Word: girls
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...This is not just the flogging of the girl; it is an indication of what is in store for us.' ASMA JAHANGIR, head of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, on the beating of a teenage girl for "immoral behavior" in the Taliban-controlled Swat Valley...
...film, Miley Stewart is banished to her grandmother's home in the country after pulling some tabloidy teen-star antics. It's the kind of place where evenings are spent on the porch with nothing for entertainment but a guitar and Rascal Flatts. Where a girl can declare her love for a guy by renovating a chicken coop. Where father and daughter can sing a duet the father has never heard of in a pergola on a misty hill. But wouldn't you know it - the idyllic hamlet needs the help of someone: Hannah Montana...
...just of the Hannah narrative but also of the Miley Cyrus one. It's a story as old as The Beverly Hillbillies, but instead of the blue-state-red-state cultural differences being played off each other, they are set in counterbalance. In Miley-the-creation and Miley-the-girl, we have someone who's cool but wholesome, sophisticated but innocent, glamorous but sweet. Her appeal crosses cultural lines and, accordingly, elicits different reactions. On Access Hollywood, a bespectacled boy gives her flowers, while a 20-something asks where she wants her first tattoo...
Therein lies the rub. Between the safe harbor of girl icon and the beckoning shores of ingenue-dom are treacherous shoals. And just at the age when young people have some license to make mistakes, hers are monitored and widely broadcast. "There's no way to circumvent the Internet," says her manager, Jason Morey. "And there's no way to stop a girl from growing up without creating something that's not real. Could we handcuff Miley and stick her in a box and tell her, 'Don't grow up'? We could try, but there's nothing more uninteresting...
...choice of artists--Sara Bareilles and electronic group Ratatat. Cue new advertising efforts: the most notable of which has been the "Ratatat Remix Challenge," intended to reward the creator of the best Sara Bareilles-Ratatat mashup (with what? It's unclear). Has the CEB stumbled upon the next Girl Talk? Read...