Post by Admin on Sept 18, 2021 20:49:33 GMT
Miley Cyrus’ Summerfest show Friday was off to a spectacular start.
She set the tone with the unapologetic “be you” anthem “We Can’t Stop," slipping into a piercing snippet of Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind?” (a swell consolation for any fans there bummed about their Summerfest cancellation).
Then a few songs after that, the curled tongue was out and she was back in her “Bangerz” mode — and rapper Wiz Khalifa, her opener Friday, was by her side — with the pair hugging and strutting through their towering collaboration “23.”
But soon after, Cyrus confessed something incredibly personal to the nearly 20,000 people packed into Summerfest.
Between one long pause between songs, she said she had told her drummer and musical director Stacy Jones, who has played with her since she was 12, that she thought she was having a panic attack.
"Like everyone else, for the last year and a half I have been locked away and isolating and it is very stunning to be back in a place that used to feel like second nature. Being on stage used to feel like home, and it doesn’t anymore because of how much time I spent at home locked away," Cyrus said.
"The pandemic was startling and terrifying and coming out of it is slightly terrifying," she continued. "So I just wanted to be honest with how I’m feeling."
But it was clear Friday that she was done pretending, and being so open relieved her of a burden.
"The last year kind of removed this divide, this curtain, and we’re allowing people to see us in our most vulnerable, our most isolated, our most hurt, our most scared states," Cyrus said during her five-minute speech. "And I think that's something really empowering … "
She set the tone with the unapologetic “be you” anthem “We Can’t Stop," slipping into a piercing snippet of Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind?” (a swell consolation for any fans there bummed about their Summerfest cancellation).
Then a few songs after that, the curled tongue was out and she was back in her “Bangerz” mode — and rapper Wiz Khalifa, her opener Friday, was by her side — with the pair hugging and strutting through their towering collaboration “23.”
But soon after, Cyrus confessed something incredibly personal to the nearly 20,000 people packed into Summerfest.
Between one long pause between songs, she said she had told her drummer and musical director Stacy Jones, who has played with her since she was 12, that she thought she was having a panic attack.
"Like everyone else, for the last year and a half I have been locked away and isolating and it is very stunning to be back in a place that used to feel like second nature. Being on stage used to feel like home, and it doesn’t anymore because of how much time I spent at home locked away," Cyrus said.
"The pandemic was startling and terrifying and coming out of it is slightly terrifying," she continued. "So I just wanted to be honest with how I’m feeling."
But it was clear Friday that she was done pretending, and being so open relieved her of a burden.
"The last year kind of removed this divide, this curtain, and we’re allowing people to see us in our most vulnerable, our most isolated, our most hurt, our most scared states," Cyrus said during her five-minute speech. "And I think that's something really empowering … "