So far the consensus in the comments is “no”…
Cyrus’s strange choice of footwear — chunky white lace-ups that look like orthopedic shoes for geriatric golfers — was the giveaway. Even punk tomboy P!nk wears the sky-high stripper heels that female celebrities seem required by law to toddle around in.
Instead, between those ugly shoes, her clumsy “dancing” and her shaved WTF hairdo, I “read” Cyrus’s performance as a goof on the stereotypical sexiness female performers are supposed to exude, not — as so many critics moaned – a new low in the coarsening of the culture.
