What pleasure can you not live without? Besides just making my music, it’s self-expression. Whether that’s what I choose to wear every day, who I choose to surround myself with, being able to express myself and externalise everything that internally is going on in me is really important. It’s my entire purpose and existence, is to be able to be expressive.
Do you think it’s important to experience pleasure? I think that being thrilled and having something that really exhilarates you and that makes you feel just reminds us of how lucky we are to have these human experiences, to be on this planet together. And I love that I feel human and sometimes being afraid, being even heartbroken, those are things that make you feel human, those are the things that remind you that you’re here, that you’re alive, that you’re having this experience. And then pleasure, excitement, friendships, love, romance – all those things remind you that you’re human. Especially with what I do, sometimes I think people expect me to be super-human, to not be afraid to be able to perform in front of thousands of people without fear – that’s just not being a human being. I think that those butterflies that I feel when I’m going meet someone new and I’m going to go on a first date are the same butterflies I feel when I’m going to perform in front of 50,000 people. And both of those butterflies remind me that I’m here, that I’m alive, that I’m human.
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Did the past year introduce you to new pleasures? Definitely because I think I’ve really started to take pleasure in the smaller things, the little things that I would have taken for granted before a year that none of us could have expected. Having lockdowns, having social distancing or isolation, I forgot what an honour it is to sit with my family and have dinner with them. And when my dad wants to say grace for us and holding hands and not thinking twice about it – that’s something that before I would have rolled my eyes and been like, ‘Do we have to do this? Can’t we just sit down and eat?’ And now it’s like, ‘I didn’t get to have this for a year and I missed it so much’. Or like going to dinner with friends and being able to cheers one another without fear. All these little things, being able to walk up to someone who has a cute dog and going up and petting their dog and shaking their hands, saying, ‘Thank you for letting me pet your dog’ and them not running away. It’s like all these little things. Opening the door for someone. Also, the littlest thing that I miss the most is being able to smile at somebody and say like, ‘How are you doing?’ with a big smile on your face and them feeling like you care and just connecting. So all these little things that I didn’t realise the value that they had in my life and now being able to connect with people again, it just feels really good.
What make a music event truly unmissable? There’s a unity in live music, there’s a unity for me being able to be a performer and writing a song and then seeing it sung back to me in unison by a crowd. A song resonates with an individual for different reasons. So a song could be a song that millions of people really like, but those millions of people like it or relate to it for all different reasons, you know, a song like ‘Wrecking Ball’ - who that wrecking ball could be is something so different from the person sitting next to you at the show. What I really love is when people tell me when they heard the song for the first time, what their reaction was - did you cry, did you get angry at your ex, did you feel like a sense of relief because you knew that you weren’t alone because I felt the same way? I just think music and the experience
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of a song, whether it’s its melody or lyrically, is what it’s about.
What has been the most pleasurable record in your career? The experimental psychedelic pop/rock record ‘Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz’. That album was obviously dedicated to animals that I’d lost in my life but also lovers and it was kind of more of a stream of consciousness, there wasn’t fear, there wasn’t anxiety, there wasn’t, ‘How is this going to be received?’ There was a brazenness, if you will, to making it and I’m proud of myself for making that choice because it was on the heels of ‘Bangerz’, which was probably one of my bigger, if not the biggest record that I’ve made, and it was pretty mainstream and widely accepted and loved.
It was just so personal and it exposed so many feelings that had kind of just been inside. So there’s a sense of pride because I did something I really wanted to do without thinking about how it affected anyone else. I think it’s good to make those choices, as long as they don’t harm anyone around you.
Does your partnership with Magnum inspire you? I love knowing that when Magnum thinks of ‘layers’ they think of me. That makes me proud of who I am, that makes me proud of what I represent. I love that when Magnum thought about the campaign revolving around layers, I’m really honoured that I was the one that came to mind because that makes me proud of what I represent.
By Jason Adams/HOTFEATURES
CE L EBRIT Y INTERVI EW MI L E Y CYRUS
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