Miley Cyrus and Bret Michaels sing about getting undressed

There's apparently some controversy over Bret Michaels' latest recording of Nothin' to Lose, featuring Miley Cyrus.

It's a country/rock ballad of which there are several recorded versions, and in this one, which went online Thursday, 17-year-old Miley sings along with 46-year-old Bret.

The lyrics include, "We both know better than this/Still we can't resist/Slowly get undressed." And "Won't you fall down on me/So close I can feel you breathe."

So, Us Magazine says Bret is taking some flack. He told them last Friday he's gotten "75 texts" (which isn't actually that many) about the "scandal"

"I was like, 'What the f*ck is going on?' Everyone's going nuts!"

The Rock of Love star and father of 9 and 4-year-old girls, told Us in an "exclusive" interview, "It's blown out of proportion."

Miley covered Every Rose Has Its Thorn for her next album (and I'm still waiting to see who wears the banana hammock in the video), which Michaels produced. Then he played Nothin' to Lose for Miley and her Mom Tisch, and they decided to record it in an impromptu session.

"I never sat down and said, 'Look at the content. Look at the lyrical content,'" Michaels said. He adds in his defence that "the part where it says she slowly gets undressed, Miley says, 'Yeah she does.' It has no reference to her and I. It's not even a duet." (That's grammatically incorrect, by the way. He should have said "her and me.")

"As God is my witness, there is nothing I have to be defensive about," he said. "I'm a good Dad. I just thought it was a beautiful song."

I don't know. Miley's been doing this sort of thing -- posing for inappropriately sexy pictures, pole dancing, dressing like she's heading out for a night of dancing on the bar for free Jell-o shots, all while loudly trumpeting the intact state of her virginity -- since before she was old enough to drive. And she's been doing it with the blessing of her parents. When most of us would be ordering our kid upstairs to "put on some pants!" or saying, "Oh no! You're not singing about getting undressed with that middle aged man young lady!" Mama and Papa Cyrus are standing by smiling.

And, it's been going on so long that soon she'll be an adult and none of this will even be relevant anymore. And it's true, technically, they're not singing about getting undressed together...

As for Bret, he's a hair rock legend and Every Rose Has Its Thorn is my favourite Karaoke tune of all time. And I don't think he's actually a dirty older man. BUT maybe he's not, you know, very smart. Or maybe he's nuts. After all, he did try to find love THREE TIMES on reality TV. And they say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Your thoughts?