Disney forbade Miley Cyrus to sing Hannah Montana’s songs: “Those songs had my voice, my face, and they didn’t allow me to sing them”
She had the best of the two worlds. Never better said. The phrase that opened the iconic series Hannah MontanaThe Best of Both World, summarizes, in an ironic key, the conflict that Miley Cyrus lived After passing through Disney Channel. Converted into a world star being a teenager, the artist has revealed that for years He had no right to interpret the songs that made her famous.
In an interview for Pódcast The Ringer from Spotify, the 32 -year -old singer, who has just published Your ninth study album, Subject Beautiful This Friday, May 30, he explained that, at the end of his stage in Hannah Montanahe could not continue singing the themes of the series. “After leaving Disney, they did not allow me to interpret any of the songs of Hannah Montana”He said. Although he acknowledged that he had no real plans to include songs such as the intro of fiction between songs such as We can’t stop either Wrecking Ball, The prohibition bothered him. “It was sad to know that those songs had my voice, my face, and they did not allow me to sing them,” he recognized.
The series was broadcast between 2006 and 2011 and was an international phenomenon. In it, Cyrus played a Double life teenager: Student for the day and pop star at night. Fiction promoted his career, but also established a iron control over his image and musical production. The rights of the issues, being linked to Disney, did not belong to the artist, despite having been recorded with her voice and interpreted by her on the screen.
The veto remained Until 2024, when the company included it in its Disney Leyend gallerytogether with historical figures of the study. At that moment, everything changed. “After being included as a Disney legend, they gave me permission to interpret those songs in the future, which is great,” he said in the same interview.
After leaving Disney’s umbrella, Miley Cyrus, who was just 13 years old when he started shooting the series and ended in 2011, with 18, he sought break with your childhood image and build a career from Hannah. In 2013 he starred in one of the most commented moments of the MTV Video Music Awardsby dance Twerking Together with Robin Thicke during his interpretation of Blurred Lines. The society by then was not prepared for her.
“I am proud of having been Hannah Montana because she has nurtured Miley in many ways“He said in the speech, and referred to that stage of rupture with humor.” I was not created in a laboratory and, if I went, there should be an error in the system that caused my malfunction at some point between 2013 and 2016. Sorry, Mickey, “he said when collecting the award.
Almost 15 years after having hung the blonde wig, Miley Cyrus has consolidated her career as one of the most recognized voices of international pop. Now, with the official permission to recover those songs, Cyrus closes a circle that for a long time was out of control.
