The «Hannah Montana» actress-turned-Grammy-winning pop star talks about her album «Something Beautiful,» sobriety, and reconnecting with her dad through music.
Miley Cyrus has been in the public eye for most of her life, and while you might know her music, don’t think you really know her.
Asked what it’s like to go through life and have strangers think they know her, Cyrus replied, «I love my life, so I don’t ever really have – I haven’t made too much of a list of the things that are negative about it, ’cause there’s so many great things. But I would say one of the things that I don’t love and don’t appreciate so much is when you meet somebody and they go, ‘Wow, you’re like, so cool. You’re so smart. You’re nothing like I thought you would be.’ So yeah, that’s a tough one.»
Her ninth album might not be what you’d expect, either. In «Something Beautiful», Cyrus stretches herself artistically. As one critic put it, the album takes her from pop princess to legacy artist. That’s quite a leap, even for someone with music in their blood.
Miley’s mom, Tish Cyrus Purcell, is a producer. Dad is country star Billy Ray Cyrus. Her godmother? Dolly Parton.
Miley Cyrus lived with showbiz royalty, and that raspy voice, all her life: «I’ve sounded like this since I was little. My dad used to have all the country singers come over to the house, and George Jones would, you know, joke that I had smoked cigarettes or been up all night, you know, even when I was four years old.»
At age 13, she was suddenly famous after being cast as «Hannah Montana», in the Disney Channel series about a girl who was a typical teen by day and a pop star by night. It’s a role she’s still proud of: «I love her.
