Miley Cyrus, once a household name for squeaky clean, Disney material, idol to be looked up to, can now be seen “twerking”, and licking sledgehammers on sites such as Youtube 24/7.

Cyrus recently released her music video for her newest single, “Wrecking Ball”, a few weeks ago. Obviously, with Cyrus’ past few stints, controversy seems to follow her everywhere. (i.e. her infamous VMA performance a few weeks back.)

Now, any right minded person would want to stray away from controversy, but Cyrus definitely had more on her mind than “twerking” when she had the idea for the video.

Due to its controversial nature (if you haven’t seen it, you can view it here.), it definitely has generated more buzz about the video, thus increasing the amount of people viewing and listening to the music video, eventually, buying the song. (I mean, we all buy music, right?) Within 24 hours of the release, the video generated 12.3 million hits, and had 100 million hits in 6 days. Within a week of the single’s release, it sold 477,000 downloads, her best to date.

So, controversy is somewhat healthy, as long as there’s a balance. You might end up like Miley Cyrus, getting judged but with the money to back it up, or maybe, a Lindsay Lohan. (Yikes) However, that being said, you won’t be seeing me running around campus naked, licking a sledgehammer and singing to “Wrecking Ball”; disappointing, I know.