Miley Cyrus is the most changeling pop star since Madonna — and the daughter of country (and hip hop!) star Billy Ray Cyrus is also a better singer. That’s no knock on Madonna’s voice — Miley wins an awful lot of straight up vocal battles, even if she’s swinging on a wrecking ball. We mention the voice because to pull certain things off — like true camp — you have to have a high level of real talent. Miley Cyrus: check. The latest stop on the Miley Cyrus Express is to turn her insides out for Saint Laurent and YSL creative director Anthony Vaccarello.
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Cyrus is Hollywood through and through, and she is schooled deeply in the power of image. So when Cyrus says what camp is, we had better listen. Camp is the meta of meta. One definition lists camp as “aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value.” But one person’s camp isn’t the next person’s camp. Camp is utterly individual, like every true style. “Camp,” according to Cyrus, “is wearing your insides out.”
Urban Dictionary lists “camp” this way: “something that provides sophisticated, knowing amusement, as by virtue of its being artlessly mannered or stylized, self-consciously artificial and extravagant.”
But nobody really beats Cyrus’s definition of camp as “wearing your insides out.” That’s it. That’s camp. YSL himself would love it.
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