Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • on Twitter.

  • We asked your fans to sending questions that they had for you and in light of everything going on off.

  • Questions are from fans who are working on the front lines and at essential businesses.

  • It's awesome.

  • The awesome worried Here, I love you.

  • This 1st 1 is from at Sharna underscored 95 X.

  • They work for the N H s in the United Kingdom, and they want to know what is your songwriting process?

  • Do you write the lyrics first, then put it to a track or vice first?

  • Usually I kind of just right, like a diary entry.

  • That's kind of how it starts.

  • It's really more just about writing what I'm feeling.

  • And I don't really focus too much on, like the structure what it's gonna be or Melody.

  • Sometimes I'll have a melody in my head that I that I'll just say Oh feels so good to sing these notes.

  • I'm gonna write something good, but usually kind of starts in the diary entry.

  • Wow.

  • And which one, like is all your songs or like, yeah, usually, you know, I'm looking to Malibu right now.

  • You know what I'm thinking about, like actually like?

  • Like you know, when I wrote a song called Malibu when I wrote that I was in the back of, ah, car going to the voice I was in like, a goober type situation, and I I looked out at the beach and I literally the thought that my head was I never went to the beach is said by the ocean I like as a kid.

  • I just was so used to waking up in scooping horse Excuse me, horse poop that I didn't really think about how great the ocean is because I was on this form.

  • So I really that was just a thought in the news.

  • I never stood by the teacher walk by the ocean.

  • I never stopped by the short selling my feet in the sand.

  • I'm glad you brought me here.

  • You know, it was just like a stream of ideas.

  • It doesn't really rhyme.

  • You see, that's that's kind of thing.

  • Side note.

  • Scooping horse poop was one of my other favorite.

  • What do your songs?

  • Thank you so much.

  • This next one is from at in a Rainbow Land and they're working at a Wal Mart in Kentucky.

  • Uh huh.

  • you want to know what keeps Miley positive and right minded in times like this, connecting with other people?

  • You know, I think like a lot of the time in my position, actually in my position, a lot of the time, I kind of feel disconnected because not a lot of people kind of can relate to parts of my life.

  • But instead of writing all the ways that people can relate to me, I've started writing notes of the ways that people can, the way that I'm still just human like everybody else.

  • And I think looking at my, you know, looking at the what we have is what we don't have.

  • And I think sometimes I can go well, no one can relate to me.

  • That's absolutely not true.

  • I can relate to all human beings on this planet.

  • So I just think about relatability in connection and other people and how we're all just the same, just experiencing it through a different perspective.

  • All of us are living the same life just from a different perspective.

  • Yeah, everyone's got a story I was I learned that years ago.

  • I wish I learned it even further back.

  • But I'm like every single human has a story.

  • Yeah, So it's like you don't know what their day has been or what their life was like or where they came from.

  • So treat everyone equally because everyone's got some type of thing that went down.

  • And I just respect for other humans, I guess.

  • Yeah, it's last one here is from against against a goal.

  • Uh, they work as a nurse in Canada and they want to know what is my least favorite old song.

  • And do those songs still mean as much now as they did when she was younger?

  • Well, I'm guessing they mean the song of my owns one of my old songs that I've written and I actually, um I was heading to Australia when the kind of seriousness of Copan 19 they started kind of, you know, shutting off international travel and telling us it wasn't safe to fly.

  • But I was on my way to Australia and I was about to dio a chauffeur bushfire relief and I don't have the music out, so I really like dug into the to the archives.

  • I went back in the old stuff and I started seeing like seven things and, um, see you again And who owns my heart and can't be tamed?

  • And then I realized that, like, I think the idea that I've changed it's really far, actually haven't changed at all.

  • I was totally warning people, you know, like my first song I can't detained is like, I want to fly.

  • I want to drive.

  • I want to go, You know, and I think that I still really relate to songs like that is that I want to be a part of something that I don't know and you could try it on me back.

  • I'm bound to explode by now.

  • You should know that I can't retain, you know, And like I said, I was already telling all.

  • But I was, you know, that was about to happen, that I wasn't Hannah Montana, but so I still relate to the songs a lot.

  • So I really loved that record that I made.

  • I can't be tamed.

  • That's one of my favorite songs.

  • Uh, how's it going for Ah, recording now our new music or anything going forward?

  • You know, um, and suddenly an interesting time.

  • Because I've talked to other artists about this like my music is about, like, dancing with each other and getting sweaty and going out to the club and sharing drinks and cheers ing and staring J or whatever it isn't when you can't do that anymore, it feels like my music is a type of type.

  • Is it that you want to really connect with people so holding it until everyone can safely go and party together again?

  • Smart.

  • Um, I want about happy hippies dot or GE.

  • Um, this is your foundation.

  • What is Ah, what we folks happen?

  • Give me tat tale.

  • Do you Really?

  • Yeah.

  • It is happy.

  • Happy that everything you're really thought of.

  • Everything.

  • Even your logo, By the way, you have a great set.

  • I'm gonna have a set.

  • I know.

  • I can't wait to make yours.

  • I've got that screen shot of your mouth and it's gonna be a little different.

  • It'll be bearded, but I will enjoy your tongue.

  • This is how you know.

  • So we've got a lot of time on their hands.

  • One time to turn Tom homes in the pillows.

  • Good idea.

  • Happy hippies.

  • Can we talk?

  • Yes.

  • Happy he'd be, you know, right now is really focusing on mental health awareness.

  • Making sure that we're highlighting other organizations that are doing great work for mental help with this time is this is the time that causes a lot of anxiety for people you know, focusing on, uh, you know, unemployment and trying to project, you know, protect the vulnerable.

  • And that's what happy if he's always done, it's It's putting also power into young people's hands and and, um, having them, you know, make the changes that they want to see themselves personally.

  • You can't wait for someone before you gotta do it yourself.

  • So really mobilizing and encouraging young people to fight injustice for themselves.

  • And so right now that means focusing on this pandemic.

  • But, uh, we kind of, you know, we adjust, we're flexible.

  • That's what happening is about.

  • So we really focus on LGBT Youth homelessness in Los Angeles.

  • But this time we're talking about women also being put in really vulnerable positions when you're asked to isolate yourself or your ass to pointing yourself in a home with violence or abuse, it's really important protect women at this time because women are gonna, um, experience hardship at this time in a very different way.

  • Also, women's businesses get shut down.

  • It's a lot harder for them to get loans from the bank to rebuild their brand afterwards.

  • So we'll just experienced this pandemic in a different way.

  • So focusing on that and also focusing on LGBT Thio folks and how that this pandemic will compromise them in some way.

  • So just fighting injustice Goto happy hippies, Plural Don or ge and don't whatever you can.

on Twitter.

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it