"We Can't Stop" Breaking Societal Expectations

Another more recent artists attempting to promote independence and empowerment through sexuality is Miley Cyrus. Attempting to shed from her lingering Disney image, Cyrus’s recent album, Bangerz, features songs with explicit content regarding casual sex and drug usage. 

In the music video of her new hit song, “We Can’t Stop,” Miley barely wears clothes, baring her abdomen while dancing provocatively, teasing her audience by attempting to show her gentalia with the lowering of her panties. Not to mention the issue of race after realizing that the African American women were hired to silently dance or “twerk,” rapidly gyrating their diaherras behind her, objectifying these women as mere props. Both the song and the music video, “We Can’t Stop” promotes drugs and sex in the name of adulthood and independence, offering a dangerous choice of life for her fans to follow. (Figure 2, MileyCyrusVEVO 2:35)