Our original idea of battling an extrovert with an
introvert morphed through several phases before we decided on Miley Cyrus vs.
Hannah Montana. The catalyst for our idea was actually Taylor Swift, who we’d
talked about having “changed” over time. Swift’s first albums fall under the
Country music category, with a lot of acoustic guitar and sappy, youthful,
romantic verse. Now, with her new, short, straight hair cut and long list of
ex-boyfriends, she sings and performs rebellious pop and
Miley Cyrus transformed even more dramatically, and we
couldn't pass up the opportunity to comment on the wildness of her evolution.
Her career began on Disney Channel, of all places, and quickly became one of
America’s sweethearts. She even performed across the pond, for Queen Elizabeth
herself. And, of course, now she is known mostly for her nude videos and
preference for cannabis.
Because we were originally thinking of the differences
between extroverts and introverts, and then pre-1984 Taylor Swift versus post,
our ideas on posing one Miley against the other began sort of skewed; we
focused on the negative, satirical humor
of her defamation, and the audio we chose adhered to that. As we progressed
with our narrative, however, we realized that it was much more interesting to
think about how Miley has been the same person throughout all of her career.
She has always had a strong character and, for some unquantifiable reason, an
entertaining personality -- which we tried to emulate in our performance – and
we felt that the most powerful story we could try to capture of her would be of
the commonalities in her career. We tried to focus on her own reconciliation of
what she used to resemble and what she resembles today.
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