Last night on CNN Headline News's "Showbiz Tonight," so-called Hip Hop Professor Marc Lamont Hill noted that he was "freaked out" by Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus's claim that she loves Jesus. Host AJ Hammer played a clip from a YouTube video where Cyrus and pal Mandy answered fans' questions, this one dedicated to their religion:
Are we Christian?
Yes!
Yes. We are.
We love Jesus. Happy Easter by the way. He died for our sins. That is how great he is. That`s why we do what we do. I sing and act Jesus. Not the acting but I sing and dance for Jesus. Actually, I act for Jesus, too. And now that I think about it, I do everything for Jesus.
Yeah, we are. For Jesus.
Hill was asked by Hammer if he was concerned about Cyrus -- her sudden fame coupled with her youth. His reply?
Exactly. I man, this video freaks me out. I wasn`t inspired when I saw it. No 15-year-old loves Jesus that much. Either she`s heavily calculated or a weird kid and either way, seems like she`s hurdling towards Lindsay Lohan/Britney Spears territory. These were both really good girls who were completely obsessed and a few years later they are hanging off of bar tops. That`s a dangerous thing.
I honestly don't see anything "weird" about this at all.
As pointed out in the broadcast, Cyrus comes from a showbiz family -- her father is country star Billy Ray Cyrus, who has said in numerous interviews that if he ever saw the Britney/Lindsay behavior coming from his daughter he would pull her out of show business. And she happens to be a Christian.
To put in context, though, this is the same guy who "doesn't know" that Louis Farakkan is a racist and thinks the Jeremiah Wright story is a "quasi-controversy."
And a white teenager professing her love for Jesus he gets "freaked out" about.
1 comment:
Oh good grief. Spoken like a truly lost person. I think her testimony was great. Hurdling toward Lohan, please.
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