Thanks to this song, initially intended for Beyoncé, a completely different singer saw her career explode in the 2010s.
There are these global successes that we cannot anticipate. Did Beyoncé pay the price? If Queen B’s career includes countless hits, which have made her one of the biggest stars on the planet, one more hit song could have appeared on her charts. This title, sold more than six million copies worldwide, will remain the third best-selling single in 2013, the year of its release. Its clip, which largely contributed to the success of the song and its performer, was viewed nearly 20 million times on YouTube in 24 hours and has now been played more than a billion times.
It must be said that in the video, the singer appears completely naked, apart from a pair of Doc Martens on her feet, and adopts several very suggestive positions, notably by licking a mass in the middle of the song. A performance that Beyoncé would have been ready to take on too? We will probably never know, but the creation will be banned in around ten countries around the world. In France, we will see the clip with the notice “not recommended for under 10s” on certain channels.
You might have guessed, this song is Wrecking Ballwho made Miley Cyrus a global star, with all due respect to Beyoncé, for whom the demo was originally intended. “Originally, Dr. Luke and Sacha’s writing session [les auteurs de la chanson ndlr.] had been booked to write a song for Beyoncé”, explained in 2014 a representative of one of the authors, interviewed by the American site Radar Online. And added: “But as the song progresses Wrecking Ball progressed, the songwriters realized the song wouldn’t work for her.”
Can we conclude, however, that Miley Cyrus owes her career to Beyoncé? Conclusions of this type would be hasty, given the career and immense success that the interpreter of flowers knew after the song Wrecking Ballwhich is now far from being the most listened to in his discography on Spotify.
Speaking of flowers precisely, this has since largely exceeded Wrecking Ball with some 590 million views on YouTube and nearly 1.5 billion streams on the Spotify platform. And almost ten years later, it is also the triumph of love and self-acceptance that a visibly calmed Miley Cyrus celebrates.