Who had a hit with the song "We Can't Stop"?

Who had a hit with the song "We Can't Stop"? Miley Cyrus did. Released in 2013, the song was the lead single from her fourth studio album, Bangerz, and marked a deliberately provocative shift from her earlier Disney-associated image.

The track was produced by Mike Will Made It, P-Nasty and R. City, with Cyrus among its co-writers. Its lyrics portray a rebellious house party and reference nightlife, independence and recreational drug use. The accompanying music video intensified that controversial, surreal party atmosphere.

"We Can't Stop" became a major international hit and reached No. 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was followed later in 2013 by "Wrecking Ball," another Bangerz single that became Cyrus's first US No. 1 hit.

A common mix-up is confusing the song with Rihanna's "Pour It Up" or with "Party in the U.S.A.," Cyrus's earlier 2009 hit. "We Can't Stop" is unmistakably a Miley Cyrus recording and helped define her 2013 reinvention.