Miley Cyrus was apparently not allowed to have “The Best of Both Worlds.”
The 32-year-old pop superstar has revealed that Disney allegedly banned her from singing “Hannah Montana” songs after her series ended in 2011.
“After I left Disney, I wasn’t allowed to perform any of the ‘Hannah Montana’ music,” Cyrus said on “The Ringer” podcast.
That meant that the singer had to say goodbye to hits such as “Nobody’s Perfect” and “He Could Be the One” as well as “The Best of Both Worlds,” which was the theme song of “Hannah Montana.” (However, she could still perform “The Climb,” which was featured in 2009’s “Hannah Montana: The Movie.”)
At the time, Cyrus was already moving in a different, less Disney-friendly direction with her new label, RCA, that would result in 2013’s “Bangerz” LP. So, performing “Hanna Montana” material that she had outgrown didn’t feel right for her anymore.
“It’s not like I wanted to,” she said. “I mean, performing ‘The Best Of Both Worlds’ between ‘We Can’t Stop’ and ‘Wrecking Ball’ wouldn’t have really made sense.”
Still, having become a teen sensation playing Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel series from 2006 to 2011, it was strange for Cyrus to cut the chord from those tunes that shaped her TV identity.
“It was still sad knowing those songs have my voice, my face, and I wasn’t allowed to sing them,” she said.
Now, though, Cyrus is once again allowed to sing “Hannah Montana” songs if she so pleases. That all changed in August 2024, when she was inducted as a Disney Legend during a ceremony at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.
“After being inducted as a Disney Legend, I was given permission to perform those songs in the future, which is pretty cool,” she told “The Ringer.”
The Post reached out to Disney for comment.
Fourteen years after the end of “Hannah Montana,” Cyrus is a Grammy-winning veteran who is back with her ninth studio album, “Something Beautiful,” which was released two weeks ago. She premiered the short film that accompanies her new LP at the Tribeca Festival on Friday night.
However, during the conversation portion of the night at NYC’s Beacon Theatre, the “Flowers” singer was heckled by some fans who were seemingly under the impression that Cyrus would be performing at the event.
“We thought this was a concert, we paid $800,” one person shouted at her after the 55-minute film screening.
“Are you actually going to sing?” another person asked.
Cyrus, who hasn’t performed live extensively since her last big tour for “Bangerz” in 2014, eventually gave in and sang an a cappella rendition of “The Climb.”
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
