"My favourite sport is cheerleading!"
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Picking cheerleading as a "favourite sport" is a deceptively loaded choice, especially coming from Miley Cyrus, a pop figure who’s spent her career arguing with other people’s definitions of legitimacy. Cheerleading sits in a cultural gray zone: undeniably athletic, brutally demanding, yet still treated in many circles as an accessory to "real" sports. By naming it outright - and doing so with the breezy confidence of a fan declaration - Cyrus nudges that hierarchy. The exclamation point matters: it’s not a defense, it’s a flex.
There’s subtext here about who gets to be seen as strong. Cheerleading has long been coded as feminine performance, often dismissed because it’s tied to spectacle, beauty, and crowd work. Cyrus’s brand has always tangled performance with power: she’s a singer whose instrument is also her body, her image, her ability to command a room that may be skeptical or moralizing. Saying cheerleading is her favorite sport reads like an alignment with a form of physicality that’s policed as "too girly" to count and "too sexualized" to respect. That tension mirrors pop stardom itself.
Contextually, the line also plays like a calibrated piece of self-mythology. Cyrus came up through Disney’s machine, where cheerleading vibes - pep, polish, relentless smile-through-the-soreness professionalism - are practically a job requirement. Framed that way, the quote doubles as a wink: she’s praising an activity that’s both underestimated and foundational to the kind of controlled chaos she’s made a career out of.
There’s subtext here about who gets to be seen as strong. Cheerleading has long been coded as feminine performance, often dismissed because it’s tied to spectacle, beauty, and crowd work. Cyrus’s brand has always tangled performance with power: she’s a singer whose instrument is also her body, her image, her ability to command a room that may be skeptical or moralizing. Saying cheerleading is her favorite sport reads like an alignment with a form of physicality that’s policed as "too girly" to count and "too sexualized" to respect. That tension mirrors pop stardom itself.
Contextually, the line also plays like a calibrated piece of self-mythology. Cyrus came up through Disney’s machine, where cheerleading vibes - pep, polish, relentless smile-through-the-soreness professionalism - are practically a job requirement. Framed that way, the quote doubles as a wink: she’s praising an activity that’s both underestimated and foundational to the kind of controlled chaos she’s made a career out of.
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