It may be just a hunch, but I don’t think Billy Ray Cyrus will be winning any “Father of the Year” awards anytime soon! Speaking out for the first time, Cyrus doesn’t think that anything is wrong with his daughter Miley’s pole dancing at the Teen Choice Awards last week. Um, excuse me? The fact that she’s only 16 is wrong enough! While singing her latest hit song, “Party In The USA,” Miley jumped on top of an ice cream cart that was being pushed by her back up dancers. She then crouched and danced next to a metal pole attached to the top of the cart, which set off a firestorm of criticism all over the place and leaving behind a trail of ticked off mothers of daughters who look up to Cyrus as a role model.

Per Access Hollywood:

“You know what? I just think that Miley loves entertaining people,” Billy Ray told Access. “She loves singing [and] songwriting. I always tell her to love what you’re doing and stay focused for the love of the art and not worry so much about opinion,” he added. “I give my kids a lot of freedom to make the art they wanna make, and make it in their own voice. I think it’s important.”

So your underage daughter dancing provocatively on a metal pole is considered art? The window is closing on the Cyrus family’s chance to set this girl straight or she will be well on her way to becoming a ‘Lohanesque’ sort of mess. I give it two years, tops, and we’ll have some Miley Cyrus naked pictures or a sex tape being shopped around.

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