Miley Cyrus’s VMA performance meets Jabba the Hutt’s party

One producer’s six-second mashup perfectly encapsulates the absurd tongue-wagging performance.

Fernando Alfonso III

Updated on June 1 2021 8:14 am CDT

Maybe it was her flesh-colored bikini, her incessant tongue wagging, or coterie of dancers wearing oversized stuffed animals. One way or the other, Miley Cyrus‘s performance at Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards looked like a deleted scene from The Return of the Jedi.

This comparison was deftly captured in a 6-second Vine video tweeted by producer Jeremy Newberger. In it, Cyrus’s summer single “We Can’t Stop” can be heard playing over the Jabba the Hutt party scene on Tatooine.

If Cyrus keeps this up, she may earn herself a spot in the next Star Wars installment.

Screengrab via Vulture

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Fernando Alfonso III

Fernando Alfonso III served as an early Reddit and 4chan reporter and the Daily Dot’s first art director until 2016. He’s gone on to report at Lexington’s Herald-Leader and at the Houston Chronicle.