![]() ![]() ![]() She begins crying out for help in her music, writing a song about caged animals on her big white “Imagine” piano while the sun rises over her Malibu complex. Offstage, it becomes clear that 24-year-old Ashley is essentially a prisoner of her evil auntager (aunt + manager), a greedy team of execs, and the expectations of her enormous fanbase. Miley Cyrus stars as a hyper-commercialized singer named Ashley O, whose retail empire of blandly affirmative bubblegum hits expands to include a foot-tall AI robot implanted with her personality. ![]() In an episode called “Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too,” Charlie Brooker’s anthology series takes on the pop industrial complex. I was reminded of this quote again last night while watching the newly released fifth season of “ Black Mirror,” the hit sci-fi drama that uses technological hyperbole to suggest depressing truths about society. ![]()
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