Why Miley Cyrus' VMA shenanigans don't bother me  Author: By
Meredith Sinclair Special to HLN Published On: Aug 27 2013
04:04:24 PM EDT   Updated On: Aug 27 2013 06:44:43 PM EDT (CNN)
-  For 24 hours, Miley Cyrus has monopolized my Facebook feed,
Twitter stream, television set and radio. Blogs are ablaze with
twerking backfire, while Syria and "Batman Affleck" have been
dismissed to make room for color commentary on how another
Disney star's "gone wild."  I fully understand the uproar and
disgust with how it all went down, but I'm not going to lie: I
wasn't all that appalled by it. Here's why.  It's the MTV Video
Music Awards.  If you snuggled up with your young'uns on Sunday
night to watch the VMAs, thinking you were about to enjoy a
wholesome music awards show together, you probably haven't
watched MTV since the days when they actually aired music videos
and had VJs. You want the old MTV? You'll need a DeLorean. The
VMAs are a place where artists come to push buttons, break rules
and be remembered. Madonna