Last night, Miley offered a grand entrance upon Jimmy Kimmel Live with a stirring rendition of “More to Lose.” As she chatted about her new album and film, “Something Beautiful,” it seemed an announcement pierced through the entire fanbase, regarding reactions shared across social media. Some admired the performance, while others louder voices turned, shall we say, somewhat subjective.
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One of the acts involved certain, shall we say, visually arresting moments involving shadows and frets due to dramatic lighting choices. One user went on a mini-rant in Italian all about how bad the production was, waxing lyrical on how the lights were so harsh that he could barely stand it, before retracting half of it to concede that he actually enjoyed listening to bits and pieces of the song: “If you had to read this and it brought your hatred, I accept it without any problem,” translated with a few melodramatic tones, admitting that they just couldn’t help themselves in articulating their back and forth feelings about the visuals.
Beyond that, there was an equal range of reactions from poetic to utterly weird. Someone posted this long poem that rambled on about endlessly spinning toward Miley, while another said, all caps, “WHEN I LOST MYSELF I FOUND IT #HOWUDOIN,” with the energy of someone who really did find something-but what remains unclear.
Even the fashion choices kept resurfacing with many commenting about this so-called spider-web-inspired dress. “Your spider girl dress! Love Spiderman! Love Spiderman!” came one comment, tagging Marvel and Disney with great enthusiasm. Another declared Miley to be “PRECIOSA” along with some teary-eyed emojis.
Some comments were, certainly, not positive: one-sided critiques flatly described her “the world’s most famous lot lizard,” coining a prediction of deterioration into the darkest depths that online discourse can fall. But, by and large, these darker interjections mostly gave way to widespread acclaim-that it was “iconic,” “sickening,” and tons of other affirmatives.
Of course, all this excitement quickly spilled out into talk and conspiracies about Miley’s next projects, with people demanding information about vinyl re-stocks and backyard sessions. Another group threw around ideas about what might have inspired “Something Beautiful.” A Brazilian fan just blurts, “eu te amo tanto mãe,” since apparently, Miley is mother now.
What does stand out is how Miley continues stirring strong reactions, positive and negative, to everything she does. Whatever it is-avant-garde fashion, vocal chops, or just her being Miley-the public cannot seem to look away or keep silent about it. Judging from last night’s response, this album rollout is going to be anything but dull.
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The comment section indeed shows how Miley’s fanbase holds multitudes: the poetic dreamers, the unforgiving critics, the fashion gurus, and those who are downright messed-up. Yet, they all agree on just one thing: if Miley does something, it’s worth talking about. And loudly, if you will. The performance might have been over for a while now, but evidently, everybody on the Internet was just getting warmed up.
