We’ve already accepted it’s a slow news day, so we might as well talk about Miley Cyrus. The teen pop sensation (I think that’s the right word) released a new music video this week standing up for the Occupy Wall Street protestors. And by “standing up for,” I mean using footage from the protests and combining them with generic messages about standing up for what you believe in and never giving up and whatever else pop music is about these days.

On today’s Chris Stigall Show, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum took a little time to discuss his excitement for the future, his love of the people from the Delaware Valley… and address some issues brought up by pop singer Miley Cyrus.

Last last month, 18-year-old (Legal to vote!) Cyrus Tweeted about Santorum’s take on same-sex marriage, as well as the fact that Richard Hayne the conservative chairman of URBN – the company clothing and home accessories retail chains Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, Leifsdottir, and Terrain – has contributed to right-wing campaigns.

While some journalists are held captive in war zones, others get slightly sweeter gigs. The New York Daily News’ Irving DeJohn got the sweetest gig of all (ok, second sweetest). He got to sit around and smoke a bunch of salvia all for the sake of the common journalistic good. Man, the straw that guy drew must have been about three feet long.

You’ve got to feel for Billy Ray Cyrus: Not only is the singer / songwriter going through a very public divorce and dealing with his 18-year-old daughter Miley Cyrus‘ very public indiscretions (funny how that girl always seems to have a camera handy when she’s getting into trouble), but he’ll be forever tied his 1992 mega hit “Achy Breaky Heart.”

GQ writer Chris Heath sat down with Cyrus for the magazine’s March issue to discuss his recent heartbreak – with as few Achy Breaky-inspired puns as possible, much to Heath’s credit. As it turns out, Cyrus has quite a lot to get of his chest.

Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton runs a business based on trust– the trust of photographers that feed him photos, the trust of celebrities that give him the access that makes his site a must-read for those of the gossip world. It’s a trust of Teflon strength, surviving a series of questionable side projects, but with his most recent endeavor, UnratedPerez.com, Hilton may be definitively testing the immunity of his sources to outrage or insult.

For the third year in a row, DJ Earworm has created a mashup of the top 25 songs of the year, as determined by Billboard, in his 2010 United States of Pop (Don’t Stop the Pop). Featured: Katy Perry, Ke$ha, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Enrique Iglesias (really? He was back this year?), the Black Eyed Peas, Rihanna, Eminem, and — wait, no Bieber?!? I can’t imagine a 2010 mashup without the Baby hook that I still maintain ripped off “Runaround Sue” (oh look! Proof!).

Example number 214 of why we love Morning Joe: Willie Geist reported on this morning’s program of Miley Cyrus slamming co-host Mika Brzezinski‘s condemnation of the teen-starlet’s “pole dance” last summer. Not only was Joe Scarborough sitting back and watching Mika’s stunned reaction in amusement, but so too was Mika’s father Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former cabinet member under President Carter. Good times! Video after the jump.

It turns out that putting movies like Avatar for Best Picture and having Miley Cyrus and Taylor Lautner present awards really does pay off for the Academy. Or maybe it was having Neil Patrick Harris do that opening number (everyone loves NPH!). Either way, despite having one of the most boring red carpets we’ve seen in awhile, the ratings for the Oscars this year were the highest they’ve been since 2005. But we think we know why.

While our counterparts at Mediaite have been dutifully liveblogging every last moment of this year’s 82nd Annual Academy Awards, we at Styleite gave up before the show even started; we were in it for the red carpet, clearly. Thankfully, this year’s pre-show fashion fest served up no shortage of sartorial sins, rewarding risks, and, predictably, the usual snoozefest offenders.

After 95 episodes, the epic failure known as The Jay Leno Show airs its final episode tonight. Of course, Leno himself will be back after the Olympics, comfortably at 11:35pm all over again. Which was pretty much the problem to begin with – the 10pm offering started as a similar product to the Tonight Show, and only became more like the old format as time went on.

I really, really wish this didn’t exist. And I can’t be the only person who clicked on this hoping it was some sort of made-in-bad-taste hoax. Alas. Miley Cyrus’ younger sister Noah, who is nine years old, is apparently launching a lingerie line for children. Or someone legally in charge of Noah Cyrus, who is NINE, is promoting a lingerie line for children using both Cyrus and her friend Emily Grace:

The People’s Choice Awards were this evening, and I gotta say, the People made some surprising choices. How is it that the People pick Twilight, Inglorious Basterds, The Big Bang Theory and Katherine Heigel in the same night? The People seem very inconsistent (but then again, the People know more than me because I, confused, [...]

This has been making the rounds, and for good reason — it’s a catchy, boppy new yet familiar song that sums up the last year not only in mashing up some of the biggest hits of 2009 but in doing so in auto-tune, which was one of the distinctive, hallmark sounds of the year. (It [...]

This week, the New York Times Magazine was dedicated to their newly traditional Year In Ideas thinkpiece. It’s always a fantastic collection of new discoveries, shifts in ways of thinking, and products that we’re likely to hear more about in years to come. It tries, in many ways, to be predictive; to isolate still-germinating concepts [...]

Fashion scandals, like the industry, go from the sublime to the ridiculous. Here’s a look at some of our favorite from the past decade, like Sarah Palin’s RNC-sponsored shopping spree, Miley Cyrus’ scandalous Vanity Fair shoot (so much back!), and Michelle Obama’s right to bare arms.

ow that Miley Cyrus has shocked and saddened the world and deleted her Twitter account, by way of YouTube rap video of course, where are her fans going to go to get up-to-the-second Miley news?

How about her Dad. Now he’s put out a video as well, urging her fans to follow him instead. Or rather, Jimmy Fallon did.

Miley Cyrus’ controversial Vanity Fair spread may have been in the name of art, but there was nothing artistic about cavorting around a stripper pole on an ice cream cart in shortie-shorts doing oversexed dance moves at Monday’s Teen Choice Awards. Miley’s fame and fan base will not be affected by Monday’s dance. But the shift into overdrive of Miley’s sexualization cannot go unnoticed. From VF all the way to the stripper pole, this girl is growing up fast. Or being grown up fast.

The September Issue: it’s not just the title of the highly anticipated R.J Cutler documentary about Anna Wintour, its also what every magazine loving fashionista anxiously awaits, its hefty size a welcome antidote to the malnourished August issue. But judging from Elle’s September cover, which features Jennifer Aniston clad in black leather (last month anyone?), it’s beginning to look a lot like August.

Women’s fashion magazine covers typically fall somewhere between sexy and sophisticated. But finding the sweet spot is much trickier when your cover girl is still a teen. This month, women’s fashion mags across the globe plucked their covergirls from the young, supple crop of up-and-comers. Does putting teens on the cover help attract younger readers? (Or any readers at all?)

What would happen if a bunch of fancy-free media-types put their heads together to rank the most influential movers and shakers in their field based on their relevance? Better yet, what if they had an English accent…

Elle magazine’s feature article on Miley Cyrus opens with a poem about sugar treats and delicious cookies — revealing that something’s a bit off. At first glance, this reads as innocent enough opening copy. In the context of the super hot vixen photo shoot of the 16 year-old star of Hannah Montana, it feels weird. On Special Victims Unit they call it the “lure.”