- Miley Cyrus has opened up about her first time winning a Grammy after almost 20 years in the music industry
- The singer bagged the Record of the Year award for her song, Flowers, at the ceremony in February
- ‘And if you want to talk, like, impact on culture, then where the f*** was I?’ Cyrus questioned in a recent interview
She’s the pop superstar who has been working in the industry since she was 13 years old.
But in a new interview, Miley Cyrus says she “wasn’t taken seriously” until her win at the Grammy awards in February this year.
The singer, 31, bagged the Record of the Year gong for her hit single Flowers during the ceremony. “This award is amazing, but I really hope that it doesn’t change anything, because my life was beautiful yesterday,” she said in her acceptance speech.
But this week, Cyrus opened up about her years of hard work prior to the big win.
“No shade, but I’ve been doing this for 20 years, and this is my first time actually being taken seriously at the Grammys?” Cyrus told W Magazine. “I’ve had a hard time figuring out what the measurement is there, because if we want to talk stats and numbers, then where the f*** was I? And if you want to talk, like, impact on culture, then where the f*** was I? This is not about arrogance. I am proud of myself.”
‘I perform out of fear’
Cyrus continued of performing her chart topping song at the prestigious awards show, “I wrote on this dream board that I wanted to show up to the Grammys with a childlike confidence, like when a kid isn’t scared to just dive into the deep end or do a backflip because they don’t know what’s on the other side. My 12-year-old self got to come out and play, while my 31-year-old self was in Bob Mackie with big hair.
“I really wanted ‘Flowers’ to be a celebration of bravery, because I perform out of fear. I didn’t always have the fear of performing that I have now. But going from spending two years alone and seeing no more than one person a day during lockdown to knowing that millions of people watch the Grammys is a big shock to the nervous system.
“Anyone who’s ever put themselves in a position to be observed or judged is brave. It doesn’t matter if it’s eight or eight million people – that fear is there. Before I went onstage, right as that curtain was about to lift, I was screaming at the top of my lungs, ‘I am free!’ When I was 20 or 21, it might have sounded more like, ‘I don’t give a f*** what people think. I’m just being me.’”
‘I workout in high heels!’
Elsewhere in the interview, Cyrus revealed she has a very unusual way of working out – as the former Disney star admitted that she hits the gym in high heels!
“My mantra is, like any athlete, ‘Practice how you perform’. So that’s why I practice in my heels,” she explained. “The gym looks really tough, but then I’ve got my ivory Gucci slingbacks because they remind me of Marilyn Monroe. I train in heels, mostly. I’m interested in feminizing the workout space, because so much of the workout equipment is ugly.
“I definitely have a persona—an expanded, fully realized version of myself that I tap into as a performer. But then there’s a level of my life that’s super intimate, sacred, and secret.”
