What's also saved Cyrus is the seeming benign nature of her day-to-day existence. She's relatively boring -- at least by tabloid standards.
"You're not going to get cocaine-snorting, addled teen queens, are you? You're not going to find her in a clinch with some young dude," says Griffin. "You're stuck with her buying a new puppy or going out with her dad. There's been a lot of pictures of the tour. The first kiss is going to be worth a lot of money."
"Her mom is constantly with her," adds Navarre. "Which is different from ['High School Musical' stars] Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale. They're always without their moms, whereas Miley is always with hers. Miley's really monitored, really watched and controlled by her parents, whereas the other girls are driving their Porsches and going to stores by themselves.
"She has people waiting for the moment she starts to be less traditional," Navarre says. "It's going to come. It's natural. Any teenager. Sure, she's going to have a boyfriend. Even if People and Us start to buy her, it's still the beginning (of the Miley Cyrus phenomenon). But it's going to come very fast. It's going to be in the coming months . . . as soon as her mom lets her go out by herself. It's going to start to be interesting."
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