Madonna Said Yes To Mud Wrestling In Scrapped Miley Cyrus Video

By 2013, Miley Cyrus had already scored major hits with the likes of Party In The USA, Can’t Be Tamed and See You Again, but it was her infamous Bangerz era that really put her on the map as a popstar to be reckoned with.

Around this time, the former Disney star cut ties with her Hannah Montana past in a big way when she released her chart-topping hit We Can’t Stop, accompanied by a hard-partying music video.

She followed this with her jaw-dropping performance at that year’s VMAs and her Wrecking Ball video, in which she appeared nude while performing on a makeshift construction site.

In a new interview on the Every Single Album podcast, Miley reflected on her Bangerz years, revealing she had one last visual up her sleeve to round off the era that her record label ultimately refused to let her do.

She explained that she’d hoped to release the album cut 4×4 as a single, which would have been accompanied by a star-studded video featuring A-listers mud wrestling at her family’s ranch.

“I had everyone already lined up,” she said, naming Madonna, Miranda Cosgrove and Nelly as three of the stars who’d given the idea the thumbs up.

“This was before Taylor [Swift] had a lot of famous people in her crew. I was friends with famous people first. I wanted to do that. I had a fucking squad, and my squad was very, very cool.”

She recalled: “Madonna was down to mud wrestle with Miranda Kerr. I was like, ‘I’m gonna get all these girls, all these supermodels, all these Victoria’s Secret models and all of these pop icons to come to my dad’s farm, get in the back of 4x4s, and we’re gonna mud wrestle, and we’re gonna go out and do doughnuts’.”

In the end, Miley’s record label bosses apparently pulled the plug on the plans, as they didn’t want to release 4×4 as a single due to its lyrics “talking about a pit bull [and] piss”.

Miley and Madonna previously collaborated around this time on a country-inspired mash-up of the former’s We Can’t Stop and the latter’s Don’t Tell Me for MTV Unplugged.

In 2015, Miley also made a cameo in Madonna’s Bitch I’m Madonna video, which also featured appearances from Beyoncé, Kanye West, Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj, who also performed a verse on the song.

Elsewhere in her Every Single Album interview, Miley made a surprising admission about another of her prolific collaborators, Dua Lipa.