Miley Cyrus mashed up classics from Pixies, Sinead O’Connor with her own music at Super Bowl pre-concert
nme.comMiley Cyrus went all out for her set at this year’s Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest, performing 20 songs including mashups, covers, and a live debut of a ‘Plastic Hearts’ deep cut.The former Disney star opened up the show with her 2013 hit ‘We Can’t Stop’, with a brief interpolation of the Pixies’ 1988 classic ‘Where Is My Mind?’.
Later in the set, she blends ‘Wrecking Ball’ with elements of Sinead O’Connor’s Prince-written ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’.A sextet of covers punctuated the setlist, first with ‘Heart Of Glass’ by Blondie, then ‘23’ by Mike WiLL Made-It and ‘Maybe’ by Janis Joplin, with the live debut of her own ‘Plastic Hearts’ track ‘Never Be Me’ sandwiched in-between.
A cover of Cher’s ‘Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)’ followed, with ‘Jolene’ by Dolly Parton and ‘Like A Prayer’ by Madonna also given tributes.Take a look at some crowd-shot footage of Cyrus’ set below:Cyrus co-headlined this year’s edition of the annual Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest, sharing the top spot with Green Day.
Other acts that performed at the three-day festival – which ran from Thursday February 10 to Saturday 12 – were Halsey, Machine Gun Kelly, Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton and Mickey Guyton.Green Day’s set was also laced with covers, as the skate-punk mainstays paid tribute to The Crickets (‘I Fought The Law’), Tommy James & The Shondells (‘I Think We’re Alone Now’), KISS (‘Rock And Roll All Nite’) and Operation Ivy (‘Knowledge’).
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