"Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs"
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The mechanics of the sentence matter. She doesn’t lead with herself, she leads with the crowd: faces, voices, and the feedback loop of people “sing[ing] the positive words.” The subtext is validation, but not the cheap kind. She’s pointing to a rare exchange where the artist’s intent returns amplified. When fans sing your lyrics back, they’re not just applauding; they’re co-authoring the moment. The “positive words” detail is doing cultural work, too: it positions her catalog not as scandal fodder or brand turbulence but as something that can function like communal self-talk.
Contextually, Cyrus has spent her career in public negotiation with identity - Disney progeny, provocation, pivot, maturity - under a microscope that rewards mess and punishes sincerity. Here, she’s reclaiming sincerity by grounding it in a scene you can picture. The stage becomes a temporary republic where she’s not an avatar or a headline, just a conduit for a crowd’s shared vocabulary of optimism. That’s why it lands: it’s less about celebrity ecstasy than about the human craving to be understood out loud.
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Cyrus, Miley. (2026, January 15). Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/those-minutes-that-im-on-stage-are-the-best-being-172543/
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Cyrus, Miley. "Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/those-minutes-that-im-on-stage-are-the-best-being-172543/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/those-minutes-that-im-on-stage-are-the-best-being-172543/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.






