for your consideration.

words.

"Problematic as she may be at times be, Miley Cyrus has re-established herself as a shock provocateur with more than base audiences and carnal, sexual maturity on her side. In many ways, Miley Cyrus gives a fuck in more real, artistic ways than her politically tepid contemporaries. If the best we can say is that stoners and drag queens had their day with the 2015 VMAs, then how bad can the day be, really—when racist drug policing continues to ravage communities of color, and when trans* people (including drag queens) still face frighteningly high rates of violence in everyday life? Miley may not be the ideal candidate for political pop’s potential to make material social change for the disenfranchised, but she’s the most likely to even have a platform—high as she may be. In a gurlesque blaze of drag diva aesthetics and drug inspired metaphysics, "Dooo It!" inaugurates the Dead Petz era as one devoted to the marginal spaces in the ever-evolving idea of "pop.""

THE PITCH: The Drugged Out Drag of Miley’s New Divadom