Still, having become a teen sensation playing Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel series from 2006 to 2011, it was strange for Cyrus to cut the cord from those tunes that shaped her TV identity.

Hannah Montana also starred Cyrus' real-life dad Billy Ray Cyrus as her dad on the show, as well as Jason Earles as her older brother, plus Emily Osment and Mitchel Musso, who played her best friends.

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Lucy Hale was also in the running for the Disney show. “Oh my gosh, I’ve auditioned for Hannah Montana,” Hale said in a BuzzFeed interview, posted on YouTube on March 7.

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Montana released “If We Were a Movie” in 2005. The tune was at first a B-side for the lead single, “The Best of Both Worlds,” which is often considered one of the singer’s biggest hits.