Download Wrecking Ball By Miley Cyrus Video
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An accompanying music video for "Wrecking Ball" was released on September 9, 2013. It features close-up scenes of Cyrus tearfully singing, reminiscent of the video for "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinéad O'Connor, interspersed with footage of a nude Cyrus swinging on a wrecking ball. Critics were divided in their opinions of the music video, feeling that it was more provocative than the video for her previous single "We Can't Stop". "Wrecking Ball" previously held the Vevo record for the most views in the first 24 hours after its release with 19.3 million views. At the 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards, Cyrus took home the award for Best Video and the award for Video of the Year at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards. Adding to the video's success, Cyrus won the award for World's Best Video at the 2014 World Music Awards in Monte Carlo. Cyrus performed "Wrecking Ball" during several live performances, including the iHeartRadio Music Festival, an episode of Saturday Night Live and the "TikTok Tailgate" before Super Bowl LV.
The song, and the cover of its parent album Bangerz (2013), were unveiled on August 25, 2013, before Cyrus' performance at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. She released the cover artwork for "Wrecking Ball" on September 6, which shows Cyrus dressed in a sleeveless white shirt and underwear while swinging on a wrecking ball.[4] The song was serviced to contemporary hit radio stations in the United States on September 17.[5] It serves as the second single from Bangerz, following the lead single "We Can't Stop", which was released in June.[6]
An accompanying music video for "Wrecking Ball" was directed by Terry Richardson, and was premiered through Vevo on September 9, 2013. The clip features close-up footage of Cyrus emotionally singing to the camera against a white backdrop, having been inspired by the music video for "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinéad O'Connor.[36] Interspersed throughout are scenes of Cyrus licking a sledgehammer and swinging on a wrecking ball. At first, she is shown dressed in a midriff-baring tank top, panties and Doc Martens boots; as the video progresses, she is then shown wearing only the boots.[37]
The music video received generally mixed reviews from critics, who were divided in their opinions regarding Cyrus's increasingly provocative image. Writing for Billboard, Jason Lipshutz stated that the "nude Cyrus shown straddling a swinging wrecking ball" was the most surprising piece of the clip.[8] The staff from Entertainment Weekly joked that viewers would be "scandalized/titillated/disappointed in Billy Ray Cyrus's parenting skills" after seeing his daughter nude and "fellating a sledgehammer".[39] Writing for The Guardian, Michael Hann criticized Cyrus's attempts to distance herself from her innocent Hannah Montana image, a former television series in which Cyrus portrayed the primary character Miley Stewart, a middle school student who led a secret double life as pop star Hannah Montana. He disapproved of the manner in which she transitioned into a career beyond her childhood success, specifically panning her for "exploring the iconography of porn."[40] As of January 2015, Billboard named the video as the fourth-best music video of the 2010s (so far).[41]
After finding a few profile pictures I copied them and brought them into an image editor. If you don't have an image editor, GIMP is a powerful and free option. Using a lasso tool I selected just the body and deleted the wrecking ball and background. After, I placed the body cut-outs on a page formatted to my printer paper dimensions.
Wanting a truly mini Miley on a wrecking ball, I decided to use a grey ornament. Since decorations are meant to be eye catching and not dull, I had to make my own wrecking ball ornaments by spray painting.
Using 2 coats of primer, I was able to achieve a nice matte finish on my glass ornaments.
"When I heard 'Wrecking Ball' I almost wept in my car," Dolly shared. "When it started into the chorus it hit me like a wrecking ball! I thought how great can a song be and how great can Miley Cyrus be? I thought, I have to have that song on my rock album and I have to have Miley sing it with me! I love it and I hope you do!"
\"When I heard 'Wrecking Ball' I almost wept in my car,\" Parton shared in a statement. \"When it started into the chorus it hit me like a wrecking ball! I thought how great can a song be and how great can Miley Cyrus be?\"
During last year's MTV Video Music Awards, Miley Cyrus came in like a wrecking ball (seriously) with her twerk-tastic performance of "We Can't Stop." This year, she broke through the din of the award show more quietly, but with tangible impact, asking a formerly homeless man named Jesse to accept her Video of the Year Award on behalf an organization dedicated to helping runaways and homeless youth.
At the time, Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" success was pretty astonishing. The video itself is simple and relatively tamer than the teddy-bear-dancing, tongue-wagging antics in "We Can't Stop" or the gritty, sexy bird-themed shenanigans in "Can't Be Tamed." In "Wrecking Ball," Cyrus wears a white cropped tank and matching undies before baring it all. She's also teary-eyed and mouthing the lyrics right in front of the camera. We also see her wielding a sledgehammer, which she sometimes grazes against the wall or licks like a lollipop. And, yes, she's also featured sitting and swinging on a literal wrecking ball while belting the lyrics to the chorus.
Cyrus and her wrecking ball were even immortalized as a wax figure at Madame Tussauds Las Vegas in 2015. The figure and the ball, which are currently on display, weigh more than 200 pounds, according to a press release obtained by Billboard. Cyrus' wax figure along with the ball also reportedly took a team of 20 artists more than six months to create.
In a 2017 interview on the "Zach Sang Show," Cyrus expressed her regrets with the song and its video, saying that she "will always be the naked girl on the wrecking ball." Cyrus has since rehabilitated her public image via her music. Her recent song "Used to Be Young," which reflects on her past and joyfully anticipates her future, was released this year, on the anniversary of her "Wrecking Ball" music video release.
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