Before Miley Cyrus would drop the music video to her latest single, Mother’s Daughter,
clocking in over 6 million views in less than 24 hours
Before Miley Cyrus would live a double life, shocking the world, myself included, when
Hemsworth
Before Cyrus would have over 95 million instagram followers, 12 million YouTube subscribers
and 43 million twitter followers
Miley Cyrus has been living in the spotlight from a very young age.
After emerging from the shadows of her successful father’s music career, Cyrus would take
the world by storm when she landed her role as Hannah Montana.
Eventually Miley would grow up and break out of the Disney mold that saw her ride her way
to the top for 5 years, and turn into the edgy, fun, young woman she is today.
With smash hits like Party in the USA, Wrecking Ball and The Climb to name a few, Cyrus, or
Hemsworth as she now goes by, has and continues to be a chart topping musician and I feel
like the 26 year old’s best years are still ahead of her.
And just to clarify, although her last name is Hemsworth now, I’m still referring to
her as Miley Cyrus, it’ll just be less confusing for us all.
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Miley Ray Cyrus Hemsworth, wow what a name, was born Destiny Hope Cyrus on November 23rd,
1992 in Franklin, Tennessee.
She’s the daughter of Achy Breaky Heart, and old Town Road Remix singer Billy Ray Cyrus,
and Leticia Jean Finley, also known as Tish, who is an actress and producer.
Miley spent the early years of her life growing up on a farm in Franklin, Tennessee, with
her brother Braison and sister Noah, and half siblings Brandi and Trace who Billy Ray adopted
shortly after Tish and Billy got married.
Although Miley has another half brother, Christopher Cody, he grew up with his mother, who Billy
dated before wedding Tish.
To this day Cody doesn’t have much to do with the Cyrus family.
Miley clearly had the roots of an entertainer from the get go.
Even as a young child she stole the spotlight on camera, as you can see here.
From a
young age, Miley was always smiling, so her family would call her Smiley.
This is where she’d get her name Miley from, and eventually she would change her name legally
to Miley, but we gotta go in chronological order here.
So back to her youth, Miley attended Heritage Elementary School in Tennessee until she was
8 years old.
Her father, Billy Ray would land a role on the TV series Doc in 2001, prompting the entire
family to move to Toronto, Canada.
Miley would eventually land a small role in the same show as her father, and would be
cast in the Tim Burton film Big Fish before eventually starring as Hannah Montana in the
hit disney show in 2006.
But before she’d be so inclined to have a career as an actor, she would be sitting
with her dad in a 2001 production of Mama Mia.
After hearing Dancing Queen, she knew she wanted to be a performer.
Okay I made up the Dancing Queen part, but her father told the Toronto Star, moments
into the first act Miley grabbed his arm and said "This is what I want to do, daddy.
I want to be an actress.”
0:48-1:02 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBKrcNbCVCk
Now for those of you that don’t know, Miley actually auditioned for the role of Hannah’s
best friend, Lily.
Ultimately she would be cast for the lead role of Hannah Montana as many of you know,
but at the time, she was also being considered for the lead role to costar with a young Taylor
Lautner in the 2005 film The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl.
It was between her and someone else but she was already committed to Hannah Montana so
she turned the film down.
Safe to say that was the right call.
Due to her being cast, the family moved to LA.
I mean if you can’t live the best of both worlds, are you really living at all?
Now as many of you know, Miley would see a ton of success working on the show from 2006
until 2011.
She would release her first album, titled Hannah Montana in 2006 that would turn out
to be a massive success, topping the Billboard 200 charts in the US, and selling over 3 million
copies worldwide.
This would just be the start of the young singer’s musical career.
Miley cites Elvis as her main musical inspiration, but also cites Madonna, Shania Twain and of
course, her god mother Dolly Parton as some of her influences as well.
Miley would go on to sign a 4 album deal with Hollywood records to distribute her non Hannah
Montana music.
In June 2007 Miley would release a two disc album titled Hannah Montana 2 Meet Miley Cyrus.
The follow up to her wildly successful debut album would also reach the top of the Billboard
200 charts and sell one 3 million copies.
However this double disc album would also include Miley’s first studio album.
Miley would continue to ride the success of the Hannah Montana wave, going on world tours
and releasing a handful of her own studio albums.
She’d also star in the Hannah Montana movie, but would eventually want to break out of
her disney star mold.
In 2010 Cyrus would star in The Last Song, a film based on the book by Nicholas Sparks.
Although it didn’t receive the best reviews, with a 20% ratting on Rotten Tomatoes, it
would lead to Miley meeting her now husband, Liam Hemsworth.
In the same year Miley would release another studio album, Can’t Be Tamed in hopes it
would help her transition from young disney star to a young teen.
It would be her first album not to chart on the Billboard 200 in the US and wasn’t very
successful compared to her other albums.
Cyrus would then stir up controversy when the Hannah Montana star was filmed smoking
Salvia out of a bong.
0:02-0:12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd76imsbVlc
Cyrus was 18 at the time, but the video really had a lot of people questioning which direction
her career would go in due to the fact that she was previously known as an innocent little
girl.
However, like most Disney stars, Cyrus would break the innocent little girl title and bounce
back stronger than ever.
Although she had more of a focus on film at the time, Cyrus would come out strong in 2013.
Hiring Larry Rudolph, who’s best known for representing Britney Spears, as her manager,
and shocking the world with a blonde pixie cut, the new miley was born.
After Miley would part ways with Hollywood Records, she would sign a new contract with
RCA Records to distribute her music moving forward.
Working with big names like Pharell and Mike Will Made It on her 4th studio album, Miley
would show the world her hip hop side.
Being featured on the song 23 with the likes of Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J, and then dropping
her single We Can’t Stop, as part of her album Bangerz, Miley was back on top.
Miley’s hit We Cant Stop would go on to break a Vevo record at the time, becoming
the fastest video to reach 100 million views.
The video would also get 10.7 million views in its first 24 hours.
Miley would follow up her hit with another controversial performance, this time at the
VMA’s with Robin Thicke.
in the US, with 2 million copies sold.
It would also inspire a tone of parodies and even this.
Cyrus would drop her album Bangerz on October 4th, 2013.
It would debut at number one on the Billboard 200 charts, selling over 250,000 copies within
it’s first week.
Her success came just a month after her and Liam would break off their engagement, which
last from May 2012 to September of 2013.
She’d go on her 4th tour to promote the album, which is when she’d also decide to
become a vegan.
After touring for two months, Miley’s dog, Floyd, was found mauled to death by a coyote.
Following the devastating and traumatic incident, Miley decided she would be finished consuming
animal products.
Around this time Miley would also create the Happy Hippy Foundation, which works to "fight
injustice facing homeless youth, LGBTQ youth and other vulnerable populations”.
She’s been an advocate for the community since coming out as a pansexual to her mom
at age 14.
In 2016 Miley would be a key advisor for the contestants on the show the Voice, before
taking over for Gwen Stefani in the 11th season of the wildly popular reality show.
Cyrus would continue to flourish musically, releasing a free album for her fans on soundcloud
titled Miley Cyrus and her Dead Petz, along with her 6th studio album Younger Now.
Miley and Liam Hemsworth would go on to get married after almost a decade of seeing each
other on and off and two engagements.
Miley’s stint on the voice would only last a couple seasons, and she is currently hyping
up her next album, She Is Miley Cyrus.
Miley claims the album will be made up of three seperate, 6 song EP’s that will be
released over time, before the album officially drops.
She is Coming was dropped on May 31st, with the hit single Mother’s Daughter debuted
on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart at 54.
The EP itself debuted at number 5 on the Billboard 200.
She is here, the second installation to the album is expected to drop sometime this summer,
and She is Everything is expecting to drop in the fall.
But Miley is quite a busy girl, when she’s not dropping new music, shes acting, as she
did in an episode of Black Mirror which premiered on Netflix June 5th, 2019.
As for the rest of the story, we’ll we gotta wait and see because as I mentioned, I think
Miley’s best years are still yet to come.
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