Miley Got It

Miley Cyrus’s new website looks like it’s from 1996. Garish colors clashing everywhere, images scattered with no sense of hierarchy, the kind of chaos that early web design just accepted. She did this on purpose, of course.

Smoking joints, wet tongues, exposed breasts next to hamburgers—nothing’s held back. Whatever’s in her head, thrown up without editing or strategy.

Most celebrity platforms are built to be safe. Hers isn’t interested in safety. There’s no buffer between the thought and the image. It sounds like it shouldn’t work—and honestly it looks like a mess—but somehow it does. There’s more personality in one chaotic corner of this thing than in the entire output of most celebrities.

I’m not saying it’s the best website in the world. But it’s probably the most interesting thing I’ve looked at online in a while.