Billy Ray Cyrus, the father of Miley Cyrus, is speaking out again about his daughter’s VMA performance that still has people talking about a month later. The “Achy Breaky Heart” singer sat down with Piers Morgan on CNN and defended his 20-year-old daughter.
Cyrus said the bar for the “shock factor” has drastically risen in the last couple years and he thinks his daughter’s new sound and image is just a product of her hard work to evolve.
“She's an artist. She's real. I think that what's happened over the years, Miley has been reinventing her sound. She's evolving as an artist herself. I think that all of what everyone is calling controversy now, that's still my Miley,” he said, CNN reports.
Morgan asked Cyrus what the father in him thought of the VMA performance and her “Wrecking Ball” video after that, and he would not say a about word about it.
"Miley's smart enough to know that to come out of the shadows of Hannah Montana, it really takes something extremely drastic, which when you go to that level, it creates passion, and passion is either love or hate. But there's no middle of the road for passion," he said, NME reports.
He also said she took a big risk by cutting her hair and changing her sound, saying she could’ve easily stayed Hannah Montana for the majority of her career and made a “good living.”
"She has risen to a whole new level. I thought I had seen it all -- until these last couple of weeks," he said.
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