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Cosmopolitan
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
Noah Cyrus Performs With Billy Ray Cyrus After Family Drama Is Seemingly Resolved
Noah Cyrus is keeping her family's legendary music legacy alive thanks to the release of her latest album, which she recently performed live at London's Islington Assembly Hall on July 18. The 'July' singer-songwriter was joined on stage by her famous father, Billy Ray Cyrus, who attended the show with his girlfriend, Elizabeth Hurley. Noah and Billy Ray performed their song, 'Stand Still,' and a rendition of the country crooner's track 'With You,' which she reimagined for her album. In fan-captured footage, the father-daughter duo shared a warm embrace and praised each other in front of the crowd. Noah then fixed the feathers that had fallen off her dad's signature wide-brim hat. After the show, Noah shared a sweet message in tribute to her dad, whom she credited for her musical roots. 'Thank you always to my incredibly talented band and to my father, who I love so dearly, for joining us,' she wrote, in part, alongside stunning images and clips from the show. 'We got to sing 'Stand Still' and 'With You,' which is actually a song my father wrote from his childhood bedroom and was one of the first songs he ever wrote.' She added that the 'Achy Breaky Heart' hitmaker used to serenade her with the song throughout her childhood. 'That's been a song of comfort that he's sung to me since I was a little kid and it meant so much to me to be singing it together and share that moment with one another,' she continued. 'It's always been the gift of music that's brought us together. Feeling extremely grateful for the incredible fans who were singing every word from the new record. I'm one lucky girl.' The performance comes hot off the release of Noah's sophomore album, I Want My Loved Ones to Go with Me, which included her emotional lead single, 'Don't Put It All on Me,' with Fleet Foxes. The track was co-written with her brother, Braison Cyrus, and alluded to reported drama her family has faced in recent years. 'I have always been the observer in our family, and Braison wrote about how I tend to carry the weight of that on my shoulders,' the Grammy nominee wrote in a press release sent to Cosmopolitan. It seems that things are all good between the Cyruses, as Noah performed with Billy Ray and her older sis, Miley Cyrus, opened up about her connection to her parents in a May interview with The New York Times' The Interview podcast. 'My mom is like so in love with my stepdad Dom, who I also just completely adore,' Miley said of Tish Cyrus's marriage to Dom Purcell. 'And now that my dad, I see him finding happiness outside of that too, I can love them both as individuals instead of as a kind of, you know, a parental pairing.' 'At first, it's hard,' Miley said, referring to her parents' budding romances with new people. 'The little kid in you reacts before the adult in you and go, 'Yes, that's your dad, but that's just another person that deserves to be in his bliss and be happy.''
UPI
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
Watch: Noah Cyrus performs 'Way of the World' on 'Late Show'
1 of 5 | Noah Cyrus arrives for the MTV Video Music Awards in 2017. She performed on "Late Show" Thursday. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo July 18 (UPI) -- Singer Noah Cyrus performed her new song "Way of the World" on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Thursday. She wore a long black dress with long black gloves and performed in front of a garden arbor covered in apparent vines. "From the very first moment it hurts 'til the day that you're laid in the dirt, yeah but that's just the way that it works -- the way of the world," she sings. Her performance on Late Show coincided with news of the late night talk show's cancellation following the 2025-26 season. "Way of the World" appears on Cyrus' newest album, I Want My Loved Ones to Go With Me, which arrived July 11 and features 11 tracks, including "New Country" with Blake Shelton, and "Don't Put It All on Me" with Fleet Foxes. Ella Langley collaborates with Cyrus on "Way of the World" on the album. Other songs include "I Saw the Mountains," "What's it All For?," "Long Ride Home," "Apple Tree," "Man in the Field," "With You," "Love is a Canyon" and "XXX." Cyrus is currently on tour, which kicked off last week in Los Angeles and winds down Oct. 24 in Phoenix, Ariz.
Yahoo
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Watch: Noah Cyrus performs 'Way of the World' on 'Late Show'
July 18 (UPI) -- Singer Noah Cyrus performed her new song "Way of the World" on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Thursday. She wore a long black dress with long black gloves and performed in front of a garden arbor covered in apparent vines. "From the very first moment it hurts 'til the day that you're laid in the dirt, yeah but that's just the way that it works -- the way of the world," she sings. Her performance on Late Show coincided with news of the late night talk show's cancellation following the 2025-26 season. "Way of the World" appears on Cyrus' newest album, I Want My Loved Ones to Go With Me, which arrived July 11 and features 11 tracks, including "New Country" with Blake Shelton, and "Don't Put It All on Me" with Fleet Foxes. Ella Langley collaborates with Cyrus on "Way of the World" on the album. Other songs include "I Saw the Mountains," "What's it All For?," "Long Ride Home," "Apple Tree," "Man in the Field," "With You," "Love is a Canyon" and "XXX." View this post on Instagram A post shared by Noah Cyrus (@noahcyrus) Cyrus is currently on tour, which kicked off last week in Los Angeles and winds down Oct. 24 in Phoenix, Ariz. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Noah Cyrus (@noahcyrus)
Los Angeles Times
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
‘The Ballad of Wallis Island' is a crowd-pleasing folk-music comedy worth crowing about
At this year's Sundance, I blushed every time someone asked about my favorite movies of the fest. I knew I'd have to include James Griffiths' 'The Ballad of Wallis Island,' a twee-sounding British comedy about a folk musician named Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) who plays a gig on a remote Welsh island for his No. 1 fan, Charles (Tim Key). Sundance is all about championing bold new discoveries that will electrify the art form. But this sentimental charmer is literally acoustic: an expansion of the 2007 BAFTA-nominated short film 'The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island,' which, like the feature, was directed by Griffiths with a script from Basden and Key. And it's something almost as rare as a revelation: a crowdpleaser I'd recommend to everyone. And I have, from the grocery store clerks in Park City to my aunt to my metalhead pal — and now I'm tipping you off, too. The core story has deepened over the decade and a half it took to enlarge it to full-length. Eighteen years ago, indie folk was ascendant in the U.K. with the formation of Mumford & Sons, and already on the airwaves in the States thanks to Sufjan Stevens, Fleet Foxes and the Plain White T's. The short film's incarnation of Herb McGwyer had more hair, more hope and more cool-kid credibility in pop culture. This older Herb knows his peak has passed. Once, he sold out shows as half of the folk duo McGwyer Mortimer; today, he's a sell-out. His ex-bandmate and former girlfriend Nell Mortimer (Carey Mulligan) stopped speaking to him ages ago in favor of expatriating to Portland, Ore., to sell chutney at farmers markets. We don't hear any of Herb's post-duo commercial hits, but we're meant to assume they're godawful. His mood sure is. Having sullenly agreed to a £500,000 paycheck for one show, Herb gets drenched as soon as his boat wobbles into Wallis Island and spends most of the film with his bangs plastered pathetically to his forehead. He's even grown himself a hipster mustache of despair. Herb's patron, Charles, is a mysterious mega-millionaire who has spent a fortune for a private show. An apple-cheeked, motor-mouthed fanboy, he doesn't fit the profile of, say, former Libyan dictator Moammar Kadafi who managed to command performances from Mariah Carey and Beyoncé. Charles swears up and down his fortune isn't from anything evil and Key's smile is enough to convince you. He's never done anything crueler than return a library book past due. Charles used a chunk of his money to travel the world and settled down with souvenir magnets cluttering every inch of his fridge. 'Katmandu was very much a case of Katman-did,' the lonely widower says, bubbling over with his need to impress his famous guest or really, just to talk to anybody. The composer Adem Ilhan has written a warm score of creaky horns and foot-stomping jangles to pair with Basden's 16 original songs, but the film's actual soundtrack is Charles' constant chatter. (Key acted a minor role as the Pigeon Man in Bong Joon Ho's 'Mickey 17,' but he launched his career as a comic poet.) Quips, puns, allusions — the nonsense tumbles out of him so fast, you barely have time to make sense of one joke before he's onto the next. I'd call 'Wallis Island' a contender for the most quotable film of the year but there are so many good lines stacked on top of each other, and so much giggling on top of that, it's impossible to keep up with Key's wordplay. Presenting Herb with a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue, he calls it a 'Winona.' As in Ryder, as in a tour rider, as in the goodies a musician expects in their dressing room. Only once does Charles find himself stymied. 'Well, I'm speechless,' he says to fill the silence. 'Well, you're not,' Herb rebuts. Yet, there's a cyclone of emotions inside this goofball that he never lets out — never ever. If he did, the film would get maudlin. But there are clues: Watch how furiously Charles plays tetherball when no one is looking. Basden and Key have been performing together since they were on the Cambridge Footlights sketch team in 2001. (Key wasn't a university student, but he pretended to be writing a PhD thesis on Nikolai Gogol — true story.) They're comfortable making things awkward. That the film is shot like a drama prevents their odd-couple clash from getting cartoonish. Griffiths keeps most of the humiliations subtle, rather than sitcom large — say, having Herb wear Charles' old tees, one of which is a McGwyer Mortimer tour shirt of his own face. The audience will see the surprise arrival of Mulligan's Nell coming like a warship on the horizon. His estranged ex's appearance alongside her new American husband, Michael (Akemnji Ndifornyen), gobsmacks this snob off his pedestal. Nell knows Herb well enough to be thoroughly unimpressed. When Herb reveals his new back tattoo, exposing that a guy who once prided himself on authenticity is now desperately chasing trends, Mulligan's Nell barely cocks an eyebrow. 'Cool,' she says. Her neutrality is brutal. Mulligan has been edging toward comedy without committing to it. She's great in that sweet spot of playing either narcissistic fools (like 'Saltburn's' Poor Dear Pamela) or here, a woman who shows up with a game plan to be confident and droll. Although Mulligan is the newbie within this filmmaking team, she probably knows the folk-star world more intimately than any of them — she's been married to the singer of Mumford & Sons since 2012. The script promptly sends her fictional spouse off on a birding expedition so that Herb and Nell can get slowly and persuasively reacquainted. (Pun-happy Charles would no doubt call the conveniently exiled husband's trip a McGuffin of puffins.) With just one other character worth mentioning, a daffy shop clerk played by 'Fleabag's' Sian Clifford, there's only so many moves a story this small can make. The film can't afford to be shy about contrivances, but it's only willing to cheat on facts, not feelings. You can imagine how things will play out and you'd be close but not exact. Griffiths doesn't fight against the formula, he just takes our expectations for every scene and gingers them up a little, the movie version of a cozy sweater threaded with tinsel. It's the music that takes things from pleasant to powerful — not just indie folk's earnest refrains, but the way everyone hides behind the songs' pretense of candor while keeping their own walls sky-high. All three leads croon along with these pure emotions, each one believing they've grown to know each other, either through their own lyrics or Charles' nonstop blather. Yet whenever one claims to know what another person wants, they're usually wrong. Key, in particular, plays all the these layers beautifully. Blunt as his Charles is, he proves to be the most guarded of the trio; there are unsung stanzas of sadness in his eyes. He might open up if his heroes asked. Except he's the geek, the hanger-on, the money man, so nobody does. Fandom isn't painless. But 'Wallis Island' is worth applause.
USA Today
26-03-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Billy Ray Cyrus praises daughters Miley and Noah amid alleged family rift: 'So damn proud'
Billy Ray Cyrus praises daughters Miley and Noah amid alleged family rift: 'So damn proud' Show Caption Hide Caption Billy Ray Cyrus and Firerose divorce after 8 months of marriage Billy Ray Cyrus filed for divorce from Firerose last month, just eight months after they tied the knot. unbranded - Entertainment Unsurprisingly, Billy Ray Cyrus' love language is the art of music. The country singer-songwriter, who has made headlines in recent months for an alleged feud with his children, praised his daughters Miley and Noah Cyrus in an affectionate Instagram post Tuesday. Both Miley and Noah have recently announced new music. Noah released "Don't Put It All on Me," a collaboration with Grammy-nominated folk band Fleet Foxes, on March 19. Meanwhile, Miley announced on Monday the arrival of her ninth album "Something Beautiful," which is slated for a May 30 release. "You are witnessing in real time what it feels like for a Dad who with in less than one weeks time has had his (butt) kicked and his mind blown by not one …but two of his own daughters @mileycyrus @noahcyrus," Cyrus wrote alongside a side-by-side photo of Miley and Noah. He added: "Flesh and blood … completely taking their art to a whole new level. Congratulations girls! Well done I'm so damn proud of both of you. I'm actually crying as I write this. Thank God you can't see me. Have fun now and be happy! 😊Love Dad." Miley and Noah have seemingly not responded to Cyrus' post since its publication. Cyrus' social media endorsement comes after his son Trace Cyrus expressed concern for the "Achy Breaky Heart" singer's well-being in a Jan. 22 Instagram post, writing, "Sadly the man that I wanted so desperately to be just like I barely recognize now." "It seems this world has beaten you down and it's become obvious to everyone but you," Trace continued. "You may be upset with me for posting this but I really could care less at this point. Me and the girls have been genuinely worried about you for years but you've pushed all of us away." Days later, Cyrus allegedly threatened Trace with legal action for "encouraging him to get help," the former Metro Station guitarist claimed in a subsequent post on his Instagram Story. "You should be ashamed of yourself," Trace wrote in a since-deleted follow-up post. "I will always love you but I no longer respect you as a man." Trace Cyrus speaks out: Billy Ray Cyrus' son shares he's 'worried' about dad post-Trump performance Cyrus shares five children with ex-wife Tish Cyrus, including Trace Cyrus, 36; Brandi Cyrus, 37; Miley Cyrus, 32; Braison Cyrus, 30; and Noah Cyrus, 25. The singer has another son, Christopher Cody Cyrus, with Kristin Luckey. For her part, Miley has kept mum about a possible rift with Cyrus. When asked if there was an estrangement between the two during a June 2024 interview with David Letterman, the pop star said, "My parents served us and sacrificed so much for us. Anything we dreamed of, they made possible." Cyrus family drama: Trace Cyrus says Billy Ray made legal threat after he claimed dad needs help As for Noah, the "July" songstress reportedly showed appreciation for Cyrus in a pair of posts on her Instagram Story in February, per People magazine and E! News. In the first post, dated Feb. 7, Noah said she was "proud" of her father and gave a shoutout to the release of his song "Lost." Contributing: Brendan Morrow and Jay Stahl, USA TODAY
