She's Just Bein' Miley

My iPod is boring.

I have thousands of songs, but I feel like I'm stuck hearing the same crap over and over again. Maybe this is a sign that all my music sounds the same. My husband would certainly agree, but then again, all his SoCal punk crap sounds the same to me.

In an effort to stimulate my ears, I downloaded some new music to my iPod last night and have been "enjoying" it all day. I grabbed the new Raconteurs, which is sort of enjoyable, but their music always needs to grow on me to appreciate it fully. I also snagged the new Panic! At The Disco, which I was CRAZY excited about, but it is whiney and slow. I should have taken the new naming construction of their song titles (from 20 words to 3) as a bad sign.

And after all that alterna-rock that sounds like everything else on my iPod, I downloaded two treats. The new Madonna / Justin Timberlake song that makes me want to bedazzle my purple unitard with "ThugLife," and Miley Cyrus.

Yes, Miley Cyrus is on my iPod. And I am not ashamed to admit it. Mostly....

Let me first explain to you my love of Miley Cyrus. Yes, I love her giant-gummed smile, her pandering to TMZ at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, and her wig-donning alter-ego, Hannah Montana. But what I love most about Miley is that when I first heard "See You Again," I thought it was the worst song ever to become my favorite song.

When I learned that this ingenious song, filled with synthesizers and echoes and the phrase, "she's just bein' Miley," was "created" by Ms. Cyrus, I was thrilled. Good for you Miley Cyrus to make an old, pop-hating lady like me rock out like an 11-year old with 3-D glasses. I feel like I can baby-sit someone now and be relatable. Or go to a Bat-Mitzvah.

I bet there are hundreds of girls planning Hannah Montana / Miley Cyrus Bat Mitzvahs this year. And the truly lucky girls will be able to afford to give their guests hit pink iPod nanos filled with Miley Cryus tunes.