video release, Disney starlet Miley Cyrus claims the song is about an ex-boyfriend who she wants "to be upset. That was my point. Maybe after my video we'll hear from somebody, because it's pretty honest." Naturally, the finger pointing lands squarely on Jonas Brothers star Nick Jonas, as the two were said to have dated last year — but let's not play pretend: the whole scenario was very likely a Mickey Mouse orchestrated set up to drive interest in their brands. And now that the two have "split" (just in time to promote the tour)? The perfect time for a "boys suck!" anthem!
Know what it's also perfect time for? Speculating on another break up … between Miley an Disney. CONTINUED »
Well, this is unsettling:
Miley Cyrus‘ pics in Vanity Fair may have been scandalous, but she should look on the bright side, because now she has a whole new crop of admirers! Only problem is, they’re felons.
Miley has received thousands of love letters from prison inmates since the magazine hit newsstands
Hannah Montana's ratings are down, she's growing up, and Disney needs new paper to print its tween cash on. That's why they've already found Miley Cryus' successor in 15-year-old Texas Demi Lovato. They're going to ease Lovato onto the scene with the move Camp Rock — and then the floodgates will be unleashed. Or, as Disney Channel president Gary Marsh says, "Once we find someone, we go all in." So then will come the music album, an opening act on the Jonas Brothers tour, and endless marketing to make sure she's a brand name by the time the new school year starts. Disney execs will also be issuing a restraining order against Annie Liebowitz. And while Disney insists it's not just a chopshop for tween talent, you'd be silly to think otherwise. Lovato's rise to stardom follows the tried-and-true path of child stars: guest spots that slowly turn into solo vehicles that eventually end up as market behemoths. Oh, and Lovato has one other Miley Cyrus factor: the dad-ager. Her stepfather Eddie De La Garza quit his job at a Ford dealership to become her co-manager (joining the Jonas Bros.' father Kevin Jonas Sr. to become, along with an agent and a publicist Lovato's "team"). Before long, he'll be posing with Lovato's head in his lap. [WSJ]
Here’s a good idea: Develop a video game to encourage the pedophilic tendencies of the Internet community by challenging them to take naughty photos of 15-year-old Miley Cyrus.
Just a few weeks after the Vanity Fair non-scandal, perhaps now isn't the best time for Miley Cyrus' "Got Milk?" ad to hit. But at least dad Billy Ray wasn't doing something creepy, like licking it off her upper lip.
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Hugh Hefner generously announced today that naked Miley Cyrus would be nakedly "welcomed in [his] magazine" full of naked ladies—when she's of age, of course. [Us] This isn't the first time that the doddering coot, or his kin, pulled such a stunt, knowing full well the offer would get a write up in the gossip columns, but that the starlets would never agree. Below, a look back at some of the million dollar deals, made by creepy old men, and Joe Francis, that never were. CONTINUED »
Deal or No Deal, that gimmicky hour of game show bile that employs some trade secret formula to determine how much money to give away to contestants while still raking in the dough from advertisers, is not as popular as it once was. Actually, it's the least popular it's ever been! Not even Star Wars-themed episodes can help. CONTINUED »
ELLEgirl (Or is it elleGIRL? Keep forgetting!) is that Hachette Filipacchi tween mag that killed its print version but, in a bout of separation anxiety, insisted on keeping the dot-com alive. It's also the website that's asking you to vote for the next Miley Cyrus, that human Disney brand.
Because it's a PG site, the poll actually asks you to pick among "12 teens who have what it takes to be the next It Girl," including Haley Joel Osment's sister Emily (left), iCarly's Miranda Cosgrove, and Missy Elliot music video breakdancer Alyson Stoner (right, from back then).
But what they're really asking is: Which rising tween starlet is going to be the next to skank it up for a magazine? It's going to be a tough call if you haven't read J-14 lately.
Important magazine people have important things to say about unimportant Miley Cyrus scandal. The New Yorker's David Remnick: "I think it's sanctimonious nonsense." [NYM]
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