Miley Cyrus is making an introspective look at one of the most controversial and creative periods of her career: the era of the album Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, launched in 2015. In a recent interview for the P贸dcast ‘Every Single Album of The Ringer’, The singer confessed that, during that time, drugs played a central role in their artistic process … and also in their finances.
“The drug was the greatest expense,” said Cyrus without Rodeos. To avoid raising suspicions before his accountant, he turned to an ingenious strategy: to catalog those expenses as purchases of 鈥渧intage clothing“.” He received checks for thousands of dollars in vintage clothes, “he explained with a laugh. The Ardid reached the point that his accountant asked him to see the alleged garments acquired.” Where is that original John Lennon shirt of $ 15,000 that you bought? “He asked him.”It’s up … do you want one? “she replied with irony.
Miley Cyrus talks about her sobriety
This chapter is part of an artistic stage marked by sound and personal experimentation. However, with the passage of timeOr, the interpreter of ‘Flowers’ has changed her creative approach, especially since she adopted a sober lifestyle.
“I can write songs being sober, but I can’t find songs like Tangerine,” he confessed. Although in a previous interview with Zane Lowe, he said that sobriety was “like his God,” now clarifies: “It was a bit dramatic. I don’t attend meetings or anything like that.”
Miley’s relationship with drugs and alcohol also influenced her later music. After the low commercial impact of Dead Petz and the discreet reception from Younger Now in 2017, CYrus felt pressure to resume more provocative themes in its 2019 EP, ‘She is coming‘. “They put me in songs like Unholy, I don’t like it because he talks about being drunk or drugged. I was sober at that time, and I felt like a scammer.”
He even received warnings not to make his sobriety public. “Someone told me: ‘Don’t tell anyone, because the boys will no longer see you as popular,” he recalled. “During Bangerz, everything was out of control. And you were angry with me!”
Today, Cyrus reflects with distance on that stage, recognizing its complexity, its contradictions and the role that drugs played both in their personal life and in their music. A raw and honest testimony of an artist who has managed to reinvent itself through the extremes.
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