Hannah Montana: The Movie (Soundtrack)

Copy at Case Memorial Library
Jon Caramanica wrote in the New York Times: "Last year Billy Ray Cyrus famously left his daughter Miley at a photo shoot for Vanity Fair. What happened next involved a bared upper back, an online firestorm and a national referendum on teenage morality and parental responsibility. Ms. Cyrus’s appealing new single, 'The Climb,' is just the sort of demure, inspirational country-rock that could easily be mistaken for self-reckoning. 'Every move I make feels lost with no direction/My faith is shaken,' she sings. 'But I gotta keep trying/Going to keep my head held high.' Dad is feeling a twinge of regret too. His current single, 'Back to Tennessee,' reads as one long apology, both to his teenage self and, by extension, to the daughter under his wing. (Both songs are on the soundtrack to 'Hannah Montana: The Movie,' the latest extension of Ms. Cyrus’s blockbuster Disney franchise.) Sudden fame is illusory, he now realizes. 'Great big town so full of users,' he sings, and he could easily be talking about some of his daughter’s famous friends. 'Some’ll bet on you to win/Most hope you won’t'” ("Playlist," 3/15/09).