The whole life of Miley Cyrus was shaped by renown. Born at the height of the celebrity of her father Billy Ray Cyrus, she spent her childhood during her closed countertry concerts. At 13, she became a star herself – and an important part of the Disney machine – as a holder of “Hannah Montana”, playing a regular girl during the day and a pop star at night and becoming a cultural touch for children in the millennium.
As Cyrus left the show, she already had dozens of sure of Billboard Hot 100, but respect for industry and snack was more difficult to find. As with many former players, its transition to adulthood in the eyes of the public was marked by the controversy (twerk With Robin Thicke at the Video Music Awards 2013) and the judgment (the parents’ television council condemned performance), on which she returns today with a certain bitterness on the way in which she was treated.
Now 33 years old, Cyrus is one of the female queens in title of pop, a status cemented by his first victory at the Grammy for his “flowers” of 2023 Megahit. Her ninth studio album, “Something Beautiful”, has just been released, and she says that it is her attempt to reinvent what “beautiful” means-the death of her beloved grandmother, for example, or the emotion of rage, that she told me is beautiful because “it lets you know that you are alive”. We have also talked at length about her close relationship with her mother, Tish Cyrus-Purcell, her relationship repaired with her father and the way she learned to protect herself in a world that is always fascinated by everything she does. But we started by talking about the first time I interviewed her, when her frankness and openness honestly panicked me.
You know, I have already interviewed you. You have really familiar to me.
No, we never saw each other because I was at NPR. The voice!
I was a new host at the time. I hadn’t done a lot of celebrity interviews, and you came and said, “Ask me anything.” And I didn’t know what to do with that. I froze and thought, I don’t know what to ask Miley Cyrus if she said, “Ask me something.” Would you say something like that now? I think I would say something like that now, but maybe by paying greater attention. But yes, you can ask me anything. I learned that I control. The worst that arrives is that I leave the room – say: “I will be back”, then will not come back.
