Wrecking Ball (Miley Cyrus song) Wrecking Ball (Miley Cyrus song) "Wrecking Ball" is a song recorded by American singer Miley Cyrus for her fourth studio album "Bangerz" (2013). It was released on August 25, 2013, by RCA Records as the album's second single. The song was written by MoZella, Stephan Moccio, Sacha Skarbek, Kiyanu Kim, Lukasz Gottwald, and Henry Russell Walter; production was helmed by the last two. "Wrecking Ball" is a pop ballad which lyrically discusses the deterioration of a relationship. "Wrecking Ball" debuted on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 at number 50, and later became Cyrus' first number-one single in the United States
Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz Music Awards, Cyrus said that "Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz" (untitled at the time) "might take me five years" to finish: "I'll just work on it until I'm done". According to the singer, the album is "about music [and is] not about twerking". In January 2015 Cyrus expressed her intention "to get this stuff out ASAP", adding that she was working on the album nearly every day. Although "Bangerz" cost "a couple million" dollars to produce, "Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz" cost about $50,000; she said that RCA Records, her label, did not hear the final product until