Miley Cyrus and Naomi Campbell have collaborated on a new video for Cyrus’ new single Every Girl You’ve Ever Loved. And it’s rather… raunchy.

Campbell features in the video, as well as offering vocals on the track, and the video opens with Cyrus singing and dancing through a warehouse in a black minidress. Campbell’s sexy lyrics are quite something. ‘She has the perfect scent, pose, she speaks the perfect French,’ the supermodel purrs.

‘She never wears a watch, but still she’s never late, she’s got that kind of grace, did Botticelli paint your face?

‘She has the perfect scent, she speaks the perfect French, she can dance the night away and yet she’ll never break a sweat,’ before repeating ‘Pose’ several times. She wows in a full length black leather trench coat.

Both women sport black lingerie in the video and, in line with the lyrics, pull striking poses before walking off together at the end of the video.

Campbell’s comment on Miley’s post of the music video reads: ‘So proud to be part of this powerful moment with you, Miley. Your vision, your voice, your heart – it all shines through. Thank you for including me in this project. Who else is obsessed with this video?’

This viral post – which has received more than 500K views in 12 hours since posting, comes after controversy at the launch of the vinyl in London, when fans accused both Cyrus and Campbell of being rude to those who had shown up to see them and only speaking to each other.

The pair arrived at London’s musical venue Rough Trade and signed vinyl copies of the single Every Girl You’ve Ever Loved, but were called out by many for spending more time talking to each other than the fans.

YouTuber Juanito Say posted a clip from the event, which was captioned ‘You pay for a meet & greet to meet Miley Cyrus… And she totally ignores you because she’s busy chatting with Naomi.’ Others accused them of ‘barely acknowledging fans’.

So here’s the thing. Of course, being rude to fans is not OK. Cyrus and Campbell are definitely experienced enough to know about fan etiquette, and the ways in which they wouldn’t be where they are today without their fans. However, the fan-icon relationship is a two-way street, in that being rude to the subject of your fandom is also not OK. If the pair were limited in how much time they had to sign and interact with fans, that’s unfortunately just part of the chaos of music industry events. To take this personally and post abusive messages online doesn’t really align with true fan behaviour, which is that of reverence and respect.

Unfortunately, fan culture has got a lot more complicated in the age of social media. The idolisation reaches a point where fans feel like they are owed whatever access to movie stars and singers that they like. And it isn’t fair.

Cyrus seemingly addressed the complaints from fans in a recent post, also responding with nine videos of positive fan interactions.

‘The record store requested no photos due to the unexpected last-minute turn out,’ her post explained. ‘But we knew the night needed to be captured. Thank you [Vijat Mohindra] for snapping those in-the-moment shots. To everyone who came out to celebrate our single, we love you.’

The post also explained that the vinyl was originally set to drop a week later, but that the two superstars had made an event happen earlier since they were both in London. ‘I wanted to gift my Smilers an exclusive experience & unreleased vinyl to thank you for the love you’ve shown me in the UK over the years,’ Miley wrote.
Campbell has also taken to social media to voice her support for Cyrus in the face of this criticism.

‘Thank you for having me by your side to celebrate the Every Girl You’ve Ever Loved vinyl release in London,’ she posted, with her post including a series of photos and clips from the event. ‘What a joy to spend the night with you in my hometown – your energy is infectious, your memory and graciousness is unreal with our fans, you had me laughing all night.

‘To everyone who came out to the signing: thank you. We felt your love and adored meeting you,’ she wrote.

But both of these posts beg the question – why did both stars feel they had to address these complaints? Having to justify not having the time to speak to every fan? As previously stated, direct rudeness is never OK, but it’s clear that what certain fans expect from stars has got rather out of hand – and social media has become a place where abuse and grievances can be aired so easily.

This isn’t the first time in recent weeks that Miley has received criticism by fans for not doing what they want her to do, or living up to how they think she should behave. During a Q&A between herself and the film’s producer Panos Cosmatos and co-directors and co-writers Jacob Bixenman and Brendan Walter for the premier of her Something Beautiful film at the Tribeca Film Festival, audience members began to heckle her, demanding that she perform.

‘We paid $800. Sing,’ one fan shouted, while another later said: ‘We thought this was a concert.’

It wasn’t. It was a film premiere. Meaning that Cyrus was under no obligation to sing. She gave in to fans demands and sang an a capella version of The Climb, a track from Hannah Montana: The Movie. But should she have had to? Or felt like she had to? It feels like another example of fan culture at its most toxic when audience members feel entitled to seeing her perform, even if they’ve bought a ticket to a film festival, not a concert. Cyrus was promoting a film, therefore the focus should’ve been on that.
Plus, she has recently explained that is able to tour and perform less now due to her diagnosis of a condition called Reinke’s edema, which has led to a ‘very large polyp’, an abnormal tissue growth, on her vocal chord.

So to pressure Cyrus to sing at an event that was meant to promote another aspect of her career, that could affect her health, feels very selfish and unnecessary. But proves how entitled fan culture can become, leading fans to stop seeing musicians as human beings, but just there for their entertainment solely.

In light of the way Miley’s been treated lately, we need to seriously re-assess what we want and ask of the stars we love. As fans, we owe them that much – and more respect.