I don't get. I never have and I don't think I ever will. That is, the constant critiquing of her. She really isn't doing anything that hasn't been done before. If she hadn't been painted with a certain persona by Disney for so many years no one would have anything to compare to. There would be no "old Miley" and no "new Miley". There has only ever been her. The facade that has been perpetrated around her for years when younger was just that, a facade. She is just being her and doing what so many have done before.
I think one of the most ridiculous things I have ever read on a youtube comment was someone saying that if she was doing pop in a respectable manner it wouldn't be so bad. I nearly died laughing. "Respectable" pop? People, let us remember that pop is what has given us such grand performances from artists such as Madonna, Cher, Britney, David Bowie, George Michael, Lady GaGa and many others. Half to completely naked gyrations and sexual undertones seems to be bar for the course. Whoopty-doo.