Miley Cyrus performs at the Teen Choice Awards in August 2009.Photo:Kevin Mazur/TCA 2009/WireImage
Kevin Mazur/TCA 2009/WireImage
It’s may have been a “Party in the U.S.A.” forMiley Cyrusin 2009, but not everyone was celebrating at the time.
In a new TikTok, the 30-year-old pop star opened up about her once-controversial Teen Choice Awards performance in 2009 at 17 years old, when she danced on top of an ice cream cart to her then-new patriotic hit song while holding onto a pole.
As she explains now, it was all for “stability” purposes.
“I had cut ‘Party in the U.S.A.’ and I was doing my first performance for the Teen Choice Awards. My mom was like, ‘I think it’d be really cool if she was in the trailer park, that’s where we really do come from,'” Cyrus reflected in the clip, released on the social media platform for her “Used to Be Young” video series.
“So, apparently me dancing on an ice cream cart with a stripper pole, but it wasn’t a stripper pole, it was actually just for stability. I had a heel on! Like what did you want from me?” Cyrus asked. “Was I really gonna do my performance without dancing on top of an ice cream cart?”
After the performance, theHannah Montanastar received backlash for her set piece, including a magazine article she cited in the TikTok clip. “Is Miley turning into the next Britney [Spears]” Miley asked, reading the story’s headline. “Hopefully! If God is good. Which we know she is.”
Despite facing criticism for appearing too sexy for her age at the time, Cyrus reflected fondly on her first performance of “Party in the U.S.A.” The song itself eventually peaked at No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. According to the RIAA, it was certified 12-times platinumback in March.
“That performance was amazing,” Cyrus said. “My pitch was honestly a little off, and the hat needed to go — but besides that.”
Miley Cyrus performs at the TCAs in 2009.Kevin Mazur/TCA 2009/WireImage
Cyrus opened up about another controversy during her new TikTok series, as she touched on her 2008Vanity Fairphotoshoot, where she posed topless as a teen.
Cyrus shared in the40-second videothat while most know of the photoshoot, they “don’t really know the behind-the-scenes, which is always much more meaningful.”
As she added, her sister Noah was “sitting on Annie [Leibovitz]’s lap and actually pushing the button of the camera, taking the pictures.”
“This image of me is a complete opposite of the bubblegum pop star that I had been known for being and that’s what was so upsetting," Cyrus said.
Miley Cyrus.Vijat Mohindra/NBC via Getty
Vijat Mohindra/NBC via Getty
“But — really brilliant choices, looking back now, from those people,” she said of the team behind the photoshoot.
source: people.com
