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"Godmother knows best! Many fans worried when Miley Cyrus took a wrecking ball to her squeaky clean Hannah Montana persona in favor of an edgier, sexed-up image&amp;#x2014;but her godmother, country music legend Dolly Parton, wasn&amp;apos;t one of them. Writing about Cyrus for Time magazine&amp;apos;s 100 Most Influential People list, the &amp;quot;Jolene&amp;quot; singer, 68, said she&amp;apos;s confident her 21-year-old goddaughter is exactly where she wants to be.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;If I didn&amp;apos;t know how smart and talented Miley is, I might worry about her. But I&amp;apos;ve watched her grow up. So I don&amp;apos;t. She knows what she&amp;apos;s doing,&amp;quot; Parton wrote of the Bangerz star, the daughter of country music singer Billy Ray Cyrus.\r\n&amp;quot;She was very proud of the work she did as Hannah Montana, but people were gonna leave her there forever,&amp;quot; the Grand Ole Opry inductee continued. &amp;quot;And she was just smotherin&amp;apos; and chokin&amp;apos; in it. So she felt she had to do something completely drastic.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThat something was a total makeover. Cyrus did a complete 180, not just with her appearance -- remember her long brunette hair?&amp;#x2014;but also with her music and her public identity. As Parton put it, &amp;quot;She made her point, she made her mark, and more power to her.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThe Dollywood entertainer went on to note, however, that there&amp;apos;s more to Cyrus than her headline-making stunts. &amp;quot;So I&amp;apos;m hoping that now she can relax and show people how talented she really is,&amp;quot; she wrote. &amp;quot;&amp;apos;Cause the girl can write. The girl can sing. The girl is smart. And she doesn&amp;apos;t have to be so drastic. But I will respect her choices. I did it my way, so why can&amp;apos;t she do it her way?&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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