“I know I was crazy, I know I was funny, you say I was wild, I say I was young”
Miley Cyrus released a ballad about her tumultuous years. Has a name Used to be young and this is a reflection on the passage of time that changes you, written with Michael Pollack and Gregory “Alda” Hine. Moral: overdo it, screw it up, live big, and then turn into your own mother. And that’s okay.
“I know I was crazy, I know I was funny, you say I was wild, I say I was young,” Miley sings, recalling the period bangers. “You tell me that time has changed me. It’s ok because it was a good trip. I know I was crazy and that’s because I was young.”
Cyrus explained that the song is “about honoring who we were, loving who we are, celebrating the people we will become. I remember the past with pride and feel optimistic when I think about the future.”
In the video, Cyrus sings in the dark, in tears. “It’s so interesting because I’m kind of like a mini-me to my mother, and thanks to technology, I could see her inside the camera while I sang. She danced and made me cry, make me laugh, evoke real emotions. Well, the idea is to evoke real emotions in people, which doesn’t happen often these days.”
Cyrus, who said he took a break from performing in May, wrote the song almost two years ago before Endless summer holidays“when I felt misunderstood. It took me 18 months to paint the sonic picture seen from my point of view.”