Marcel Winatschek

She Still Can’t Help It

She’s been trying to seem respectable and serious lately. Gone are the days when she’d piss on streets naked, flash her body in magazines, move her genitals around MTV shows just to watch everyone lose their minds. That was the interesting Miley Cyrus.

Except you can’t actually leave that behind. Or you don’t want to.

This past weekend at Coachella she was posting Instagram stories, and in one she’s standing in front of a big Hollyweed sign, sipping a smoothie with her underboob just hanging out. And there she is. The girl who doesn’t care what she’s supposed to be. Still in there. Still refusing to perform the respectability thing.

I don’t know if she’ll ever actually stick with being a serious adult or if this is just how she works—a few years of acting respectable before the old Miley breaks through again. But I’m always more interested in the moments when she drops the act.