The rest of us might be sick to death of seeing Miley Cyrus, her foam finger, and her tongue, but the controversial star is resolutely unrepentant, declaring herself a “cool punk rock underdog” (oh, how Patti Smith must weep).
In a new interview with Cosmopolitan mag, Cyrus is taking on the haters again, telling the magazine, “I don’t want to say that I’m on top right now – I feel like I’m kind of an underdog in a cool way. It’s almost punk rock to like me because it’s not the right thing to do. Like, society wants to shut me down.
“Everything is so chaotic and crazy right now… I’m literally what everyone is talking about.”
The 20-year-old reckons she’s still shocked by the furore her awkward performance at the VMAs attracted, adding that she actually saved the show.
“When people started complaining about the awards show, I was like, ‘Have you never seen the f***ing video?’” she said.
“And what if I hadn’t done that performance? The VMAs would have been bad. They would have been missing something. The show was kind of making fun of how serious the pop industry is.”
Cyrus went on to say that music has been her sole focus since splitting with Liam Hemsworth back in September.
“I need to treat my music like a relationship – give it my time and all the attention it deserves – and that’s my main love right now,” she said.
“This is the best time of my life. I’m not going to look back on it and be like, ‘I wish I hadn’t been dwelling over a breakup,’ you know? Because that’s not what God wants my life to be about right now.”
This story originally appeared on news.com.au.