Girl, interrupted - The Miley Cyrus Story

ELTON John thinks she’s “a meltdown waiting to happen” — but he always says that. He’s issued public doom warnings about Robbie Williams, Eminem, George Michael, Lady Gaga and Michael Jackson. This time he’s talking about Miley Cyrus — but then, who isn’t?

In terms of getting herself imprinted on the public consciousness as someone far far away from squeaky Disney princess Hannah Montana, Miley has done an excellent job. First by twerking — and no, I don’t quite know what that means either — at the MTV awards in flesh-coloured latex underwear with singer Robin Thicke, and currently by swinging naked on a concrete ball, wearing only a pair of Dr Martens. The video for her latest single ‘Wrecking Ball’, directed by art-perv Terry Richardson, had been viewed 113,145,632 times by the time I got around to watching it on YouTube. Mmmmmm. You can see why.