"Twerk It Like Miley" (officially on cover as #TwerkItLikeMiley) is a song by American singer Brandon Beal featuring Danish singer

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. The song produced by Danish DJ Hedegaard was released on May 5, 2014 on

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Denmark and Then We Take the World, reaching number one on Tracklisten, the official Danish Singles Chart on its first week of release staying there for just one week. The music video directed by Morten Winther also became popular with many references to

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Background

The title refers to American singer

and her twerking incident when in March 2013, she posted a video on

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which featured her performing a twerking routine while wearing a

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suit, to the 2011 single " Wop" by J. Dash. Her "Wop" video would go to become viral and create a lot of controversy and parodies. The song lyrics refers to this actual video as Brandon Beal asks from his girl to behave like Miley in that video: "I know, you wore them jeans so I can see that thong epeat/ So pop it like Miley / and don't forget that tongue epeat/ So when the beat beat beat beat drop, get your ass on the floor / Start twerking like Miley".

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