Vanity Fair should have known that attempts to portray Miley Cyrus as an artist, or even an adult, would backfire. If she's not flashing a peace sign in a photo for Life & Style, Hannah Montana gets antsy.

By now you're familiar with her staged shock and outrage. Her father, Billy Ray (you're probably too young to remember his chart-topping, crossover hit hairstyle), joins the fray today, saying he and Miley's handlers left the set before she was shot in a sheet. But VF fashion and style director (and noted European) Michael Roberts issues an open-palmed rebuke of his own, saying that all of her entourage was present and saw on-screen takes of the shots. More importantly, it wasn't a mere sheet she was draped in. "It's a duchess satin stole, Champagne, specially made," he sniffs.

"I had several made for different photo shoots. I thought this one was really appropriate. It's about 83 inches long. She's not wrapped in something skimpy. She had her jeans on. She looked at the screen and loved the picture." He adds: "Maybe she's better off in those teen magazines. We don't do cheesy teen pictures." But it certainly does pictures of cheesy teens.

Of course, all of this assumes there's real outrage or that that anyone is genuinely hurt or pissed. As we well know by now, there is no such thing as genuine in the Hannah Montanasphere. This is a manager-father-publicist game in which teen titan Miley makes her move on adulthood with semi-grown-up pictures and VF sells a mountain of magazines on the back of manufactured scandal. Everybody wins. Now go click on our ongoing coverage of Topless Miley Cyrus.