Its video is nothing short of ridiculous and I mean that in the best way possible.
It opens with a “late breaking” news report from veteran newsman Larry King.
Cyrus and an an actor playing a young Buck 22 are abducted by nearly naked alien hoochie mamas with twerking fetishes.
Being beamed aboard the ship ages Buck 22, the son of jazz drummer Bill Elliott and R&B singing legend Dionne Warwick, and he launches into a rap. Cyrus mostly sticks to guitar play and singing what some (not me) consider the song’s nauseating chorus.
Buck 22 even manages to get in a line about Cyrus’ twerk of a daughter Miley and her wrecking ball.
The song could only have been better if Cyrus still had a mullet.
Here's what Buck 22 said of the song according to Rolling Stone:
“I asked (Billy Ray Cyrus) if he would mind if I could take a crack at remaking ‘Achy Breaky Heart’ and he looked at me for a moment, and said ‘lots of people have tried already, but go for it.’ He didn’t have a clue that I had already gone into the lab and cooked up a demo of what I thought would be a fun EDM/hip-hop styled version, which at the time only had a sample from the original of his voice. He liked what he heard and, weeks later, arrived at the session to record this track.”
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