"There's no right or wrong, success or failure"
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Miley Cyrus takes a wrecking ball to the scoreboard mentality with a line that sounds like a shrug, but lands like a dare. "There's no right or wrong, success or failure" isn’t a philosophy lecture; it’s a pop star’s survival tactic in a culture that grades women’s every move. When your career has been treated like a public referendum - wholesome Disney product one year, moral panic the next - the simplest rebellion is refusing the rubric altogether.
The intent reads as self-permission. By flattening those binaries, Cyrus carves out room to experiment, to be messy, to pivot without asking the internet for a hall pass. The subtext is about control: if the world insists on turning your choices into a pass/fail exam, you can either keep taking the test or declare the test fake. It’s also an implicit critique of the algorithmic age, where "success" gets reduced to metrics and "failure" becomes a screenshotable moment of cringe. She’s saying: the scoreboard is not the game.
Context matters because Cyrus’s brand has long been built on transformation - not just musical eras, but identities. That restlessness is often framed as instability; the quote flips it into principle. It’s less "nothing matters" than "stop policing outcomes". In pop, where image and ambition are treated like a morality play, her line works because it refuses the audience’s favorite role: judge. It asks for something rarer than approval: space.
The intent reads as self-permission. By flattening those binaries, Cyrus carves out room to experiment, to be messy, to pivot without asking the internet for a hall pass. The subtext is about control: if the world insists on turning your choices into a pass/fail exam, you can either keep taking the test or declare the test fake. It’s also an implicit critique of the algorithmic age, where "success" gets reduced to metrics and "failure" becomes a screenshotable moment of cringe. She’s saying: the scoreboard is not the game.
Context matters because Cyrus’s brand has long been built on transformation - not just musical eras, but identities. That restlessness is often framed as instability; the quote flips it into principle. It’s less "nothing matters" than "stop policing outcomes". In pop, where image and ambition are treated like a morality play, her line works because it refuses the audience’s favorite role: judge. It asks for something rarer than approval: space.
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