Miley Cyrus has lost her chance to feature on the cover of Vogue
magazine after her scandalous performance with Robin Thicke at the
recent MTV Video Music Awards was branded ‘distasteful’.
The 20-year-old singer’s duet with Robin Thicke featured Miley
twerking and gyrating up against the R&B singer and using a foam
finger in a sexually suggestive way at the ceremony in New York City
last month made headlines across the world. One person watching watching
who didn’t enjoy it was Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour who has
decided to drop shots of Miley intended for the cover of the December
issue of the fashion bible because of her ‘distasteful’ performance. A
source told the MailOnline: ‘Anna found the whole thing distasteful. She
decided, based on Miley’s performance, to take the cover in a different
direction.’ Miley was seen on stage in a flesh-coloured, latex bikini,
wagging her tongue and making sexual facial expressions while she danced
up against Robin as they performed his hit ‘Blurred Lines’.
The former ‘Hannah Montana’ star attracted an avalanche of criticism
on social media and from watching celebrities. Speaking about her
twerking, One Direction star Harry Styles said: ‘I think it’s quite
inappropriate. Especially for the age groups that it’s aimed at. I think
it’s, you know, promoting promiscuity.’
Describing Miley’s appearance as ‘sad’, Cyndi Lauper said: ‘That was
girl gone wild. So sad, so sad … I just felt like that was so beneath
her and raunchy, really raunchy. It wasn’t even art.’