Miley vs. Rihanna !

Well... What can I say?! Both of them are bad but of course Rihanna is worse, no argument about it, However, Rihanna has been know as trouble for years since her 'Good girl gone Bad'-2007- phase and transformation, so it's been years of her outlandish behaviour, minimal clothing and provocative video's, so 'Pour it up' is no surprise to me at all. Rihanna has always been know to grind and jirate on things and people for years... Look at her 'rude boy' video or her 'You da One' video, you know it's not that much of a shock that she's come out with this video to be quite fair. She walks around the place half naked in the first place, doing god knows what so not many were shocked by Rihannas video, if you weren't shocked at the song 'S&M' song and video, I don't see much reason to be shocked at this one. Apparently the song 'We can't stop' was originally meant for Rihanna any ways, Again no surprise there! Rihanna has also NEVER appealed to the young teen market e.g 11-15 like Miley has, and Rihanna genre is very sexualised in the first place, not saying that I think its acceptable but just listen to Kelly Rowlands song-'Kisses down Low' or Ciara's 'Body Party'. The music video's however all suit the lyrics of the song as well as the genre, she makes money to entertain not influence.

 In miley's case she has been seen as 'the good girl' for years, then one day she cuts her hair and that's it, twerking, naked music video, licking hammers and the best part getting Terry Richardson to direct it as well as having a provocative photoshoot with him! He isn't exactly known as a trustworthy person around young girls. Also there is an age difference between Miley (20) and Rihanna (25) Miley isn't even allowed to legally drink in America yet and Hannah Montana only finished 2 years ago. I feel like Miley is trying to hard to just put on a show to rebel against her parents, Disney and her ex-fiancé where as Rihanna is has built up her brand slowly to be outrageous and rude, replying rudely to rude comments on twitter and Instagram and not afraid to voice her opinions because its just how Rihanna has marketed herself, where as Miley is trying to prove a point that's she's not innocent and young any more. Lady Gaga is just as outrageous as Miss Cyrus but she has a true artist flare about her and can always clearly justify why she does the things she does unlike Miley. Again I seem like I'm on the 'I can't stand Miley' campaign but I do really like her songs it's her attitude and her music videos.

Rihannas genres are R&B,Pop, Reggae, Hip Hop and Dance, she notes Madonna, Bob Marley, Whitney Huston and Janet Jackson as influences.
Mileys genres focus on mainly, Pop, Country and dance however her recent genre change is now a mix of all with addition to R&B and Hip Hop, which is quite a change. Her influences started off as Avril Lavigne and Hilary Duff (A fellow Disney star), Kelly Clarkson, Britany Spears and Dolly Parton, However, It has all changed to French Montanna, Juicy J, Wiz Khalifa and Adele.
Now I'm not at all justifying Rihanna's actions as acceptable and saying Miley's is not, I'm personally stating that Rihanna's actions in her new video are all common and not out of nature of Rihanna, where as Miley's are slightly out of character especially starting after her parents got a divorce and her relationship was on the rocks. I think both videos are inappropriate but the standards of vulgarity have gone down and people are now aloud to do what they want and show what they want, when they want, and that's just our society today unfortunately.
Now some would argue, this is all because of men views and they are all just as bad as each other because of men causing them to be portrayed as sexual objects in the world of media, However, none of these women were forced to do these things in the videos, none has been forced to dress provocatively, dance provocatively or be outrageous and controversial they have made the choice to, and therefore its just human behaviours in the wrong NOT a gender.

I really like Miley's songs and I'm more disappointed that her video couldn't be more meaningful for such a powerful song. Rihanna's song is about strippers, so no surprise the video features pole dancers, which are usually associated with stripping although times have changed and is no also a good exercise workout. But Hannah Montana always had a good moral at the end of her episode and so did everyone of miley's song's before this year, accompanied by a suited video. I feel disappointed that she needed to show off her body and be looked upon as a sexual object, and change so drastically to be noticed or recognised, I see it as a cry for help to be honest. I say keep making brilliant songs but please higher your standards, your a pretty girl who could do so much more with your videos. Words to Rihanna, don't change, cause I know you don't care for people's opinions at all and won't change. I expect this degrading behaviour from Rihanna but not Miley, she is better than that.

Word of advice for future Musicians, Music video directors, A2 Media Students and My group, Let's not sexualise anyone in any way to gain popularity, money or prove a point ! This will be the last post I do on Miley Cyrus because I have said all that I needed to say.


Here are both videos WARNING: Quite explicit for both. and here are some comments from the pour it up video.

Well Miley no longer lets people Embed the video so here is the link instead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My2FRPA3Gf8&feature=share&list=RD02ehcVomMexkY

Beautiful song, pretty girl not so good video and personally it would have been A LOT more powerful with just the close-up shot of her for the whole song, Sinead O'Conner did it and it looked brill !

Okay well Rihanna also doesn't let people embed the video (maybe its stupid VEVO !!!!) so again here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehcVomMexkY&feature=share&list=RD02ehcVomMexkY

Very tacky, very sexual, Not a good message at all and I don't condone the video, but its Rihanna being Rihanna and the song goes with the lyrics not going to lie.

Even though I have just watched Miley's new video, with Wiz Khalifa, juicy J etc. I am going to lay this debate to rest. And the main thing is we are not going to be using any tips at all from Rihanna or Miley in our music video which we will be updating you on soon.