Wrecking Ball (Miley Cyrus song) for Video of the Year at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards. Adding to the video's success, Cyrus won the award for World's Best Video at the 2014 World Music Awards in Monte Carlo. Cyrus has performed "Wrecking Ball" during several live performances, including the iHeartRadio Music Festival and an episode of "Saturday Night Live". Before directly stating that "Wrecking Ball" was originally written with Beyoncé in mind, songwriter Sacha Skarbek tweeted "Beyonce song now becoming a Miley Cyrus song?!! Good/bad? I don't know??!!!! " in December 2012. His representative commented that ""Originally, the [songwriting session between Dr. Luke and
Wrecking Ball (Miley Cyrus song) views on YouTube. A director's cut of the music video was released on September 24, which features only the close-up footage of Cyrus singing against the white backdrop. Vanessa White Wolf from MTV News noted that "the only time Richardson cuts away is at the very end, where, after a quick director's credit page, we see Terry and Miley laughing and mugging for the camera." The 2014 Australian art prize the Bald Archy was awarded to Judy Nadin for "Wrecking Balls Ashes to Ashes", parodying cricketer Mitchell Johnson as Cyrus. In an interview in 2017, Cyrus stated that she isn't