According to a high ranking executive of the Disney Channel, after four golden years of encouraging little brunette girls to don blonde wigs and sing their hearts out, Hannah Montana must finally come to end. Reportedly Disney HQ has decreed that after early 2011, Miley Cyrus’s rocket to stardom will be complete, I’m sure to the dismay of many tween girls (not to mention Billy Ray hey-my-daughter-can-sing-too Cyrus).
But then Miley would have HAD to have known this bombshell was coming. Look at her predecessor Hillary Duff. Way back in 2001 she was the darling of the Disney network, winning her own movie deal and recording contract. Who could resist the crazy adventures of Lizzie McGuire, her best friend Gordo and the other one? Plus she already had blonde hair, no wigs necessary.
However as time progressed and Hillary Duff began to look too old for pink hair extensions, Disney dropped her like she was hot and began looking for someone equally as cute and non threatening to fill the void. Poor ol’ Lizzie was left to make lukewarm pop tracks and eventually take part in a Gossip Girl threesome (what would Gordo think?).
Then arrived Miley Cyrus fresh from Texas. She too could sing and dance, was glamorous but not intimidating, and had a knack for comic timing. So Hannah Montana was born. Queue a huge movie deal and some wildly successful singles and Cyrus was a bona fide star. However Miley was a little bit edgier than Hillary. She had boyfriends that were in their twenties, incorporated pole dancing into her dance routines and didn’t mind the odd nude Annie Leibovitz photo, or expression of racism
Maybe Disney was scared she would get a little too Vanessa Hudgens for their liking, or maybe they thought that at 17 she was past her prime, regardless it seems like Miley’s run is over. If the length of those shorts in the Party in the USA clip are anything to go by, Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana are just not compatible anymore.
So maybe Miley will fall under the Disney curse and fade into obscurity, but then she could still surprise us all. The bigger question is who will the next candidate be? Her little sister Noah perhaps?
