Watch Miley Cyrus Perform A Beatles Classic For An Empty Football Stadium

It seems like it was just a number of weeks prior whenever artists were delivering humbling live performances from the safety of their living rooms. However while in Global Citizen's Global Goal: Unite for Our Future livestream event on Saturday (June 27) — a production that featured interviews and live performances from the likes of Chloe x Halle, Christine and the Queens, and Justin Bieber — Miley Cyrus set the bar high for socially distant concerts moving forward.


The singer performed her own Miley-fied take on the Beatles classic, "Help!" An suitable tune for the event, which was meant to bring attention to the marginalized communities most weak prone to COVID-19, Cyrus appeared in an empty Rose Bowl football stadium. There, wearing a belly-bearing teal gown — a sparkling outfit inspired, per Vogue, by the Beatles' original album artwork — she stood in the base of a giant exclamation point, segment of a stage spelling out the song's title.


Accompanied only by a microphone, Cyrus lent a nation twang to the rock-and-roll staple. "Help me get my feet back on the ground," she sang on the refrain, as if pleading to her virtual audience. "Won't you please, please help me?"


“For me, the magic of performing is sharing and celebrating music together...Being surrounding by people and feeling their energy," she tweeted on Saturday about the show. "I dedicated this efficiency to each person who is working tirelessly for testing, treatments and vaccines so all of us can come with each other in places like this empty stadium…. I can’t wait to be with each other again.”


Also while in Global Citizen's broadcast, Miley sat on panel that included Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway to discuss the disproportionate toll of the continuous coronavirus pandemic on marginalized communities, along with because the protests that have erupted around the world in the wake of the killings of unarmed Black Residents of the
U.S. At the hands of police.


“My generation is starved for change and is leading that charge in several ways," she mentioned. "I’ve just been a student, over the last few months and especially over the few weeks in my house nation. I’ve been a student of those organizers and being able to learn and educate myself. That’s sort of what my time is filled with at this moment, even through Global Citizen, just educating myself. I think that’s the initial step to making change."


Cyrus, who has leveraged the platform of her nonprofit, the Happy Hippie Foundation, to amplify the voices of Black activists on the ground, recognized the power of young voices. “Young folks are using their voices daily to demand that change, and especially right now in this activism, although change is taking time, we want it to lead to lasting change," she added. "And something that has been in my mind was wanting to go back to common, nevertheless this new common of ‘We don’t desire to go back to the way things were before. We desire to go to a more improved, inspired way of life.'"