Miley Cyrus performance as "cringe-worthy". Cyrus released "Wrecking Ball" (2013) as the second single from "Bangerz" on the same day as the VMAs. The song became an instant hit, and its accompanying music video showing her swinging naked on a wrecking ball was viewed over nineteen million times within its first day of release. The single became Cyrus' first single to top the Hot 100 chart in the United States having sold over two million copies. After months of media speculation, on September 16, 2013, a representative for Cyrus announced that she and Hemsworth had decided to call off their engagement, ending
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