Miley Cyrus is hosting this year's MTV Video Music Awards on August 30. After her most talked-about twerking performance with Robin Thicke two years ago, Cyrus says MTV won't let her perform again... so she's hosting the show instead.
US Magazine reported that the big announcement happened via Twitter when the "Wrecking Ball" singer tweeted on Monday. "F*** yeah VMAs!!!!! #VMAs on @MTV Aug 30 at 9pm," she posted. She then attached a collage of two photos, first was an alien wearing a giant poster reading, "MTV WON'T LET ME PERFORM." Next to it was a picture of her without the alien mask with a poster that reads, "SO I'M HOSTING THIS YEAR'S VMAs"
Fuck yeah VMAs!!!!! #VMAs on @MTV Aug 30 at 9pm pic.twitter.com/iiBzMm0l3C
— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) July 20, 2015
Cyrus has been very controversial when it comes to her MTV award show appearances. In 2013, she wore a raunchy outfit with a giant foam finger performing "We Can't Stop". She then twerked her butt all the way when Robin Thicke joined her on stage, singing "Blurred Lines". Thicke was among the millions of people shocked with her wild antics that night. "They told me [beforehand] that Miley's going to take her clothes off and dance around and she might bend over," Thicke said in his Vanity Fair interview. "I just said, 'I don't care, let's entertain the people... Let's give them something they're not ready for, let's make them talk.'"
At the MTV Europe Awards in 2013, while receiving the Best Video award for "Wrecking Ball", the then 20-year-old pop star smoked a joint on stage, knowing Marijuana is not illegal in Amsterdam.
Cyrus is not all about twerking and smoking, though. At the 2014 MTV VMAs, a friend who represents the homeless people her foundation is benefitting from received Best Video award on stage in behalf of her as a campaign for awareness.
"I just didn't realize my platform, I didn't realize my power," Cyrus told Ryan Seacrest following her win. "I really realized it after the VMAs [last year] ... there's something special and there's only few people that experience this that no matter what I do, there's no winning or losing, it's just going to be talked about. Period."
Cyrus' Happy Hippie Foundation aims to help the homeless and LGBT youth.
