TORONTO — If anyone knows girls just want to have fun, it’s Cyndi Lauper — but the singer has said Miley Cyrus went too far on Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards.
“There she is, a young 20-something trying to prove she can hang with the big boys and girls, basically simulating a Girls Gone Wild video on stage,” Lauper said during an Australian radio interview on Monday.
“I just felt like it was so beneath her and really raunchy. It wasn’t even art. I felt sad. I felt really sad for her.”
Cyrus, 20, sparked a social media frenzy after stripping down to flesh-coloured underwear, grinding against married father-of-one Robin Thicke and making sexually suggestive motions with a big foam hand during Thicke’s performance of “Blurred Lines.”
“She’s in a song that literally says that the blurred lines allow you to … when a woman says no that she means yes,” Lauper, 60, said on Australia’s Brig & Lehmo for Breakfast show on Gold 104.3. “That is frightful because that is date rape.”
Lauper is currently in Australia for the 30th anniversary tour of her breakthrough album She’s So Unusual, which includes the hit single “She Bop” — a song about masturbation.
The tour stops in Montreal on Oct. 26 and Toronto on Oct. 27.
Lauper, who recently won a Tony Award for her work on Kinky Boots, is not the only singer unimpressed to take a shot at Cyrus.
On Monday, Kelly Clarkson tweeted: “Just saw a couple of performances from the VMAs last night. 2 words…#pitchystrippers.”
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