Brandi Cyrus

adult content. You guys. I have Brandy Cyrus in the house. What what This girl is so amazing? She does so. She's a model, she's a DJ, she's no world traveler. She has a hit show on Bravo called Cyrus Versus Cyrus with her mother Tish, where they compete against each other to see who has the best home design. This girl has got it all going on. She's she's from one of the most famous families ever, the Cyrus family, And we just talked about life and everything under the sun.

Here she is with Brandy Service, so happy here. I know what I just saw you last night. Briefly, you have been on a world exploration. Tell me what about your travels, because this is an exciting thing you just like happened, happened randomly, I know, I know. So I'm always usually traveling back and forth to l A, New York just for work and stuff. Um and it's been years since I had been overseas. But when I was younger, um, little not. In fact, I used to play guitar for

Hannah Montana back in the day. I did see you have like a Brandy cam at Hannah Montana too. You want around like did behind the scenes Manna Montanta stup back in the day. So would you go to boring with Hannah Montana before she was with Miley Cyrus and she was just Hannah Montana. I was her guitar player for the Hannah Montana band and um, and I got to travel in Europe with her a lot when I was much younger. Oh my gosh, so you saw it all? We were your favorite places we did? We did mostly

Europe is what we did. Um like London, Paris, UM, Berlin, Munich like random random European cities is mostly where we went. I've been to Italy on vacation with my mom, but I haven't been over season so long, and I've been itching too, and then literally out of nowhere. My brother Brazen Um, who out of all of us, is probably the most talented. We all say that he's so talented and and what doesn't really do that sounds really bad? But he's only twenty three? Is he talented in music? Everything?

He went to film school for a year. I made some insane film. I was like, how do you know how to do that? And then music, you can play any instrument plays by ear, has a great voice, has a little bit of interest in acting, and anytime he puts himself on tape, he like kills it. I'm like, how do you everything? Like? Because he doesn't like he doesn't he doesn't go to acting class, he doesn't take lessons to play music. He can just naturally do it all.

It's insane, um, but maybe's genetics because all of you got it the easiest, Like I had to work really hard to learn guitar, and I had to work really hard to go to act like, and he just can naturally do all these things. So um. Anyway, he lives here now. He moved here about a year ago. Well, according to the season finale. Every Cyrus lives here, but Miley and you all are trying to persuade her of your new show, Cyrus Versus Cyrus. Um, okay, I guess

I can tell you. I mean, she hasn't closed on it, but she made an offer on a house a few weeks ago when she was in town in Franklin with some property. So your plan worked. So the plan worked. Yeah, but we had to get into that. But he has the guesthouse, which she loves. But you know, when she comes with Liam and I means, it's it's a lot to be in that little, tiny, little barn. So it

was so funny last time they were here. He works out every day and he was working out in the yard because he couldn't in the house because it's so small. And so she was like, I think it's time when he gets something bigger, if we want to be here more. I love it. So she made an offern of house. Hopefully, um, you know across it goes through and she closes and she wants to be here a lot. Heck, yeah, everybody's here. Okay, so we're gonna talk all about Cyrus Versus Cyrus, your

new show. Bo back to brazen back to brazen, so brazen who sits at home and grows his own herbs and chickens and eggs, and like he's like such a little like just homebody. He really is. Um, he got just this random phone call to walk in the dul Changabanna fashion show for Men's Fashion Week in Milan. Because

even pursuing model, you know, of course, of course. Uh he So when he was younger, living in l A. I'm talking like five years ago, he's like a blessed one is he signed the deal with Wilhelmina in l A. But now I don't even I don't think he ever worked one job. He got offered plenty of things, and he was just like no, I just want to play music or no, you know what I mean. No, I'm in film school right now. So like he never really

did anything with it. But if you google him, I'm pretty sure it pops up are his head shot some you know, some photos that he had taken. So I don't know if somebody googled him or what. But um, how they find him, I don't know. Someone reached out to my mom and was like, hey, we're trying to get ahold of Brazen's representation, we'd like him to walk in the I forget what they called. They called it the Millennial something show for Dulching Gabana and Um, at first,

we like, my mom was like is this real? I don't know. I actually I'm signed the next model. So I like had my agent look into it for him, and it was like two weeks before the show and they were like, yes, it's real, we have other boys walking in the show. Like we can negotiate his contract if he wants to sign to us, blah blah blah. So it's like modeling contracts signed one Labana show books and they offered to fly him and and a guest

like business class or whatever. And since I've done fashion week a lot and everything, my mom was like, you should take Brandy and you guys can go, and so we went. It was the best time ever. Um, the dul show was so cool. They had like a hundred and some boys walking in this show. It was Brazen nervous because like, wait, wasn't so he's so crazy, he's never done a runaway show, Like should you practice? He was like no, he was like, it's walking, It's fine.

It was so he just doesn't worry and he killed it. He did great. We didn't I didn't take Yeah, he just didn't stress, no stress, so chill. He's so chill all the time. But anyway, so he yeah, he killed it. It It was a cool show because they had they did have models walking, but they also had just other cool guys, like a couple of um Puff Daddy's kids that we know from l A. They were randomly there. And then this guy Avan that we're friends with who's

a director, he was walking in the show. So it seemed like they made it a point to have other guys in the show that aren't just models, which I thought was really cool for like a high designer to do. You don't really see that all. I just can't believe. The first show is in Switzerland, Dulch and Comana, and he's just like, yeah, it's cool. Yeah. Yeah. So we because we were all in Milan, he was like, I don't want to go there, you know, fly all that

way and just come back in two days. So we asked them to um just like fly us out three days later, and we decided to go to Switzerland together and just this little like trip to interlock and we the best time ever. What's your favorite part? I don't know. So I loved the lakes there. They're turquoise, you see, have you seen them? Yes, I've been there in winter, so it's been kind of cold. I don't know if I would I tell you these lakes like our turquoise.

I've never seen anything like it. Like it. It does not look real like even after being there three days, it still didn't look real to me. Um. So I loved the lakes and just being an interlocking right there. But then it's all in the Young Frown Mountain region of the Alps, and so you can take a train ten fifteen minutes and you're in all these mountain villages, towns and so on the third day we went to a town called grindle Wald, and it's on this mountain

called First I've been there. Yes, it's my favorite place on earth. Yes, that place blew my mind. And we spent our last day there because the long story short, my horse stepped on my foot two days before I left town. Horror to nail off. And so I was I was like limping my way through Switzerland, and so all the things I wanted to do, like hike and and and do all the activities and everything I couldn't

do because I was limping so too bad. You just have drink wine and eat cheese and back to go back. But I loved it. We took like the cable car all the way to the very top. Took like thirty minutes to ride this cable car, and it was so beautiful and you're like going up into the mountains and you can see the little villages and then you get all the way to the freaking top and you're just in the clouds. I mean, it was a dream place.

And I mean I love to hike and be outdoors, so I was killing me to not be able to do that. But it's somewhere that I would definitely want to go back and explore more. I freaking love it, and I love how it just happened so fast like that, and that I was like, because like we could have gone anywhere from Milan, you know, And I was like,

I want to go to the Alps. I've never been, and it was like I made up my mission to go, and I actually reached out to Interlocking Tourism, so I was like why not, And I reached out and they took such great care of us. They met us off the train when we got there. They took us and did a whole like the touristy things like you know, we'dn't have to pay for any of it. We played on Instagram because they were so kind and on top

of all of it. Like I was expecting some like I don't know, like year old woman to show up who was heading the tourism boards, least on a hot Swiss outresh because it wasn't that good, but it was second best. It was a really cool girl who was and she brought her friends with her and they hung out with us the entire trip. We had the best time. She had built in friends, Like I've never met nicer

people in my entire life. It's crazy. You'll come to Nashville so I can show this hospitality you It's not as cool, but like, please come. That's freaking awesome. But I feel like that's kind of like your vibe. Life is just cool, Like you have like cool life, your family is cool. You'll do cool stuff. So we're doing a little rapid fire. Okay, so just say the first thing that comes to your mind. Okay, we actually Okay, first off, describe yourself in three words. Oh my gosh, Um,

describe myself in three words outdoorsy. That's awesome, outdoorsy and outgoing. I feel like I'm pretty outgoing and laid back outdoors. There's a big part of your upbringing, isn't it? Tell me about that? Because y'all love horses so much and you have tons of dogs. I I saw that your mom.

I was watching all your interviews, like talking you hard, and your mom was saying, y'all always were rescuing animals and you have so many dogs and animals that she had one ring of the house that was the white room. The white room, like no one was allowed in, like human or animal. It is insane. There's so much life running around in the Cyrus clan that she's like, this is my room. So how did that tell me about the dog rescue and all the animals? And where did

that love come from? Um? Both my parents really just like it's funny. My mom. Um, she was adopted but and she was the only child, so she always had pets growing up and stuff. And uh, my dad, he his his dad. So my grandfather trains or he passed away when I was in college, but he trained spotted saddle horses in Kentucky, and so my dad grew up around horses. And from the time I can remember, Um, we've had horses like on our property. We've always lived

on land and my dad's always had horses around. So when I was five years old, he just stuck me on a horse like, no helmet, no sad like, no was that, no nothing, and was like, all right, let's go, you know. And that's how I learned how to ride. Um. And we've always grown up with animals. We've got a lot of German shepherds ever since I can do the best dogs. That's what I have now of a German Shepherd rescue. And I don't know, like I mean, just any memory I ever have of being a child who's

been outside with my dad and with the animals. You know. Um, my dad's got a lot of Cherokee Indian and his blood, so a lot of that, like living out on the land and being connected to nature kind of comes from that. Um. And you know, I'm probably the one that took to the horse thing more than anybody else. Um. The boys rode dirt bikes and I rode horses. And Noah too. She she loves horses, and when we lived in l A. She and I competed on the hunter jumper circuit together

and that's how we became so close. But but yeah, my dad always my dad just always taken in animals, Like I think my mom's told a story about how I think they were in Canada and my dad rescued these like chickens from somewhere and made my mom put them in her jacket and take them on the plane and shot them home. How she gets sea when it wasn't this big of a deal, I don't know, because she literally took these chickens or whatever on the plane, and like does she just go along with it all?

She just goes with it. Yeah, I don't know, it's so crazy. She's like, I'll go with it. Off. I have to have my white room. Yeah, the white room, as long as no one goes in the white rooms. Is the white room beautiful? It's not even that pretty now, Like we were just in there filming the show. Of course they wanted to see it, and I was like, this room isn't even that great. My Mom's like it could standar remodel sit you are remodeling, maybe remodel the

white room. So oh, she's already want she wants to remodel the entire farm always Okay, So okay, if we get picked up for season two, I guarantee you that makes it into season two. So I want. I cannot wait to talk about your show. But okay, first off, its celebrity crap today. Yes, Kyrie Irving, who's that? It's been that for a minute. Actually, Hi Kyrie Irving. He plays for the Cleveland Kevaliers. La la. Just have we said hey, my follow on Instagram? I don't know what

else to say. Hey, Okay, I don't know. That's the crush of the week. Okay, do you like athletes or actors or musicians or so for only get real real, every guy I've ever dated has been a musician. I've not ever, ever ever date anybo that's the same. And I'm sure that's just the world I live in. It's the world has raised in whatever. So um, after the last one, I was like, it's time to change, core change. You're so yeah, I've kind of been into the athlete thing, right,

It's great. Yeh see, I don't know. Okay, Well I'll follow you and I'll keep up with it and see what happens keep me posted? Okay, Um, what is your pet peeve? I probably have a lot of them, but one of them is people that walk right in front of you and just walk so slow and you're clueless about it. I'm like, aren't you aware that there's someone behind you that's trying to go somewhere terrible? And also like closed talkers driving me crazy too? Yes, yeah, I could,

Like it's a spatial issue. I just need I think you need some space. Yeah. I feel like you should answer these two after I give my answers. Unfair, No, no, no, you're close talkers. Um. What is a beauty must have for you? Um? Like beauty products, eyebrow anything, pencil, gotta have it on. I just started filling in my eyebrows recently. Can you believe that they look great? It's a game changer, game changer? Yeah, Like, if I can only do one thing before I walk out of the house, it's it's

make sure my eyebrows are even. Have you heard of the eyebrow tattoo things? Yeah? What do you think? No, First of all, it has to be insanely painful and also so tattoos like I've bunched on my hands and everything and anything that you wash frequently or that's you know, like you getting water on. I mean, you wash your face every day. So I would imagine they would fade pretty fast. But maybe I'm wrong, But I don't think you need to do that. If that's where you were going, well,

it's because I filled them in. So well okay, well they look yeah, you doing that? Yeah? And the tattoo on your face, I know. So speaking of tattoos, what do all your tattoos mean? Well? So, which from the diet first? Uh? This when I got first, it's a music note, really cheesy love though, Well that's a huge part of was on tour and I was on to I was with Miley, playing with Miley and my best friends at the time and I'm still really close with them were in a band called ever Life. They were

a Disney group. Okay, uh And there it's three sisters and they were like sisters to me because I loved them here in town for a long time and they were on tour with us, and so the three of them and me got this tattoo together. Are you also close? The first one? Yeah? And and it's funny because the youngest sister in that group now sings background vocals for Miley. Well, that's awesome. Stayed in the yeah and the crew, So I love that. That's the first one. I think I

got this one second, it's across. It was forgiven. Um, and my mom and I got tattoos at the same time. She had that same she doesn't she got music notes with like a scripture or something on her wrist at the time. UM, So we did that. And then also on tour for some reason, there's always tattoo or a son tour and right, yeah, Miley drew this on my hand to the sharpie. It's a heart and was like, I dare you get that tattooed? Like, okay because there's tattoo artists there. Um, and my dad did it as

well and my mom, so we all got that. That's his handwriting. Um. And then these two were I don't know, they were just kind of um, very like spontaneous tattoos. But that's his hope. That's across. It's kind of self explainati um of a feather feather here. My brother Trace has this same tattoo, but his ghoes from here to here, his ribs and it's just you know, like I said, a lot Cherokee in our blood. So he has quite

a few Cherkey inspired tattoos. And I got this one and then happened to get a dog years later that I named Feather, even though it wasn't really so it's not there's no connotation. But now I'm like feather. Oh, I have one of my ribs and it's in Cherokee writing and Turkey language. It says spirit of the black Horse. Because when I was a kid, I had a black horse that I got when he was four and had

him until probably six five or six years ago. We had to put him down, but he was like my childhood horse that I grew up with, and I wanted to get a tattoo for him, but his name was Lance, and I was like, I'm not they were gonna be like you love in saying, So I came up with that. I love that. Yeah, tattoos. I have one. This is grateful, but I am addicted. I want to get more of I can't believe you only have one. Well, it took me thirty three years to get one. Usually want to

get one, though, It's like I know, dominofect. I have a major problem with the commitment. Yes, yes, So like that's the thing I wish I could do, like a disappearing tattoo that would disappear after five years. I think you've really test it out. I know you gotta go. I know it's you're right, you're right, you're actually you're so right because you gotta go. Here's what I think. After having all my tattoos, I think, get don't get

color to stick to black ink, you know, gray or whatever. Um, and I think just keep them small because the only one I'm not crazy about that I have is this one, and it's only because of how big it is. Smaller I wouldn't be mad about it. But it's very it's very big. That's my only Okay, I think stick to small, Yeah, stick to black ink. Okay, I think I'm gonna file that away. Okay. So what is a hidden talent that you have? You are all your talents out there because

you've got a lot of challenge. I really had. And you were also for a minute you were in a duo. You had a record deal on Intersco, which kind of is in how because no one knows about it? Which is that right? That's a big deal. Um? Yeah, it's crazy. So the girl in that band with me, her brother is actually Miley's guitar player still is Jocko, and he introduced us and it was I was kind of playing, you know, as Miley's guitar play like I told you.

And then when she started making music as Miley as well, they put together a whole new band for her. And I met Jocko when they were having banded auditions and he was like, oh, you've been playing, is that's cool? Like you should meet my sister because she plays music, and you guys should write together. And I had never written before, but I had wanted I wanted to start. And the girl that was living with me at the time,

her name is Megan Park. She's an actress and she knew Cody, the girl Cody h and so I was like, oh, my roommate knows her, Like, yeah, maybe the three of us should get together. So the three of us got together and wrote a song together. Um and from there, Cody was like, Hey, do you guys want to just come and play with me out of this open mic?

I just need a guitar player. And I was like sure, and Megan came along and saying harmonies and somehow out of that we started this band called Frank and Daryl and it was the three of us in the very very gay and then Cody and I just started to take it more seriously because we were getting, you know, and a moment. Yeah, and it just kind of started to happen without us really trying. Um and Megan was like, guys, I would love to do this, but I mean she was on a TV show full time, and she was like,

I just can't commit to it. So it ended up just being Cody and I and from there we got the record deal with Interscope. How is that awful with the Scope because the record labels are the worst? Record labels are tricky? Huh, Yeah, it was. It was not great. It was not a great experience with the label. Um, you know, the experience Cody and I had was was awesome.

And we spent a year and a half making a record in Santa Monica and from there we started the tour and it was right when Interscope was making a lot of changes. They Jimmy Iveen was president at the time, and then while he's not president, I he might still be the Scope but John Janet and then he was the label that fueled by Roman. I feel like because Okay to head up, he came over to Innerscope and

when he came in, like everything just changed. And when that happens, a lot of time bands just get swept under the rug. He ended up dropping about two artists and we weren't one of them, but we were one that just kind of got shelved at the time. And it was after Cody and I had been doing this for about five years, okay, thing off of Taco Bell and living in a van, and it was really hard and I kind of got to a point where they weren't letting us to her. They weren't putting it out

a record. I don't get that. Why have an artist signed if you're not going to do something? What's the point? I have no clue. I don't that's the logic. I don't understand. I think two hundred thousand dollars on our record is the number. I'm pretty sure that wasn't our deal. And it's like you're gonna spend to under grand on a record and not put it out. It doesn't make any sense to me. I don't get it. I don't

get that at a thing to me. I would think if anyone asked me my opinion about a record, which no one has, but this is my opinion. I think record label should really sign artists and keep it smaller and really developed the artists they signed instead of well that's the beauty. Now, I'm going with the boutique labels kind of a major because that's what they do, and that's why they're doing so well now, you know, and they're able to focus on just the artists that they

really believe in. Um So, I don't know. We had a mix. We had a mix of a lot of really bad bad stuff, like bad management. We just our management wasn't great and r wasn't great, and um, it just got to a point where it was the frustration of all of it was causing a wedge between Cody and I and it just started to get really, really tough.

And after we went on on the road for about six weeks and we were playing just the smallest venues, you know, under a hundred people and night weren't making any money, and it got really hard, and um, what started out as a break and me moving back here to Nashville ended up with the band was breaking up because the label wasn't putting any money behind pouring. They weren't releasing our record. And I was like at the time that I was probably twenty five by then, and

I was like, I can't do this anymore. So you were living l A. And You're like, I gotta piece out. Moved to Nashville because I honestly couldn't afford to stay in it and being the band, Like, if the band was gonna make money, I couldn't pay rent. And I was like, it's not if I were going to tour. And at the time, it was like, we're going to tour and we're gonna live on the road and tell this works. And I was like, why would I pay two thousand dollars a month in rent in l A.

If we're gonna be gone all the time. So in my brain I was dating a guy here at the time. In my brain, I was like, I'm going to move

back to Nashville. I'm gonna pay five a month in rent, you know, being near your family, Yeah, being near my dad and have somewhere to leave my dog where she was a yard involved being to my boyfriend when I am home, and then when I'm not we go on the road and I'm not spending a bunch of money, and so I moved back and and things just it just it's not that they fell apart, and it's not

that it was dramatic. It just like it fizzled right, and I started getting offers to do other things, and and that at that age, I was just kind of sick of living in a van, right, I hear you. Sometimes it just runs its course. Yeah. So you have a lot of talents though, So music is one music. You're also a DJE, which is music, which is music, but it's being DJ. Being a DJ is so hard,

it's so fun. Jin I was just an amazing race and one of challenges was with my partner Gin and we had to be a DJ, and like scratch, it took up. It took us like three hours to repeat. Though, is an art form in its own I feel like that plately separate than DJing. Cratching is like I can't do that. It's completely there. It's like an art form. What is DJing? But DJ it's really just I mean, it's knowing who you're playing for, It's knowing who's in the room, being able to read the energy and kind

of feed off of it. Um, it's mixing, blending songs together. So you have to have an ear for key and bpm and know what you're doing. So depending on what genre I'm playing. If it's hip hop, I do a lot of beat matching, it's not, I just do a lot of key matching and kind of blend and play

what people are into. You have to just like watch the room and see what makes people dance, and if they're like not and it's like the vibes going down, then you know you've got to switch it up and either play something more on beat or a different genre a different song. But I don't know, it's really fun. How did you get into that? Ah? I guess Like so, I've been working in fashion for about six years, ever since the band stopped, and tell me what you're doing fashion,

You're and editor started as a blogger. So that's my fancy way of calling myself a blogger, you know, my own editor of this blog. So it started as it's called style Native Style Native. Yeah, And when I signed my modeling contract, that was a big part of it.

They were like, because I had mentioned the bo was like, I kind of want to start a fashion blog and it was right when girls first started to be able to make money and profit off off blogging, and I was like, I should do this, like no brainer, Like I love clothes and I love to write. So I was like, I'm just gonna do this. And the next

really encouraged me. So when they signed my when I sign my modeling deals when I started it, and U and so I would go a lot of a lot of blogging is attending events and networking and blah blah blah. And so I would go to these fashion events and every girls deejaying getting paid a lot more than me, and it's been a lot more fun because I hate going to events and networking and chit chat. That's like not my thing at all, So might well be ever time.

I was like, I might as well play that, like go somewhere and hear the music I want to hear and have a purpose and get paid more. And it just made sense and I was like, I know I can do it, like you should be smart, like you're savvy. Yeah, so that's that's okay, literally, and and then I did it like twice and I was like, oh, this is it. I was like I'm hooked. You loved it, it was love. Okay, that's amazing. So I'm just gonna make sure I cover

all the bases because you sing, you cannot sing. You don't sing, so you're not they'd sing backup vocals, but it's a not that fun and be like, I'd really work at it, like I am not a natural singer at all. Okay, So you like to play guitar. I play guitar and keys in my band. Nice guitars and my probably my better definitely my better instrument though, um so yeah, musician, not singer. Okay, can't sing. Okay, well

you got you got the music. Gee, So you play guitar, you play keys, model, blog DJ, and I love animals. But now the latest edition am I missing anything? The latest edition is this new show on Bravo that is so stink and adorable and well, I I just I've always really liked your whole family concept because I think you are kind of a modern Dame Partu's family. Everybody says yes, everyone from your mom to your dad to every single sibling is doing something so cool and so talented,

and you'll really like stick together. I feel like I do, which is weird. I know, it's it's it's like it's weird. It's even like when we're all together, it's like it's weird for me. I'm like, man, this isn't pretty cool that we all like still like support each other and make time for each other and around, you know, with so much fame in your family too, just a lot going on to like we're all just so busy. But yes, as we do that, you all would be drawn apart

or something would happen. How do you guys make it all work? And is it weird being in such a famous family or is it just normal normal? Isn't that weird? It's weird that it's normal, because well most people don't realize is when I was six years old, my dad had the biggest song on the radio, keep Breaking Heart, so I that marks time in my life I keep breaking Heart but came out. It was like what is this?

And any anyone anywhere near my age would say that, like that's you know, because I mean at six years old, that's when it was on the radio, and and I was going to public elementary school and my dad was super famous. So to me, it's always been normal. So you didn't really know any different not at all. Okay, So was it was? Was it your family unit was attacked? But was the world heart? Was it was a world hard on you? Or you sheltered from all of that?

Or what was your childhood like? Could you like a little bit of both? Like, definitely, school was hard, and my parents kept me in public school, which I'm super thankful for. And I'm it's Franklin a group of Franklin, Tennessee. Like the public school system might as well be private schools. Um. But it was hard because even as a young kid, I remember people either wanting to be my friend because of my dad or making fun of me because of my dad. It was one or the other, you know.

And not if I didn't have any real friends, but because I did, and I was very fortunate for that my entire school experience, I had a really great group of friends. But there were always the people that either you know, wanted to be your friend or wanted to make fun of you and tear you down because of it. Um. And I don't know, like I don't have a ton of memories from when I was younger, but the little

things do stick out to me. Where like I remember when I was in elementary school one time and I was getting made fun of for whatever reason about my dad, and I remember my dad telling me like, well, you should tell them that you your parents have a five interdict or farm and you've got horses and dirt bikes in the coolest life ever because your dad's on the radio,

you know. It was It was always just like my parents never encouraged us to feel victimized about it at all, and it just feel fortunate because the thing, you know, the things that made it hard also gave us a great life, right you know what I mean, And just the adolescent phase. Once you get past that, after that life gets better. But that adolescent pages people are ruthless.

It was hard. But also I was like, you know, school was one thing, and I was very um like, very academic, like I made straight days all through school on or role blah blah blah um so I go was very serious about school. But within the minute I left school, I went home and played outside until the sun went down with my dad, you know, herd horses and dirt bikes and always had extra correct activities. And I got old and my mom had me in ballet, gymnastics,

tap jazz, I was on the yearbook. I rode horses every single I ended up going from trail riding to like taking lessons at a barn and gets how I gotten on her jumper, And so every day I would go and spend three hours at the barn after school if it wasn't another activity, and so that she just kept us really busy and in in that way, I feel like I was sheltered from it a lot because I was I had all these other things, you know what I mean to validated everything about who I was,

other than these people making fun of me or giving me her time or sucking up to me or whatever it was. Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. What was it like to watch Miley form? So it was so crazy how it happened because the year that she was auditioning for Hannah Montana was the year I went to college, so which sucked because I had applied to go to school.

I went to MTSU for a year and before you know, before that all happened, like Miley was just a kid in school and wasn't really you know, it wasn't really doing anything. And then she got that part the summer before I went to college, and they all moved to l and I was stuck Hereing on to mts uh sucked. So I I hated school, hated college, hated murphers borrow. Honestly, like, I can't even remember that much about that year because

I feel like I blocked it for my news. It was least after that year, my mom said I had to stay the year and um and I did and I finished. But like I I remember like the last half of that last semester, like I was just straight up not go to class and I would show up from my exams and I passed every class. But I remember being like, I cannot wait till this is over. And the minute it was over, I moved to California.

You're like, by yeah, So that was tough, is because it was kind of all happening and I wasn't really there for a while. And then I did move to California, and Um and Miley and I were so so close and so literally my day job was I was a featured extra on Hannah on Tanna. Every day. I was like Rico's surf shop workers and and that's how I you know, that's how I worked while I was in l A And and my band and paid my bills. Was working on set for Hannah Ontanna, So I was

with that awesome day, which was really cool. That's also a lot of that, you know, it was when she was younger. It was the paparazzi was really insane and she couldn't drive her around. I mean, they're ruthless not there working back on it like it was kind of scary. Yeah. I remember us, like we would go into a nail slon and come out and there's to be fifty men with cameras just swarming up. How do they know where

you are? They have like a radar? Yeah, I mean I'm sure someone they're called like get off or whatever, we'll pay you chose when celebrities come um in. In l A, you know they have laws where people can sit outside your house. Where it's here that you can't

do that is that there's no pazzi here. I've been wondering why Nashville is so great people nidering laws are very different in l A, where like at one point, you know that there was a line of thirty cars that would sit outside of my parents house waiting for Miley to leave. That's there, I know, Google where anybody lives, you have to have like super tight security. I don't know,

I don't remember as ever having like crazy security. But there was a point where we had a guy with us all the time that was the trained sniper or something. Because I'm saying crazy because Miley didn't ever want to feel smothered and want to feel like she had all these people around her and she wasn't ever alone and everything like that was really important to her. So we never had like a huge security team. But I don't know,

it is crazy because we were really young. I mean, she she was like fourteen fifteen, you know, and how do you deal with that kind that young? Is it just like y'all were geared at for it because you're a little bit for sure. But I mean it's it's no lie that she struggled with it. I mean, anybody and everybody saw her go through all of her faces she's been through, and I mean not to blame all of that on celebrity and fame, but that does play

into it, you know. And of course, like she spent her childhood on set working her butt off, you know, and people don't really think about that. It's crazy, Like the childhood I had where I got to ride horses every day and hang out with my friends and do all these activities Like she didn't get to do that. She was working, right, even though it's a dream job, it's still work, totally. I think people forget that. People do.

People make up all sort of people. I feel like people just perceive something and then they have no idea what really is the back story, nor do they care, right, they just think, Oh, that person has everything, and I'm just going to be mad at them or whatever. It's crazy. Okay, So I want to talk about Cyrus for Cycyrus, So tell me about this show and how it came about and how you got into interior designing. So my mom has done into your design, but as as a hobby

really like ever since I can remember. So, whereas all the rest of us would be outside, you know, like playing reding horses or whatever, she would be inside just redecorating the house just all the time. And and it became a joke for like every two or three years, she would just completely red her home, spend insane amount of money, and like instead of shopping or whatever, like

that was her home. And so and I don't even remember too like as a kid, Like she'd go throughout the house every night and straighten all the photographs and make sure everything was spotless. Like her home was like her haven, her hate, her sanctuary, like it was just her everything. And I don't know, like, you know, older I get, the more I turned in here, and over

the years, I've I've picked that up. I mean, I've let her decorate every space from my college apartment to the first l A apartment I had, And She's just decorated every every space I've ever had, and I've helped her do it and been there for it, and I just kind of picked that up. So I bought a house here about a year and a half ago, my first house in Nashville, and it was project. It was disgusting. I had got the you did like a fix strapper.

It was it was like literally I had made offers in like three or four houses and just say just it was at that time when the market was so hot that they just they go in a couple of hours. And you know, I didn't have a cash offer. I had, I had I put down, but I had mortgage. And so if you don't have a cash offer and you can't bid somebody out, like I just lost everything I tried to buy. So I found this house that was a complete gut project and it was for sale by owner.

Like I got so lucky because this house wasn't on the internet for dunch people. I literally knocked the door and I was like, I want your house, Like they didn't really look at it. I was like, I just I want it, like I'd let me have it, you know what I mean before they could go and put it online and and that, and that's how I got it. So I bought this house, got it it. My mom did help me, but I mean I really did most

of the work. I really did. And that's kind of when I was like love came about I can do this, like I'm yes. And then so then friends would come over and see my house and they'd be like, wait, can you help me with my house? So this start of the thing is so then you're like your mom and you start realizing you'll have this talent. In comment, my mom was so pumped. She's got a friend now. Yeah, so we I don't know, like it's weird. We we

both an approached the new TV before. Actually, for a hot second, I was a TV um correspondent, news correspondent Perfuse News. Awesome, like an MTV. Yeah, that's awesome. So I like interviewed artists and bands and worked red carpets and kind of did that kind of TV for a minute. And I've done a little bit of acting here and there too. You are so talented, you could do so many things. I just say yes to everything and just that's the way to be, you know, act like I

know what I'm doing and then it just happens. So UM, So people were approaching me about TV. UM. I got offered to do like this, like e non scripted show that I ended up turning down. UM, and we tried to actually fun fun fact, we tried to pitch a reality show about Nashville. UM about six years ago when I first moved back here. It was like me and my friend group and we filmed the pilot and everything.

So I've been attached to all this TV and my mom gets asked to do stuff all the time, and we both disagreed that we didn't ever want to do anything that was about the family. Totally don't want to do any kind of reality that's about my life, Like we always wanted it to be something that where it was like about something else and we were just in it or whatever, you know what I mean, something just with some credibility. This was perfect. So yeah, So my

mom's got a production deal. She's um produced like movies and TV for the past several years, and somebody at her production company came to her with this idea of Cyrus versus Cyrus and they were like, too and Brandy and you compete in home design. It was right around the time that I was doing my house and everything, and so I was like, she was like, would you do that? And I was like, yeah, it sounds great,

Like it sounds super fun. Like if I was going to do TV, that would be do it with my mom, do it with I'm doing something I really do and have a purpose to the show. Totally totally so, and she agreed. So we took it and we pitched it around New York. We had like three offers right away, and it all just happened so fast for TV and

that we did go with Rabo. And that's the thing is like all the TV I have been attached to, because I've been attached a lot of projects that haven't even gotten off the ground where it's like, Okay, we're gonna pitch you as the host for this show. We're gonna put you. Is this for the show? And three years later it's still hasn't totally so this just fluid yes. And then at this point I'm like, yeah, I believe

it when I see it kind of thing. I really did not think it was going to happen, and so Bravo bought it and I was like, it'll be years before we filming. Immediately start filming. Immediately They're like, we we're gonna put it out in May. Like it happened. So it was meant to be. It was meant to be. What was the best filming and then we have to have up but what was the best moment of filming

and what was the worst moment of filming? The best moment, I mean moments is when so like we have revealed day, when it's all done and we bring the homeowner back end. Yeah, that's clearly the best moment because we've slaved away, cried, tears of frustration and whatever else, lack of sleep, and then you know someone comes back into their house, so you've totally redone and they're so pumped, like every single

person whose house we did. They were so freaking happy at the end of it, and it made it all worth it. And it was like, I'm not an emotional person at all, but like I teared up every time because I was like, these people are so freaking happy.

It's great and makes it all worth it. So that was by far the best part um and the hardest part is was probably just like the stress we were under of not only doing this job of designing someone else's has a lot of pressure because your house and why things up, or you spend money that you shouldn't have. You're like, they don't like it, but money, you know,

if they're upset, like what you just never know. And so you're not only you under the stress of getting this job done for this client of yours that you don't know, but you're making a TV show, so you're trying to please producers who are trying to make an episode. And now everyone's going to ug everyone's gonna yeah yeah, And if we were a bad job, it's not gonna fall on anybody else on Titian Brandy Cyrus because that's

just a lot of pressure. It was like, it was a lot of pressure and the time frame we were under. We had six weeks to film because my mom had to go be on the voice with Miley. We had a heart out and the weather, like we didn't want the weather to get bad, Like there were all these things. So we were so stressed to make this all happen

within a certain amount of days. But we didn't want to sacrifice on design because we wanted to be quality, and you know, we would stay in the budget like they were just so anything and needs to look good doing it, wake up at six am to get hair and makeup, which and then when you get a few weeks in, you're like, do I really need air makeup right in to decorate a house here? And then you're like, oh, shoot, I'm gonna be on TV. I need hair makeup. So

it's just a lot. It was a lot. And then you're working with you know, your mom, who is the easiest person to take things out on and brace versa. So when we got frustrated, we take it out on each other. Fight We did a couple of times, and we don't really ever fight. I was gonna say it was this new because sometimes these kind of situations bring out new, very very new, because we never spent that much time to make you feel weird when you had a fight with her, I always felt bad. I was like, crap.

I was like, but she deserved crap, you know what I mean. But it was definitely very tough. It was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. But seeing it on TV, it's like, it's all worth it. I love it. Is your is your mom so happy too? So happy? I love it. It's it's a dream dream come true for her because this is her life saying

now actually being revealed. Literally like it's always been her dream to have her own interior design show and line and hopefully like a homeless we want to do so you know, we're starting the steps on that for sure. So this that's literally like a dream come true for her and for her she's spent her entire life managing Miley and now Noah and working for everybody else, you know, which she loves. But this is really the first thing she's had for herself, and I think she just like,

it's literally a dream come true for her. How cool you got to do that with her. I love that. Okay, So going to wrap up with leave your light, So just leave some inspiration. You've had such an amazing life, You've seen so much, You've done so much. Just leave some inspiration of how you have been inspired or would like to inspire people. I would just say from somebody

that has been it's weird. It's like I'm an outsider in this inside entertainment world because I know, like that probably doesn't make sense to everybody else, like, oh, you're an outsider, but like you know, like I'm not the huge celebrity and I'm not like or whatever, but I'm I've kind of always been in this celebrity world and I've lived, didn't grew up in it or whatever. Do

you like being the outsider? I kind of do because what I've learned, and it's not just from Miley or or my family, it's just being in the entire I've just seen so much of it. What I've learned is that money and fame do not make you happy. That and it's a lot of hard work and it seems great, but it's it's tough. It's a tough life. And and it's not to say that everybody who's in it isn't super blessed and and so grateful, but it's very hard,

and it doesn't make you happy. And the minute you sacrifice the things like friends and family and loving other people and being a light to other people, that man, you sacrifice all that is the minute that you lose everything. You know what I mean, I would be like tweetable moment that literally that's so true, when you give up your heart. It's true because yes, I love Deejaying, and yes I love being on TV and being able to

do things like that. Yes I love all that, but what truly makes me happy is riding my horse and hanging out with my dog and hanging out with my friends, and you know, and just I don't know, like serving of the people and just loving other people. And I love seeing other people succeed because I could connect them with something Like the minute you you forget what truly matters and you think like, oh, the fame makes me happy or all this money is it be happy? Like

that's just when it all goes downhill. And so for me, it's just very important to remember what is important and what life is really about, because it's not about making money and it's not about being famous. Drop the mind. Brandy Cyrus in the house that was and it doesn't mean you can't do those things. Doesn't mean that you can't make money and be on TV. It just means don't have that. That shouldn't be what makes you happy, and that shouldn't be what's most important. Okay, I freaking

love it. You gotta write a self help book? Also should write a book? Yes, yes, I love maybe like the outsider on the inside call it that. Maybe. One of my co writers was like, why not totally? I mean, I don't have the experience, but I'll like do what I'll Truly, I feel like you could. I feel like you. I feel like you have a little experience in there. I got some good insight insight, we'll think. Much for joining me, Randy, you were so fascinating and amazing and

just a bright light. So are you you? Why you? Okay? Kee's that? Thanks for tuning in. I hope you love hearing from Brandy. What an interesting, amazing, inspired person she is. I loved that interview. Next week, you guys, get excited. I have one of the most influential women in country music in the A and R Department, which A and R is the department that finds and discovers new talent and signs into record deals, listens for songs, and gets those songs to the artists to get on the albums.

It is such a crucial role in discovering new artists and talent and working with artists in developing their albums and their whole experience as an artist finding songs. It's a very, very crucial job. Autumn House is one of the best in the industry. She's been doing it for seventeen years. We talk all about what goes on behind the scenes in the world of an artist with an A and R director. It is so exciting and so in interesting. So y'all get excited for Autumn House next week. M HM.