{"id":489454,"date":"2019-08-26T20:20:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T02:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=876392"},"modified":"2019-08-26T20:20:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T02:20:24","slug":"watch-miley-cyrus-make-surprise-appearance-at-2019-vmas-with-slide-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-miley-cyrus-make-surprise-appearance-at-2019-vmas-with-slide-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Miley Cyrus Make Surprise Appearance at 2019 VMAs With \u2018Slide Away\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Miley.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/miley-cyrus\/\" id=\"auto-tag_miley-cyrus\" data-tag=\"miley-cyrus\">Miley Cyrus<\/a> made a surprise appearance at the 2019 Video Music Awards to perform her heartbreaking new song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/song-you-need-to-know-miley-cyrus-slide-away-new-song-873489\/\">\u201cSlide Away.\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;The track was released earlier this month in the wake of her separation from husband Liam Hemsworth.<\/p>\n<p>After being introduced by Lizzo, Cyrus appeared onstage in a black dress accompanied by a string quartet. \u201cOnce upon a time, it was paradise,\u201d she laments in the opening verse. \u201cOnce upon a time, I was paralyzed.\u201d Her vocals soar through octaves, overcoming sadness as she belts \u201cSo won\u2019t you slide away\u201d repeatedly at the end.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.1908396946565\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">WATCH: Miley Cyrus Performs Slide Away at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VMAs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#VMAs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nRX5su3EkT\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/nRX5su3EkT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Opinionated Me (@opinion8dmecom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/opinion8dmecom\/status\/1166166264374583296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">August 27, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cyrus and Hemsworth had been off-and-on for 10 years; Hemsworth has since filed for divorce. \u201cI can admit to a lot of things but I refuse to admit that my marriage ended because of cheating,\u201d Cyrus wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/I%20can%20admit%20to%20a%20lot%20of%20things%20but%20I%20refuse%20to%20admit%20that%20my%20marriage%20ended%20because%20of%20cheating.%20Liam%20and%20I%20have%20been%20together%20for%20a%20decade.%20I%E2%80%99ve%20said%20it%20before%20&amp;%20it%20remains%20true,%20I%20love%20Liam%20and%20always%20will.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">in a series of tweets<\/a> last week. \u201cI\u2019ve said it before &amp; it remains true, I love Liam and always will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cyrus\u2019 last studio album was 2017\u2019s country-pop&nbsp;<em>Younger Now<\/em>. She returned this June with the EP&nbsp;<em>She Is Coming<\/em>, the first of three six-song EPs Cyrus announced that would comprise a full album titled&nbsp;<em>She Is Miley Cyrus<\/em>. She has yet to announce release dates, though the other EPs will be titled&nbsp;<em>She Is Here<\/em> and&nbsp;<em>She Is Everything<\/em>. The&nbsp;<em>She Is Coming<\/em> single \u201cMother\u2019s Daughter\u201d is up for two awards tonight, including Best Power Anthem and Song of the Summer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/miley-cyrus-slide-away-vmas-2019-876392\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miley Cyrus made a surprise appearance at the 2019 Video Music Awards to perform her heartbreaking new song \u201cSlide Away.\u201d&nbsp;The track was released earlier this month in the wake of her separation from husband Liam Hemsworth. After being introduced by Lizzo, Cyrus appeared onstage in a black dress accompanied by a string quartet. \u201cOnce upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-489454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 10:51:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}