MILEY CYRUS'S 'WRECKING BALL' IS 7 YEARS OLD, WHY IS THIS SONG SO IMPORTANT IN YOUR CAREER?
The image of the singer mounted on a wrecking ball while she cried out of love immediately became pop history
Is there anyone who does not remember the image of a very young Miley Cyrus singing a heartbreaking ballad of heartbreak aboard a huge wrecking ball? Probably not. And there is no doubt that Wrecking Ball has been one of the songs that has had the most impact in the career of the former Disney girl, slipping directly and with a privileged place in the history of pop from the moment of its premiere.
A release for which you have to look back several years, exactly until August 2013. A song that on the seventh anniversary of her life continues to be as remembered, repeated and almost as controversial as the first day.
In fact, it has been Miley Cyrus herself who has been carried away by nostalgia recalling what this song has meant in her career: "Seven years of Wrecking Ball. My concept of time is completely spoiled. I feel like it has passed all a life ... but just as if it was yesterday. Thank you for all the support you gave me then and, of course, for all the love you continue to show for my art today. Always grateful and inspired. " Some words that she has accompanied with images of the well-known video in which, although her tears were consecrated as one of the most famous in music, it was her nakedness that really left half the world speechless.
In fact, the impact of the video clip was such that it became the most viewed of the year 2013, snatching the number one from One Direction, with Best Song Ever. To date, Wrecking Ball exceeds 1,000 million views on YouTube, in addition to being one of the most parodied and imitated clips in history.
A song that, like the album Ba ngerz itself, marked a turning point in Miley Cyrus's career, with songs like Adore You or We Can’t Stop. This was how the artist and her look with her short hair completely said goodbye to the image of an innocent girl that had accompanied him so far, in part, thanks to the adolescent phenomenon of Hannah Montana. With a mature, rebellious image and fully exploiting her sexiest face of hers, Miley Cyrus's nude in Wrecking Ball earned censorship in many countries such as France. A change in attitude that was also evident in her famous twerk with Robin Thicke at the MTV Music Awards, also in 2013. The year we met a new Miley.
However, not everything has been excess in the life of Miley Cyrus. For many ups and downs that she has had in her life, in the Malibu era the artist reconciled with her calmer "me". It was just around that time that she confessed to being ashamed and, in a way, regretting the Wrecking Ball video clip: "That is something that cannot be erased. Swinging naked on a wrecking ball is going to live with me forever," Miley Cyrus commented.
As if this were not enough, she also confessed to having recorded the video under the influence of drugs. A clip that she recorded when she was then 20 years old. Fortunately, however, now the former Disney girl has claimed to have left her addictions behind in her life.
To this day, there is no doubt that Miley Cyrus treasures a career more than remarkable behind her back in which, like every great rock star, some scandal that another has not gone unnoticed. For years we have known the craziest side of her, but in recent months we have also seen Miley more vindictive, more adult and more committed than ever. As if this were not enough, in the musical he has just presented Midnight Sky, a song with which he has also aimed for the highest (as in times past) and that, just a week after its premiere has been nominated for Song. of the Summer at the VMAs 2020. Almost nothing!
