For part of her song "We Got the Party," Miley Cyrus leaves the stage and is replaced by a body double, who lip-synchs and dances through the rest of the song while Cyrus is backstage changing out of her Hanna Montana costume.Backstage Pass pal J. Freedom du Lac was the first to write about the switcheroo in the Washington Post spawning loads of YouTube videos chronicling the moment. Last week, Cyrus' publicist issued a statement to MTV News confirming the use of the body double, saying it helps "speed the transition from Hannah to Miley." "Other than during this very brief transitional moment in the show, Miley performs live during the entirety of both the Hannah and Miley segments of the concert," the publicist says.
Is anyone shocked by this? Of course not. We have reached the point in pop music where the singer, who many fans paid hundreds of dollars to see, doesn't even have to perform for all her songs any more. And forget about the singer actually, you know, singing them.
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To get the extra two minutes for the costume change, the show producers could simply have extended the Jonas Brothers song with a musical break or a short chat with the audience. It's what singers and their bands have done for decades.
Instead, they simply did the switch because they didn't think it mattered. And judging by fan reaction, maybe it doesn't.
(The switch comes at around 2:30 in the video if you don't want to hear the whole song.)