Miley Cyrus Revealed VMAs Producers Made Sexist Comments About Her Performance

Cyrus expanded on the incident later in the conversation, pointing out that producers would never say to male artists what they said to her.

Miley Cyrus spoke candidly about her experience with some sexist producers with whom she worked to shoot her performance of “Midnight Sky” for last Sunday’s MTV VMAs show.

Cyrus self-directed her “Midnight Sky” music video, so she had a clear understanding of how she wanted her VMAs performance to be shot, too, which she conveyed to the production crew.

The producers agreed, saying they’d “‘just do the same thing that we would do with the guys,’ because that’s what I want,” Cyrus continued. But during filming, the singer’s bracelets “kept getting caught in all this shit.” Seemingly the most minor wardrobe malfunction of all time, but it was apparently distressing enough for the producers to weaponize against Cyrus in order to undermine her professionalism.

“They said, ‘You want to be treated like a guy and lit like a guy? We wouldn’t be dealing with this if a guy was doing it,’” Cyrus told Rogan.

Cyrus expanded on the incident later in the conversation, pointing out that producers would never say to male artists what they said to her.

“It’s like, come on, why am I not getting that I’m a creative mastermind but I’m becoming a bitch?” Cyrus said. “No one would ever say that about Kanye West choosing what lighting he wants on a performance.”