Billy Ray Cyrus is following in his daughter's footsteps and crossing over into the hip-hop world. His contagious 1992 hit "Achy Breaky Heart" has been reimagined as a hip-hop track with the help of rapper Buck 22.
The bizarre video for the "Achy Breaky 2" opens with Larry King warning viewers that there's been an "unidentified flying object seen transcending over Europe" and that it is now flying over eastern Kentucky, "home of the greatest ever Muhammad Ali."
It then cuts to black-and-white footage of Cyrus and a young boy walking through the forest, when all of a sudden, the spaceship abducts them. The young boy mysteriously ages, turning into Buck 22, and scantily-clad alien women lead them through the ship.
If you think that's weird, prepare yourself for an onslaught of twerking aliens, Miley references, vapor pipes, Irish jigging, cowboy hats and the "Achy Breaky Heart" hook revamped with an EDM beat.
According to Rolling Stone, Buck 22 comes from an impressive musical family, despite not yet being a household name himself. His father is jazz drummer Bill Elliott and his mother is veteran pop/R&B singer Dionne Warwick.
The rapper explained in a statement how the collaboration came to be. "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."
We can't wait to hear what Miley has to say about it. What do you think? Let us know in the comments section below!
