One of my favorite YouTube memes is the phenomenon of teenagers re-enacting dance moves from music videos (had YouTube been around in 2000 at the height of boy-band mania, this would have been even more amazing). Miley Cyrus is not immune to this. In the above video, she goofs around with her friend Mandy for a minute until they somehow morph into a tribute to the video for Madonna & Justin Timberlake's "4 Minutes." I haven't spent a ton of time contemplating Cyrus' place in the current social fabric (or even in the pop music social fabric), but at least part of the whole pop star alter-ego deal is that Miley is just like you and me (well, not very much like "me," and only like "you" if you're a fifteen year old girl). But I feel like that message keeps getting lost in the fact that she is who she is. During the goofy portions, she's just a teenager making wacky voices at her friend. But then it becomes an expensive video homage, complete with choreography, back up dancers and an obviously hired stand-in for her dancing Grandma. So the message should be: Miley Cyrus is just like you, as long as you're the centerpiece of multi-platform Disney-fueled media empire.

That being said, this is totally awesome and is probably the weirdest thing that a teenage star has done in a long time (at least that doesn't involve pregnancy). The bizarreness is refreshing. But I'm most certainly not the target audience. What's the verdict on this video, and Cyrus in general?