The pop star gave an emotional speech earlier than she devoted the tune ‘Angels Like You’ to the late Foo Fighters drummer.
Miley Cyrus was overcome with grief throughout her Lollapalooza Brazil efficiency, which she had devoted to her pal and Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who tragically died on Friday (March 25) on the age of fifty. The pop star — who was headlining the music pageant alongside the Foo Fighters this weekend — broke down in tears on stage the next day and devoted the tune “Angels Like You” to Taylor.
Miley Cyrus dedicates ‘Angels Like You’ to Taylor Hawkins at Lollapalooza Brazil 🤍
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Leaning on a speaker, Miley started her emotional speech by telling the viewers she had spoken to Taylor earlier within the week after her airplane made an emergency touchdown on the way in which to the Asunciónico Music Pageant in Paraguay, the place the Foo Fighters have been performing. “We needed to make this emergency touchdown and the primary individual that I known as was Taylor, as a result of he was already on the pageant,” she mentioned, as her voice started to tremble. “That might’ve been a time that I might’ve gone to see my pal, and I didn’t, so it makes me actually unhappy,” she added. “I might’ve performed something to hang around with him another time.”
Because the tears started to move and she or he continued to wipe them away, the Hannah Montana star added, “I do know that I get on stage, and anytime that I get to play with my band – which if something ever f**king occurred to any of them it could f**king kill me, so I couldn’t think about how the Foo Fighters really feel at the moment.”
I COULDNT STOP CRYING WITH U pic.twitter.com/J3np5GX8qF
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The “Plastic Hearts” singer was one of many first celebrities to react to the passing of Taylor, who tragically died in his resort room in Bogota, Colombia on Friday (March 25) on the age of fifty. “That is how I’ll at all times bear in mind you,” Miley wrote on her Instagram Tales, sharing a heartbreaking, black-and-white image of Taylor. “My present tomorrow is devoted to Taylor Hawkins.” In a second put up, Cyrus shared a hyperlink to the long-lasting Pretenders tune “Brass in Pocket”, writing, “My favourite reminiscence of Taylor is dancing around the drum equipment whereas he performed this tune… Taking part in it on repeat, imagining us… laughing endlessly.”
There have been few particulars on how Taylor died after the information broke, though based mostly on preliminary findings, it seems he might have overdosed on 10 totally different medicine, together with opioids, in line with TMZ. Whereas the demise investigation into what killed Taylor continues, the Foo Fighters mentioned in an announcement on Friday that his demise was a “tragic and premature loss.” Taylor’s final efficiency with the band was on Sunday (March 20) at a live performance in San Isidro, Argentina.
“His musical spirit and infectious laughter will stay on with all of us endlessly,” the band mentioned of Taylor on Twitter. “Our hearts exit to his spouse, kids and household, and we ask that their privateness be handled with the utmost respect on this unimaginable troublesome time.” Taylor is survived by his spouse Alison and their three kids.