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Bangerz tour DRAGGED by Daily Mail
It's not just the sleaze I abhor - it's the naked cynicism: ANNABEL COLE took her 15-year-old girl to see Miley Cyrus's British show. Here's her verdict
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Sliding down a gigantic tongue in an eye-wateringly skimpy pink leotard, Miley Cyrus kicked off her 23-date European tour with a burst of expletives.
She certainly started as she meant to go on. Within the first ten minutes, we had crotch-grabbing, grinding and yet more foul language — building to impassioned rants in which she encouraged drug-taking and kissed someone of the same sex.
Having foolishly agreed to take my daughter Elsa, soon to be 15, to the show at London's O2 arena, I was to endure two hours of the most inappropriate display by a pop star I have ever seen. Only 20 minutes into the show, I was wincing so much I wished we hadn't come at all.
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The most troubling sight, though, was the number of young children in the audience — girls as young as nine, accompanied by bewildered and embarrassed-looking parents. And while girls of my daughter's age and older did seem to relish the show — a worry in itself — some younger ones seemed genuinely disturbed by the raunchy antics.
One nine-year-old I spoke to admitted to being 'in shock' and not 'understanding what she [Miley] is doing any more'.
Stupidly, I thought there'd be due consideration given to the young age of her fans.
I certainly wouldn't have taken Elsa had she been any younger. Her younger sister, Rosa, 11, pleaded with me to get her a ticket but I said no. And thank God I did.
As we entered the arena, we were hit by huge black and white 'parental advisory' signs hanging in the foyer. Not referring to the evening's show, but to the merchandise: skimpy hot pants emblazoned with lasciviously dangling tongues and a near-porngraphic poster of crop-haired Miley in a red thong leotard, with more warning notices covering her barely-covered crotch.
The £15 souvenir programme featured pictures of the 21-year-old sucking on a banana and revealing her bottom and breasts in a series of outrageous outfits.
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She was standing up, dancing and singing along to the songs. The only time she leaned over to me it was to shout: 'She's so much better than I thought she'd be.' Oh God.
The costumes became ever more revealing. Sparkly thong leotards barely covered her modesty and she made repeated lewd gestures including crotch grabbing and, of course, twerking — the provocative, bottom-thrusting dance move which Miley has made infamous.
During the song Love, Money, Party, she humped a car and spanked her bare bottom, tilted provocatively towards the crowd. It was at this point I realised my mistake in bringing Elsa — and I wasn't alone. If the singer's volley of crude remarks had my head in my hands, a couple next door to me got up and left — and they didn't even have children with them.
Miley's protruding tongue has become her trademark and I can see why. I tried to keep count of the number of times she used the F-word but lost count after half an hour.
During Adore You, she invited people to 'make out with each other and use a lot of tongue'. Images of kissing couples — many of them same-sex — were then broadcast on giant video screens.
Worse still, for a singer with so many young and impressionable fans, was her undisguised praise for smoking: 'I smoked for three years and I loved it' and exhortation to the fans to smoke marijuana: 'Weed is much better than smoking . . . this show's nearly over and I will be stoned very shortly.'
The show ended with Miley suspended on a giant hot dog which transported her off the stage.
With the music still ringing in my ears, I caught up with Charlotte Lane and Lisa Cox, who'd been so relaxed about it all before. They had done an about-turn.
'All that crotch-grabbing, particularly in the first half of the show,' said Lisa. 'I had never imagined it would be as bad as that.'
Charlotte said: 'I thought it would be a bit rude but not at that level and not with young children in the audience. What I found particularly disappointing was that she was promoting smoking weed.'
What about my own daughter? Elsa concluded: 'It was a really good show. I liked the bits best when she did more singing and was trying less to be a rebel.'
I didn't know whether to feel relieved (perhaps a lot of it had gone over her head?) or concerned that she's part of a generation that barely bats an eyelid at Miley's cheap, sordid antics.
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...s-verdict.html
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honestly why are people acting shocked? you paid to see her and u knew what the show would be about..