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I keep on top of all current news relating to my Advanced Production - such as the moral panics surrounding Miley Cyrus and the impact of her behaviour on impressionable teenage girls – by accessing newspapers online. In my video, I am seen referring to the article under discussion by Will Hodgkinson, chief rock and pop critic for The Times.

For Will Hodgkinson, writing in The Times (‘Girls who succeed in pop without twerking’ 08.10.13) there are teen pop stars like Lorde, Birdy and Nina Nesbitt who succeed on their own terms without any of the antics of Miley Cyrus. He writes: ‘Lorde is just one of a new generation of young, female pop stars who are resisting such objectification. Charli XCX from Hertfordshire, who started her recording career at 14, writes smash hits for other acts when she isn’t being a teen idol herself: she penned the Swedish duoIcona Pop’s ­recent No 1 I Love It, a banging ode to being young, reckless, and loving it.’

Hodgkinson observes that the success of such an uncompromising singer has come in a week when sexism in the music industry has been in focus once again. Giving the John Peel Lecture for BBC 6 Music on Monday, former child star Charlotte Church said of the early years of her career: “There was a big clamour to cover my breasts as they wanted to keep me as young as possible. Then it became, ‘You should definitely get them out. They look great!’”

This week, the Girl Guides leader has also spoke out against the way that girls are 
represented in the media, claiming that her organization speaks for all feminists in rejecting sexualisation of children and the unprecedented levels of pornography in the music and advertising industry.