Miley Cyrus Reveals Why She Opened Tonight Show with Dido's "No Freedom"

-Thank you for doing that opening for us.
I appreciate it. That was a Dido song.
-Yes, and I´ve sang that song before
for the Happy Hippie Foundation
when I did the "Backyard Sessions."
That was a song that I performed.
Because I love that there is no love without freedom.
And I think about that when these tragic events happen.
What is music if we can´t go see our favorite artists perform
because we´re scared of violence
or we´re scared of losing someone that we love
to go to a concert or to go see a film?
And I think that right now,
you know, we´re supposed to be the land of the free,
but we can´t have freedom if we´re constantly living in fear.
So I think never bow down to bullies.
That´s what my parents always said.
And to stand up for what´s right.
And I think just constantly share hope
instead of encouraging any more fear, you know?
-Yeah, I agree.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Well said. Thank you.
Uh, I listened to the album this weekend.
I had it streaming on Spotify.
And I love it so much.
-Thank you so much. -It´s so good.
Last time you were here,
we talked about how you were recording --
I want to say frogs or birds.
-Yes, that happens a lot.
-And I was like, "Oh, that´s cool,
but you´ll never use any of that."
-And I did. -It´s in the first track.
-Yes, the first track. -Yeah.
The opening is a river that runs through my house.
And there´s a frog, Killer Angel Baby.
And he´s now had other little mini-frogs,
so that´s like a whole symphony of an entire family,
an evolution of a family that I got to witness and record
without getting any sign-off or permission to use.
So I might be the first person ever to be sued by a frog.
-Yeah, that is true. Yes. I know his attorney.
And you´re in for it. Yeah. He has a case.
-Yeah. -Mr. Baby has a case.
-Yes, exactly.
-Killer Angel Baby. Yeah. Exactly.
That came on, and I go --
And I was listening to just this beautiful sound,
and then the song comes on, and it kicks in.
And it´s just you. And it´s perfect.
And it´s poppy. And it´s fun.
And it´s, ah, well-produced.
-Thank you. -Well-written.
"Younger Now." Can you explain what that means?
Like, why "Younger Now"? Why do you feel younger now?
Well, I wrote this song, because one of the first lyrics is,
"Even though it´s not who I am,
I´m not afraid of who I used to be."
And I think there´s so many times, maybe in everyone´s life,
but I know in my life where you start to run
from who you´ve been, ´cause you´re like,
"I just don´t want to be that anymore. I´m not that anymore."
But now as I´m getting older,
I´m getting younger in the way that I embrace
who I used to be a lot more than trying to run from it.
And I wrote this song because I was dressed as a reindeer,
as I would be -- it was Christmas --
and I had on the blinking earrings and the antlers.
I was a full-on reindeer.
And my mom goes, "When did you go back to being an 8-year-old?"
And I said, "Well, I feel younger now.
I kind of feel like a 8-year-old.
I feel like I don´t have anything to prove.
And I don´t feel like I need to be anything but who I am.
And it´s [bleep] Christmas, Mom!
And I´m dressed as a reindeer! It´s not that weird!"
-Up to that point, it was a Hallmark card.
Then it went off the rails a little bit.
It wasn´t, like, April. It was Christmas.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
-You have a great family.
I´ve met every member of your family.
Different occasions, every now and then, you´ll bring them.
They´re going to be on the show tomorrow.
-Yeah, yeah. -We´re gonna have a fun game.
-Yeah, my mom -- I´m trying to get her
to start being my tambourine player.
She´s got a sick rhythm.
So I´m trying to get my whole family to just tour together
and be together all the time
´cause it´s so great, making music with all of them.
-You´ll be like the Osmonds? -Exactly.
-But my mom, like -- -The Brady Bunch?
-She left to actually go see Noah sing,
but she´s, like, tone-deaf.
She´s going to see this, obviously,
but she can´t carry, really, a note.
So we´re putting Mom on tambo basically.
Everybody can handle the tambourine.
-My mom can sing, like, just sing with everybody,
but she can´t, like, really, really sing.
And I remember when headphones first were invented.
This is how old I am. That was a big deal.
Headphones, like, that you can buy, in your house,
and we had her sing something.
And it was awful.
But she didn´t realize that we couldn´t hear the music.
-Right.
-So it was just her with the headset on.
I want to say it was --
Was it Rita Coolidge who sang
"Your Love is Lifting Me Higher"?
-Yeah. -And so she --
And her headphones are like --
♫ Buh-bum-bum, buh-bum-bum, buh-bum-bum, bum-bum ♫
And she´s like -- And it´s just completely silent in our house.
-We should go to one of those raves like that.
You know they have raves --
Do you want to go to a rave with me after this?
Are you scared?
[ Cheers and applause ]
-No. -Anybody? Anybody?
-I was just talking about how I´m hanging with my mom.
I hang out with my mom, and we wear headphones.
-They have these raves where all you do is listen to headphones,
so it´s like a silent dance party.
But one time, I made the mistake of taking them off.
And it just felt like the worst decision.
I´ve made a lot of bad ones. But that one was really bad.
Don´t ever take the headphones off.
-You question every decision that got you to that point.
-They hang from the ceiling, right?
-Yeah, and then you just jam,
and you´re thinking you´re at the best club, best DJ ever,
but really you´re just in silence.
-No. That´s too weird for me.
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Miley Cyrus Reveals Why She Opened Tonight Show with Dido's "No Freedom"

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