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Miley Cyrus has responded to criticism of her comeback Hollywood Bowl show on Friday night, telling the audience at Sunday’s concert that she almost didn’t come on stage.
“I’ve never heard that I don’t put my heart into
something,” Cyrus said in fan-captured video from the show. “I don’t know if any of you heard that somebody was doing commentary to get clickbait on their video talking about my show on Friday night, but I’m a lot of things and we’re not even going to entertain that.”
Cyrus’ debut Hollywood Bowl show on Friday was the first time she had performed live in four years. The concert drew some criticism because Cyrus wasn’t singing every word of each song, including hits like “Party in the USA” and “Flowers.” At her second show on Sunday, Cyrus addressed that specific point while singing “Bass Persuades,” the lead single from her most recent album. “Oh, I forgot I’m supposed to sing every fucking line!” she said.
Cyrus told the Sunday crowd that performing “does not not come as natural as it once did,” but the two Hollywood Bowl shows were “more to me than an experiment.”
“That is absolutely not what this is,” she added. “This is not an experiment of you. This is an experience for me. And you all make the experience possible.”
Cyrus ended her monologue by revealing that she nearly bailed on Sunday’s show, but decided to push through for her true fans.
“Before I came out for ‘Orbit,’ I already told myself I wasn’t going to come on stage, I was going to run away,” she said. “But never would I leave you all sitting in these seats, unfulfilled from a show. So I can take a lot, but one thing I will not stand is any question about where my heart is when I’m on the stage. I am fully present.”
