Marcel Winatschek

Miley at the Edge of Something

By the fall of 2012, Miley Cyrus had spent about a year quietly dismantling what Disney built around her, one photo shoot at a time—not yet the full controlled demolition that would arrive at the VMAs the following summer, just the steady, deliberate self-exposure of a person who understood exactly what she was doing and exactly who she was doing it to. Two and a half steps away from Hannah Montana, and picking up speed.