Free To Be Me

Miley Cyrus sat down with the New York Times to talk about her VMA performance, Joe Jonas and his Vulture feature, having few celebrity friends, and so much more. Highlights can be found below.

On her awareness of her VMA performance: “I didn’t’t know that I was going to be the only one that was really going to push it like that. It’s actually really funny how many people could watch my performance, and they think it was, like, sexist and degrading to women, and somehow people found that it was racist, which I couldn’t even wrap my mind around.

Because I’m like: ‘How do I win? If I have white dancers, then I’m racist. If I have black girl dancers, then I’m racist.’ We know we’re not racist, and I know I’m not putting down women. People got a rise out of me saying that I was a feminist, but I am. I’m telling women be whoever you want to be.”

On Joe’s interview: “If you want to smoke weed, you’re going to smoke weed. There’s nothing that two little girls are going to get you to do that you don’t want to do. I thought maybe he was saying that like it was going to make him look badass. We were so young that it’s actually like, ‘How did you get peer pressured by me?’”

On not having a lot of celebrity friends: “I don’t have a bunch of celeb friends, because I feel like some of them are a little scared of the association. This is terrible. I was backstage with [the rising pop star] Ariana Grande. I’m like, ‘Walk out with me right now and get this picture, and this will be the best thing that happens to you, because just you associating with me makes you a little less sweet.'”

I like that Miley spoke very openly about a variety of topics for this interview. It will be interesting to see if we ever get to see her apparent Vogue cover.

To read the full article click here. What do you guys think of Miley’s interview?