You may have already guessed based on some of the moves executed in her “Flowers” music video, but Miley Cyrus‘s training shoe of choice happens to be a high heel.
Cyrus explained in a recent interview with W Magazine, “My mantra is, like any athlete, ‘Practice how you perform.’ So that’s why I practice in my heels.”
“The gym looks really tough, but then I’ve got my ivory Gucci slingbacks because they remind me of Marilyn Monroe,” Cyrus continued. “I train in heels, mostly I’m interested in feminizing the workout space, because so much of the workout equipment is ugly.”
There you have it: “Nothing Breaks Like a Heart,” or the heel of one’s ivory Gucci slingbacks when crushing sets on the leg press.
“Flowers” won Cyrus Record of the Year honours at the Grammys earlier this year, and in the W Magazine interview, she expressed how gratifying she found her “first time actually being taken seriously” by the awards body.
“No shade, but I’ve been doing this for 20 years, and this is my first time actually being taken seriously at the Grammys?,” Cyrus said. “I’ve had a hard time figuring out what the measurement is there, because if we want to talk stats and numbers, then where the fuck was I? And if you want to talk, like, impact on culture, then where the fuck was I? This is not about arrogance. I am proud of myself.”
It surely took hours of training to flip between the cultural cool of hip-hop, colourful psych pop and the familiarity of country pop over a period of less than five years, but Cyrus most recently stuck the landing in pop territory with last year’s Endless Summer Vacation.
As an artist who is always up to sing a cover song, Cyrus recently contributed to a new Talking Heads tribute album.
