Say what you wanna say but Miley understood the assignment and made sure to be remembered one way or another!

This was an iconic pop culture moment! I remember watching that live with my grandma and mom and we were shocked!

1. Blurred Lines would never be ok today and 2. It's funny how this.performance probably changed the VMAs forever since just own Cardi B performance ag VMAS alone is 5x more scandalous than this was lol

I loved Bangerz as an album but the persona was deep cringe. I feel like now that we’re seeing what real twerking looks like, we’re realizing Miley was never actually twerking. It was like this sad at attempt at twerking lol.

That stickman recreation of her performance in the video deserves to be in the Louvre

The way people thought she invented twerking chile

i was disgusted by it , but now I give her props . BE YOU

Gosh that was so criticized that it feels like it was more 2003 than 2013

I loved Miley’s evolution an still love the Bangerz album 2 this day ❤️

Looking back, everything about this moment just felt like a weird and uncomfortable fever dream. I remember seeing this live when I was in high school and the next day, everybody in my school did not stop talking about for like a good week. The 2010s were definitely a weird time lol.

Bangerz was an iconic era ❤️❤️

I attened in the audience and remember watching it thinking it was weird but didn't realize I was witnessing history.

Can't believe ppl didn't know what twerking was and thought a white girl invented it...

This performance is hilarious because it’s so scandalous :D:D i don’t care what anyone thinks, she was a rockstar that night. Hot mess summed it up perfectly.

Yes it is iconic but the fact that she is credited as bringing twerk to mainstream is exacty what was and still is wrong

Bangerz was a bop & actually had good songs but the appropriation / antics overshadowed the album

Why must it *always* be a sexual awakening/realisation to show a change/metamorphosis from female Disney/child star to “grown up”? There are other ways…

this was so iconic idc what anyone says

The fact that Robin was wearing a Beetlejuice suit, made it that much worse.

justin should of gotten the anger complaints. not janet. the whole world was sexist

I remember this like it was yesterday 🤣🤣 I was 13 and this was an ICONIC moment

miley cyrus is a pop culture icon

Looking back at Miley's 2013 performance is kinda sad that Miley had to resort to cultural appropriation and actig a fool while at it but judging by how she couldn't replicate that level of relevancy or moderate success with her music after the Bangers era kinda tells you the scandal route was the only way for her to be noticed

i loved this moment. never had a vad thought about it. can't believe the world did

Bangerz era will always be my favourite from miley, I was shocked at first cause well you know she did Hannah Montana but I still loved it lol

I’m in the club high off purp with my shades on

So glad you covered this moment!!!

Love the daily uploads king👌🏿✨

Amazing video! Great storytelling

We LOVE a LEGENDARY ALLY 🌈

Keep doing these I love them!

She did exactly what she meant, and the viewers reacted exactly as she planned. All pop stars have done that. She doesn't have the greatest voice of history, she doesn't have the greatest body on history, but still has talent. How? Being an entertainer. Creativity and strength. More than 10 years later, she looks fantastic and is more iconic than before. How? Being herself and learning about the industry.

This channel is a goldmine

POPICANA, I have missed you queen 👑

tell me why 6 year old me loved this era of miley

im screaming u jus threw in the trump comment💀💀

I would say this is the last moment for 2000's party culture. So yes, iconic, but a massive cultural shift was about to begin.

AKA the raw chicken ass incident

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that hairstyle really looks nice on her with that red lipstick

I only had a problem with her using culture appropriation to “ break free “ then turning around and talking shit and separating herself from the same genre she profited from. Also she didn’t invent twerking either. Black women have been called ratchet and ghetto for twerking but it’s praised when a white girl does it.

Never hated that performance because many artists did it before and I support her

I will never forget the "aSaP rOcKER" moment

it was cringe af, all i remember is tumblr being weirdly angry at her performance & body shaming her & exaggerating things that werent as usual lol

2013?! I would have sworn this happened 4 or 5 years ago. I never watched the performance but it cracked me up when what Miley was doing was described as "twerking" 😂

she'll always be Hannah Montana but dead pets her best album

Miley's 2013 VMA performance invented cringe culture

The Hank Hill ass Meme from this! Lmao, Died! Best part

It was camp

oh shit she was my age

Correction: She moved to Philadelphia not New York

Everyone was so mad at that but look at us now

I think yall really reaching on the racism here. Again your thinking about it way more then she ever did. She never considered race, because she chose dancers with the best talent. So they happened to all be black? Now were complaining about TOO much diversity, and were gunna accuse her of " using black people as props" when that was never ever the case. Yall are reaching .

A cultural reset. Literally

Please do Lauren Conrad vs Heidi Montag.

Fun fact: she was nominated for Time Magazine’s Person of The Year.

You just had to be there

Paula Patton is smart in divorcing Robin.

She intentionally planned to do a mess of a performance on purpose. Then played dumb when the media disliked it. The Madonna and Gaga performances she was referring to were provocative but still of high quality & polish. That was the difference. I won’t let nostalgia cloud my judgement! The Bangerz era, as fun and chaotic as it was, made Miley the poster child for cultural appropriation, her introducing white audiences to twerking wasn’t much of an accomplishment. It was however very illuminating to me. It made me realise that white audiences really did live in a bubble and they’d never noticed the decades of twerk performance in Black-American/African & some Latin music. It opened my eyes to the racial biases and erasure in the music business, that a style of performance that had long existed in communities of colour suddenly became fresh, interesting, and the new hot thing, once a White American popstar appropriated it. 😅 It was a real wake up call for me. It proved White America was truly living in a separate world. And in white people’s world, twerking did not exist…until Miley. 🥴

I LOVED the cringe lol! I love seeing people get uncomfortable. Idk why …. I guess I just hate judgment .

What I got out of this is that the performance was more of a fuck you to Robin Thicke 😂 I love Miley even more now. 🏆👑

I love a subversive moment but the artlessness of it was so jarring, why didn't she take dance lessons or something beforehand? It was incredibly cringe, and the minstrelsy aspect is undeniable despite her version of the twerk being so unappealing and unsexy. She briefly profited from black culture then dropped it when she was bored of it, without ever showing anything but disrespect for it. This performance did bring the word twerk into the lexicon and that in itself is so frustrating, why do we as white people have to copy these things and do them less well so other white people can appreciate it lol. She's never apologised for all the performances and videos where she treated black women like props, she still feels perfectly entitled to do whatever makes her happy, resolutely ignoring the reality of less privileged people. Don't get me wrong she seems less obnoxious now, she has a great voice and I like some of her songs, but revisiting this moment definitely didn't change my view on it; it was cringey and racist and creepy and I'm kind of disgusted all over again

I was entertained by Miley then, but I knew this was all fake so I never supported it. Sure enough, a year later she was talking about how degrading hip hop was lol She's the textbook example of a culture vulture

cultural reset

yes it was pop culture moment.but i don't like it.it was a mess.it is not even worthed to be compared to madonna-britney kiss.

Just imagine if a black woman did that back in the day y’all wouldn’t be calling it Calling a Iconic pop culture moment 🤷🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️.

She looked a mess!!!

It’s memorable yes. Iconic? Maybe. But it still was trash. Song is horrible for glorifying r@pe, dancing was trash, everything was so not aesthetically pleasing. I support women for sure, as a feminist myself, but i can still be objective in my personal view and say it was trash. She didnt even invent twerking. It was just a trashy performance.

Yeah that performance was disgusting no kidding

Twerking has evolved since then. I've seen better. Hers definitely looked cringe in retrospect.

She is so cringe.

Not iconic...more a like try-hard and attention seeking.

This is not iconic. This is just attention-seeking and stupid. It took away from every other great performance of the night. *cough*IMAGINE DRAGONS*cough*