Monday, 27 January 2014

The most watched music videos on youtube 2013- #1

Miley Cyrus - Wrecking ball


474,380,247 views

“Wrecking Ball" is a song performed by American recording artist Miley Cyrus for her fourth studio album Bangerz (2013). It was released on August 25, 2013, by RCA Records as the second single from the record. It was written by MoZella, Stephan Moccio, Sacha Skarbek, Lukasz Gottwald (Dr. Luke), and Henry Russell Walter (Cirkut). It was produced by Dr. Luke and Cirkut. "Wrecking Ball" is a pop ballad which lyrically discusses the deterioration of a relationship; it has been widely speculated to have been inspired by Cyrus' former fiancé Liam Hemsworth.


I personally feel that his video was successful because of the nudity which caused a lot of controversy. The clip received generally mixed review from critics, who were divided in their opinions regarding Cyrus' increasingly provocative image. Writing for Billboard, Jason Lipshutz stated that the "nude Cyrus shown straddling a swinging wrecking ball" was the most surprising piece of the clip. Amelia Proud from Daily Mail provided a mixed review, commenting that Cyrus delivered a visual that was more provocative than its "boisterous" predecessor "We Can't Stop" and questioned if she "finally gone too far this time". The staff from Entertainment Weekly joked that viewers would be "scandalized/titillated/disappointed in Billy Ray Cyrus' parenting skills" after seeing his daughter nude and "fellating a sledgehammer." Writing for The Guardian, Michael Hann criticized Cyrus' attempts to distance herself from her Hannah Montana image, saying that "what's startling about Cyrus' journey is the extent of the embrace" and panning her for "exploring the iconography of porn

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