
Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful
2025

2016
Director
Todrick Hall
Runtime
71 minutes
Average Rating
No ratings yetSynopsis
This visual album features artists Nicole Scherzinger, Jordin Sparks, Perez Hilton, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Amber Riley, Raven Symoné and Tamar Braxton among others, telling the emotional story of Broadway star Todrick Hall's upbringing and rise to fame as a gay black man in the entertainment business, while holding the theme of 'The Wizard of Oz'.
Overall Score
Excellent
Category Breakdown
LGBTQ+ Representation
The production utilizes high-camp aesthetics and queer-coded performance styles to recontextualize the narrative. Placing Todrick Hall in the role of Dorothy disrupts gendered archetypes through fluid, non-cisnormative expression.
Gender Representation
The film achieves gender subversion by decoupling Dorothy from traditional female archetypes. Centering a male performer in this role challenges heteronormative hierarchies and shifts the protagonist's power dynamics.
Racial & Ethnic Diversity
The film excels through color-conscious casting, reclaiming a white-centric narrative for a predominantly Black cast. Characters like the Scarecrow and Tin Man are reimagined to dismantle the original mythos's homogeneity.
Religious & Cultural Diversity
The work prioritizes individual expression and identity-driven musicality over established cultural norms. It replaces traditionalist connotations with a narrative of empowerment that challenges the standard Western hero's journey.
Disability Representation
There is insufficient evidence to provide a definitive score regarding the depiction of physical or neurodivergent disabilities.
Strengths
Areas for Improvement
AI Analysis
Straight Outta OZ is a sophisticated reconfiguration of a classic American mythos. By utilizing the framework of The Wizard of Oz, the film facilitates a narrative of racial and gendered reclamation that disrupts conventional expectations of the musical genre. The production succeeds through intentional, intersectional casting. It effectively centers Black and queer identities within a classic cultural framework, transforming a standard tale of discovery into a deep exploration of identity and systemic reclamation. While the film excels in its subversion of Western hierarchies, the lack of information regarding disability representation prevents a complete assessment of its inclusivity.
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