Hannah Montana may have been Miley Cyrus’ breakthrough, but the performance sparked an “identity crisis,” she revealed.
During a Friday episode of Spotify’s Rock this with Allison Hagendorf podcast, Cyrus said when she played Miley Stewart, a teenager who, like a moonlight rock star, on the Disney Channel television series in 2006, forced her to consider her self-image after the series ended in 2011. “Talk about an identity crisis,” she said.
“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 myself, when I stopped wearing the wig, nobody cared about me. I wasn’t a star anymore. [that] without being Hannah Montana, nobody cares about you. That was the concept. I really had to break that. “
Cyrus, who was only 21 when her 2013 album was released Bangerz was released, admitting that her fondness for wagging the tail was a response to her frustration at being associated with it Hannah MontanaThe iconic pose was an attempt to separate herself from her previous image and even annoy those who still viewed her as her 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 into it,” she said. “Like, when I found people cared that I stuck out my tongue, when they told me, ‘Stop sticking your damn tongue out’, I would do it more often … if people are pissed off, that means that they care, so that makes you want to do it too. “
In 2013, Cyrus admitted that sticking out her tongue was a nervous habit. “I’m ashamed to take pictures. That’s actually the truth,” she said during the Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2013 special. “I’m so embarrassed because people are taking pictures of me, and I just don’t know how – I don’t know how to smile, and just be clumsy, so I’m sticking out my tongue because I don’t know. I don’t know what I have to do differently. “
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