As a wannabe MO and wannabe pseudo-intellectual, I don't watch TV, and don't listen to the radio except C-SPAN and NPR, and I generally live in an enclave protected by invisible walls in a chamber pure from the corrupting influences of pop culture.

So please explain to me, who the heck is HANNAH MONTANA, and why is her name suddenly everywhere you turn?!?

From the sounds of this post I think you are now yeshivish. I'm sorry, but it's been coming to this.

She is Miley (Ray) Cyrus, the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus the country music artist. She had a show on Disney Channel and is now a very popular music artist among the teen crowd. Sheesh.

Thats all very nice.. but why is her name Hanna Montana of all things??

you sound a little too informed about Hanna Montana...

I actually watched the show last week since I was bored. It's really a crappy show -even for kids. I guess the concerts are supposed to be exciting. Then again, Im not a 13 year old girl.


what's the difference between that and any other made up name?

ETA: woo hoo embedded quotes are back

oh no, why are the quotes embedded again?!
it looks so messy

I would call them "nested", not "embedded".

Glad to be of help. Hannah Montana is a show on the disney channel a bout a teen girl who has a double identity. In the show, she is really Miley Stewart, but in order that her life as a pop star not take away her regularness, she performs under the pseudonym Hannah Montana. The show is more often about her regular life, and how it's affected by protecting her identity. There are some episodes where she appears in concert as part of the episode.

In real real life, the actress's name is Miley Cyrus. She is the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus, the erstwhile country singer. Billy Ray plays her father in the show, as well as the fictitious father/composer of Hannah Montanah, Bobby Ray. (If you're keeping score at home, we now have three (3) identities each for Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus.

Miley Cyrus has been on tour of late, performing concerts as both Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana. Apparently, she switches identities in the middle of the concert. As far as I understand, she does not perform any of the concert as Miley Stewart, who apparently cannot sing.

Trivia: Emily, the sister of haley Joel Osment, play Miley's best friend Lily, and Hannah's best friend Lola.

Oy. Too complicated. Thanks for the update.

Funny, I was actually on the phone with her agent last week.

can I be you?

Are you hairy?

She's one of the biggest tween stars out there, probably the biggest. But I agree, it's getting out of hand. Hannah Montana shoes, flash drives, cameras...it's everywhere.

How do you know about her??

She's some teenage fad phenomenon that will probably be over and forgotten in a year or two.

So confusing. Why don't they just eliminate the third personality and do a show about her life as a normal teenager trying to cope with stardom?

That is what the show is about.

Why don't they eliminate the Miley Stewart and just have Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana?

Who's you?


Of course. I heard from someone who just came back from Disney World that everything was the traditional Disney stuff, except for the Hannah Montana and High School Musical shows. That's because those are the big Disney movies/shows going on right now. In a year or two, they'll be on to the next fad, with her current fan base growing up and moving on to bigger and better.

you, let's say.

Because it's not a reality TV show. If it were Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana then it would be a little ridiculous to claim that no one knows about her alter ego.

Oh. From my little sister. [IIRC, when I asked her about it, she gave me a look like which planet did you just fall from.]

true. when i was in the disney world a few years ago, they had shrek stuff, and those ants' lives (i think it just came out then), and i had no clue who that was, but enjoyed it nevertheless.

the only thing i read about this girl is that she legally changed her name recently - it was on yahoo. don't remember to what, though.

I think it's a fun show for the target demographic. I would have loved this when I was like 13 or 14.

btw, the whole premise of the show seems plagiarised from Mahou no Stage Fancy Lala but then again I usually find references to anime in most things...

I thought N Sync, Back Street Boys, and Jay-Z are what the teens listen to. Do they still?

I used to be "with it", but I think I may have lost "it"

1. What they listen to and what they watch are different.
2. I have no idea what they listen to.
3. Hannah Montana targets the tWeen crowd, not the teen crowd.


You're probably "with it" for your age group. You're not a teenager anymore.

Tweens are twelve-year olds? Isn't that a pretty narrow demographic?

Hmm. Well I remember some fat guy named Ruben and skinny guy named Clay won American Idol a while ago... What does it mean for a 28-year-old to be "with it"?

According to wikipedia, it's 8-12 year olds. [And I thought it was a recent word, so I looked it up in m-w.com to see when it joined the English language, and it says 1967!]

heh. i dont think i've watched anything except a bedtime cartoon and an occasional sports game when i was 8... let alone have tween idols. maybe i have selective memory. weird...

I have no idea. I'm definitely not "with it" in the pop culture sense, so I can't answer you.

I think you have to watch the Office.

I was going to tell Moshi to ask you but then I realized I don't know how old you are.

Ancient.

And totally not with it for my age. Or any other age, really, though I'm more familiar with younger ages because the Internet skews young.

Wait so she's not from Montana???

I watched some DVDs of the English 'Office' 3 years ago when I had an English friend staying with me for a few months, and he insisted that I watch them. It's a pretty funny show. Don't know anything about the American version.

Is there anything else? The Daily Show/Colbert show?

I think you're too dangerously close to 30 to be "with it" anymore....

It's kind of scary. I occasionally see some cartoons on TV, or webpages geared towards kids. It's a non-stop changing of frames, a million things happening every second, crazy colors, i don't know how it can be watched, it gives me a headache after 1 minute! Has children's programming always been this ADHD? Or is this a new thing??? Is this healthy? Am I sounding like an old woman???????????????

You mean you're not an old woman?????????

You're like 6 years behind...
I'd say they listen to My Chemical Romance, Panic at the Disco, 50 Cent, Soulja Boy Tell'em and Avril Lavigne...

Are you a four year old girl? I googled Hannah Montana after a stranger's four year old child bragged about going to a Hannah Montana concert (and hearing about the movie on the radio).

It was asked for.

It makes it much esier to follow a conversation.

mosheshmeal
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It's suspiciously similar to Hillary Duff/Lizzie McGuire who everyone has long forgotten about.


Why?


Absolutely.

Thanks Bitter. I was not able to get an explaination beyond "she's Billy Ray Cyrus' daughter" (I love BRC!)

Supposedly a concert ticket can be had for $2000. You must have rich neighbors.

They're not neighbors of mine and they probably are rich. (And their daughter must be spoiled.)

I haven't ah... never mind...