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By Joel Land
Although 15-year old Miley Cyrus has plenty of fans, estimates reach around 5 million, I just caught wind of her latest endeavor “Hannah Montana.” Okay, the truth is I just found out that Billy Ray Cyrus has a daughter (c’mon I’m 29 and… well, a boy). But Hannah Montana’s fans are both boys and girls and a stark majority of them are underage.
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It all started with her own Disney Channel show wherein she plays average brunette teen Miley Stewart by day, but puts on a blonde wig and becomes pop star Hannah Montana by night. The show has produced around 50 episodes since March of 2006 and it is watched in more than 50 countries around the world. Her music (mainly soundtracks of her show) has sold more than 3 million copies. Miley/Hannah is now on tour and will be at The Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena on January 30th, but if you don’t already have tickets, you’re probably gonna miss it. The entire tour is sold out. The Jacksonville date sold out in minutes.
However if you’re absolutely determined, there may still be hope. A large fraction of the tickets were bought by resellers such as Stub Hub and Tickets Today, which resell the tickets for ten times the face value. This used to be called scalping. Average resell for Hannah Montana tickets is around $214. That’s higher than Timberlake, Beyonce or the Police reunion! Why, I’ve also seen a pair of upper level tickets go for a cool $1100 on eBay. FYI – the original face value was $26 - $66. Sheesh.
For the ticketless, Disney has been filming select dates of the tour for a 3D Hannah Montana Best of Both Worlds Tour movie. It is due out next month. Filming started in Salt Lake City in October of 2007. All this adds up to Miley being up there on the Forbes Magazine “Richest Under 25” list, and the show has only been out for less than 2 years. Crazy right?
Hey look, I don’t consider myself to be an adult supremacist or anything like that, but there are some things kids and I will just never see eye-to-eye on. So I enlisted the help of 9-year old "Best of Both Worlds Tour" ticket holder and "Miley World" member Jude Rice to help clue me in.
EU: How long have you been a fan of Miley / Hannah?
Jude Rice: Ever since she started singing.
EU: How did you score tickets?
JR: I think I was in the fan club, that helped somehow.. and I got them for Christmas.
EU: would you have bought them if you had to use your own allowance money?
JR: If I had enough, yes.
EU: If you could just put on a wig and change into a pop star by night, what would your stage name be?
JR: Um…
EU: Maybe, since you’re from Florida, instead of “Hannah Montana” it could be, like, “Chlorida Florida?”
JR: Yeah!
EU: Really, you like Chlorida Florida?
JR: Yeah.
EU: Alright. The 30th is a school night, are you planning on magically becoming sick after the show?
JR: [Devious giggles] I don’t know.
EU: If Miley Cyrus lost her voice and they asked you to fill in for her could you do it
JR: Yeah! Uh-huh
EU: Do you know any Billy Ray Cyrus songs?
JR: No.
EU: Do you think that Hannah Montana will have the same cultural impact as Annette Funicello and Britney Spears?
JR: No!
EU: Do you think that the whole Miley/ Hannah thing helps teach kids about the duality of man?
JR: I don’t understand what you just said.
EU: Eh, I’d just say “probably.”
JR: Okay.
EU: Which Hannah Montana character would make the best president? Miley, Lilly, Jackson or Oliver?
JR: Uh… Miley, because she’s, um, smarter.
EU: Okay, smarts usually don’t matter in a presidential bid, but okay. What do you expect out of the show?
JR: I get to go see her in concert and I’ve never been to a real concert.
EU: If you could say one thing to Miley Cyrus what would it be?
JR: That I’m your biggest fan …and can I have your phone number?
EU: On a scale of 1 through 10, how would you rate my journalistic integrity?
JR: Um…. 6.
Perfect, thanks Jude. So, I went into this not knowing much about the Hannah Montana phenomenon, but now I’m convinced I should probably get a kid of my own in the hopes I could make them into a Hannah Montana. Or, be it a boy, a Dane Maine or a Georgia Joel…junior. Something like that. If I just throw in some Disney Magic and some loyal to-the-point fans like Jude, the formula might work again. Although a big key in this would be for me to write an uber-catchy country song that’s easy to line dance to. Snakey Jakey Legs or something. Or I could just start my own ticket resell site, which I’d appropriately name eScalp.com.
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