Friday, April 3, 2015

Research Blog - Source #1



“Miley Cyrus UNLEASHED.” Cosmopolitan 254.3 (2013): 72-74. Canadian Reference Centre. Web. 2 Apr. 2015

My first source is from a March 2013 issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine. It is an online print version of a dialogue between 20-year-old Miley Cyrus and an interviewer of the magazine. The interview takes place in her Toluca Lake, Los Angeles mansion. The time of this interview was March 2013, which was just before Miley’s tragic breakup from her recent fiance, Liam Hemsworth. One of the very first questions the star is asked includes details about her love for Liam and the priority he holds in her life. Cyrus states that her relationship with him is the number one priority in her life. As the questions continue and the interviewer begins to encourage more detailed answers from Miley, we start to see the love she has for this man, and how their relationship is the one thing that matters to her over all the things her busy life entails. When she is asked by the interviewer if she is proud of her new record that at the time was to be released shortly, Cyrus responds with, “Definitely, it’s the second thing that I’m most content with” (Miley Cyrus UNLEASHED 72), which hints to us that her relationship with Liam is the first thing that she is most content with.

In a question that comes much later in the interview, Cosmo says to Miley, “Let’s talk about Liam. Do you ever have these moments when you’re still stuck by how hot he is?” (Miley Cyrus UNLEASHED 74). The stars response reads with excitement, and we can tell yet again how he is the center of her world. She tells us a short story of her friend who saw a picture of Liam as her phone background asking, “‘Who is that? He is so hot!’” where then Miley’s response is, “That’s my hubby!” (Miley Cyrus UNLEASHED 74).

Miley was clearly in love with Liam in the way she talks about their upcoming (at the time being) wedding. In the Cosmo interview article, Miley shared a few details about what the wedding was to entail. She tells the reader it is to be a small wedding “with the people we’d [Miley and Liam] take bullets for” (Miley Cyrus UNLEASHED 74). She does not want too many people there due to the fact that the two are famous and they do not want unnecessary people there to ruin their special day.

This source will be helpful for my research paper because it discusses one of my main arguments, the relationship of Miley and Liam. It talks about their relationship just before the breakup, and can be used as good comparison to how happy she was versus how her personality has changed after the breakup happened. The information in this source is reliable because it is coming from Miley Cyrus herself. The words have not been twisted by tabloids or the magazine, as it is an interview and quotes her. There is no bias in this source because again, it is coming from the star herself.

This source fits into my research because again, it is answering one of my main research questions: how did the breakup impact the star. The above paragraphs are how I will use the article in my paper. This has not necessarily changed my view, as I always believed they were in love prior to the breakup, and it is leading me to believe the breakup was in fact a cause of her major personality change.


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