Over the years, Miley Cyrus has proven that she can do just about anything. She started her career as a young country star before becoming a teen pop star and later transformed into the mature artist she is today. However, she showed her versatility in more than her own songs. She has covered artists from Billie Eilish to Journey and nearly everything in between.
In September 2020, Cyrus appeared on BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge to kick off Live Lounge Month. Fans know the show for two things—great performances and unexpected covers. The “Flowers” singer delivered both with her rendition of the Eagles classic “Take It to the Limit.” She shared a snippet of the performance on social media earlier today (August 30).
“’Take It to the Limit’—dedicated to my Mammie,” Cyrus wrote in the post. “The Eagles were my Mammie’s favorite band and my mama grew up singing this song on drives in the car with her mom! This is in honor of my grandma,” she added.
Miley Cyrus Covers an Eagles Clᴀssic
Miley Cyrus honored her grandma with one of the Eagles’ biggest hits. More importantly, it is a favorite among fans of the band.
Co-written by band members Randy Meisner, Don Henley, and Glenn Frey, the Eagles released “Take It to the Limit” in November 1975 as the third and final single from their album One of These Nights. The song dropped in the middle of a string of top-five hits that started in 1974 with “Best of My Love” and ended in 1977 with the iconic “H๏τel California.”
According to Songfacts, “Take It to the Limit” stands out as one of the only hit songs the Eagles released to not feature Frey or Henley taking lead vocal duties. Instead, Meisner sang lead on the song. The other two were “I Can’t Tell You Why” sung by Timothy B. Schmidt and “In the City” with Joe Walsh singing lead.
“The line ‘take it to the limit’ was to keep trying,” Meisner explained. “You reach a point in your life where you feel you’ve done everything and seen everything—It’s part of getting old. And just to take it to the limit one more time, like every day just keep punching away at it. That was the line, and from there the song took a different course.”
