Miley Unleashed

Britney’s shiny, fire-truck-red latex catsuit is back, this time with metal teeth on the crotch—specifically the crotch of Miley Cyrus as she crawls, punches, flexes, and gyrates her way through the 2019 video for “Mother’s Daughter.” Directed by Alexandre Moors, the video is a carefully wrought spectacle, and the visual reference to Britney Spears’s outfit from the 2000 “Oops… I Did It Again” video is unmistakable. Female American pop stars cannot appear in red catsuits, curved crotch spikes aside, without evoking “Oops,” especially if they share Disney Channel training, as Cyrus and Spears do.  Read the rest on Mangoprism.