Miley Cyrus Covers Billboard Magazine: People Tried to “Make Me the White Nicki Minaj”
June 14, 2013 by Hollywoodite
Calling the 20-year-old “Miley 2.0″, even though her parents getting divorced and her acting out publicly feels very “1.0″, Miley Cyrus covers the new issue of Billboard Magazine re-branding herself with what basically amounts to a haircut and showing slightly more skin.
She has had tattoos and piercing for a while now so those aren’t news. She dated around a LOT and was very sexual (almost to being promiscuous depending on whom you believe and what picture leaks you found to be credible) in her teens so that’s not news either. And those relationships overshadowed her career so no change there either. But now she’s twerking. And she’s in a bathing suit. See. Different.
She talks to Billboard about the direction of her new music, ”A lot of people wanted to try to make me the white Nicki Minaj,” Cyrus says. “That’s not what I’m trying to do. I love ‘hood’ music, but my talent is as a singer.”
She continues, ”I can’t really be told what to do right now. I’m too young to go in and make someone else’s vision come to life. I want to go make my visions.”
On the work ethic that got her here, she adds, ”I never stop working, ever — I put my track list together this morning. I want my record to be the biggest record in the world, and I’ve given everything to get here, even down to friends and family and relationships — I’ve just put this music first.”
“That’s been kind of a trip: It’s not like I’m losing who I am — I actually found out more about who I am by making this music,” she continues. “I’m going on a journey, and that’s more than a lot of 20-year-olds can say. And I’m still going to change so much. Because I’m not the same person I was six months ago — I’m not even the same person I was two weeks ago.”
She says of the albums controversial themes, including her own drug use, “I’m 20 years old and I want to talk to the people that are up all night with their friends. It’s based on a true story of a crazy night I had: When I heard the song for the first time, it captured exactly what I was living. I didn’t make this song for the critics, but for the people living it.”
As for the rest of her album, due this September, “I’ve always wanted country-rock influences, but now I’m moving over to a more urban side,” she says. “It’s not a hip-hop album, though-it’s a pop album. I’m not coming in trying to rap. It’s more like, ‘I don’t see any girls out there doing what Miguel and Frank Ocean are doing.’”