STAR TREK Crew Reacts to Miley Cyrus’ Infamous 2013 VMA Performance in Hilarious Throwback Video
A little flashback from the past this morning, all the way back to 2013, when Earth first broadcast that infamous moment from the MTV Video Music Awards and somehow sent shockwaves all the way to Starfleet.
That was the year Miley Cyrus officially detonated her Hannah Montana era while performing “Blurred Lines” with Robin Thicke. The internet collectively lost its mind, and one of the funniest reactions came from the YouTube channel AriesHeadFilms, which imagined Captain Kirk and the crew of Star Trek receiving the performance as an incoming transmission from Earth.
The result is a perfectly absurd mashup that still holds up more than a decade later. Edited together from classic Enterprise bridge footage, the video treats Miley’s VMA appearance like an alien threat no one was prepared for.
Chekov has a complete meltdown as the crew clutches their heads in agony, and it all escalates to total annihilation when the Enterprise blows up.
At the time, pundits insisted the performance meant Miley had finally “gone too far,” predicting the end of her career. That aged about as well as a red shirt on an away mission. She’s since gone on to create massive hits.
Watching this now feels like opening a strange little time capsule from an era when a provocative VMA performance felt like the end of the world and not just another wild moment in the pop culture timeline.
Via: Nerdist