Getty Miley Cyrus performs onstage during the iHeartRadio Music Festival. Las Vegas Miley Cyrus can't stop. The pop singer was a crowd favorite at the iHeartRadio music festival day event Saturday in Las Vegas. Before she hit the stage, the crowd of a few hundred chanted: "Miley1 Miley! Miley! The 20 year old emerged onstage in all white, wearing a tight corset and high wasted shorts that revealed some of her backside. Her four-song set opened with the anthemic "We can't Stop," where people onstage were dressed in flower, mushroom and rainbow costumes.
While Miley Cyrus has been getting wildly effusive praise for her talents after the success of Wrecking Ball she tepped up on the iHeart Radio stage in Las Vegas Saturday to perform. The singer had enough little people on stage that it looked like a Wizard of Oz reunion. All that was missing was the Lollypop Guild. And Miley was really getting into her performance. Crying at one stage and slapping little person booty the next. The crowd was excited to see the 20 year old singer and they were chanting the singer's name. Darren Criss, who plays Blaine Anderson on the Fox Networks show Glee, performed the emcee duties and he introduced the We Can't Stop singer to the audience. Criss had no trouble coming up with an appropriate intro as he fell back on the old, Milley needs "no introduction" routine.
Miley was attired in a pair of ubiquitous short-shorts with matching camisole or teddy top that laced in the front. Her cast of little-people dancers come on as a mushrooms, flowers, and a couple who were wearing a huge rainbow. One of the little people was dresses in a similar style to Miley; short-shorts and a white halter-type top. It was this young lady's booty that Cyrus slapped while they were twerking together. Her crying came later. Her four numbers were We Can't Stop. Party in the U.S.A., Wrecking Ball, and Look What they've Done to My song. As part of the performance, she spoke of the recent negative press she has been getting. She explained that her videos and the VMA performance might be getting her in "trouble" but she was just doing what her "heart and soul" told her to do. She also admitted that everything was "inspired my music."
Sources at the performance were under the impression that she was really broken up while singing the song. But considering that the music video that featured Miley in her birthday suit also featured her crying, it was most likely part of the act. Although some felt it was the loss of Liam Hemsworth that prompted the tears.
Cyrus, will release her new album "Bangerz" next month, also sang a cover of Melanie Safka's "Look at What They've Done to My Song." The guitar tune featured lyrics like "They think I'm half insane" and "I wish I could find a book to live in." Cyrus has been added as one of the main performers for the second night at iHeartRadio's festival at the MGM Grand Arena, joining a list that includes Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars, Paul McCartney and Drake. Elton John, Katy Perry and Chris Brown performed Friday.