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So today the soundtrack for Hannah Montana: The Movie was released. To start with one thing; most of it is nothing like any previous Hannah Montana soundtrack. Part of it is though and it’s not surprising that it’s the Hannah Montana part but that’s only seven of the eighteen songs. It’s actually quite long for today’s standards with a playtime of pretty much exactly an hour. Read the rest of this entry »

Starletviews.com is being put on hiatus for several reasons.

For one the current news content is pityful, there simply is no or very little news to report on. It isn’t that strange with as small a news portion to draw from one but still. Though today there actually would be something to post about but I’m not going to bother with it now, it’s not going to last anyway. In principle there would be “news” actually but lowering the site to a gossip level is out of the question. There are enough of those idiot sites around the internet.

That is also part of the problem really; people only care about short news and pictures. The sites in this segment that are successful usually consists of mostly posting pictures, videos or very short news articles. That however was never the idea behind Starletviews.com and never will be. The site could be back in time, it actually will stay online there just won’t be any new posts. Unless there really is something good to write an editorial about or maybe a CD review here and there but the news is something that I won’t bother with right now.

It was a long shot to start a site/blog like this with the internet to have meaningful content. The target audiences of sites like this don’t really respond well to long articles but I hoped that could be changed. People also care more about gossip and people being hateful on sites like Perez Hilton than reading honest opinions without a hidden agenda.

Another reason for the hiatus is that there are simply more important projects to me now, the visitor numbers on Starletviews.com aren’t exactly a motivation to keep going. It never really got a lot of hits which I’m still somewhat sad about. I don’t actually expect the number of visitors to go down even if the site is on hiatus seeing the new posts were the ones getting the least hits.

So the site might return sooner or later, it depends on a lot of factors. Right now however it is on hiatus.

Miley Cyrus has a new music video out and there actually is some anticipation about it. Not so much for the video itself but more because of the positive responses Miley is getting for her song The Climb. Lets just say that even people who hate Miley are taking a liking to it. So far Miley hasn’t been the very best at music videos as they all seemed a bit rushed. Probably because they were all shot within a day which is a bit short and the good news is that there is some improvement. In fact that there are some points which are surprising and very pleasant.

Lets start of with the song The Climb itself as we haven’t reviewed that on here yet either. It is basically the launch of the promotion for Hannah Montana: The Movie which will come out in about two months on April 10th. It is a balad; a kind of song Miley hasn’t had as a single so far and she does a good job at it. Live she does the song even better but it is a good song nonetheless; especially lyrically it’s a good song though Hannah Montana songs are quite strong in that department. It might seem strange for songs that are basically meant for a TV show but it is true.

One thing that I do hear a lot from people is that they think it doesn’t sound like Miley. While she sounds a bit different I would have to disagree on it not sounding like Miley; the girl has shown quite a bit vocal range already for her age so it’s more an issue of people not really having heard her full potential. Who wrote the song? That is unknown right now; there is a lot of speculation on whether Miley wrote it or the Hannah Montana writers but that is something that will come out sooner or later. Just like with more songs on the Hannah Montana Movie soundtrack the performing artist will be listed as Miley Cyrus and not as Hannah Montana. Which probably will make that CD one of the more confusing ones of the year.

Now to the video and we first see a glimpse of Miley walking through a rather badly computer animated landscape after which we see her in a room with laser effects where she kneels down. Here we can already see the biggest shocker or the entire video; she is dressed normally. She’s wearing jeans, a gray top and Converse All Stars which is a very Miley outfit. Zooming in on her face also shows that she’s showing no to little make up. This is a video made in Hollywood isn’t it? Yes it is and that makes it all surprising and refreshing, it’s about time that people are shown more naturally. Miley already does that when going out into public but doing it in a video is a rather big step but it does fit the video. So there is also a reason to it.

Most of the video is filled with three elements; Miley walking through the earlier mentioned landscape (at one point some rather amateurishly animated horses run across it, this is Disney; they can do better). Which is obviously representing the journey of the Climb. At some point she takes of her boots and continues barefoot with just her guitar ending on the edge of a big canyon which again isn’t the best animated.

The second element is Miley in the laser filled room where she she starts to play her guitar. Miley can actually play the guitar so it doesn’t look fake or forced either, especially not seeing it’s her own guitar that she is using in the video and not some random prop. Not sure what the laser parts are for but they’re not too distracting and probably add a bit to the atmosphere. Later on you can see her in front of a screen with footage from Hannah Montana: The Movie.

They should have left the movie exposure to that honestly because the third element just doesn’t work. They worked in a couple of movie clips but it just doesn’t flow with the music video. So that sort of ruins the music video as a whole, that combined with the bad animation. If they had left out the movie clips and had gone to some more skilled animators (or given them more time) then it would actually have been a good music video. Which is a sad conclusion despite certain strong points that are very not-Hollywood and a pleasant surprise.

Now normally we don’t really comment on personal things on here but this is just beyond ridiculous that it deserves a post. That and it still being slow on news on here. It just wasn’t posted on her because I honestly believed it would just blow over and didn’t want to be caught in all the drama around it.

No doubt however that everyone has heard of these slanted eye picture of Miley Cyrus. Now that some people felt offended by it fine but it doesn’t mean it was racist. Miley now apologized so that would be the end of it I would think but not for some people.

Someone named Lucile J. Kim is honestly suing Miley for $4 billion now. Who is this woman trying to kid? Is she really deluded enough to believe that she has a chance of winning a lawsuit like this? Though there are good odds is just some ambulance chaser lawyer who went along with it, any lawyer with some common sense would kick this woman to the curb. Just another case of a frivolous lawsuit which will help absolutely no one. Not even beginning to mention that this woman is stuck up enough that she feels she has the right to speak for all Asians in the LA County. Why doesn’t she sue for all Asians in the world?

Honestly I sometimes feel that Miley can never do anything right, everything the girl does is blown way out of proportion. Sure the girl is a celebrity but at least give the girl chance to live a little. There are enough fake plastic celebrities in Hollywood right now; it’s rather refreshing to see someone who isn’t afraid to speak her mind (that is a general statement and not in regard to this specific case).