Who is the Worst Celebrity Influence of 2009?

Posted by Norman on October 30, 2009
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I’ve always believed that celebrities make two big sacrifices the moment they become popular in the eyes of the world – one is the invasion of privacy which is inevitable since their status automatically make them public figures ready to be dissected by everyone and the other is the commitment to become positive role models, especially to the youth. I’m pretty sure they can handle the first compromise with flying colors because being the target of showbiz reporters and paparazzis ups their market worth. However, a good number cannot always lay claim to being good role models. It can be the hardest to assume if their true characters are far from the kind of image their handlers want to project.

So when I chanced upon the article about the Worst Celebrity Infliuence of 2009, I am no longer surprised. What ticked me somewhat is that the person who copped the title is 16 year-old Miley Cyrus who happens to be an underage Hollywood celebrity associated with the Disney Channel as Hannah Montana and in Rated G Walt Disney movies. I am amused, though, that the very people who voted her as such in the polls are the same ones in her target fan demographics – the youth.

Miley Cyrus

When you factor in the kind of money she makes, the least she can do is make sure that she sustains a consistently favorable image to her fans and showbiz followers worldwide. Read the following article and you will know why she is summarily tagged as the “bad influence” of 2009.

Miley Cyrus voted worst celebrity influence of 2009

Reuters, Oct 28, 2009 1:02 pm PDT
Miley Cyrus, one of Disney’s hottest stars of the past three years with hit records and hit films, has been voted the worst celebrity influence of 2009 by the very people who made her a star, tweens and teens, according to an online poll on Wednesday.
Cyrus, 16, took 42 percent of votes in the poll for AOL’s JSYK.com (Just So You Know) website aimed at 9-15 year-olds, pushing Britney Spears and rapper Kanye West into second and third places, respectively, in a section on worst celebrity influences of the year.

No reasons were given for the poor showing of the singer-actress and the popular star of Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana” television series.

But the ranking follows a year which has seen Cyrus controversially dating a 20 year-old model, making “slant eyes” in an informal snapshot criticized as mocking Asians, and being accused of pole-dancing on a teen awards show.

Cyrus also came in No. 4 in the category of favorite female artist, behind 19-year-old country sensation Taylor Swift, “I Kissed a Girl” singer Katy Perry and R&B star Beyonce. The poll attracted almost 50,000 votes.

“I think Miley is in an interesting space where she is trying to graduate from being ‘Hannah Montana’ and a Disney channel celebrity and coming into her own and having a career beyond Disney,” said Stephanie Cohen, editor of JSYK.com.

“I think her fans still want her to be the sweet Hannah Montana and she is trying to age up…Parents are definitely resisting it,” Cohen told Reuters.

Cyrus has been one of the biggest teen idols in the world since 2006, selling more than 7 million albums, starting her own fashion line, and taking $154 million at the worldwide box-office for “Hannah Montana: The Movie” in 2009.

West, whose interruption of Swift’s acceptance speech at a music award show in September was deemed the most shocking moment of 2009, took 19 percent of votes in the worst celebrity influence section.

Swift, the best-selling U.S. artist of 2008, has risen again in popularity this year.

“I think Taylor Swift has done a great job of showing her true self and coming across as very sweet and down to earth. A lot of her songs are about the underdog and teens can really relate to her,” said Cohen.

Elsewhere, the stars of vampire movies “Twilight” and its forthcoming sequel “New Moon” dominated the JSYK.com poll. Kristen Stewart was voted favorite female movie actress and Taylor Lautner surged past Robert Pattinson in both the favorite male movie star and “cool guy you’d like to hang out with” categories.

Full results can be found at http://www.jsyk.com

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

I’m no Miley Cyrus fan, but I don’t expect to see her in (facebook) photos like this:

What was she thinking? And don't even come up with excuses that she's just an ordinary teen because that's so lame.

Nobody’s perfect but if someone like Miley Cyrus has the Hollywood power to put in one good thing after another instead of the opposite, then why can’t she be disciplined enough, or altogether careful at the very least? I won’t accept excuses that she’s just an ordinary American teen because she is not. No ordinary teen earns millions of dollars and commands her father to stay by her side like an obedient pup who can’t even make the slightest bark in contradiction.

Anyways, I’m just happy my young niece doesn’t idolize the girl and, in fact, switches channels whenever Miley is on the small screen. ‘Nuff said.

Thank God it’s Friday!!!

35 comments on “Who is the Worst Celebrity Influence of 2009?”

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  2. I kno a lot of you say she is just trying to be a normal teen but sometimes you have to choose between being famous and normal and she chose famous therefore she has to be more careful than “normal teens” because everyones watching her including children who look up to her so…

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    • To Miley Cyrus fans, I hate to burst your bubble but the girl should avoid being taken pictures like the one below because it really is a turn-off.

      Miley in one of her concerts.

  5. Hay miley i luv u (no homo) anyway i admire everything that u do i dnt care wat anybody says. anyway u can text me on yahoo and my password on yahoo is daidai u can text me anytme cuz i always wanted to text u ok bye bye lol

  6. heyy!!! y’no i did n blive dat she’s her….i..mean..MILEY????
    i wanna share a thing wid u dat m n indian and i m…sorry..i WAS a big fan f mileyn. In my grade ders a guy’, he’s my best friend and u know he’s a huge huge huge fan of miley
    i hope he’s unknown bout mileys ridiculous fotogrphs derwise he’ll b 222 upset
    hey u all guys plz tell me as bieng his friend shud i be unknown 2 d fotographs or just be calm n help him out?????
    well i did n blive dat its mileys …..! but i thnk katie is rite i mean dat shes a teen n can…oh leave it n leve her alone n 4 now i can JUST SIMPLY :
    NO MORE HANNAH MONTANNAH SHOWS ON DISNEY—–SHEEER WASTE F TIME….!!!
    reply me at:taniamehra_22@yahoo.com
    age;13 yrs

  7. Miley cyrus may be a b***h, but she’s a hell of a b***h 🙂 i don’t care. i don’t know her personally, so i don’t care much about her attitude or whatsoever. i only see her on tv, so her on-cam attitude is the only attitude i can criticize, and i don’t think there’s much to say about her on-cam. She’s pretty darn amazing 🙂

  11. could you please send me the link of Miley’s profile on facebook?

  12. miley i like your shows Hannah Montana but you are very pretty there but look at your self in the marrow with your under where. in august 2011 no more Hannah Montana on Disney channel.

  13. a picture with an underwear embarrassed wow miley you should look your self in the marrow
    ones you ugly.

    • miley i love ur new movie the last song and i dont like how people r saying that ur a slut and that u are ugly. i am 11 years old and look up to u but i would like if u stop puting pictures of ur self on the internet like that. if u can do this for me i will tell all my friends that u are the awesomest person in the world and if you dont stop doing that then i wont do any thing like say ur nice or do any thing like that. i am ur number one fan and if u come up to me and sign some thing for me i wont scream even though i am ur biggest fan.

      p.s. if u think i am weird dont write back and if u think i am kinda nice would u plzzzzz write back??????????

  15. Hi miley,i am a very big fan of yours.I really admire you very much but the thing is that i want to ask you if you could text me your email address so that we can text each other more.THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.VANESSA.

  16. miley cyrus is no fan of mine at all…why would she take a pic like that in her underwear??

  17. leave her alone she is 17 now she just doin wat every other teen would do. nobodies perfect. ever1 makes mistakes sometimes and miley may have made 1 but don’t hold it aganist her just b-cuz shes famous, no1 would hold it over yuh if yuh did something like this so don’t do it 2 her. it is not fair b-cuz your not perfect either. if she wants to be sexy let her if yuh do not like live with it 2-bad. poor thing she makes 1 mistake and evey1 holds it aganist her i wouldn’t do that 2 yuh so don’ t do it 2 her. Paige-Marie Kryla age 13

    • i agree with paige b-cuz she is tring to be a nomal teen and when u guys say those things about her than i dont think u are making her feel any better,so stop i agree with paige 100 percent and there is nothing u could do about it………..

      p.s. i am 11 years old

  19. Look at you guys. Fighting over Miley Cyrus (like she’s worth it), when we should be confronting the real evils of this world – rampant consumerism, tyrannical despots the world over, the children of Gaza, the recession and, above all, JUSTIN BIEBER!!! If we can end his reign of terror, what chance does little miss Cyrus have? If we band together, we can end this age of shitty music! All in favour of ending this age of musical torture, buy the singal ‘Welcome to the Black Parade’ by MCR wherever you can, and play it for all the world to hear! Show these fools that we do have taste, and that we shall not be subjected to this bastardisation of music any longer! Welcome to the black parade. People of the internet and music lovers everywhere, UNITE!!!

  20. The only way to see celeb real personality is to see there photos off the screen ! So i think we all know miley’s real personality according to this 1 !

  22. Hi miley,i am a very big fan of yours.I really admire you very much but the thing is that i want to ask you if you could text me your email address so that we can text each other more.THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.VANESSA.

  23. well, what can i say?

    miley cyrus looks all innocent in the TV, and movies but in real life all actors are different, like tigerwoods, he is a excelent golf player and is admired so much in TV,
    but guess what?

    he is a sexaddict ok?

    but hey, katie has a point, teenagers at that point do this kind of stuff, like put pictures of themselves all “hot” and etc, so its something kind of normal you would see this days, and its not that old this post ok? it was just some months ago man!

    but you and her have a point so, yeah. both are right. (not a fan of miley cyrus) but i still do not think she should be blamed like that.

    • i so agree with yuh guys she is 17 now she can do watever she want i mean every makes mistakes right and nobody holds it aganist yuh so why do it 2 milet just b-cuz she is famous, wellll she is a regular girl 2 just with alot of money. so leave her alone, every teenage girls does something 2 get male attention, i mean i did something similiar 2 her and nobodies holding it aganist me so watz the point just leave da poor girl alone. Paige- marie Kryla 🙂
      age 13.

  25. These photos are old. Like all teenagers Miley Cyrus is just experimenting. She has alot to learn but is hardly as bad as other teenagers you see in the public eye. Shes not falling out of clubs drunk, abusing paps or many other things most teenagers do. These photos were personal and people should respect that. Love you Miley, full respect x

    • Just as this particular blog is old (Oct. 30, 2009). She could’ve amended her ways since then.

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