Hannah Montana owes her outsized stardom to her role as the loveable, squeaky-clean teen beloved of little girls across the
land who loyally tune into her show on the Disney Channel. Problem is, Cyrus is 17 and has her sights on taking her stardom to a new plateau,
one that seems to include risque photo shoots and dancing like a strippe
By MARY SANCHEZ
if there’s one thing the moms of America can agree on, it’s that Miley Cyrus is trouble. The actress owes her outsized stardom to her role as Hannah Montana, the loveable, squeaky-clean teen beloved of little girls across the land who loyally tune into her show on the Disney Channel. Problem is, Cyrus is 17 and has her sights on taking her stardom to a new plateau, one that seems to include risque photo shoots and dancing like a stripper.
How could she? That’s what fuming mommy-bloggers, media critics and other concerned citizens want to know. Isn’t she worried about what message this sends the children? In a word, no. She’s following a well-trod path where the transition from kiddie TV personality to hot-to-trot It Girl can happen overnight, and done right it can make you a superstar. No fool, Cyrus is ready to make the jump.Her Hannah Montana fans?
Not so much. Many of them are in the difficult “tween” period between childhood and teenage years. They are confronting the “girl-poisoning culture” psychologist Mary Pipher explored in her 1994 book, “Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls.” Girls in their teenage years, Pipher wrote, struggle to navigate a world that is increasingly “sexualized and media-saturated.” The pressures on young girls to conform, and society’s lack of response, saps the self-esteem of many as they hit adolescence.
They don’t always know how to respond.
Her Hannah Montana fans? Not so much. Many of them are in the difficult “tween” period between childhood and teenage years. They are confronting the “girl-poisoning culture” psychologist Mary Pipher explored in her 1994 book, “Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls.” Girls in their teenage years, Pipher wrote, struggle to navigate a world that is increasingly “sexualized and media-saturated.” The pressures on young girls to conform, and society’s lack of response, saps the self-esteem of many as they hit adolescence. They don’t always know how to respond.
Not surprisingly, Pipher’s book became a best-seller. It put into words and validated the experiences that many a mother, father and teacher saw playing out with far too many young girls. We give young girls few role models for these critical years, but Hannah Montana was one of them, at least for younger girls.
The Hannah Montana character
always appealed to girls much younger than the real Miley Cyrus. She began the show at age 13.
Yet her fan base was far younger, 7- to 9-year-olds who liked the goofy Hannah, an ordinary schoolgirl who turned into a pop star in the evenings.
Now Miley is trying to tap into the record market dominated by Lady Gaga and Beyonce, women years older. Her erstwhile fan base can’t relate
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