Miley Cyrus Talks Malibu, Sobriety & Liam Hemsworth

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Miley Cyrus stopped by the studio to talk with us about her new single "Malibu", being sober and writing a song about Liam Hemsworth! #MileyCyrus
Zach Sang Show, happy Friday.
We got Dan, we got Heather, and we have Miley Cyrus here.
Yo, yo.
Yay.
OK.
Welcome.
What's up?
Thank you.
Thank you for having me.
I love it in here.
You look absolutely gorgeous.
Thank you so, so much.
Thank you.
I was hoping someone would notice my little tutu skirt.
Can't miss it.
It's really phenomenal.
That's usually what I try to go for with my outfit.
Can't miss.
Something you can't miss.
And you can't mistake me for anyone else.
Miley Cyrus is going to be taking over the show all five
hours.
Get ready, because it's going to be a trip.
I can't wait.
It is.
Shall we start by playing Malibu?
Please, the only way.
Real quick, give us the briefest story on this song.
I'm not very good at being brief.
I'm a chatter.
Give me a story.
I wrote this song in the car, on my way to The Voice.
And I usually drive myself, but I'm actually
getting more and more scared as I get older of my own driving,
because I realize that I'm terrible.
Good.
And my life, I feel like now I understand the value of life,
and that I shouldn't really be driving, because I'm horrible.
So I had a driver driving me that day,
and I was trying not to sing it out loud,
because I didn't want to be like a creep in the backseat,
writing music and singing out loud.
I was too embarrassed.
And so then I actually recorded this song in my trailer
once I was at The Voice.
And so this all kind of took place in weird, like, you know.
Amazing.
Yeah.
Very weird, the way that this came about.
But I was driving by the beach and felt inspired.
That's how you know.
Yeah.
When songs come together like that,
that's how you know it's going to be something special.
Yeah, now everyone can listen to it in the car.
It's like I wrote it in the car.
It's made for the car.
Like you were saying, all songs sound better in the car.
Yes.
Intro your song on radios across the country.
All right.
This is my new song, Malibu.
I'm so excited for everyone to listen to it.
Beautiful.
And we're playing it.
Look at that.
I know.
The way it works, the magic of it all.
It worked.
Is it weird, like, listening to yourself?
Yeah.
I always take it off now.
I want to listen to it.
OK, well, actually, I've got to get this video.
Me and my mom made a choreographed dance
to Malibu last night.
And it's just amazing.
Well, we want to learn the dance later.
It's amazing.
I'll teach it to you.
I would love nothing more.
It's complex.
It's long.
I got all the time in the world.
Yeah.
We started as like, let's record this.
And then Bradley, who had to record it,
then like two hours later was still recording.
Because we were like, no, we need to do it in this lighting.
No, we need more space.
No, we need to be able to go to the left more on our shuffle.
And then by the end of it, we were in matching track suits.
Yeah.
Love it.
I feel like there's been many moments in your career
that have had dances for songs.
Yes.
And I feel like track suits have made an appearance before.
Yes.
Unicorn onesies, I think, is the most memorable.
I've had some track suits.
I rocked some track suits on my way to the VMAs
with all my dancers.
Very nice.
And we did some of our moves.
Yeah, track suits, I'm into.
Do you still remember the hoedown throwdown?
I actually, it's so funny, that like for some reason
got stuck in my head the other day,
like some sort of like sick karma or something.
It was like something wrong.
And then I was like, I was trying to remember
and I can't remember all the moves.
But I remember it was like, I know the clap three times.
Yes.
But I can't remember the rest.
And then it was like, there was arm movement.
There is some sort of arm movement
that I couldn't remember.
I think that is what it is.
You remember, dude.
Like it was this and back.
And then like, I always want to go here,
but I know that isn't hoedown enough.
But it makes me want to go there.
I can't remember.
And then it's all with the feet too, you know?
There's so much footwork.
It's all with the heels.
I don't do footwork in my choreography.
Me and my mom stick to like these moves.
Hand pumps.
All with the elbows.
We have some foot stomps.
I'm a dancer, you know, I can pick it up easy.
No, you aren't.
You've got those long dancers legs.
Someone asked me to do that with this music.
They were like, oh, we're sad.
Like, you're not going to be dancing anymore
because this song isn't like a dance song.
I'm like, what are you talking about?
Foot stomp to the right three times, to the left.
Elbow, elbow, stomp, stomp, point, point, head, twirl.
Like, hello, it is perfect for that.
What are you talking about?
When you hear people make assumptions like that
about your music, right?
Like, how do you feel?
Because it's your art.
It is personal.
I think I like forget things too of what I've done.
Like every time I make a new record,
I forget kind of what the last one was.
And I get lost, just kind of listen.
Once I, it would be weird if I was at home,
like rocking out to the Dead Pets or Bangers all the time.
So I, you know, once I'm like done touring and everything,
I don't listen to my music very much.
And so I think I get so far away from the last project.
And I honestly, like,
I can't remember the hoedown throwdown.
Like, you know, so I think I grow so much
that I forget what even the last sound was.
So I never hold myself back with,
oh, what was the last record like?
I wanna make sure that it sounds cohesive with that.
I just let myself go
because I'm very different from the last record
and from the last one and the show
and everything that I've ever done.
It also mimics life evolution.
Yeah, for sure.
I think people like use change as a bad thing.
You know, something that you can use is,
you know, tell someone, oh, you've changed.
Like, that's supposed to be bad.
When really that should be a compliment,
you know, most of the time.
I think it's become a derogatory thing
that it really shouldn't be.
Life gets crappy when you don't change.
Yeah, exactly.
You get very stuck.
You become like,
I have my dad, that's his biggest fear.
Change is the real C word.
Does he still flip phone it or?
He has a BlackBerry.
Oh my God.
Two BlackBerry.
That's necessary.
Two BlackBerry.
Do we have like the real keyboard?
He has two BlackBerry.
They both have the same number.
So he says,
but I think there's one secret number
that I don't know about.
Like a burner phone?
I'm like, why do you have two
if they're both the same number?
He's like,
well, this one's got all my pictures on it,
you know, from like 2002.
And this one's got all my pictures on it
from like my newer pictures,
you know, and then they're much better.
But when he sends me a picture,
he's like, look at the sunset.
But like, it's on a BlackBerry
and it's a little bit like,
I don't, I can't really see it.
It's not right.
So, but he, then he takes my phone.
He said he would never use an iPhone.
And then he took my phone
and I didn't get it back for three hours.
And when I did get it back,
it had like 500 photos
because he realized how good the camera was.
So he just took pictures of all of our dogs,
all our cows, leaves, sticks, grass, trees.
I got a lot of pictures of creeks.
So he came back with just like eye photo full of nature.
That's my mom.
Yeah, it's like a hillbilly eye photo.
It was really good.
It was bad.
So what can we expect from the new album?
Cause when you put out bangers and dead pets,
nobody knew what to expect.
Yeah.
I think that's kind of what's been fun for me
is I never know what I'm going to do next.
So then there's no way for anyone else to know either.
It just kind of starts to happen.
Like you can be driving in a car and write a song.
And so I think with this record,
I really went into it with the most grounded feeling.
And I think trust in that I know
what I'm supposed to be doing.
And I think honestly, this record was mostly known
that I know what my fans really want right now too.
And I think people really have enjoyed the voice
and getting to see me as an artist
and someone that they can relate to again,
rather than someone that slides down their own tongue.
It's hard to relate to someone on a, you know,
riding across thousands of people on a hotdog.
But you're right.
Like, yeah, not really the girl next door.
At the time it was also relatable
because everybody goes through that period in their life
where they're rambunctious and they're rebellious.
And this, you know, this has just been your journey.
And I think also it's a part of being funny.
I like to laugh and be funny and not be serious.
So like riding on the hotdog to me is like,
all right, you're going on this big tour
and guess what I'm going to do?
This is the only time in my life I'd ever get to do this,
to be suspended above, you know, 20,000 people on a hotdog
and slide down my own tongue or, you know,
dance with a big giant.
I had a big fluffy orange bird that was like 12 feet tall.
So that's the only time I was going to get
to make something like that, you know,
and be able to like put it into it, you know,
put it into a tour and let other people enjoy it as well.
Cause I really enjoy it.
And that was straight from your mind.
Yes, that was, yeah, that's funny.
No, but it was very, yeah, it was very like on that time
where I just got to come up with whatever I could think of.
And then there was an editing process
because basically every song I had a complete vision for.
And so I had to get the, you know,
the mascots and everything that I wanted,
but without the show still feeling real,
I felt like bangers was, it was surreal and it was fantasy,
but it also had a sense of grounding,
especially when we had a C stage,
we did like in a little acoustic set,
which was kind of my fan's favorite part.
Dude, you've managed to do that
in every one of your tours, right?
Where you just break it down.
And I remember when I interviewed you for the first time,
they took me in, you were sound checking
and you did your cover of These Four Walls.
And when you do it, it's just you, a guitar,
and I think somebody on like a box, a cajon or something.
Yeah, I was, he hates the cajon now
cause I made him play it too much.
I just asked him to play it the other day
and he's like, no more cajon, I hate it.
And he's like, and you've done it
since you were 12 years old, move on from the cajon.
We just had this conversation.
But there was such a sense of purity
and the way you were able to just make such a big arena
feel so small in that moment.
And just when you stripped everything back
and you let your vocals tell a story,
it was just, I still have that moment in my brain.
I look forward to the gigs coming up too.
We're doing different radio shows around the country
and going just to different places right now
and getting to, when I go to New York
and getting to be on the Today Show
and do all these cool things where I get to
go and play my music a little bit.
Even Malibu, for Billboard, I'm gonna do it full band
but actually it's been hard for me to do that.
I think for the energy of that room, especially in Vegas,
I want it to feel really big.
And so I'm doing it with a full band.
But actually, me and my band,
we really like doing acoustics.
So we're really excited for the places
where we'll be able to do Malibu acoustic
because it really leans itself to that.
Are you gonna get balloons for Billboard?
You know this, 5,000 to be exact.
Yeah, I had 1,200 and then it just was feeling
like it wasn't gonna fill the space.
So now we have 5,000.
1,200 wasn't enough.
1,200 was never enough.
Not when you're wearing a tutu skirt
that's not like 5.45 in the morning.
Who are you joking?
Yeah, come on.
So are you planning a new tour?
Cause like, how are you gonna top the bangers tour?
It's been on my mind for sure.
I'm trying to figure out now like,
how do I get a waterfall into like a stadium?
Cause you know, there's that crazy waterfall
in the Malibu video.
And people have really been liking that.
So I would love to do stuff like that
where I can maybe, like you said,
make a big room feel small, bring nature into a room as well.
I'd love to figure out how I could make it really feel like,
to me, Malibu and Nashville,
everyone always thinks I'm the only one that feels this way,
but they actually have an essence
that are very true to each other.
They're very similar in the way of,
I've got my pigs, I've got my horses, got my dogs.
I want people, I love nature.
I love being outside.
I, yeah, I have a hard time,
even just coming up on this tour right now,
knowing that every day
I'm not gonna be able to be with my pigs.
That's like kind of devastating.
Yeah, it hurts me.
So I gotta definitely put my pigs on the big screens.
Remember I had a giant Floyd as well.
I had my dog that was like 80 feet.
So I gotta get a pig pig.
Pig and puddles.
I have two, so I can't just do one.
What's the new one?
Puddles?
Puddles, she sits for Oreos.
She's a genius.
I do the same thing.
Yeah, everyone is like, yeah, that's not that weird.
Like everyone does this.
So if you need somebody to come on tour
and handle the air plants and your pigs.
Exactly.
I definitely need air plants around me
to keep me grounded.
You do.
Yeah, this is my nature.
I thank you for bringing nature just to me.
You're welcome.
Low maintenance, low maintenance love.
This is me.
This is my soul and my being, and this is perfect.
Malibu, okay.
It's a great record, man.
Thank you.
This is obviously the new you, right?
Yeah, I think it's the same, but in a new time.
I think every time is always the same me,
but in new inspiration.
Listening to a lot of Elvis these days.
Really like, even just digging in
and thinking about growing up,
how weird the way that I grew up
and how different it is than anyone else.
I mean, I gotta spend time with Johnny Cash
or Waylon Jennings and going and hanging with George Jones.
So it breaks my heart a little bit
that Blake Shelton's known as the country singer
on The Voice when it's like,
man, Dolly Parton ain't her godmama.
Yeah.
So let's not try it.
So I'm really excited for the next season
of me getting to dig into that country sound,
even with my record.
I wouldn't say this record is country at all,
but I think it definitely has my roots influence for sure.
You've always been able to kind of straddle
both ends of it, right?
Yeah, I think.
You were never fully country,
but you brought country pop a little bit.
I think being able to do that with a mix of now
with my last record,
even my last record had like some psychedelic rock,
but I think for me,
I wanna be able to have it be non-defined,
which is what I like to do with anything.
I like people to do that with gender, with sexuality.
So I think the same thing with music
should be the same way that I am with my foundation,
which is allowing people to be whoever they wanna be
and not have to define it.
I think we've gotten, people love answers.
People love labels, not in a bad way,
but our first thought as a baby is what is this called?
Your parents hold up a ball, an apple or whatever,
and you're supposed to learn
and know how to call everything by its name.
And so I think that's something that I've tried to break
that with my music.
Wow.
Malibu, I feel like it's a story of love.
It's a story of a relationship.
And I also feel like down to the production,
I feel like the way this song builds,
it builds like a relationship.
It starts slow and then it gets faster
and faster and faster.
It's also about how I think relationships sometimes,
I think the worst thing about them
can be that they don't actually give you freedom.
That people find that there's ownership involved
or this song is about the freedom
that a relationship can give
or that a relationship brings you to somewhere
that you would never be.
I would never live in Malibu if my dude wasn't a surfer.
I am from Nashville.
I never thought I would live by the beach.
And that's what this song is about.
It's saying, but you brought me here
and I'm happy that you did.
But then it's saying,
because now I'm as free as birds catching the wind
because now I found my own reason to be at the beach.
I'm not here just now.
I'm not staying here just because you did.
I'm staying here because that feels right to me.
So it's also about just finding myself,
but finding that through a relationship,
which usually I think people get lost in.
Okay.
And how do you keep from getting lost in a relationship?
I think, remember, just that happiness,
no matter what that is, stay where you're happy.
And then when you're not,
be able to find things that will give you newness
and happiness again.
And I think also allowing people to have their freedom.
Not feeling like every second you have to be together
that you can't do anything except live for each other.
I think that's what is wrong with a lot of relationships
if you don't have time to be able to be yourself.
And I think a lot of people get put in a box
because I just love that my dude
doesn't really make me do that.
He gets to do his thing.
I get to do my thing.
And then he inspires cool music
and gets me to go to the beach more than I ever would.
Independence.
Yeah.
Were you nervous showing him Malibu for the first time?
I thought he was going to be like, dude,
can you not like sing about where we live?
So a bunch of people like,
why don't you just put out our address in the first verse?
Yeah.
I think he was a little bit like,
so our safe place is gone that you were singing about.
This used to be my place of freedom.
And he even said the one day he was like,
man, like, you know, there's never paparazzi in Malibu.
Like, it's so weird.
I'm like, yeah, that is really weird.
Like I have no idea why they'd be outside
of our house right now.
Yeah.
So I think that was a little bit on blast,
but the people, my neighbors dig it.
My neighbors really love this song.
It's a good anthem for the neighborhood.
Yeah.
And all of a sudden I was just saying yesterday
that everyone is all of a sudden from Malibu.
Like people come up from Wisconsin and they're like,
I was born and raised in Malibu.
I'm like, I don't believe you, like at all.
Yeah.
You say pop.
Yeah, exactly.
So why did you feel like right now
was the time to release this song?
I think it's a good time for summer.
And I think everyone's been kind of calling it
their summer jam, their summer anthem,
but that's not what I even thought about,
but I wrote it last summer.
And so it felt really good for me to drive around
in my car and listen to it.
I wrote it in June of last year.
Wait, so, okay.
How long have you been riding around with this record?
About a year.
And I roll around with my windows down a lot.
And I was just hoping no one recorded it.
I was like, Miley's new single, here it is.
Like, you know.
And how many songs do we have to back this one up?
I, you know, on my last record, I had 24 songs.
So I've decided to reel it in
because that was a lot of information to give people.
Right now I'm at about 11 songs on my next record
with kind of a very cool intro outro.
Actually, some of my record, we recorded,
I left a microphone outside at night
so we could record our coyotes, crickets, frogs.
We have a frog that was reoccurring for the entire time
I've been recording my record.
I named him Killer Angel Baby.
Does he get credit?
So yeah, on one of my songs,
it's gonna say featuring Killer Angel Baby.
Yeah.
And we've really gotten through the entire process
where Killer Angel Baby then was looking for a mate
and now there's like 10,000 little frogs.
So I have the entire, like, I have a whole family
on like a whole like life and love
and I have their entire relationship recorded.
That's really beautiful.
Yeah, really weird that I do this
that at night I'm like going down and recording nature
like in the rain at the creek,
but that's what's gonna make the record.
I want people to feel like they're in Malibu,
really at my house.
I was just gonna say that difference
is going to make that record.
Yeah, it's very cool.
Right now, the first sound before any notes are sung
or no strums on the guitar, no beat, you just hear.
That's the intro of my record.
Probably so pure.
It's perfect.
It's amazing.
And then a couple hours.
And then the birds, this one bird is pitchy.
I'm not gonna lie.
Let's give her notes.
He's a little bit pitchy.
But I liked the rhythm.
So I went and did it.
I was like.
But I redid it because I liked her melody,
but she was pitchy.
She's a girl.
Did you talk to her attorney for permission?
Yeah, I listened to it.
No, the animals have no lawyers, which are great.
So I can just get away with a lot.
No licensing, no weird anything.
I don't have to even pay them for a feature.
Wow.
But I gotta get merch going with like,
I heart Killer Angel Baby.
That's cool.
Like, I think people are gonna be super into it.
I think we start that here.
I'll bring you some teas.
Please.
He's dope.
I actually played it.
I went and played my music, you know, over at Apple
before it came out, Spotify, all these places.
And they were like,
we know who we wanna sign, Killer Angel Baby.
Yeah, Apple music.
Show us the frog.
Yeah, exactly.
Hey guys, it's time to check the mail.
Mail time.
Every day we get mail.
You hit us up at Zach Sangshow on everything.
Today's mail is all Miley Cyrus questions.
We start with Steph.
Play that question.
Oh my gosh.
Who her biggest inspiration is musically?
Who is it?
My biggest inspiration is Elvis Presley, the king.
And fashion icon.
Yeah, really?
Yeah.
Come on, I'm always looking for my white jumpsuit.
Have you been to Graceland?
Of course.
Yeah.
Of course, it's like Disneyland for the South.
That and Dollywood, yeah.
I basically grew up there.
Okay, next question from Trevor.
What's her favorite food?
Oh snap.
My favorite food ever is probably fried corn.
What?
It's bomb, I know.
You probably don't have it that much.
Oh, that's Southern.
It's specialty, fried corn.
How do you make it?
Is it on the cob or is it off?
They do it like,
okay, so it's sliced.
It's not like little kernels.
It's sliced inside and then fried inside.
And then you get to dip it in whatever sauces you want.
But I'm a spice, I like spice.
Wow.
I also like Indian food.
So I either like it real country or really spicy in it.
You're not getting the fried corn in LA though, are you?
Fried corn I am and I can tell you the spot.
You gotta have it.
It has truffle, it's bomb.
Oh, you have a lot.
Yes.
But I only, I really only care about fried corn.
That's like my dying.
Wow, that's, you just got me real excited.
Fried corn.
Last question, we have another question from James.
He hit us up on Facebook.
He wants to know, would you ever want to duet with Noah?
Ever?
Definitely, I wrote this song in a dream
that I have with Noah,
where we were going to the movie theater
and I wrote this song that she told me
was her favorite song in the dream.
And I would love to have her actually listen to that song
and see if she likes it and if it's a good song
that she likes.
Wow.
How often do you have dreams that are so vivid like that
that you can actually translate that to paper?
So this was kind of weird.
Like I, yeah, when I wrote it,
I thought it was someone else's song
because it got stuck in my head all day.
And then I realized that actually it had just come from,
I thought this really happened because it was so vivid.
So I thought me and Noah had really gone
and Noah's really cool.
Noah's the cool younger sister.
So she has to tell me what's up.
Cause I listen to a lot of like,
I listen to a lot of old school music.
So she has to tell me what's new
and like how to keep it, keep it popping.
So, so Noah, Noah's always the one that's like,
have you heard this new Bruno Mars song?
She like keeps it going.
And so she's kind of like my cool meter of knowing what's up.
So she, yeah.
So I would love to have her do something like that.
And actually I've sent her a couple of my songs
that I had written back in, you know,
when I was in bangers with Pharrell or Hit Boy.
So her and I would love to work together for sure.
How do you feel when your sister has a record
that hits radio?
I mean, it's keeping it in the family.
I hope everybody is always cool with her.
I think, you know, for me,
people were really hard on me sometimes.
And I hope that they don't really do that with her
because I think, I think they've given me enough.
They've given me and my dad enough.
Give Noah a break and like be compassionate.
And I think also let her grow up and let her do her thing
and don't try to make her feel any type of way.
I think make her only feel great like she is.
Don't ever try to make her feel insecure.
Beautiful.
Last question here in mail.
This is from Melissa.
What in life are you the most proud of?
The Happy Hippie Foundation, of course.
That's yeah, definitely.
That's the only thing that makes this worth it for sure.
What are you doing right now in the foundation
and what's the vision for the future?
Yeah, I think even with my new music,
I think something that I really want to be clear
was that the foundation and me as an artist
or as an actress isn't separate.
Even being able to do movies,
the last film that I did,
or I guess it was actually a TV show or Amazon.
It was with Woody and it was about a female revolutionary.
So I think really just always choosing roles,
always making songs that represent my foundation
so that's never two separate things.
Because I think sometimes,
especially like in the celebrity world,
it kind of seems like you're just supposed
to have a foundation and that's kind of separate from you.
It's a tax break, whatever it is.
Yeah, it's like silly.
And I think I want, I'm a vegan,
so all my outfits are always vegan.
Cool.
No leather, no fur, none of that.
And so like really just promoting,
I think human rights, animal rights,
environmental rights by everything that I'm doing,
by what I'm wearing, what I'm saying.
And I think even this is a good time that,
for me now, being so in love with the ocean,
I think it's even more important for me
to talk about environmental rights
and us really becoming responsible
with the way we treat the planet.
Because I would love the sky so blue next to you line
to be able to stay and it not be like,
the sky's so black.
It's so beautifully small.
Yeah, exactly.
So this is really a foundation that represents society today
and everything that we're going through as humanity, right?
Right.
And what we face, whether it be socially,
environmentally, it's across everything.
I think for me, I'm just a person too,
that's changed so much.
And I've been really, I think, you know, a lot,
especially with my fans, I have a great family
and support system and friends
that have really supported all my changes.
And so I think that's why allowing, you know,
people that would like to transition,
people that want to be themselves,
I really support that because I know that I feel like
there's been so many times in my life
where I've transitioned to so many different things
that are so unlike the other,
but they were who I wanted to be truly.
And so I think allowing people to do that,
no matter whether it's with their sexuality
or their gender, whatever it is, be what you want.
So much respect and appreciation for what you're doing.
Thank you very much.
Truly, you're helping make the world a better place.
I hope so, I hope so.
That's the goal.
I don't want the wrecking ball on my tombstone.
I'd like it to be Happy Hippie Foundation.
You want that smiley face.
Exactly, with the HHIs.
Okay, I gotta bring up marijuana for a second.
Please.
Because it-
Please do.
Yeah, please.
It plays a big role in my life.
Yeah, I love it.
I think it's a great thing for people.
I just can't smoke it.
Well, so when was the first time you smoked it?
I probably shouldn't say this, it might kill me, but.
But in Nashville, which is not very good, I'll be honest.
Not the best, but.
And not very legal, so I probably shouldn't say that either.
But yeah, not very good.
California, it's hard to not indulge and not love weed
because it's so amazing.
It's so, okay, the first time you smoke it,
do you remember what happened in your life
that you said, enough is enough?
I wanna do this every day forever.
Yeah, no, let's go to the first one.
Because I smoked it once and said,
okay, I'm gonna do this every day forever.
Well, you loved the way you felt.
Loved the way I felt.
Also, I am very like, I'm kind of,
I'm not affected by much.
Like everyone else, when I ask them,
do you think I seem different, that I don't smoke weed,
they're like, no, you pretty much seem the exact same.
Same thing.
So it really didn't change me that much.
I think I just was able to not be so obsessive,
which I'm very OCD,
and which is why I'm not smoking right now.
It's because I kind of need to obsess a little bit
and like make sure everything is perfect
and make sure the 5,000 balloons drop right on the Oz.
You know, all those kind of things.
That's interesting.
Yeah, so just to be able to be more focused
and not be kind of like, oh, it's fine.
The balloons can drop whenever they want.
You know, that's kind of me when I'm stoned.
But not now.
Not now, no, it's like they have to drop on the Oz.
When Emu frolics through the field,
the balloons drop, and that's the only way.
How'd you pick Emu for that music video?
I was wondering that.
Okay, so we were just talking.
This is bad.
I have seven dogs.
I love them all equally.
Emu gets special treatment.
He's my prince.
I call him Mr. Perfect.
I'm like, come here, perfect.
Come here, my king.
I call him my king.
It's really bad.
Come here, my king, my master, my prince.
It sounds like you have a favorite.
It's really, really bad.
And so the other dogs, they were just saying
I'd be on phone calls, like on important calls
or whatever it is, and I'd be like,
all the dogs, be quiet, whatever.
Come here, Emu.
All the dogs, shut up.
Emu, you're perfect.
But he is.
Everyone else is barking and going crazy
and riling each other up.
And his favorite thing to do,
I always try to make like,
if my dogs had like a dating account,
what would their like,
I like walks on the beach or whatever.
His would be, I like laying on top of the air vent.
That's what he likes to do.
My one dog likes to stare into space, blankly.
Like just like stare at you.
Sit on the couch and also stare at you.
Do you think the dog's judging you
when they're staring or?
The dog's, my dog's name is Mary Jane.
Mary Jane.
So I think she's just a little bit,
yeah, she's just a little bit,
she was born, hi.
Stop, stop, yeah.
Yeah.
There was a time where it seemed like
you were at every party, every club,
you were just always out.
Are you just kind of over that whole scene?
Yeah, you know, I think,
yeah, I think I overdid it.
I think I got a little worn out.
And also, you know, I think for me,
you know, spending time in nature and with my dogs
are just the most important thing.
And I think I got to do all that stuff really young
because a lot of the times too,
I think this is,
I think that's what the hard things about people being young
and being able to have access to booze
or to pot or whatever it is.
Because then by the time you're here,
I'm kind of, I've kind of done it
and I'm kind of just kind of tired of it
and tired of talking to people
that I don't necessarily, you know,
I wouldn't really talk to.
Otherwise, I feel like you end up saying a lot of things
that you don't mean or, you know,
you just end up not being around people
that you care about so much.
It's just people that want to keep the party going
maybe so they don't have to face something else.
Yeah, I love to party.
This is great.
I think we're partying now though.
I think partying is what,
I think partying is when you're happy,
when you're having fun.
I'm always having fun.
You redefine what a party is.
A party, as someone said to me,
actually it was John Norris
when I did the interview for Billboard.
He's like, you know, you're the, it's our party,
can't stop the party girl.
So has the party stopped?
I'm like, absolutely not.
I'm having a party when I'm playing with the pigs.
I'm having a party when I'm doing my yoga.
I'm having a party when I'm here with you guys.
I'm always partying.
I'm happy.
I'm having fun.
I'm always partying.
Love it.
I'm partying now.
F yeah.
Yeah.
And you also, I mean, you also had that time.
You had that lifestyle and it gets old, you know?
Yeah, and for sure.
If someone's got a good show coming up too,
I love to go see shows.
I went and saw Future and Drake.
It was like awesome.
And so that was a party to me and you know,
I didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't anything,
but just wanted to watch and I love to party.
How are you watching that show?
Are you taking mental notes?
Are you judging their stage presence?
I was freaking out about how the girls treat Drake
like he's Bieber.
Like he got on this thing and floated across the crowd
and girls were really freaking out.
And it's like adult women at this point.
Like I'm looking at people like, damn adult.
Like, and they are losing their mind.
I was just shocked because I just always like,
you know, that's to me, I don't really like do that.
So it was crazy to see girls really like lose their mind,
you know, like in that way.
It's kind of crazy.
What is it though about him?
You think, right?
Like-
He wears sweaters.
It's sweet.
He wears sweaters.
He's the cute guy.
He's a safe guy, but he's also a little dangerous.
Yeah, exactly.
And I think he's also,
I think he's got great melodies as well.
I've also heard from Mike
cause I don't really know him personally,
but Mike Wills always told me he's the,
he could do, he would annihilate us in the rap game.
No offense.
Then this little rap thing.
Sorry, Heather.
You're the best in the room.
One trade comes in your toes
because Mike told me that he, you could give him anything
and that he can just rap about anything at any time
and make sick melodies.
And I love that he puts melodies into the rap world.
Is there a musical ability you wish you had?
You have so many, but like, I don't know if you can-
I'd like to be able to play more instruments.
I actually, I have a bass player
that's on the road with me right now.
Very cool chick bass player.
I got more girls in my band than I've ever had.
We've won to outnumber the dudes.
I've got keyboardist, singers, bass player, me.
And she plays an upright bass and it is so sick.
She's super like small
and is wearing some hot shorts at the show.
Wearing short shorts, playing an upright bass.
I just think it's the hottest thing I've ever heard.
Yeah, come on, look at it.
Wow.
I'm in.
It's hot, yeah.
If there was ever,
if they ever approached you with a Hannah Montana spinoff.
Dude, I had to go to Disney the other day to promote.
And that was, you know, that was the first thing they said.
Yeah.
Because Raven's back.
I know.
I'm really excited for that.
That's going to be my binge watch of the year for sure.
But probably not.
Probably not because I just like,
I don't even know what's up.
Also, it's a lot of time to be spent with my dad.
Yeah.
My dad, my dad in the show.
I have enough dad time.
That was really hard every day from like 11 to 18 spending.
I didn't get a school escape like most people.
Nothing.
I went to work with my dad.
And then I started driving my dad towards the end,
you know, because then I could start driving.
And then also my grandma went with me every day.
So I was a lot of time dad and grandma.
That's why like, as soon as I turned 18,
you guys wonder why I was like twerking at Juicy J shows.
I just spent 10 years every day with my dad and grandma.
There was no other option.
Yeah.
You had to break free.
I had to break free.
Wow.
And you're excited for the voice.
We got J Hud, Kelly Clarkson.
Yes.
I'm very, very excited.
And I, yeah, I didn't even know everyone.
And yesterday knew about J Hud.
So I felt like I had known this big secret
and now it's really fun to be able to talk about it.
And you know, I had a great time with Alicia.
And so I hope that her and I kind of have
that same kind of bond because it really helped
to be against the veteran.
Two American Idol alum, by the way.
Yeah, exactly.
You know, what's really crazy though,
is going into this scenario with someone
that's done 10 seasons of something.
And like, you know, I don't really watch that much TV.
I don't really, so I don't, I don't ever know
the how to calculate and what works
that I just do what feels best.
And so this year I learned,
I learned the game a little bit better.
So now I think I'm ready with new tactics.
Hell yeah.
Yeah, I'm coming for Blake.
Love for you, Miley.
He wants too much.
He's the one.
You have to go for him.
I will.
Love for you, Miley Cyrus.
Thank you so much for having me.
Thank you for doing this.
Thank you.
Have fun.
