At the VMAs, to emphasize it, Cyrus wore a gray fur bodysuit with an image of a bear-mouse thing nearly licking it's own eyeball ( at left) before she stripped down to a nude plastic-y bikini. Ĭyrus's tongue takes this away from sexy, into just gross. This hint-of-tongue thing has been imitated in countless teen selfies. You can see it in Spears's ad for Candie's, which, fittingly, also paid Bristol Palin to talk about teen abstinence. Her tongue was so active there's a slow-motion mashup of its every appearance in YouTube ( still at right). You've seen it a million times: the tip-of-the-tongue-in-the-corner-of-the-mouth thing. Spears's tongue is sexy in a nonthreatening, coy, 'I promise I'm a virgin' way.

I choose to believe that Cyrus's protruding tongue is a satirical take on the traditional non-threatening female sexuality displayed by her pop star predecessors like Britney Spears. Is Cyrus's tongue an embarrassing unsexy sign of a girl who is trying too hard? Or a brilliant sendup of prepackaged coy femininity that is genius in its grossness? Brian Moylan and Elspeth Reeve debate. Cyrus's tongue first reached national infamy during the VMAs last month, in a performance in which Cyrus showed admirable hamstring flexibility while twerking.

The most controversial six square inches of Miley Cyrus's body is her tongue, which can be seen lolling out on the controversial cover of the latest Rolling Stone. This article is from the archive of our partner.

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