Miley Cyrus has revealed that Disney apparently prevented her from performing songs from her show Hannah Montana after it concluded in 2011.
During an appearance on The Ringer‘s “Every Single Album” podcast, Cyrus discussed being unable to perform the songs.
“It’s not like I wanted to,” Cyrus clarified. “Performing ‘The Best of Both Worlds’ between ‘We Can’t Stop’ and ‘Wrecking Ball’ wouldn’t have really made sense.”
Cyrus also mentioned that while she didn’t necessarily want to sing those songs, she still felt bothered by the restriction. “It was still sad knowing those songs have my voice, my face, and I wasn’t allowed to sing them,” she explained.
The singer later disclosed that Disney granted her permission to sing the songs again after she became the youngest ever Disney Legend. “After being inducted as a Disney Legend, I was given permission to perform those songs in the future, which is pretty cool,” Cyrus revealed.
Cyrus has been opening up about her feelings on various aspects of her life frequently lately. In a recent conversation with The New York Times, the singer disclosed that she’s no longer distant from her father, Billy Ray Cyrus.
“I think timing is everything,” she said. “As I’ve gotten older, I’m respecting my parents as individuals instead of as parents — because my mom really loved my dad for her whole life, and I think being married to someone in the music industry and not being a part of it is obviously really hard. And so I think I took on some of my mom’s hurt as my own because it hurt her more than it hurt me as an adult, and so I owned a lot of her pain.
“But now that my mom is so in love with my stepdad, who I completely adore, and now that my dad, I see him finding happiness, too — I can love them both as individuals instead of as a parental pairing,” she continued.
The singer went on, describing how her growth influences their relationship. “I’m being an adult about it,” she noted. “At first it’s hard, because the little kid in you reacts before the adult in you can go, ‘Yes, that’s your dad, but that’s just another person that deserves to be in his bliss and to be happy.’ My child self has caught up.”
