Miley Cyrus seizing the moment with outrageous Bangerz tour

REVIEW: 21-year-old Miley Cyrus is seizing the moment on her eye-popping Bangerz tour — imagine a Madonna concert directed by Jim Henson and set in a sci-fi strip club. MILEY INKED IN MELBOURNE

Miley Cyrus Concert at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Picture Yuri Kouzmin

RIGHT now no pop star on the globe is having more fun than Miley Cyrus.

The 21-year-old is seizing the moment on her eye-popping Bangerz tour — imagine a Madonna concert directed by Jim Henson and set in a sci-fi strip club.

The huge size of her stage meant she sold cheaper rear view tickets — but rest assured, no matter what you paid you got a 360 degree view of Miley’s trademark rear all night long.

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Between the grinding and twerking in her tiny swimwear-as-stagewear outfit you could draw her backside from memory by 15 minutes into the show.

It’s a shock that parents still bring young kids to a Miley Cyrus concert in 2014. As well as constant use of the phrase “motherf----rs” (and we mean constant) she told the sold out Rod Laver Arena crowd on the recent South American leg of her tour about side-of stage puking and how “I was so drunk on stage and people would pass me a radical joint — I’m sober-ish tonight so you guys better be f — ked up.”

Yes mums and dads, this is no Katy Perry concert.

The Bangerz tour is the definition of a pop star doing exactly what she likes, no matter what anyone else thinks. And that’s exactly why her fans gravitate to her.

Miley Cyrus Concert at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Picture Yuri Kouzmin

If this show came with a rating it would say ‘contains strong sexual and drug references from the outset and throughout’. And it would earn that warning over and over.

Miley rides on a flying hot dog and makes jokes about “getting to ride Mr Weiner every single night”. She suggestively shows the microphone her tonsils during the ‘It’s my mouth I can do want to’ line in We Can’t Stop and uses an anatomically-correct blow-up doll for the purpose it was manufactured when it is thrown on stage.

There’s an on-stage bed full of male and female dancers; Miley peers down the shorts of one of the gentlemen dancers at one stage.

Miley swigs water and spits it out into the open mouths of adoring fans, even after she’d told them where her tongue had been lately. And she’s angry when some don’t want her instant recycled fluids and notes “For f-----g Australians you all seem very afraid of water!”

While certainly M15+ rated it’s also a brilliantly bonkers and wildly creative pop concert - easily one of the year’s most interesting. It’s just not for young eyes and ears or parents who’ve freeze-framed her as Hannah Montana. Miley’s spent the last five years making (nearly) everyone sure of that.

Cyrus enters the stage sliding down a life-size replica of her other regularly exposed body part — her tongue — because, well, she can.

Miley Cyrus in action. Picture: Yuri Kouzmin

And she sings live, unlike many of her contemporaries, because, well, she can.

Indeed it’s her undeniable talent that makes you forgive some of Bangerz’s more indulgent moments.

Cyrus has ditched some of her biggest and best hits — see ya See You Again and The Climb — for almost all of last year’s album Bangerz.

And you have to wait until the end for Cyrus classics We Can’t Stop, Wrecking Ball and Party in the USA.

But her rabid fans don’t care, just seeing her in the flesh (so much flesh) is enough.

Cyrus’ first tour of Australia, three years and about 12 controversies ago, saw her display her impeccable taste in music, covering Nirvana, Joan Jett and Fleetwood Mac.

Miley Cyrus on stage. Picture: Yuri Kouzmin

On her Bangerz tour, which incidentally ends in Australia, she’s introducing young ears to the weird beauty of the Beatles’ Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, which she’s recorded with psychedelic band the Flaming Lips.

She also showcases her powerful voice on a stunning cover of Etta James’ I’ll Take Care of You. Cyrus also leads her band through spontaneous renditions of Jeff Buckley’s Lilac Wine (apparently a tour first) and Coldplay’s The Scientist. For her regular reading of godmother Dolly Parton’s Jolene Cyrus adlibs “You’re a f----- s--t Jolene!”

That’s what makes Cyrus so interesting. You don’t know what she’s going to do next, but she can now tick trashy, debauched, adult pop concert off her career to-do list.

Miley is now in Sydney before a show in Brisbane on Wednesday, Sydney on Friday then gigs in Adelaide and Perth next week. Parents, you have been warned.