Hannah Montana it may have been Miley Cyrus’ breakout role, but the concert caused an ‘identity crisis’, she revealed.
During a Friday episode of Spotify Rock it with Allison Hagendorf podcast, Cyrus said that playing Miley Stewart, a teenager who appeared as a rock star in the moonlight, was forced on the Disney Channel television series in 2006 to offset her self-perception after the series in 2011. ‘
“The concept of the show is that if you are this character, if you have this alter ego, you are valuable. You have millions of fans, you are the biggest star in the world,” Cyrus told Hagendorf. “And then the concept was that when I looked like me, when I was no longer wearing the wig, that no one cared about me. I was no longer a star. It was drilled in my head. [that] without being Hannah Montana, no one cares about you. That was the concept. I really had to break it. ‘
Cyrus, who was just 21 when his 2013 album was Bangerz released, admitted that her penchant for tongue-swinging was a reaction to her frustration at being associated Hannah Montana. The iconic attitude was an attempt to separate her from her previous image and even annoy those who still viewed her as her Disney alter ego.
“I sometimes created a characterized version of myself. … I never created a character where it was not me, but I was aware of how people saw me, and I played a little bit in it,” she said. “Like when I noticed people give a shit that I stick my tongue out, when they say to me, ‘Stop sticking your fucking tongue out’, I would do it more … if people are angry, it means that they care, so it makes you want to do the same. ‘
In 2013, Cyrus admitted that it was a nervous habit to stick out her tongue. “I’m embarrassed to take pictures. It’s actually the truth,” she said during the Barbara Walters presents: The 10 most fascinating people of 2013 special. ‘I’m so ashamed because people take my pictures, and I just do not know how to do; I do not know how to smile, and am just uncomfortable, and therefore I stick out my tongue because I do not know what else to do. ‘
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