* This post was originally published in August 2013 by This Week In Blackness (TWiB!) at thisweekinblackness.com. Graphics by TWiB.
Despite Miley Cyrus’s appropriation of the phrase “we can’t stop, and we won’t stop” in her new single . . . I’m REALLY gonna need her to stop. Seriously, Miley, Put your tongue back in your mouth and JUST STOP.
Most of us have seen Cyrus making the media rounds displaying her newfound love of “twerking.” (I use the scare quotes because we all know that awkward thing she keeps doing with her butt isn’t twerking. It’s more, you know, “twerking.”) She’s been spotted “twerking” on stage with Juicy J and is now working on her new album BANGERZ (yeah, let that soak in for a minute) which features Cyrus rapping as well as collaborations with Wiz Khalifa, Big Sean, Future, French Montana, Nelly, and Ludacris. The video for her single “We Can’t Stop” features Cyrus “twerking” while surrounded by voluptuous Black women who serve as props for Cyrus to periodically grope. (For some great analysis of Cyrus’s antics read here and here.) Continue reading