This is what really happened…<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]
Words by Isobel Lewis<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-1986477106-1-scaled.jpg” alt=”Miley Cyrus” title_text=”66th GRAMMY Awards – Show” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″] For fans attending a signing for Miley Cyrus\u2019s new single in London last week, the thought of coming face to face with their idol was too exciting to bear. But according to social media users, these meetings ended up being a let down, as they accused the \u201cWrecking Ball\u201d singer of \u201cignoring\u201d fans at the event in order to chat with supermodel Naomi Campbell. Was the backlash deserved, or simply \u201cforced outrage\u201d?<\/p>\n The two famous women were both in London to celebrate the release of \u201cEvery Girl You\u2019ve Ever Loved\u201d, a single featuring Naomi features from Miley\u2019s new album Something Beautiful. The first 100 people at Rough Trade were given the chance to meet Miley and get their vinyls signed; but following the signing, a number of posts swirled on X and TikTok claiming that Miley and Naomi had spent all their time talking to each other and had ignored their fans in the process.<\/p>\n In Miley\u2019s Instagram post from the signing, the former Disney Channel star wrote: \u201cThank you to everyone who showed up to the signing, we adored meeting you,\u201d while also thanking Campbell. However, the comment section beneath the post was flooded with accusations of Miley being rude to her fans. \u201cSorry to everyone who went and got a photo with them talking to one another,\u201d one commenter wrote. \u201cAbsolutely shocking behaviour of you pair on the signing… These are your fans Miley, they can quickly change their minds,\u201d another raged, with one comment echoing: \u201cGirl you were very rude to your fans at this signing.\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2202913017-scaled.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” alt=”Miley Cyrus” title_text=”97th Annual Oscars – Arrivals” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″] The allegations against Miley come at a time when the relationships between pop stars and their stans feel particularly fraught. Major discussions on the subject came about when, following her seemingly overnight rise to fame last summer, Chappell Roan called out \u201ccreepy\u201d fan behaviour online. In a TikTok video, she said: \u201cIf you saw a random woman on the street, would you yell at her from your car window? Would you harass her in public? Would you go up to a random lady and say, \u2018Can I take a photo with you?\u2019 and she says, \u2018No, what the f**k?\u2019 and then you get mad at this random lady?\u201d<\/p>\n While Chappell was praised by many of her fellow musicians for establishing her boundaries, she found herself at the centre of major online discourse, where her critics called her ungrateful or suggested she shouldn\u2019t have become a musician if she couldn\u2019t handle fame. However, it apparently worked; Chappell, who has bipolar disorder, says that fans barely approach her since her comments, and suggested other artists should also be frank about what they will and will not stand for. Chappell, whose real name is Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, made it clear that she was fine with being approached while she was dressed up \u201cin drag\u201d and about to perform. So while many criticised her comments, they did spark discussion about the relationship between artists and their fans: what the performer owes the fan, and when they owe it to them.<\/p>\n Of course, a record store signing, where a fan has purchased a vinyl record and waited in line to get it signed, is the sort of event you would reasonably expect an artist to dedicate their full attention to their fans at. But reading the accusatory comments under Miley\u2019s post, it only takes a few clicks to realise that most of these commenters are from people who are not based in London and appear not to have attended the signing in person themselves.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”] Instead, they mostly are referencing clips from the event\u2019s live stream that were shared online. Miley and Naomi are seen deep in conversation, which they only pause to smile for a photo and say a brief greeting before the fan is moved along. This footage doesn\u2019t paint the stars in the greatest of lights \u2013 as a former fan girl myself, I know an interaction like this would have been painful. But it reminds us of an unfortunate fact: that fan interactions are a once in a lifetime moment to the fan, while to the artist, they\u2019re one of many in a line. If the star is even slightly off their A-game, a fan on the receiving end may be disappointed.<\/p>\n But while these clips were shared widely, many of those who did attend the event took to social media to share their positive experiences of meeting Miley, with one fan account on X writing that she \u201ccried tears of joy\u201d. Other attendees suggested that clips from the live stream, cannot account for the excitable temperature in the room. As one commenter retorted: \u201cShe signed the vinyl and gave it away, the photo was a bonus for the free event, it wasn’t a concert, it wasn’t an M&G, it wasn’t a \u2018have a cup of tea and talk to Miley\u2019 if you’re coming here from a video on X, where THERE IS NOT A PROBLEM, mind your own business. No Miley fans complained about the event, only the dumbs on X with absurd tweets.\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s not to invalidate the experiences of any attendees who did have a less good experience at Miley\u2019s signing. It\u2019s frustrating when an interaction with a celebrity doesn\u2019t turn out like you imagined it in your head, but stars are humans just like us, and have off days too. Post Chappell\u2019s comments, we\u2019re more likely to believe these negative narratives about celebrities being rude to their fans, but often these situations are far more nuanced than we realise. Rather than leaping to assumptions and jumping into the comment section to accuse others of being ungrateful, taking a moment to read around and consider whether this is what we actually think, or simply want to believe, does everyone good.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”] Photo: <\/b>Getty<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is what really happened…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"guestgrazia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11422"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11430,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422\/revisions\/11430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}‘fan interactions are one of many to artists.’<\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]