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"It seems that any and all celebrities are more than ready to weigh in on spotlight stealer Miley Cyrus these days. The 20-year-old former Disney star has been the go-to conversation topic since her infamous August 2013 VMA performance and all that followed, including her naked &amp;quot;Wrecking Ball&amp;quot; video, among other highlights.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nCyrus has been critiqued savagely by fellow stars -- most recently rocker Sinead O&amp;apos;Connor who charged that the controversial singer was being &amp;quot;prostituted&amp;quot; thanks to her envelope-pushing performances. &amp;#xA0;\r\nNow indie rocker Sufjan Stevens can add his name to the list of celebs offering Cyrus advice. The &amp;quot;Come On! Feel The Illinoise!&amp;quot; singer surprisingly did not comment on Cyrus&amp;apos; wild child persona, but rather some of her inconsistent grammar in the new song &amp;quot;#GetItRight,&amp;quot; featured on her Bangerz album.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nOn his tumblr page, Stevens wrote, &amp;quot;Dear Miley. I can&amp;#x2019;t stop listening to #GetItRight (great song, great message, great body), but maybe you need a quick grammar lesson. One particular line causes concern: &amp;apos;I been laying in this bed all night long.&amp;apos; Miley, technically speaking, you&amp;#x2019;ve been LYING, not LAYING, an irregular verb form that should only be used when there&amp;#x2019;s an object.&amp;quot;\r\nThe alternative crooner also noted that the phrase &amp;quot;I been laying in this bed&amp;quot; featured conflicting tenses. &amp;quot;Surely you&amp;#x2019;ve heard of Present Perfect Continuous Tense (I HAVE BEEN LYING in this bed all night long [hopefully getting some beauty sleep?]). It&amp;#x2019;s a weird, equivocal, almost purgatorial tense, not quite present, not quite past, not quite here, not quite there.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nThe overall tone of Stevens&amp;apos; message was comical, and he even seemed to be rooting for Cyrus. The only questionable diss happened in Stevens&amp;apos; last line, &amp;quot;Live brightly before your fire fades into total darkness,&amp;quot; implying Cyrus&amp;apos; career isn&amp;apos;t an eternal one.&amp;#xA0;\r\nTell Us: What do you think of Sufjan&amp;apos;s letter to Miley?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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