'True Colours' icon Cyndi Lauper has opened up about Miley Cyrus's recent and very raunchy performance at the 2013 MTV VMAs and described the young singer's display as "so, so sad."

She made the comments during a radio interview with Australia's Brig & Lehmo on Gold 104.3 and explained that watching the 20-year-old trying to show that she's no longer the squeaky clean Disney star people grew up knowing her as was troubling:

"That was girl gone wild. So sad, so sad. She's in a song that literally says that the blurred lines allowed you to—when a woman says no, she means yes—and that's frightful because that's date rape."

Lauper added: "And there she is, a young twentysomething trying to prove she can hang with the big boys and girls, you know, basically simulating a Girl Gone Wild video onstage. And I just felt like that was so beneath her and raunchy, really raunchy. It wasn't even art."

Cyrus also collaborative live at the event with Robin Thicke on his hit single 'Blurred Lines' and his own mother told the press that she was quite repulsed by Cyrus's on-stage antics: "I just keep thinking of her mother and father watching this. Oh, Lord, have mercy. I was not expecting her to be putting her butt that close to my son. The problem is now I can never 'unsee' it. I don't understand what Miley Cyrus is trying to do. I just don't understand. I think she's misbegotten in this attempt of hers. And I think it was not beneficial."