Miley Hopes to 'Breakout' With Album
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Posted: 2008-05-20 19:27:42
NEW YORK (May 20) - "Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus
will release the first full-length album under her own name on
July 22.
"I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be 'artistic' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed," Cyrus says of pictures that appear in the new issue of Vanity Fair.
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Vanity Fair editors say "Miley's parents and/or minders were on the set all day. Since the photo was taken digitally, they saw it on the shoot and everyone thought it was a beautiful and natural portrait of Miley. In fact, when Bruce Handy interviewed Miley, he asked her about the photo and she was very cheerful about it and thought it was perfectly fine."
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For someone who said "I never intended for any of this to happen," Cyrus seemed to be enjoying herself at the Vanity Fair photo shoot. See more photos on Egotastic.com.
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"I was so honored and thrilled to work with (longtime Vanity Fair photographer) Annie [Leibovitz]," Cyrus tells PEOPLE. See more photos on Egotastic.com.
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Just last week, photos of Cyrus flashing her bra and pulling up her shirt while draped across the lap of a male furthered the speculation that the singer-actress sensation may be more PG-13 or R than G-rated.
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"The pictures of me on the Internet were silly, inappropriate shots." adds Cyrus about last week's photo scandal. The leaked pics didn't make a dent. Her 'Best of Both Worlds' CD was ranked near the top of the charts last week.
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Photos of Cyrus in provocative poses first leaked near the end of January to gossip sites like TopSocialite.com.
"Breakout" (Disney's Hollywood Records) comes on the heels
of two albums tied to her title role as the moonlighting rock
star in the smash Disney Channel series: "Hannah Montana/Miley
Cyrus: The Best of Both Worlds Concert" is currently at No. 33
on the Billboard 200, and former chart-topper "Hannah Montana 2
(Soundtrack)/Meet Miley Cyrus" at No. 65.
The first single from the new album, "7 Things," was one of
the most added at U.S. top 40 radio outlets last week; it is
also enjoying some airplay at adult top 40 stations.
Cyrus, 15, is credited as a co-writer on the track, in
which she takes aim at a hurtful ex who won't provide a
"sincere apology." "And when you mean it, I'll believe it / If
you text it, I'll delete it," Cyrus sings.
It was not known if Annie Leibovitz would shoot the album's
cover photo. The celebrity photographer's portrait of a
bare-backed Cyrus for the latest issue of Vanity Fair upset
Cyrus and stirred a brouhaha about the sexualization of young
girls.
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