Miley Cyrus opened up about her experience leaving behind her Hannah Montana era after exiting the Disney Channel. In a recent interview on Spotify’s The Ringer podcast, she revealed she “wasn’t allowed” to perform any of the original songs from the hit TV series once it ended in 2011.
“After I left Disney, I wasn’t allowed to perform any of the ‘Hannah Montana’ music,” Cyrus explained. “It’s not like I wanted to, I mean, performing ‘The Best Of Both Worlds’ between ‘We Can’t Stop’ and ‘Wrecking Ball’ wouldn’t have really made sense.”
Still, she admitted it was bittersweet. “It was sad knowing those songs have my voice, my face, and I wasn’t allowed to sing them.”
The situation changed after Cyrus was honored as a Disney Legend at D23 2024, when she was “given permission to perform those songs in the future,” which she called “pretty cool.”
Hannah Montana, which aired from 2006 to 2011, followed a teenager living a double life as a pop star. The show ran for 100 episodes and starred Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Billy Ray Cyrus, Mitchel Musso, and Moises Arias alongside Miley.
Cyrus’s latest project is Something Beautiful, a 55-minute visual album set to hit theaters on June 12. At its premiere, she paid tribute to the female artists who inspired her, saying, “I completely worship and idolize the Tina Turners, the Donna Summers, Diana Ross and so many ladies before me that paved this path that I’m on… they made it so much easier because they’ve already broken down all the doors for me.”
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