Miley Cyrus Blasts MTV VMAs For Sexism: ‘No One Would Ever Say That About Kanye’
On an episode of ‘The Joe Rogan Experience,’ Miley Cyrus reflects on her recent MTV VMAs performance and ends up blasting the production’s directors for sexism — at one point slamming, “No one would ever say that about Kanye West.”
The 27-year-old entertainer says, “I was just asking some questions, not even on some diva sh*t. I wanted the lights to be turned off and then the lighting of the room to just be lighting me. So no key light, no beauty light. The beauty light is always used on women and I said turn the f***ing lights off. You would never tell Travis Scott or Adam Levine that he couldn’t turn the beauty light off. They said, ‘Okay, we’ll just do the same thing that we would do with the guys,’ because that’s what I want. And then something that I was doing … for the VMAs, my bracelets kept getting caught in all this sh*t and they said, ‘You want to be treated like a guy? We wouldn’t be dealing with this if a guy was doing it.'”
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She continues, “And I said, ‘Well, a guy wouldn’t be doing this because a guy doesn’t sell your show with sex the way that I’m going to. And I’m aware of that. It’s a ridiculous conversation and also embarrassing. The balance that I’ve found is firm and kind. I don’t lose my kindness, but also don’t become a mat, but I am firm about what I want. In a way, you might expect someone [to say] ‘She was a diva, she was a b***h,’ but okay like have The Weeknd come in here and say the same thing, or Kanye is like a creative God and it’s like, come on, why am I not getting that I’m a creative mastermind but I’m becoming a b***h? No one would ever say that about Kanye West choosing what lighting he wants on a performance.”
Cyrus says she was adamant about the production quality of her performance because, “The VMAs is a pop culture show celebrating pop culture, and I wanted to bring that especially in this time of COVID-19 [with] all these at-home performances.”
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— MTV (@MTV) August 31, 2020