Hannah Montana it may have been Miley Cyrus’ decisive role, but the show caused an “identity crisis”, she revealed.
During a Friday episode of Spotify Rock This with Allison Hagendorf podcast, Cyrus said that playing Miley Stewart, a teenager who works as a rock star, on the Disney Channel television series in 2006, forced her to consider her self-perception after the series ended in 2011. “Talk about an identity crisis “, she said.
“The concept of the show is that when you are that character, when you have an alter ego, you are valuable. You have millions of fans, you are the biggest star in the world, ”Cyrus told Hagendorf. “And so the concept was that when I looked like myself, when I was no longer wearing the wig, nobody cared about me. I was no longer a star. So it was pierced in my head. [that] other than Hannah Montana, nobody cares about you. That was the concept. I really had to break this. “
Cyrus, who was just 21 when his 2013 album Bangerz was released, admitted that her tendency to shake her tongue was a response to her frustration at being associated with Hannah Montana. The iconic pose was an attempt to separate himself from his previous image and even irritate those who still saw him as his Disney alter ego.
“I almost created a characterized version of myself at times. … I never created a character where it wasn’t me, but I was aware of how people saw me, and I kind of played with it a little bit,” she said. “Like, when I realized that people cared that I stick my tongue out, when they told me, ‘Stop putting your fucking tongue out,’ I would do more … when people are upset, it means who care, it makes you want to do it too. “
In 2013, Cyrus admitted that sticking out his tongue was a nervous habit. “I am ashamed to take pictures. This is really the truth,” she said during the Barbara Walters presents: the 10 most fascinating people of 2013 Special. “I’m so ashamed because people are taking pictures of me, and I just don’t know how – I don’t know how to smile, and just being weird, so I stick my tongue out, because I don’t know I don’t know what else to do. “
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