Why Miley Cyrus Shouldn't Be Dissing Rebecca Black and Justin Bieber

Miley Cyrus was recently running her mouth about how YouTube creates stars like Rebecca Black and Justin Bieber, and it seems that she's definitely not a fan of the success of "Friday." But is Miley really in any place to diss stars created by YouTube?

Miley might just be better off speaking nonsensically like she did during that whole bong incident during interviews. Recently she spewed her thoughts on the success of stars like Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black by stating that aspiring musicians "shouldn't just be able to put a song on YouTube and go out on tour." But most telling was this line: "It should be harder to be an artist."

Now, if Miley was some poor little country girl with loads of talent that wrote her own deep, meaningful songs; played guitar like a pro; and had to fight hard to make it in the music biz, it would make more sense for her to be annoyed by the success of Rebecca Black with her nasal, monotone voice tweaked with a little auto-tune and her silly song about looking forward to the weekend. But Miley Cyrus is not an amazing artist that worked her butt off to make a name for herself in the music industry -- she already had a famous last name.

Her dad might have been a one-hit wonder with "Achy Breaky Heart," but being a good-looking man with a mullet made him a bit of a pop culture icon in the 90's. Had he never been a part of the music biz and made the connections that he did, it's very likely that Miley-as-Hannah Montana would have never existed.

So, in short, Miley really isn't a position to complain about YouTube making it too easy for kids to become stars -- her dad helped her much more than YouTube has helped Rebecca Black and Justin Bieber. It would have been easy enough for Disney to replace Miley with one of the dime-a-dozen young actresses that are cute with an average singing voice (think Miranda Cosgrove, Demi Lovato, Victoria Justice, and Selena Gomez). But when it comes to Justin Bieber and Jessica Black, they weren't forced down people's throats by Disney or Nickelodeon -- average people discovered them on YouTube.

It is true that part of Rebecca Black's appeal is just how horrible her song is, but it's not all that uncommon for silly songs to acquire a pop culture following: "Mickey" by Toni Basil was little more than a cheerleading chant, and the repetitive 1999 song "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" was all about a color and full of nonsensical lyrics. And of course the lyrics to Billy Ray's ode to an "achy breaky heart" are extremely silly.

But unfortunately there will always be music so bad that it's good and celebrities born into the industry like Miley Cyrus that don't really understand how hard it actually is for all the Rebecca Blacks and Justin Biebers of the world to get their big break.