Fueling inevitable gossip, Miley Cyrus croons “It Should Have Been Me” to Pete Davidson

The Miley's New Year's Eve Party hosting duo already had matching tattoos, after all

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Fueling inevitable gossip, Miley Cyrus croons “It Should Have Been Me” to Pete Davidson
Pete Davidson, Miley Cyrus Screenshot: The Tonight Show

The national pastime that is being unaccountably interested in Pete Davidson’s love life got another jolt of lookie-loo energy on last night’s Tonight Show. That’s where Davidson sat beaming while Miley Cyrus took her performance of Yvonne Fair’s “It Should Have Been Me” right into Davidson’s lap. After addressing her pal and Miley’s New Year’s Eve co-host Davidson directly, claiming, “Pete Davidson, this song is for you. When I saw those photos, this is what I played,” the singer turned her impressively committed performance of the enduring lost love anthem into a direct plea to Pete. And, we’re off!

Cyrus and Davidson, slated to preside over the Lorne Michaels-produced NBC New Year’s special on New Years Eve (duh), had already told Fallon of their long and storied friendship, matching tattoos and all. All right, so Davidson, as part of his ongoing campaign to scrub his heavily inked body more or less clean of the some 40 tats famously covering his pasty flesh, is in the process of getting his “We babies” wrist tattoo removed, while Cyrus still proudly sports her forever catchphrase on an ankle. (The tats came from a music video sketch on the Larry Davidson SNL episode Cyrus guested on back in 2017. “I stopped smoking weed the next day,” Cyrus joked.)

Still, the two seem undeniably tight, what with them showing off the prom-style pictures they took in preparation for the Miami-set New Year’s bash, where Cyrus promised “He’ll be funny and I’ll be naked.” Breaking off from the pair’s tandem sit-down with Fallon, Cyrus then joined The Roots to sing a sultry version of “It Should Have Been Me.” (Written by Norman Whitfield and Mickey Stevenson and covered many times, but Cyrus’ arrangement is clearly copying the 70's strings-and-synths of the late Fair’s version.)

Inserting a lyric about how it should, indeed, have been her driving away from “that nice-ass restaurant” in that Lamborghini, Cyrus belted her musical lament right into the grinning Davidson’s kisser, draping a long leg over his lap for good measure. Referencing Davidson’s current maybe-relationship with recent Saturday Night Live host and fellow figure of slavering media coverage, Kim Kardashian, Cyrus repeatedly turned her performance into a playfully heartbroken accusation. (“On the week of our special?,” Cyrus boomed out in mock-outrage at one point, “What the fuck?”)

As to whether the two friends ever were/are an item (“I’m going to watch a movie in freaking Staten Island!,” Cyrus lamented to the blushing Davidson), only time and the inevitable, rabidly unnecessary media speculation that surrounds Pete Davidson’s ridiculously well-chronicled romantic life will tell. Hey, wait a minute.

33 Comments

  • breadnmaters-av says:

    Ew and ew.

  • nerdherder2-av says:

    Has he got blackmail material on every woman in Hollywood or something?

    • yourmovecrepe-av says:

      Is he a secret Scientologist? Uh oh, I’ve probably said too much.

    • popculturesurvivor-av says:

      Has he got enough iron in his diet?

    • debeuliou-av says:

      Nah, lots and lots of women love themselves a hot mess of a guy, and this one has the massive benefit of looking like one, but not actually being one. He’s rich, employed, stable, and looks like every loser ex boyfriends every women keeps dreaming about while having sex with their accountant husbands.

      I was never as successful in the “getting laid” department as when I was a strarving student doing drugs, dying my hair blue and pink and living in a mice infested appartment in the crackhead neighborhood of san francisco. And I don’t mean successful with people in similar shitty situations. One of my regular girlfriend at the time was on her way to be a millionaire at 30 (on her own merits, not her parent’s ^^)

      All that to say: If you don’t understand what can be attractive in a Pete Davidson, then boy, you still have a lot to learn…

  • kinjacaffeinespider-av says:

    Just change it to “Oui, babies!”
    It’ll probably be quicker.

  • det--devil--ails-av says:

    Hepatitis vector

  • weaponizedautismcantbeshadowbanned-av says:

    That’s when they should have turned the firehose on the two of them and try to wash the ‘skank’ off.

  • deb03449a1-av says:

    The national pastime that is being unaccountably interested in Pete Davidson’s love lifeFor the record, if you’re taking feedback, I am not interested.

  • immortanmoe-av says:

    Cyrus was one of the first celebrities I met during my bartending career, way back when she was Hanna Montana. She was staying at the hotel I worked and they had a post concert party. She was absolutely wonderful and I feel like an Uncle, growling with my brother at the sight of some tattooed punk at his doorstep. Alas I am not Billy Ray’s brother.

  • milligna000-av says:

    Blegh, he’s so greasy and unpleasant.

  • smokehouse-almonds-av says:

    Larry Davidson?

  • glaagablaaga-av says:

    Their children would have hooves

  • qj201-av says:

    the arrangement seems to be a mash up of the Yvonne Fair and Gladys Knight versions of the song

  • thedreadsimoon-av says:

    I thought this was a Gladys Knight song

  • seinnhai-av says:

    To be the other side of the “why” coin, I don’t get how people can’t figure out why Pete Davidson is Hollywood’s current himbo of choice. He’s funny, easy going, vulnerable, relatively attractive, has a great relationship with his mom, is employed (and doesn’t need your money), relatively talented, doesn’t seem all that desperate for a long-term relationship but won’t rule it out completely, doesn’t obsess when the relationship ends, and supposedly is rocking porn star cock. If you don’t get it after all that, I think Ludacris summed it up pretty good. “Tell me what you mad for?”

  • anthonypirtle-av says:

    Which one do you think is more likely to have hep C?

  • isaacasihole-av says:

    I actually think they make sense as a couple, somehow. 

  • magpie187-av says:

    Miley would be a big upgrade over Kim. Miley seems to always be having fun. Kim is all drama. 

    • rafterman00-av says:

      At least Miley has an actual talent. Kim’s is “being fabulous” or something.

      • rogue-like-av says:

        “Something” being the operative word. Famous for being famous is the exact reason I disengage from anyone who think they are the height of “fabulousness”. Fuck off and die.

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