"[Miley's] like, 'This is an incredible song, it's beautiful. Maybe I could [add] some stuff to it, some harmonies.' I said, 'That'd be killer!' She was excited that she didn't have to follow any rules. I never sat down and said, 'Look at the content. Look at the lyrical content.' The part where it says she slowly gets undressed, Miley says, 'Yeah, she does.' It has no reference to her and [me]. It's not even a duet. As God is my witness, there is nothing I have to be defensive about. I'm a good dad. I just thought it was a beautiful song."
-Bret Michaels, discussing the flap over the provocative lyrical content of his new song "Nothin' to Lose," on which 17-year-old Miley Cyrus provides backing vocals. Michaels has been getting flack from people over the suggestive nature of the tune and Cyrus' involvement, especially on the chorus, where they both sing, "We both know better than this/ Still we can't resist/ Slowly get undressed/ Won't you fall down on me/ So close I can feel you breathe." The Poison frontman told Us that the whole controversy is a tempest in a teapot. "It's blown out of proportion," he said, adding that he had gotten a number of texts about it. "I was like, 'What the f--- is going on?' Everyone's going nuts!"
The pair ended up in the studio together working on a Cyrus-branded remake of the Poison classic "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," and Cyrus offered to lend her voice to the song after Michaels played it for her in the studio. The track will be on Michaels' upcoming solo album, which should hit stores in June.