It was the year that Glee first hit our screens, Kanye West told Taylor Swift "Imma let you finish", and, of course, the year that Miley Cyrus shed her Disney kid image once and for all when she took to the stage at the Teen Choice Awards and performed a pole dance atop an ice cream truck while singing her single "Party in the U.

Miley Cyrus recently addressed her controversial 2009 Teen Choice Awards, in which she danced around a pole, calling out her mom Tish Cyrus for having the idea.

In an upcoming interview on the Harper's Bazaar podcast 'The Good Buys', Miley Cyrus reveals the dramatic hairstyles her mom Tish Cyrus used to make her wear.

Tish Cyrus.” Although Miley's pole dance has gone down in pop culture infamy, she remembers the evening for other reasons. “The thing that I remember most about that performance was it was the first time I ever wore real diamond jewelry on stage,

Miley Cyrus has revealed that her 2009 “Party In The U.S.A.” pole dancing was actually her mom Tish’s idea, and she was just fine letting her daughter take the blame when the underage singer took some heat.

Miley Cyrus’ mom was the brains behind the pop star’s controversial pole-dance routine when she was just 16 at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards. The Grammy-winning “Flowers” singer, now 32, shared the questionable piece of trivia during Spotify’s “Billions Club” series this month.

Back in 2009, people were scandalized when then-17-year-old Miley Cyrus took to the stage at the Teen Choice Awards and performed with what was referred to as a “ stripper pole .” At the time, Miley was mostly known for being a squeaky clean child star who’d shot to fame on the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana,