Miley Cyrus: 'The Climb'

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Over the last year or so, Miley Cyrus has worked hard to shed her tween-friendly Hannah Montana image, choosing instead to mould a more grown up and mature persona. '7 Things' focused on the difficulties of a relationship ending, while the follow-up 'Fly On The Wall' addressed the paparazzi's intrusion into her life. Both may have partly succeeded in painting the 16-year-old as a more credible type of popstar, but this latest offering finds her in more familiar territory.

'The Climb' is taken from the Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrack, so it's no surprise that it deals with issues relevant to her onscreen character. "I may not know it, but these are the moments that I'm going remember most," Cyrus sings on this perfectly inoffensive but fairly bland soft rock ballad. It's filled with maudlin truisms - "It's always going to be an uphill battle", "Sometimes I'm going to have to lose" - about personal growth and inner development, but Cyrus doesn't entirely convince us that she's faced these struggles herself.

> Click here to watch the video to 'The Climb'