Miley Cyrus: Outrageous performance that shocked everyone

The 20-year-old's raunchy, childhood-crushing performance at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday didn't just elicit a negative reaction on social media, it has also riled Thicke's mother, the Parents Television Council, Kelly Clarkson and even liberal-minded celebs including the oft-scantily clad Brooklyn Decker and rebel rousers Bill Maher and Judd Apatow.

After watching the performance, Gloria Loring, Thicke's mother, said she didn't understand what Cyrus was trying to do. "I was not expecting her to be putting her butt that close to my son," she told omg! Insider.
She regrets ever seeing the VMA footage. "It's not that I saw it once, it's that I can never un-see it," she said, adding that she does not think that Cyrus's new incarnation is a beneficial move.

The Parents Television Council issued a statement blasting MTV for "marketing sexually charged messages to young children using former child stars."
Relating specifically to Cyrus's crude stage show, during which she simulated sex acts at every turn (grabbing her crotch, sticking out her tongue, bending over in front of Robin Thicke, and acting inappropriately with a foam finger) as she pranced around in a nude bikini, PTC Director of Public Policy Dan Isett said, "MTV continues to sexually exploit young women by promoting acts that incorporate 'twerking' in a nude-colored bikini. How is this image of former child star Miley Cyrus appropriate for 14-year-olds?