You know what's interesting? When people can pick apart something to try and pull meaning out of something. Meaning that the original artist didn't intend to capture in their work.
Miley Cyrus for example. I read an article talking about her dancers and costumes and even her herself and what these things represent psychologically. The overall theme was leaving childhood and entering adulthood. But realistically, she probably wasn't sitting there by herself or even a team and going "okay let's think of this on a psychological level. What conveys leaving childhood and entering adulthood, metaphorically? With sexuality, of course". Odds are, she's just being weird. Very weird. It gets her talked about. She is psychologically provoking, sure, but not to the point where she's picking particular costumes, sets, and dancers to convey one big psychological message. I'm pretty sure most of Hollywood's performers wouldn't take the time to do that.
But I think it's interesting that people can pick something apart and pick out what they want to see. Not just with Miley Cyrus, but pretty much anything. TV shows, books, movies, characters. They're all picked apart to find bigger "underlying themes" or "character traits or relationships" when odds are, they weren't really put there. That wasn't the main goal or secondary goal. People largely see what they want to see.
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