Rocker Sufjan Stevens Pens Open Letter to Miley Cyrus

Rocker Sufjan Stevens is none too pleased with Miley Cyrus.

Surprisingly, he hasn't taken issue with her twerking, foam-finger wearing ways - of all things, Stevens is irked by the young popstar's grammar.

In a new post on his Tumblr, he writes:

"Dear Miley. I can't stop listening to #GetItRight (great song, great message, great body), but maybe you need a quick grammar lesson. One particular line causes concern: "I been laying in this bed all night long." Miley, technically speaking, you've been LYING, not LAYING, an irregular verb form that should only be used when there's an object, i.e. "I been laying my tired booty on this bed all night long." Whatever. I'm not the best lyricist, but you know what I mean. #Get It Right The Next Time. But don't worry, even Faulkner messed it up. We all make mistakes, and surely this isn't your worst misdemeanor. But also, Miley, did you know the tense here is also totally wrong. Surely you've heard of Present Perfect Continuous Tense (I HAVE BEEN LYING in this bed all night long [hopefully getting some beauty sleep?]). It's a weird, equivocal, almost purgatorial tense, not quite present, not quite past, not quite here, not quite there. Somewhere in between. I feel that way all the time. It kind of sucks. But I have a feeling your "present perfect continuous" involves a lot more excitement than mine. Anyway, doesn't that also sum up your career right now? Present. Perfect. Continuous. And Tense. Intense? Girl, you work it like Mike Tyson. Miley, I love you because you're the Queen, grammatically and anatomically speaking. And you're the hottest cake in the pan. Don't ever grow old. Live brightly before your fire fades into total darkness. XXOO Sufjan"

According to YouTube tracking site Tubefilter, Miley Cyrus took over Twitter in September, with over 270.1 million views of her edgy new videos that showed her twerking, licking, swinging and more. With no surprise, controversy = hits and the official Wrecking Ball video itself has been viewed a whopping 211 million times. Yes, million. The other 69 million included behind the scenes videos, and others.

"Wrecking Ball," the second single from "Bangerz," was released on August 25 and immediately hit the #1 spot at on the iTunes Top Songs Chart, #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on Spotify. The video for "Wrecking Ball" became the fastest music video ever to reach CERTIFIED status, VEVO's milestone for videos delivering 100 million views in only 6 days. Cyrus shattered the previous record which she held for "We Can't Stop," which was CERTIFIED by VEVO in just 37 days after it premiered The first single "We Can't Stop" was released on June 3 and shot to #1 on iTunes in the US and 23 other countries. The single reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and has sold over 2 million tracks in the US alone. "We Can't Stop" also became Cyrus' first #1 single in the UK.

Miley Cyrus is a multiplatinum recording artist and has sold over 12 million albums and 20 million tracks in the US alone.

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