Miley Cyrus: “I was the first person to maybe ever be cancelled”

Miley Cyrus has proclaimed she was “the first person to maybe ever be cancelled”.

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The singer made the remarks on CBS Sunday Morning, where she reflected on her trajectory from Disney Channel darling to provocative popstar. Her 2013 album ‘Bangerz‘  saw Cyrus receive backlash for singing about drugs, adopting a more sexualised image and appropriating elements of Black culture – causing severe backlash from audiences.

When host Tracy Smith asked Cyrus about that period of time, noting that “there were moms trying to cancel you”, Cyrus responded: “I was the first person to maybe ever be cancelled, I guess.

“I didn’t know until I was older, actually, how brutal it really was”, Cyrus added. “It was very challenging for other people, but for me it was a good time. It looked fun and it was fun.”

Cyrus went on to say that it wasn’t “until I was older that I realized how harsh” the backlash was, concluding: “I would never now, being where I am, ever look at someone in their 20s from the view of who I am now. But at the time, it was awesome.”

Cyrus recently released her ninth studio album ‘Something Beautiful‘ last May – a record which NME hailed in a four-star review.

“‘Something Beautiful’ is sprawling and apparently unperturbed by contemporary chart trends,” we wrote. “While ‘Something Beautiful’ probably isn’t Cyrus’s most hit-packed album, it does feel like a fully realised artistic statement. This post-genre pop star has pulled off another pretty big swing.”

The album included the track ‘Secrets‘, a collaboration with Fleetwood Mac‘s Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham. Cyrus would dedicate the track to her father Billy Ray Cyrus, saying: “This song was written as a peace offering for someone I had lost for a time but always loved. In my experience, forgiveness and freedom are one and the same”.

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