When James Hetfield Took His Daughters to the Hannah Montana Show

During a recent Metallica concert, in a moment of interaction with the audience, frontman James Hetfield said he noticed quite a few children at the Four Horsemen shows during their “M72 World Tour”, a world tour in support of their latest album “72 Seasons” that also stopped in Italy for a date in Milan on May 29 (here is our story of the evening). In praising the little spectators who stayed awake the whole time, Hetfield also told of the time he took his two daughters to their first concert and how they fell asleep during the show.

Metallica were performing in Seattle on September 1st when James Hetfield decided to share with the audience the story of the first live show he took his daughters Marcella Francesca Hetfield and Cali Tee Hetfield to, when they were still little girls.

“During the last shows I noticed a lot of little spectators, between 5 and 12 years old. It’s quite surprising, also because they stay awake for the whole concert”, said the frontman, as evidenced by the video reported below:

“I remember when I took my daughters to their first concert: they fell asleep. It was the Hannah Montana show. I’m not implying anything. But I think I fell asleep, too.”

Hannah Montana was the main character of the American television series starring Miley Cyrus that aired from 2006 to 2011. The former Disney starlet played a girl named Miley Stewart who lived a double life, being both an ordinary teenager and a famous pop star named Hannah Montana.

Before releasing music under her real name, releasing 2008’s “Breakout” as her first non-Hannah Montana album, Cyrus toured as Hannah Montana between 2006 and 2008, according to setlist.fm.

Along with Metallica, Miley Cyrus collaborated in 2021 as one of the guest artists called to reinterpret the songs of the band’s 1991 eponymous album, commonly known as “Black album”, for the thirtieth anniversary of its release. For the celebratory collection “The Metallica Blacklist”, the pop star recorded a cover of “Nothing else matters” with Elton John and Chad Smith. The same song, a classic of the group that the singer had already presented in a personal live version years before, was performed live by Miley Cyrus with Metallica on the “Howard Stern Show”.