Yep, it's another writhe 'n grind vamp-fest from the teen warbler.
"It's just about freeing yourself from anything you think is holding you back,"
she recently told
MTV.com about the track.
She added: "And I think that's really important, especially for girls, because so many people are told, 'No, you can't do something,' or, 'You need to be this because Mom and Dad say that, teachers say this.'"
Needless to say the promo's raised eyebrows and invited finger-wagging from the peanut gallery.
Tim Winter of the Parents Television Council watchdog group has condemned the video and the message it sends to Cyrus' fans.
"It is unfortunate that she would participate in such a sexualised video like this one, Winters told TMZ.
"It sends messages to her fanbase that are diametrically opposed to everything she has done up to this point. Miley built her fame and fortune entirely on the backs of young girls, and it saddens us that she seems so eager to distance herself from that fanbase so rapidly."
It's not the first time that Cyrus has experienced 'growing pains'.
The former Disney darling came under fire last year for her brand-busting
Can't Be Tamed
video. And she spared no-one's blushes when she performed the track at the 2010 Much Music Video Awards in a revealing, flesh-flashing white bodice. So revealing, she almost exposed herself.
The thing with Cyrus is that while she desperately wants to shed her vanilla
Hannah Montana
image, and continues to push the envelope in her steamy videos, people have trouble buying it.
For the majority, she'll always be
Hannah Montana
, even when she's come of age, put a ring on it and pushing an army of prams.
There's been no word from Cyrus' camp about the latest video stink, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Hitting back at critics who condemned her new image earlier this year, Cyrus remained defiant.
"I don't really listen to criticism because if you don't want to watch my video you can always turn it off," she told
Ok!
magazine.
"Or if you don't want to listen to my music you don't have to... So I've never been one to really care about what people think, because I'm the artist and that's the art that I'm doing."
What do you make of the fuss about Cyrus' new video? A bunch of old prudes getting their feathers ruffled over nothing? Or is the pop starlet being overtly sexual as she sheds her Disney image?
Watch the video below and judge for yourselves:
Gaga does Sopranos
Scope out this vintage clip of Lady Gaga's guest spot on hit show
The Sopranos
when she was 15-years-old.
Gaga, real name Stefani Germanotta, appeared in the episode
The Telltale Moozadell
, in a pool scene in which Tony Soprano's son A.J. and his friends are swimming at their high school pool after hours.
As the boys swim in the pool and indulge in a spot of vandalising, Gaga looks on and cackles. Naughty minx!
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If the wig fits
Al Pacino is to portray music producer Phil Spector in a forthcoming HBO biopic.
According to
The New York Times
, Pacino, 70, is set to play the iconic record producer who was banged up last year for the murder of Lana Clarkson.
Word is the film, to be written and directed by David Mamet, will focus on Spector's musical innovations like his 'Wall Of Sound' production style, as well as his incarceration.
Barry Levinson (
Rain Man
) will serve as executive producer.
Pacino's rep, John L. Burnham, told the
Post
that the actor "just saw a very interesting character to play, and he likes the sensibility of David and Barry."
Just think of the fun Pacino will have
playing dress-up
!
Jared look
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Jared Leto, meet your doppelganger.
Check out this video of a girl who transformers herself into the 30 Seconds to Mars frontman, using a trowel of makeup and funky wig.
Spookily spot-on.
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