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Miley Cyrus Covers “Landslide”: The Worst Ever?

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Posted by Emily Exton on 06/27/2011 at 5:38 PM Videos

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Music purists are likely divided over whether performers born in the ’90s covering Fleetwood Mac is a respectful nod to music’s past, or a sign of the apocalypse. In something that falls slightly more towards the latter, Miley Cyrus has been gifting audiences to a live version of “Landslide” on her Gypsy Heart Tour in Australia. Complete with trashy mom attire—a bedazzled bra arranged to achieve the perfect amount of cleavage, knee-high boots that can still be seen underneath a long, gauze dress with birds…lots of them—Miley tries her best to convey the pain and struggle felt with getting older, attempting to sound like Stevie Nicks with every hacking cough she throws in at the end. (You can’t fake years of drug use.) Ms. Cyrus is definitely not afraid of tackling the greats, having also covered Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” this spring. That dancing alone still frequents our ~~nightmares~~ dreams.

So is Miley’s take on the Mac classic really bad, or just plain awful? She’s not the first of the Under 21 set to tackle this in 2011 alone: Naya Rivera and Heather Morris covered the song—albeit, the Dixie Chicks version—as high school students on Glee (with help from Gwyneth Paltrow). At least Santana questioning her sexuality filled their version with a little more substance than Miley’s musings about the difficulties of jumping from the Disney Channel to Nicholas Sparks films ever will.