Miley Cyrus Reveals Disney Banned Her from Performing ‘Hannah Montana’ Songs After End of Show: “I Wasn’t Allowed To Sing Them”

Miley Cyrus is opening up about her music career after she left Disney following her run on the 2006 hit sitcom "Hannah Montana."

In a new interview, Cyrus explained why she had not performed the songs she popularized on the Disney Channel series, such as “Best of Both Worlds.”

“After I left Disney, I wasn’t allowed to perform any of the Hannah Montana music,” she said on Spotify’s The Ringer podcast. 

“It’s not like I wanted to, I mean performing ‘The Best Of Both Worlds’ between ‘We Can’t Stop’ and ‘Wrecking Ball,’ wouldn’t have really made sense," Cyrus continued. “It was still sad knowing those songs have my voice, my face, and I wasn’t allowed to sing them.”

However, when the superstar was honored as a Disney Legend in 2024, things changed and she was permitted to perform those songs again.

“After being inducted as a Disney Legend, I was given permission to perform those songs in the future, which is pretty cool,” she added.

Following her run as the star of Hannah Montana, Cyrus looked to reinvent her image and caused uproar in a series of performances and public appearances. 

In 2013, she performed at the MTV Video Music Awards, where she twerked on Robin Thicke during the performance of “Blurred Lines.”

During her acceptance speech of the Disney Legend honor, she apologized to Mickey Mouse for her “malfunction” era, saying, “I definitely wasn’t created in a lab and if I was there must’ve been a bug in the system which caused me to malfunction somewhere between the years of 2013 and ‘16. Sorry, Mickey.”