Disney prevented Miley Cyrus from performing songs from Hannah Montana after the present resulted in 2011. However she stated in a brand new interview with The Ringer podcast, “It’s not like I wished to.” She defined: “Performing ‘The Better of Each Worlds’ between ‘We Can’t Cease’ and ‘Wrecking Ball’ wouldn’t have actually made sense,” she stated.
The TV sequence, which propelled Cyrus to stardom as a pop star who hid her true id from followers so she may reside a standard life, ran from 2006 to 2011. Throughout that point, 5 Hannah Montana soundtrack albums got here out, in addition to one reside file and two remix albums. She additionally launched three solo albums on Disney’s Hollywood label* earlier than switching to RCA and releasing Bangerz, dwelling to “We Can’t Cease” and “Wrecking Ball,” in 2013. Round that point, she sexualized her performances extra, twerking with Robin Thicke on the 2013 VMAs. So, apparently, Disney determined she may take pleasure in one of the best of just one world.
Regardless that Cyrus didn’t need to sing her Disney-era songs, she felt ambivalent concerning the injunction. “It was nonetheless unhappy understanding these songs have my voice, my face, and I wasn’t allowed to sing them,” she stated.
As of final yr, although, each worlds have opened again as much as Cyrus. She was named a Disney Legend in a 2024 ceremony, the place she apologized to the Mouse in Chief. “I undoubtedly wasn’t created in a lab, and if I used to be, there should’ve been a bug within the system which triggered me to malfunction someplace between the years of 2013 and ’16,” she stated on the time, in keeping with Deadline. “Sorry, Mickey.”
So now, the singer, who’s now 32, informed The Ringer, it may very well be again on for her Hannah Montana persona (if she wished to go that means): “After being inducted as a Disney Legend, I used to be given permission to carry out these songs sooner or later, which is fairly cool,” she stated.
* The Disney ban should not have utilized to the Hollywood albums, although, since “Occasion in the usA.,” off Cyrus’ The Time of Our Lives EP in 2009, is the tune Cyrus has carried out reside probably the most occasions in her life, as current as 2022.