“The ‘Bass Persuades’ video was shot at like 3:00 in the morning,” Cyrus recalled. “I like to be tucked in by 7:00pm. We were actually outside and it was freezing… Teru, my tortoise, his heater broke. Drama. Because I have a thermometer on my phone that’ll tell me when he’s cold. I’m in silk panties and a leather jacket going down the street doing this choreo, and the whole time I’m thinking, ‘The fucking turtle’s cold!'”
Cyrus continued: “I’m freaking out, but I’m like, no, this is like Hannah Montana. Like Miley Stewart, her tortoise is cold, and Hannah Montana is here in her Dolce set, keeping it pushing with all the dancers.”
During the interview, Cyrus stressed how prioritizing rest, recovery, and her morning routine caring for her rescue animals keeps her grounded amid the rigors of touring, pointing to a recent post by Charli XCX about post-show exhaustion that really resonated with her. “It is so important to me that home, my home is why I’m doing this this way.
The thing that I can’t live without is my ritual… I have a tortoise, he’s 20 years old and he’s a diva. He needs his dandelion greens and his yellow peppers in the morning. I have a routine and it only makes me a better person because I’m getting that time to connect with something that has no idea who I am.”
Cyrus’s tenth album Bass Persuades is out now on BMG, ahead of her scheduled headline shows at the Hollywood Bowl this October.
