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edesignuk

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Exciting news people, wait for it. 15 year old writes her "life" story.
US pop sensation Miley Cyrus has finished writing a book of her life at the age of 15.

The star of hit TV show Hannah Montana was reportedly paid a seven-figure sum to tell her "inspiring story".
BBC.

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Allow me to read an exerpt:

" And then i was like, totally, and she said no way. I couldnt believe jeff broke up with me! I was in love with him with all my heart since we locked eyes 15 minutes ago! Why is my life so hard? Oh my achy breaky heart"
 
Does it really matter when she writes it? She's gonna get paid MILLIONS to write whatever BS related to her life so that 10-15 year old kids everywhere will buy and treat it like gospel. If it works out for her and the publisher, they'll make a sequel of that book in a few years and make a movie.
 
So it will basically be a MySpace page in book form. I wish she would go back into whatever hole she crawled out of.
 
If she's popular now, she should write it now, as in five or ten years, she'll be unknown to 100% of the planet's population (instead of the 95% or so now).

She won't be unknown to everybody. There'll be a few people that'll know her from the B-grade porn she'll invariably end up in.
 
god these content ads are great, apparantly I can get miley cyrus shoes at walmart! :D
 
So by reading her "inspiring story" I take it we'll gain insight into how a poor penniless daughter of a multi-millionaire pop star miraculously captures the attention of the entertainment industry using of course only her raw incredible talent and against all odds with only the backing of a major multinational's marketing budget becomes successful?

Not exactly Nelson Mandela is it?
 
So by reading her "inspiring story" I take it we'll gain insight into how a poor penniless daughter of a multi-millionaire pop star miraculously captures the attention of the entertainment industry using of course only her raw incredible talent and against all odds with only the backing of a major multinational's marketing budget becomes successful?

Not exactly Nelson Mandela is it?
Cynic :p
 
Anyone who thinks a single word of this 'book' was ever in the same room as her is sadly deluded.

Get real. Of course it's a marketing manoeuvre. And I have to say I find it hard to object to anything that encourages children to read, even if it's mindless sub-Potter pap.
 
So it will basically be a MySpace page in book form. I wish she would go back into whatever hole she crawled out of.

wooah, slow down there with the hate man!! Okay, I'm pretty sure the book is gonna be one looong piece of marketing-department-engineered froth (or actually not so long since it's for kids, and not the kind of kids who look forward to reading Order of the Phoenix-sized books, and the bigger the better), but that's no reason to be quite so nasty is it? I mean, the prebuscent kids (just girls actually, very much doubt boys are into that stuff), who are going to read that, I got news for you, they're pretty frothy creatures generally. And those that aren't. well, they put down the likes of Miley (sp?) Cyrus using much the same words and stuff as you are, which is hardly flattering to you as I think you're a bit older than that :eek: Trying to make oneself look superior by putting 'pop cultcha' down is kinda lame past age 18 :p

(apologies if you're younger than eighteen though lol)
 
if it's like other "grown-up" memoirs, how many of her fans will actually get it, and then trudge through it?

i hope they make a mary kate and ashley olson/kids/teens version, otherwise it won't sell
 
no, only made more money. And I get the funny feeling this book won't explicitly describe how to make a similarly large chunk of cash. Therefore: not interested.
Queso already listed how to do it.

Step 1: Famous and rich parent
Step 2: Disneys marketing department working in full force to help you and themselves (MTV will work to)
Step 3: $$$
 
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