Miley Cyrus has clearly been on everyone’s radar this year after her VMA performance, dramatic breakup with Liam Hemsworth, and numerous risqué music videos. This weekend, Miley was unavoidable – she hosted and performed on SNL, appeared on the Today Show, and released her MTV documentary, “Miley: The Movement.” Here’s what we learned from Miley’s wild weekend on screen.
1. She won’t apologize for her VMA performance.
Though Miley claimed during her SNL monologue that she’s been receiving feedback from angry mothers, she explains that she doesn’t feel the need to apologize to anyone – except maybe the people who make the bottom halves of shirts. “I don’t ever really plan to offend people, but sometimes that just happens [because] they’re not open to what they don’t understand,” Miley explains. “But that’s why when I’m singing, [it’s for my fans], because they’re all really young so they understand what I’m doing.”
2. She’s quitting her acting career.
Though Miley was joking when she said that her Disney Channel alter ego Hannah Montana was “murdered” when she hosted SNL on Saturday night, there seems to be a seed of truth. During the extended version of “Miley: The Movement,” she reveals that she has no interest in acting again. Miley says that while she was planning on acting after Hannah Montana, she “did one movie and came back and said, ‘I’m never doing that again. I’m going to do music for the rest of my life.’” Miley’s music career has given her the opportunity to reinvent her public persona. “I’m starting as a new artist,” she explained. “That’s how I think of it.”
3. She’s very close with her mother.
Though ex-fiancé Liam Hemsworth and father Billy Ray Cyrus appear in the MTV documentary, “Miley: The Movement,” it’s clear that the singer is closest to her mother, Tish Cyrus. “My mom is my homey! If I win, then she wins — not because she’s my manager, but because she’s my mom,” she explains. “I think she keeps me, like, less anxious, because I do get so overwhelmed when I’m gonna perform, because everything has to be perfect.” Tish makes it clear that she’s always right beside her daughter “through good, through bad, through arguments, through crying, through I don’t care what – right there.”
4. She’s willing to make fun of herself.
This fact was displayed clearly when Miley was willing to mock and be mocked on SNL, where she was hosting and performing. She begins the show poking fun at her VMA performance and the fact that she’s always showing her stomach, and appears in several sketches that parody her music videos and performances. In one sketch, Miley gets advice from her old, more innocent self – and she cracks a joke about all the “cigarettes” she smokes. In a digital sketch “We Did Stop (The Government),” the SNL crew parodies Miley’s “We Can’t Stop” music video and the current government shut down. Though she can have a laugh and poke fun at her mistakes, Miley still stays true to herself and her beliefs throughout her performance on the show.
5. Though she might have doubts, Miley isn’t easily phased.
Though Miley did admit on her MTV documentary that she often has second thoughts about whether a song or performance will succeed, she showed her stronger side on the Today show this morning. On the topic of Sinead O’Connor’s open letter to Miley, she responds “It’s all good. You can write as many open letters as you want. That’s really what blogging is. I get open letters every day. It’s nothing too new for me.”