"No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape"
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There is a quiet defiance in Cyrus framing songwriting as the one identity that outlives the circus. “No matter how long what I’m doing here lasts” lands like a wink at fame’s expiration date: pop is a gig, not a guarantee. She’s not romanticizing the spotlight; she’s budgeting for its unpredictability. In an industry that treats young women as eras to be packaged and retired, the line reads as an attempt to seize permanence on her own terms.
The key move is how she separates “here” from “songwriter.” “Here” is the public-facing machine: tours, press cycles, reinventions, the constant negotiation with other people’s narratives. Songwriting is positioned as private labor, a craft that doesn’t require permission to keep existing. That’s why “escape” matters. She’s not claiming music as therapy in a bumper-sticker way; she’s signaling a pressure valve. Writing becomes the place where she can be messy, contradictory, and unfinished without being instantly converted into content.
Cyrus’s career context sharpens the subtext. She’s lived through hypervisibility since adolescence, with every pivot read as either scandal or strategy. Declaring lifelong loyalty to songwriting is a bid to be taken seriously beyond the headlines, but it’s also an admission: the persona may be loud, the inner life needs somewhere to go. The quote works because it’s both humble and controlling - an artist insisting that the most durable version of her won’t be the image, but the work.
The key move is how she separates “here” from “songwriter.” “Here” is the public-facing machine: tours, press cycles, reinventions, the constant negotiation with other people’s narratives. Songwriting is positioned as private labor, a craft that doesn’t require permission to keep existing. That’s why “escape” matters. She’s not claiming music as therapy in a bumper-sticker way; she’s signaling a pressure valve. Writing becomes the place where she can be messy, contradictory, and unfinished without being instantly converted into content.
Cyrus’s career context sharpens the subtext. She’s lived through hypervisibility since adolescence, with every pivot read as either scandal or strategy. Declaring lifelong loyalty to songwriting is a bid to be taken seriously beyond the headlines, but it’s also an admission: the persona may be loud, the inner life needs somewhere to go. The quote works because it’s both humble and controlling - an artist insisting that the most durable version of her won’t be the image, but the work.
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