Miley Cyrus photo courtesy of Universal Music.

Country music was very good to Billy Ray Cyrus. His smash debut single, “Achy Breaky Heart,” made the Kentucky native a national star and paid the bills for his family for many years, before Billy Ray successfully branched out into TV and film, most recently playing a country singer in the TV series, Hannah Montana.  However, Hannah Montana star and Billy Ray’s daughter, Miley Cyrus, has some pretty harsh words for the musical genre.

AOL’s The Boot reports on an interview Miley did with Parade magazine in which she says of country music, “It scares me. It feels contrived on so many levels. Unless you’re wearing a cowboy hat and cowboy boots and singing and whining about your girlfriend or boyfriend leaving you it’s not going to sell. I think that’s why my dad finally got out of it. You have to wear those cowboy boots and be sweet as pie. It makes me nervous, the politics of it all.”

In other Miley news, she recently recorded a duet with Poison lead singer Bret Michaels called “Nothing to Lose.” The song was recorded three different times, and one version was…you guessed it — a country version.

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