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"Back to Tennessee" is a country rock song by American singer-songwriter and actor Billy Ray Cyrus. It released as the second single from Cyrus' eleventh studio album of the same name on February 2, 2009 by Lyric Street Records. Cyrus drafted the song after learning that ''Hannah Montana: The Movie'', a film he would star in, would be set in Tennessee. The song, developed with the aid of co-songwriters Tamara Dunn and Matthew Wilder, includes country rock elements while describing Cyrus' longing to return to the South, where he grew up, after spending several years in Los Angeles. "Back to Tennessee" was featured in both ''Hannah Montana: The Movie'' and its soundtrack. "Back to Tennessee" was well received by critics, though some felt it took the album's message too literally. It was a moderate commercial achievement for Cyrus and charted within the top fifty of the ''Billboard'' magazine chart Hot Country Songs. The song's music video was directed by Declan Whitebloom and features scenes of Cyrus at a beach inter cut with clips of ''Hannah Montana: The Movie''. The song was performed in several venues. ==Development== Cyrus moved to Los Angeles to star on the Disney Channel television series ''Hannah Montana'' in 2006. Cyrus's character, Robby Ray Stewart, is a former country singer and the father of Miley Stewart, a popstar played by Miley Cyrus, Cyrus' real life daughter. The television series became a worldwide hit and the basis for ''Hannah Montana: The Movie'', a feature film released in 2009. Cyrus first read the script for ''Hannah Montana: The Movie'' while in Malibu in early 2008. The film's plot features the Stewarts leaving Hollywood for a summer and returning to Tennessee, their home state, to reconnect with their southern roots.〔 Having grown up in Kentucky, Cyrus was excited to learn the film would be set in the country and fought for it to be filmed on location. "They were gonna film it in a different state () I just knew that Tennessee had all the facilities, the man power, and the ability to make this film great," said Cyrus.〔 In addition, Cyrus believed that "in real life, Miley and () needed to come back home", saying, "It was important for us to come back to where we are from and remember who we are."〔 Once filming in Tennessee was settled, Cyrus was "overcome with a very positive emotion of coming back home" and wrote "Back to Tennessee" with the aid of songwriters Tamara Dunn and Matthew Wilder.〔 Cyrus recorded "Back to Tennessee" for the film ''Hannah Montana: The Movie'', in which his character performs the song at a fundraiser to save the meadows near his hometown from development. Cyrus says the song is "part of the cornerstone" of the film because it reflects the film's theme of escaping the fast-paced, glitzy world of Hollywood in search of a simpler country lifestyle.〔 Cyrus commented, 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Back to Tennessee (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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