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Miley Cyrus, who is famous for playing the Disney channel character Hannah Montana, raised more than a few eyebrows when she performed her song “Party in the USA” at the Teen Choice Awards earlier this month. Her performance at the Los Angeles event involved some rauncy dancing, as the 16 year old actress swung around a stripper pole for a majority of her performance.

Though it has caught the attention of many opinionated critics, the actress’s father, country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, has downplayed the performance. Defending his daughter, he described the performance as good, clean fun and said that his daughter just loves entertaining people.

“You know what? I just think that Miley loves entertaining people. She loves singing and songwriting. I always tell her to love what you’re doing and stay focused for the love of the art and not worry so much about opinion.”

He went on with, “I give my kids a lot of freedom to make the art they want to make and make it in their own voice. I think it’s important.”

Miley’s father is perfectly fine with her act and just wants his daughter to stay focused on her love of her art and her music.