With Endless Summer Vacation, Miley Cyrus has championed self-love with songs that are already authentic hymns, such as Flowers; and others in which he explores her sexuality in the most explicit sense of the word, such as River.
However, in addition to honesty, satire and dither, there is also room for other more serious themes. that treat love from a more brotherly point of viewas Thousand Miles. This collaboration with Brandi Carlile was born more than six years ago in a context very different from the current one and with an alternative title.
He has told it in Endless Summer Vacation (Backyard Sessions)the mini documentary of Disney + in which he reveals some very revealing details about his eighth studio album. So much so that she cannot avoid tears when talking about the fourth track of his recent project.
“I couldn’t imagine not having my little sister in my life”
“When I wrote thousands of thousands, It started as a song that is far from the one on the album. I wrote it in 2016 or 2017, just after the sister of one of my best friends committed suicide. And I couldn’t imagine not having my little sister in my life, so I composed this song, which was originally born as Happy Girl“, he confesses.
There was a friend of mineHer name was DarleneBut all of us called her Becky
I don’t know why I knew she was hurting But I’d never thought I’d wake up to that callat all
And I remember on that day I promised you the world But soon realized the world ain’t what you needed Now all I want is simply for you to be a happy girl Even if that’s a world without me
“It was like, ‘I just want to see you happy and all I want for you is for you to be happy, girl.’ has turned into something is very far from the sadness that inspired it“, he recounts, despite having warned at first that he knew he was going to get emotional.
In addition, in this film it is encouraged to share the old verses that were part of that first draft. “Somehow, it evolved into a happy song about happiness and being okay even without really knowing where you’re going,” he ends.
Noah Cyrus’ past addiction and mental health problems
Until 2020 —when he decided to start his rehabilitation and detoxification—, Noah Cyrus had developed a severe drug addiction that led to a dynamic of intrusive thoughts that was very harmful to his mental health. “I didn’t want to stay alive. I was waiting for the day that I might not wake up. I didn’t know where I was going. There were a lot of scary moments. I just know that I was trying to avoid being alive, or maybe trying to avoid feeling the sensation of to be alive because sometimes living was really painful,” she confessed to Zane Lowe in a past interview with Apple Music 1 about her debut album The Hardest Part.
That year he finally decided to try to kick his addiction to tranquilizers, prescription pills, painkillers, and Xanax. “When he had already lost all hope, all faith and all the strength he had to go on, that’s when i broke down and asked for help. She had been denying it for a long time, she had been denying, denying, denying and walking away, and I finally said: ‘I can’t lie to myself anymore,’ “the young woman from Cyrus told the announcer.