Miley Cyrus on The Zach Sang Show in May of 2017; Photo: The Zach Sang Show; YouTube


We all have regrets in life, and this includes Miley Cyrus. The pop singer said she’s “less impressed” with her breakout song “Wrecking Ball” from 2013, she told NME Magazine (via People).

The song climbed to the top of the charts and has been the song (and video) for which people recognize her. Earlier this year, she said she’s never going to escape the shadow of the controversial music video.

“That’s something you can’t take away … swinging around naked on a wrecking ball lives forever,” she said on The Zach Sang Show back in the spring. “Once you do that in the mass that I did, it’s forever.”

She admitted she’ll always be thought of as “the naked girl on a wrecking ball.” “I’m never living that down,” she said. “…No matter how much I just frolic with Emu, I’m always the naked girl on the wrecking ball … I should have thought how long that was going to have to follow me around.”

But despite the ridiculous video, she had more regrets about the lyrical content of the song. “I think people look at things that they’ve done and there is this sense of shame, or ‘I wish I wouldn’t have done that’ — not because I’m naked, by the way; it’s because I feel like I’m in a deeper songwriting place,” she told NME.

“Lyrically I’m less impressed with that song for me right now,” she added. “I feel like it doesn’t reflect who I am now, but that’s fine because it’s not supposed to.”

Like you know, comparing ‘love’ to a ‘wrecking ball’:

I came in like a wrecking ball
I never hit so hard in love
All I wanted was to break your walls
All you ever did was break me
Yeah, you wreck me

Cyrus also divulged a bit about this year’s “Malibu,” a more singer-songwriter-y country song. “I think I have more of an open mind where I’m like, ‘OK, I can be a bunch of different things every day,'” she said. “I don’t have to be so locked into myself because then I’m putting those walls and borders around myself that I tell everyone else not to give in to.”

Her new album, Younger Now, comes out tomorrow (September 29).