Miley Cyrus has shared that Disney apparently stopped her from performing songs from her show Hannah Montana after it ended in 2011.
Speaking during an appearance on The Ringer’s “Every Single Album” podcast, Cyrus opened up about not being able to perform the songs.
“It’s not like I wanted to,” explained Cyrus. “Performing ‘The Best of Both Worlds’ between ‘We Can’t Stop’ and ‘Wrecking Ball’ wouldn’t have really made sense.”
Cyrus also said that although she didn’t want to sing those songs necessarily, she still felt some type of way about the ban. “It was still sad knowing those songs have my voice, my face, and I wasn’t allowed to sing them,” she said.
The singer later revealed that Disney gave her permission to sing the songs again after she was inducted as 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 admitted.
Cyrus has been revealing how she feels about multiple situations in her life a lot lately. In a recent interview with The New York Times, the singer revealed that she’s no longer estranged from her father, Billy Ray Cyrus.
“I think timing is everything,” she explained. “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 added.
The singer continued on, explaining how her maturity plays an important part in their relationship. “I’m being an adult about it,” she said. “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.”
