Miley Cyrus had a shocking performance at the VMAs
but of course that every VMA there has to be something shocking
that takes place or else no one would ever
talk about the VMAs.
So uhm, during her performance she was
gyrating, she was twerking,
she was basically naked.
Uh, she was wearing like nude-colored leather or
broad panties kind of combination,
Um and, you know, she was just touching herself throughout the performance
(Man's voice) "Yees! Yes she was."
(Woman) There was a reference to "molly",
but of course that reference to molly is in her song so everyone saw it coming.
Now I think that this still-frame is one that you should focus on a little bit,
uh, because she makes a reference to "big booties",
uh, she had a bunch of black dancers and people are
upset with the way that she, uh.. some are claiming that she uses them as props
so we might talk about that a little bit.
(Man) Well, okay, now look. You cannot argue that the last picture did not include a large booty.
And you can't argue that she didn't put her own booty out there.
Or that she didn't touch herself.
Which she did that approximately - I counted - about a hundred and twenty eight times.
Okay, and here's the fun, uh, bathing outfit that you were referring to earlier
and then the twerking.
It was a lot of fun things going on. Mr. Thicke appeared to do Blurred Lines with her.
And then that happened.
Okay, alright, so by the way, she also used the bears as props.
And I was very offended for the bear community about that
*Woman laughs*
(Woman) Or the furry community! I'm sure they weren't amused by it.
Giant stuffed bears, and I'm like that must be a drug thing.
I'm so un-hip, I don't know what the bears about.
But like, it's such a video music awards (?), but like obviously giant stuffed bears
and a woman comes out and starts, like, touching herself and making, like, masturbation moves and stuff
(Woman): So...
MTV everybody!
So let me share my own bias on the story.
I mean, of course she performed last night, I heard about it via Twitter
and Facebook, everyone was going crazy about it, people were outraged at her performance
Mika Brzezinski was outraged at her performance and we'll show her response to it in just a second
but I actually watched it this morning and my inital reaction was
"Aaaand?"
Like, I didn't see anything about it that was really that different about it from any other performance
except for the fact that Miley Cyrus has been known as y'know,
this cutesy-wutesy Disney superstar and now she's trying desperately to shake that image
so she is kinda overcompensating and going overboard
and she's just, y'know, doing the gyration and the uh, light masturbation on-stage
*both laugh*
(unintelligible) It was a lot of it, man! I mean, she went to work
then went home, relaxed and then came to work again!
Her tongue is out of her mouth like 90% of the time
but it was so, it was so obviously done for attention and done to shake her past image.
(Man) Yeah. She's basically saying "I'm not Disney anymore!"
"I'm having this Thicke character (unintelligible) up me!"
(Woman) 'Let me show you my butt."
(Man) Not only did she have that foam hand thing, I mean she did it without the foam thing
and then she did it with the foam hand, like, rubbed herself and rubbed Thicke in like, 88 different ways.
(Woman) She also twerked. There was a point of the performance where she was--
(Man) Do we know what that tongue thing is? Is that another drug thing?
I feel like a grandpa.
Like... *noises as he sticks tongue out*
What's that? I don't know what that's about.
Okay, so I'm conflicted about this. OK, I wanna show Mika first.
After Mika, I will tell you my conflicted thoughts on it.
Uh, go.
(Woman) I wouldn't make a joke of it, actually.
(Man) I'm not making a joke of it.
(Woman) I think that was really, really disturbing.
That young lady who is 20 is obviously deeply troubled.
(Man) So here's the problem...
(Woman) ... deeply disturbed, clearly has confidence issues, probably in an eating disorder,
and I don't think anyone should put her up on stage. I think that was disgusting.
(Man) So... I've been around the track a few times.
I'm an old guy. Right? I've got two older boys, I remember
(Woman) They don't think that's attractive, Miley.
(Man off-camera) Yeah.
So anyways--
(Woman) Nobody does, actually.
(Man) If I could finish what I was saying..
(Woman) Sorry.
Well, the point you're going to make was exactly what I just said.
That was not attractive.
That was not fun,
that was not funny
and that was really, really bad for anyone who's younger and impressionable.
And she's really messed up! So I don't think they should have put her on stage!
(Man) So here's the problem..
They should be ashamed of themselves!
(Woman) Wha -- I don't...
*man laughs*
They didn't let Joe speak there.
Was that genuine outrage or was she--
(Man) Oh yeah, yeah.
But okay, look, I...
I can totally understand people who didn't like her performance.
Okay I thought that it was...
For me, there was nothing really special about it.
I didn't care. It was just Miley doing whatever she needs to do to get some attention.
That's the way I interpreted it.
Um, but Mika is like "She has an eating disorder!"
"She's probably on drugs!"
"She's all sorts of fucked-up!"
Like, she's just listing all these things which are some pretty heavy accusations!
I have two words for you.
And it's a little controversial.
Yeah?
Jelly jelly.
...what?!
(crew member) ...what!?
No, no, no!
I'm not listening to that...
I'm throwing it out there!
I'm throwing it out there! (Woman) Really?
(Man) Look, she's like, because she's doing projection
y'know how Mika had an eating disorder so she's like "Oh, she's got an eating disorder, she's only 20 and guys don't find that hot!"
"They don't find it hot! I don't know what this young girl is doing gyrating and et cetera, right?"
And can we stop with the gyrations? Elvis gyrated.
But Elvis didn't come out there and beat off on stage.
*presenters and crew members laugh*
Like this is a whole different level! 'Kay, so here's my conflicted point
and I dunno if I'm being unfair to Mika but she really is way over the top if you ask me.
But on the other hand, I'm about to do the same.
So here we go:
Look, on the one hand I think "MTV, I'm with Ana." like, alright, so she comes out every MTV performance
everyone's rubbing every genitalia and they gotta out-weird each other,
like Lady Gaga with the meat sandwich outfit and then now the teddy bears
and the Thicke... I mean alright! Whatever, whatever.
Right? And on the other hand, I remind myself of my dad a while back.
I'm looking at it and I'm like (unintelligible)
Like, the next MTV performance will have people literally having sex on-stage.
And everyone wil be like "It's MTV! It's MTV! She didn't even go through all the different positions!"
Y'know? "It was mainly missionary! What's everyone getting excited about?" Y'know?
When you really think about it, I remember a few years ago there was a VMAs where nothing exciting happened.
There was no drama,
no crazy performances,
I remember talking about it on the show and we were making fun of it because no-one cared.
Right, so they have to come up with something so outrageous that everyone will be talking about the VMAs
the following day, I mean, think about this. Miley Cyrus had to out-do Lady Gaga
and that's really difficult! That's really difficult to do when you're known for coming out of an egg
and wearing a meat dress.
Right.
So, look, uh, you can criticise either way, but to me it's not a huge issue or anything
or anything but it does say something about society, and this is Grandpa coming out a little bit
so you've got daughters growing up in that society
and when they're twenty they think "I should twerk. I should do molly."
and y'know, and uh I know some of you right now are screaming
"Of course! Of course! So what? What's the big deal, twerking and whatever it might be?" but y'know
is there an end? Are we just going to keep going and going?
We're going to keep going.
Like, does this end in anal?
I mean, I don't know! Like, when does it end?
We're apparently comfortable with obvious full masturbation on stage for long periods of time and then there's the faux-sex
where she's wearing almost nothing...
So the next step is obvious! It's comin' soon!
So you're genuinely concerned, like you're worried about it?
Like, you have a little girl now, little Joy will be wondering what the VMAs are like when she's...
Nah. She's too young for me to worry about that.
I'm just saying in general, like, I don't mind it.
I like sex, but I mean, I like tacos! Right?
So, I mean, like I'm not saying that the world or the morals are decaying, I'm just saying I guess that's what it is now
I guess that's like totally okay and we now are a little hedonistic.
Have at it, right?