{"id":350,"date":"2020-09-04T05:46:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T04:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguitar.rocks\/?p=350"},"modified":"2020-09-04T05:46:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T04:46:45","slug":"miley-cyrus-faced-sexism-from-vmas-director-for-wanting-to-be-treated-like-a-guy-music-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"Miley Cyrus faced sexism from VMAs director for &#8216;wanting to be treated like a guy&#8217; &#8211; Music News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.music-news.com\/images\/news\/cover\/134196.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Miley Cyrus has slammed the directors behind her performance at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards due to an argument over her lighting.<\/p>\n<p>The singer performed her latest break-up song Midnight Sky during Sunday&#8217;s socially-distanced show seemingly without incident.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the Malibu hitmaker opened up about an &#8220;embarrassing&#8221; mishap that occurred between herself and the directors ahead of the taping. <\/p>\n<p>She explained: &#8220;Beauty light is always used on women and I said, &#8216;Turn the f**king lights off. You would never tell Travis Scott or Adam Levine that he couldn&#8217;t turn the beauty light off&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She explicated that she wanted red lighting, the same as her male counterparts use on stage. <\/p>\n<p>Telling Rogan the show&#8217;s orchestrators challenged her, Miley recounted: &#8220;My bracelets kept getting caught and they said, &#8216;You want to be treated like a guy we wouldn&#8217;t be dealing with this if a guy was doing this&#8217;.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>She retorted: &#8220;I said a guy wouldn&#8217;t be doing this because a guy doesn&#8217;t sell your show with sex, the way I am going to. 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