How Billy Ray Cyrus Feels About Miley & Noah’s Success

How Billy Ray Cyrus Feels About Miley & Noah’s Success
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A true legend descends upon the YH Studio, as none other than Billy Ray Cyrus pays us a visit to treat us to a live acoustic version of the song that made him a household name (and spawned some record-setting line-dancing), "Achy Breaky Heart"! He also talks a bit about his role as an Elvis impersonator on CMT's "Still the King", plus he shares his thoughts on the success of his daughters Miley & Noah!
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Young Hollywood, what up? We are in the studio here with the legend himself, Billy Ray Cyrus. He's going to give us some really cool performances, and he's definitely going to play "Achy Breaky Heart", right?
That's true. We're playing it by ear. Playing it by ear. We're winging it. We're winging it guys. Here you are, Young Hollywood. Billy Ray Cyrus everybody!
You can tell the world you never was my girl, or you can burn my clothes up when I'm gone Oh, you can tell your friends just what a fool I've been. I'll laugh and joke about me on the phone.
Would you say that this song kind of brought line dancing to the mainstream world?
Line dancing was catching on, but um uh yeah, "Achy Breaky Heart" took it to a whole another level, especially globally around the world. You know, when I saw, like one day I saw the world's largest line dance happening in Moscow, at the Kremlin and then the next day it was like all of a sudden somebody beat it somewhere else around the world and then in South Africa was this other beautiful line and then we went to uh Bali's in uh Las Vegas and then broke that record with the world's largest line dance, and I think it just keeps getting bigger, you know.
Oh, you can tell my lips to tell my fingertips. They won't be reaching out for you no more. But don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart. I just don't think it understands. And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, it might blow up and kill this man.
So, we have a cool little video I want to show you real quick here.
Oh Lord, what's happening? That's, Is that my little Noah? Is that how crazy is this? It's crazier than crazy.
I'm here with mega, mega star Miley Cyrus. The queen of Young Hollywood right now. Are you enjoying this fame? I am. I just got home off my tour so I'm really excited just to, you know, be here and and be with my friends and get to kick it for a little while.
Is she your idol?
Uh yeah, she is.
Do you get time to hang out with Miley? Do you guys go shopping, stuff like that?
Uh. Like on Saturdays.
Hi, Young Hollywood. I'm Noah Cyrus.
Wow. How cool was that? That's the coolest thing ever. Right? That's probably around six, seven years ago. So awesome, right? Man, that touches my heart man. Like for me to see both girls doing what they love. Both this is their calling like they're just natural musicians, singers, songwriters, they're entertainers that it's just the way it is. They just it's in their blood and their DNA. They just natural doing it and they're happy. Our rule is, if it ain't making you happy, don't do it. Right. And both girls are so happy and really loving what they do.
And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, it might blow up and kill this man.
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