Miley Cyrus Hits Back at Criticism of First Hollywood Bowl Show: ‘The Only Thing That I Have Is This Moment With All of You’

After telling fans on night one (Oct.

16) at the Hollywood Bowl that it had “always been a dream” of hers to play the iconic Los Angeles venue, Miley Cyrus hit back at critics of that performance during her second show on Sunday night (Oct.

18).

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“I don’t know if any of you heard that.

That somebody was doing commentary to get clickbait on their video talking about my show on Friday night, but I’m a lot of things, yeah, and we’re not even going to entertain that.” Though she didn’t refer to a specific complaint, the comments were seemingly in reference to videos that claimed Miley (the singer recently changed her stage name to a mononym) was not fully present and did not sing all the words at her first full concert in four years.

“You all have been with me long enough to know that anytime I’m doing something meaningful that’s gonna be a stepping stone in my life, in my career to become the artist and the person that I want to be,” she said.

“You know that it’s been controversial.

And the controversy, you know, it used to be a lot of fun.

It still can be.

I can be pretty melted.

I love that about me.

I actually used to live my life pretty hard.

Because life’s hard, so I thought I had to get hard. … But, you know, I didn’t enjoy my life as much when I was living hard.