"My dad, like, he's the most trusting human in the world"
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The throwaway “like” is doing real work here: it keeps the line in the register of casual, unscripted truth, the way you talk when you’re trying not to sound sentimental and failing anyway. Miley Cyrus frames her dad as “the most trusting human in the world,” not “a great guy” or “supportive,” which would be safer celebrity-speak. “Trusting” is a risk-based virtue. It implies openness, faith in people, a willingness to be disappointed - and, by extension, a family dynamic built on second chances rather than surveillance.
The superlative (“most”) is classic child-of-fame exaggeration, but it also reads like protection. Calling someone endlessly trusting can be praise and a gentle warning at once: he believes people, maybe too easily. In Cyrus’s world - where image management is a full-time industry and betrayal can be monetized - trust is almost an endangered resource. So the compliment lands as a kind of moral counter-programming against cynicism: one person in her orbit hasn’t been fully professionalized.
Context matters because Cyrus’s public narrative has been about reinvention, boundary-pushing, and being misunderstood. Invoking her father’s trust subtly rewrites the tabloid storyline. Instead of “daughter gone wild,” you get “father who doesn’t clamp down.” The subtext is permission: trust as the original license to experiment, to screw up, to grow. It’s a small sentence that insists family can be a refuge even when the rest of the world is a marketplace.
The superlative (“most”) is classic child-of-fame exaggeration, but it also reads like protection. Calling someone endlessly trusting can be praise and a gentle warning at once: he believes people, maybe too easily. In Cyrus’s world - where image management is a full-time industry and betrayal can be monetized - trust is almost an endangered resource. So the compliment lands as a kind of moral counter-programming against cynicism: one person in her orbit hasn’t been fully professionalized.
Context matters because Cyrus’s public narrative has been about reinvention, boundary-pushing, and being misunderstood. Invoking her father’s trust subtly rewrites the tabloid storyline. Instead of “daughter gone wild,” you get “father who doesn’t clamp down.” The subtext is permission: trust as the original license to experiment, to screw up, to grow. It’s a small sentence that insists family can be a refuge even when the rest of the world is a marketplace.
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