Miley Cyrus and what she shares with WWE Champion Kofi Kingston

A cultural shift in music is happening thanks to Female song writers sharing their experience with divorce by exacting their revenge through diss tracks about their ex-husbands. Shakira recently released a single that vents her frustrations about the father of her two children, claiming she was left for a less intelligent woman half her age and to pick up the pieces involving their shared estate, tax issues, and the care of their children.

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Not to be outdone, Miley Cyrus recently released “Flowers,” a song riddled with references to her past marriage. Both songs found immediate success, and to best understand their significance in pop-culture we can look at how Kofi Kingston came to be WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) Champion.

Before finding success as the number one man in professional wrestling, Kofi spent Eleven years working for the World Wrestling Entertainment as many different characters. He was able to use the same name for all of these different characters due to his connection to his fans. He did however go through an accent change.

Kofi Kingston’s first character talked with a Jamaican accent. Not only did he have to speak on television portrayed as a Caribbean islander, but he spoke in all interviews with the same fake accent in order to make his character as believable as possible. This created a unique goal for some journalists and fans to see who could expose his true identity (an American born in Ghana) first.

Eventually, someone discovered his biological mother’s number, and on the phone was able to confirm she did not speak with the same accent her son did during WWE programming. This forced executives at WWE to change his character to a man with no accent, which they chose to handle with a “rip the Band-Aid off ” execution, as seen below:

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Many years after his accent change, Kofi was on television in a match that lasted over an hour, and fans in attendance could not believe what they were seeing. As excitement began to build as the audience thought they were witnessing the impossible, Kofi Kingston screamed words that changed his entire careers trajectory.

“I’ve Waited Eleven Years.”

Not only did the live crowds energy change after hearing this, but people at home resonated with this in a unique way. Here was a guy many people choose to watch every week, who had been portrayed as a character that often loses quickly in matches by himself, and had to overcome a change in character that went from “Jamaican” to “a likeable man.” Fans were so inspired by his honesty and determination that they began to cheer for him far more than his competitors.

Later that year he became the first Black WWE Champion, and was able to take his championship to Ghana, his real birth-place. Kofi proved, even in a form of entertainment as peculiar as professional wrestling, that fans of an entertainer build an everlasting bond when they follow someones journey over a long period of time.

Which is exactly what Miley Cyrus’s fans are doing for her after the release of “Flowers.”

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Since its release fans have speculated about many parts of the song and her Music Video are directly related to her past life with ex-husband Liam Hemsworth, claiming that the outfits she wears in the music video, the house referenced in the song, and the original score of the song (“If I Was Your Man”, Bruno Mars) all are directly tied to this mishaps of their marriage. This conversation fuels the songs overall success and relevancy in today’s “pop-culture.”

All of these rumors are speculative, without any confirmation or denial from Miley Cyrus herself, but then again Kofi Kingston never had to tell his fans what everything he has endured during his career meant to him. All he had to say was “I’ve waited Eleven Years,” and the fans of WWE decided what that meant to them.

All of this to show both Miley Cyrus and Kofi Kingston mean a lot of different things to many people, and when entertainers who are embedded in the lives of their fans remind them what they have gone through, their audiences choose to appreciate them even more.

To any men having unfaithful thoughts, remember that ex-wives make diss-tracks now, so go watch pro-wrestling to gain some perspective in your life instead.