You hear a lot of parents fretting over Miley Cyrus' new image and how appropriate she now is as role model for young girls.
What you don't hear is a lot of former Miley worshippers quietly letting their fan club memberships lapse.
It appears that tweens are making up their own minds on Cyrus and many of them don't like the grown-up Miley.
Long a million-dollar face for Disney's squeaky clean "Hannah Montana" franchise, Cyrus has taken on a more adult image in her "Can't be Tamed" tour. That image turned up on TV sets across the country earlier this year with Cyrus' risqu? performance at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards. It included pole dancing and some booty shaking.
Interestingly, that album earned 72 percent less than her album from two years ago, "Breakout," and 33 percent less than her most recent one, "Time of Our Lives."
According to The New York Times, E-Poll Market Research, a brand and celebrity research firm, has found that only 24 percent of teens surveyed online recently said they liked or liked her a lot, compared with 45 percent in 2008.
Further, the newspaper reports, a market research executive who consults with Fortune 500 companies said Ms. Cyrus ranked No. 7 in April on its list of celebrities considered cool by children 8 to 12 years old. Two years ago, she was No. 1.
CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller found the same thing when she set out to interview some teens.
"She used to be my role model, but now, as she's getting older, she's just changing my thoughts," Kristina Anzilotti told Miller.
"I don't think she needs to grow up," says "Hannah Montana" fan Alyssa Sansone. "I think she grew up enough."
Sometimes, we parents worry needlessly.
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