Miley Cyrus celebrates 10-year anniversary of bong video, still says it was salvia
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10 years ago, the world collectively fainted at a leaked video of Miley Cyrus smoking a bong. Back in 2010, this was a big scandal. An 18-year old Disney-made pop star, sitting in a room with a bunch of drug-having ne’er-do-wells was caught giggling while learning how to inhale weed properly. She said the words “bad trip,” “fuck,” and laughed uncontrollably. She was listening to Bush’s “Comedown.” It was basically Naked Lunch in there.
Cyrus has since spent a decade reinventing herself as the kind of real, edgy pop star who will give you the finger while sticking out her tongue and sell you wild and crazy stuff like $20 condoms, bespoke tattoos, and concert tickets to shows where naked crowds watch her and the Flaming Lips perform naked music. She is, in short, ready to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the video by saying now that she “was fucked the hell up” in it.
Cyrus posted the TMZ clip on Instagram with a caption that calls it a “groundbreaking video of a teenager smoking a bong & saying dumb shit to their friends.” She says, “I remember this like it was yesterday” before putting a bunch of ellipses down and adding, “J/K I don’t remember shit cause I was fucked the hell up.”
“#YesItWasReallySalvia,” she adds. “#IfYouFindWeedThatDoesThisToYouSHARE.”
Her claim that it was salvia reads not as any kind of legal defense, but more as an attempt to explain away having to see video of yourself being the most annoying teenager at a highschool party—which is really the only noteworthy aspect of the whole thing other than her dad blaming the trouble on Satan and David Lynch.
Popculturediedin2009 shared the clip in a long thread with a bunch of memories about just how big a deal this was to the simple, easily scandalized people of 2010. Read through it and remember a time when this was the wildest shit the media could fixate on. Use it like a kind of rosary while meditating on the innocence we’ve since lost.
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Salvia, yeah. Damn, I remember that. Wild you could just go to a smoke shop and buy that as a teenager. But you could.
If you can remember salvia, you were never really…salvia.
Salvia is the poor mans DMT. That video is EXACTLY what we acted like on Salvia as teens.
IIRC, it was nice that it was such a short trip, and that you had that euphoria afterward. I know people freaked out on it, but it was pleasant for young me, who was a square and did not want to do anything harder. 10-15 minutes wasn’t that much of a commitment. I bet it would be awful if I tried it now.
Yeah but DMTs don’t last 5 minutes. But a pretty close comparison.
What I remember about people doing salvia was that one of my pothead friends took it once, freaked the fuck out, and loudly refused to ever touch it again while wondering why it was the legal one.
Actually, yeah, I see that. I had a friend get so affected by it that he ended up getting clean as a result. Like, dude got depressed after what he saw. Didn’t touch pot either for years.
Salvia, nitrous, trucker speed…All of these legal highs are trash. 5-15 minutes of something other than sober (wouldn’t call it high) then you’re shitty for the rest of the night.
I’d argue that Delta 8 THC is surprisingly good for a legal high, as it’s basically just diet weed. All the fun of the illegal stuff, just doesn’t last as long or hit quite as hard unless you go ham with it. (kinda like concentrates after building a tolerance)
I had a friend in high school who took three or four of those Trucker Bomb things from the gas station before a concert*. He went home and vomited up a bunch of black stuff, then had a panic attack, then when he went to the emergency room they discovered he’d given himself some (mild, reversible) kidney injury. It was a formative experience, since it added “vomiting up black stuff” to the list of Things I Never Knew People Could Do. *It was battle of the bands at a neighboring high school, which is even more appropriate.
I don’t think salvia is comparable to those other two. It’s not a substitute for illegal drugs because it’s way more powerful than most illegal drugs and most people don’t like it (even people who like other psychedelics).
Never having heard of salvia I had to check to make sure it wasn’t “saliva” misspelled.
Every time I see it I think it’s actually “saliva” and wonder who is filling a bong with that. Don’t they know they can get water from a tap?
I think salvia is illegal in most states, which is probably for the best because while it only lasts like 10 minutes it can be a real scary mindfuck.
Man, if you’re gonna be taking a paragraph’s worth of news unworthy of print, and filling up the majority of the article with a whiney rant, you may have to watch out for a copyright suit from Jezebel’s Joan Summers.
salvia is way worse, she’s probably telling the truth
“bad trip” honestly sounds way more like salvia than weed. And…it is illegal in a number of states now, so still the right amount of edgy teen!
Salvia isn’t some kind of kidz bop legal high, it’s more like DMT than anything else.