Pole Dancing at the Teen Choice Awards?

Miley Cyrus pole dancing at Teen Choice Awards

Pole dancing once a taboo style of dance mainly danced by strippers and associated with seedy clubs has continued to become more mainstream over the past few years.
The US Teen Choice Awards happen every year and they offer teens the opportunity to vote for their favourite singers, movies and songs.

Miley Cyrus pole dancing steels the show

This year’s Teen Choice Awards was broadcast on 10th August. It consisted of the awards presentations and had performances from a few young and teen acts.
The performance given by Miley Cyrus that night certainly stole most of the publicity.

She performed her latest single Party in the USA. Halfway through the song she climbed on top of an ice-cream cart and danced against a pole. Now you can see from the video that she certainly wasn’t pole dancing. Sure, she was holding on to the pole, and dancing provocatively, but really I don’t agree with the press criticism that she has received. It looks like she used the pole more for balance and while she was certainly intending to dance with the pole, she was hardly dancing that provocatively.
Some people have drawn parallels with Britney Spears career and her pole dancing back in 2004. Both Britney and Miley Cyrus got their break on the Disney.

It’s believed that as most past Disney stars, Miley now wants to escape from her clean cut image and appeal to a more adult market.

Parents disgusted by pole dancing Disney star

That’s fine of course but unfortunately has left many parents complaining.
Miley Cyrus is a role model for younger girls and parents are not happy that she is starting to adapt an older sexier image and believe that Miley Cyrus pole dancing is unacceptableable behaviour. Parents are also disgruntled about reports that Miley Cyrus’s 9 year old sister was seen pole dancing backstage before the show.
When asked his opinion Miley Cyrus’s father Billy Ray Cyrus said:

“You know what? I just think that Miley loves entertaining people. She loves singing and songwriting.”

Critics of course disapproved of this response and are moaning that pole dancing is getting out of hand and becoming a problem and a dilemma for society.

Why not watch the Miley Cyrus Pole Dancing video yourself and make up your own mind.