The phone doesnвЂ™t ring, nobody can bother you. WeвЂ™ve been talking with our team about COVID protocols, and it seems like the safest, most peaceful place you could be these days is onstage. And obviously, itвЂ™s a whole new world out there. ULRICH: ItвЂ™s funny you say that, because weвЂ™re getting back into the trenches ourselves soon. After the chaos of the last year, it was almost like, вЂњThis is it? This is what IвЂ™m going to feel?вЂќ How did it feel when you walked out on that stage?Д¬YRUS: Weirdly, this peace came over me. ULRICH: Exactly, but even so, weвЂ™ve all been in the trenches. Of course, as you said, you and I have not had the same pandemic experience as most of the population, because our sanctuaries and our homes are truly safe. But in this case, weвЂ™ve all been soldiers, in our own way. She was this breath of fresh air because she didnвЂ™t have the same darkness and pain and death taking over her aura. But at the same time, she was able to offer that because she was so insulated from the experience that the soldiers were living through. I couldnвЂ™t stop thinking of that iconic image of her, bringing people hope in the form of sexuality and wit and beauty and joy. It must have been a beautiful moment.Д¬YRUS: It actually made me think of all the amazing footage and photographs of Marilyn Monroe performing for the troops. Obvi ously, so many people have been through worse shit than you and I have, but IвЂ™m sure you felt the energy flowing through that crowd.

WeвЂ™ve all been through the craziest 18 months of our lives. ULRICH: Especially in a moment like this one. ThereвЂ™s so much less judgment in a live music setting than exists anywhere else at the moment. But it reminded me, again, of how all of thatвЂ™s erased when you perform. It brings back that tingle of fear, or maybe anxiety, which I havenвЂ™t felt in a while. IвЂ™m an extremist in that way.Д¬YRUS: It felt like jumping out of an airplane in front of 100,000 people. ULRICH: You didnвЂ™t do any warm-ups or club shows to get your feet wet before Lollapalooza? You just walked right out on that stage for the first time in a year and a half?Д¬YRUS: Pretty much. On these festival runs, you almost get desensitized to the energy and the impact of that many souls filling up a space.

Has it been a year and a half since you last performedД¬YRUS: Yes. You got the whole skyline of Chicago and 100,000 people. ULRICH: ItвЂ™s such an awesome stage to walk out on. In the end, it was somewhere in the middle. I wasnвЂ™t sure if it was going to be this bicycle moment, where you pick up right where you left off like nothing ever changed, or if it was going to feel completely new, and I was going to fall back in love and remember why I do this in the first place. ItвЂ™s 30 minutes from where we live, so weвЂ™re going to be there with bells on, ready to hang out.Д¬YRUS: I just played Lollapalooza.

ULRICH: ItвЂ™s going to be quite a weekend with you, Guns NвЂ™ Roses, and the Foo Fighters. ULRICH: WeвЂ™re going to see you at BottleRock in, what, two weeks? IвЂ™m on a festival run right now, so IвЂ™m actually performing for human beings. WeвЂ™ve done all this collaboration from a distance, and IвЂ™m excited to start getting back in a room together. I think IвЂ™ll get to see you in person soon. ItвЂ™s a good day to be alive.Д¬YRUS: ThatвЂ™s what I like to hear. And if her latest album Plastic Hearts left any doubt that her rock bona fides were for real, then her cover of MetallicaвЂ™s вЂњNothing Else Matters,вЂќ which she performs on the tribute album The Metallica Blacklist, is further proof that at this stage of her career, Cyrus, as she tells Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, knows exactly who she is. After running her natural pop instincts through hip-hop, country, and psychedelic filters, Cyrus has, at 28, reached her final form, a zero-fucks-given rocker blessed with an instrument more powerful than the heaviest guitar: her voice. Fourteen years later, Cyrus has fulfilled her alter-egoвЂ™s prophecy. вЂњYeah, I really am a rock star.вЂќ Back in 2007, Hannah Montana tried to tell us who Miley Cyrus truly was.

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