Miley Cyrus has put on the Hannah Montana wig again thanks to the special 20th anniversary of the remembered Disney Channel series. If all the fans who saw the special program when it premiered on March 24 (Disney +) have something in common, besides being overwhelmed with nostalgia, it was their instant love for the song ‘Younger You’. Let them bring the tissues.
“Hey, I’m your younger self / Just checking to see if you still remember me,” Cyrus sings in the song’s opening lines. ‘Younger You’, although it may have some general appeal as an acoustic song, is designed to reach the hearts of all those people who grew up, literally, with the Hannah Montana series.
People who at that time only suffered from doing their homework on time and who today already have the worries of adult life on their minds: “I know you’re busy with your work / But don’t forget to call your mother and father,” Cyrus sings. In this part of the song, it seems that the artist inserts an autobiographical reference related to the tumultuous relationship with Billy Ray Cyrus: “He misses you / He’ll tell you it’s okay but you’re always on your mind.”
‘Younger You’ is full of tearjerker lines that basically force us to look back even if we don’t want to, with Cyrus singing to the listener that “we lost touch somewhere along the way” or asking if they “love who you’ve become.” “This song says it all,” Cyrus announced on her Instagram before the song’s release, and she was absolutely right.
