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
Breakout (Miley Cyrus song) teen who's too grown-up to submit to her parents, teachers or anyone else" with the lines "tired of bein' told what to do". "Breakout" received positive responses from contemporary critics, with Chris William, writing for "Entertainment Weekly" stating that Gina Schock left influences from The Go-Go's' 1982 hit single "Vacation" with "just the right amount of maturing". Mikael Wood of the "Los Angeles Times" called the song "a slightly tougher, more guitar-based sound than last year's "Meet Miley Cyrus"", while Bill Lamb of About.com said the song was one of the "top tracks on "Breakout"" and Heather Phares of AllMusic