Musings of an Entertainment Junkie: Miley Cyrus is doing it right and so is Maheeda?
And by IT I mean getting the publicity they want. In a society where to get attention from the mass media you have to sometimes do extreme things, who would blame two singers, Maheeda (Nigeria) and Miley Cyrus (USA) for taking off their clothes. They say all publicity is good publicity, and people’s attention will more likely draw to the bad than the good. This has been proven times without number.
Miley Cyrus
Miley Cyrus, one of America’s sweetheart turned bad girl must have had someone tell her that to get attention you have to be willing to do something crazy because that is exactly what she did. She got raunchy, she got half naked, and she twerked her way to the number 1 spot in the nation. Her controversial single WRECKING BALL remains one of the top songs in the country at the moment, while the so called decent ladies lag behind.
MAHEEDA
Maheeda, a Nigerian lady initially started her music career with popular music. She put a lot of effort in her stage craft, put out songs decent enough to satisfy her conscience and got very little attention. Eventually she told the world she was born again and switched to Gospel music, maybe in an attempt to be different and stand out but that still didn’t get her the attention she felt she deserved. Then one day it happened, we started seeing Maheeda posting seminude albeit sexy pictures of herself on her Instagram, twitter and other social media and at last she got the attention she wanted. She is currently one of the most talked about ladies on blogs, social media and in traditional media. Goal achieved? Yes!
MILEY CYRUS
I am not saying indecency is a good thing but I do wonder what this tells us about the media. If these two women remained “proper” would they be getting half the attention they are getting now? In a country like Nigeria where people frown on indecency, why are stories about indecency popular? Shouldn’t the reader simply skip and move on to decent news?
The media are responsible what they bring us the consumer so if they did not bring us indecency we probably wouldn’t be exposed to it enough to buy into it right? Or is that what we really want because the media will obviously give what they feel sells right? Good or bad Maheeda and Miley Cyrus are working the media and getting the exposure they crave so they must be doing it right.
Download the video to Wrecking Ball here
Watch the most Recent videos from the two ladies below.
Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball
Maheeda – Mogbona
