Billy Ray Cyrus Talks To GQ
I don't know what I was expecting in a Billy Ray Cyrus interview, but what I got out of the whole thing was a lot of sadness. Apparently Billy Ray likes to sit in the dark at his Nashville house and write songs. You get the feeling from reading the article that the only thing he does is surf the internet to find out what his daughter is doing and write songs. He says he finished an entire album in three weeks and is still writing a song almost every day.
He also wants you to know that he has never taken a dime from Miley or made a money off Miley. Yeah, kind of, but he made a lot of money from Hannah Montana and sold a lot of records from being on that show and the show starred his daughter. So, he might not have got any commission from her, but if not for that show I think he would have been playing nights at casinos for a career right now.
He also says that he has been used for many years. He says it was his job to be the fall guy for everything that went wrong with Miley. If she took pictures of herself almost naked and sent them out to the world it was his fault. Well, yeah, because you are her dad. It is called parenting. He also says the reason he did not attend Miley's 18th birthday party was because it was being held in a bar which he found wrong.
He also says that he has not spoken to Miley since the bong video was released. This just goes on and on for six pages about how hard his life is and how he laments that he was only making $15,000 an episode during much of the run of Hannah Montana. Poor guy. I know he wants us to feel sad for him and I guess I kind of do, but at the same time, he just keeps saying it repeatedly and it kind of gets tiring to hear him say, "put me on the cross, I can take it."
