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Tad Walch: Megastar Miley adding sizzle to Stadium of Fire

Did you seriously have nothing else enter the synapses of your brain to write a column about? WOW.

Nice ad for SOF. Like they needed the pub.

just compare pre-fabed tweener idol Cyrus's fame, reach and celebrity to the Beatles or Elvis.

Please, for that sake of RELEVANCE, take that back.

Not to mention that the Beatles and Elvis had more talent combined in the toejam of their toenails to Ms. Cyrus, but they touched lives way beyond the white-bread, comfy-cozy, satellite-TV subscribed U.S. households of the mid-'00s.

I'm pretty sure the Beatles and Elvis made waves worldwide, not just on the Disney Channel.

Or do Utahns have this fascination/need with having to state how "mainstream" we've become, as appears to be the theme of this article. Yeah, Hannah Montana is big. And, wow, she's coming to little ol' Provo. Big whoop.

Tad.....
you crack me up. Comparing Cyrus to the Beatles and Elvis! But the best thing is that readers take you seriously! ("take that back...")
keep up the entertaining stories!

Let's face it people. The girl is popular. Right now she is as popular with her fans as Elvis or the Beatles were with theirs. Now you may not be a fan but there are many that are. At the time the Beatles and Elvis were at their highest you were the younger generation. You are now the older generation.

The girl is good!

I'm going to tend to agree with the article and with Bob who posted above...how many of the others who posted about her maybe not really being that good or popular are under 20? My guess is none. If you're not a teen or younger, you're simply not going to get it, because you're not her audience.

I originally posted "You did not" this morning. I have a 10-year-old daughter. I'm well aware of who Miley Cyrus is. I get it. And I agree she's good. I also get that it's a pre-fabed phenomena to make coin off a talented young person. That's how the game is played now (gotta have the TV show, the cartoon, merch, whatever).

And what the author didn't get is that the range of the Beatles and Elvis has nothing in common with Ms. Cyrus, or her father, bless his achy-breaky heart. Other than to be, at a moment in time, popular. It was a bad comparison. Now had he said her popularity is that of past teen entertainers like New Kids on the Block, or the Backstreet Boys, he may have been in the ballpark.

Let's have this conversation in 10 years, and see the relevance and influence of and on the music world from the legacies of the Beatles, Elvis ... and Hannah Montana.

You are right Um that the Beatles and Elvis had longer careers and the comparison is not quite accurate. My point is that right now Miley Cyrus is as popular as Elvis and the Beatles were at their prime. Only time will tell if it will last as long.
As for being a pre-fabed phenomena let's get real. Did Bob Hope write all his own jokes? Do any of the actors get publicity and build-up by the companies making the movies? Of course she has Disney behind her and that is a very positive thing. But could she be where she is without talent and hard work. I don't think so.
To have been performing for only 2 years and still be 15 years old she is known in more of the world than you seem to recognize. Do a Google and look at all the countries that will have newspaper articles on her.
No one likes to see his/her hero replaced but it happens to each generation. Remember Janis Joplin, John Wayne, Dean Martin. Those are three of mine. I add to, I don't take away. I now have Miley

Bob

Saw the show in Denver last October. WOW! TO say that she has no talent is just plain stupid! I watched a group of teens on stage entertaining over 16,000 screaming fans for 3 hours! I hope they can keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing future shows.

If the Freedom Festival can pay 1.5 million plus to have Miley Sirus perform this year I would like to see U2 perform next year. Maybe if they start working on it now for next year it might happen.
I will get in line right now.

K.C.

i lived thru the beatles and back then there weren't as many options for kids...it would be hard for anyone to grab the entire youth population in today's world...but this girl is as good as it gets and reminds of beatlemania