Actually, See You Again needs to be acknowledged as one of the watershed moments of 2008, announcing as it did that tweenpop was where musical excitement was *happening*. Although the greatness of See You Again stems from the way in which it seems so very inappropriate for tweenpop, namely the slightly been-around-the-block lyrics, such as:
I've got my heart set on you and I'm ready to wait/ I have a heart that will never be tamed...
I've got a way of knowing when something is right/ I feel like I must've known you in another life/ Cuz I felt this deep connection when you looked in my eyes...
Does that sound like 15-year old speak? To be fair the chorus does ("the last time I freaked out, I just kept looking down... the next time we hang out, I will redeem myself..."). But the effect of this alternating old-young-old-young verse-chorus pattern is to set up an uncomfortably predatory vignette (to steal your dancefloor observations, Catherine). Here it is one more time...
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And also note how Miley seems to channel the performing instinct of someone older and slightly lecherous, which adds to the whole effect...
She is devil spawn.
Not devil spawn! I like her ballsiness (spelling?), but not so much the racist photo incident... I think she's a good thing for music!
Spawn of the devil.
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