Miley Cyrus Twerk; 'We Can't Stop’ Music Video Explained By Director And Singer, Based On True Events; Calls It ‘Trippy’, ‘Cool,’ ‘Awesome’

Miley Cyrus' twerk filled "We Can't Stop" music video got a lot of buzz. The peculiar video has officially broken the record for most views on VEVO in 24 hours, but many have criticized it as too bizarre or inappropriate for 20-year-old, Miley Cyrus.

Director Diane Martel opened up to MTV News and explained the interesting visuals of the video that everyone's talking about, from giant teddy bear backpacks to hands that bleed pink nail polish and a skull made of French fries.

"The teddy bears my art director [Aramis Israel] found, and I knew they had to go on the twerkers' backs," she said of one scene that appears as though the giant bears are dancing, MTV News reports. 

Some ideas were more spur of the moment, like the scenes where a partygoer rubs white bread all over his face, and where someone pretends to cut off their fingers, shooting pink paint everywhere. Martel explained, "The bread and the fingers I made up during a location scout in the kitchen."

Miley added on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" that the bread has another meaning: "Got to get the bread! A little bit of money," she explained. "And also that it's kind of weird. A trippy moment. We thought it was symbolic for money."

As for the famous French fry skull, it was created by visual artist Christopher Chiappa, who Martel says "rules" for the contribution. Miley called the art piece "a cool-ass skull."

"To make that, we had to try McDonalds and In-N-Out, and In-N-Out works best," Miley said. "It's nothing too deep."

Miley and a few friends get into a play-fight in the video too. Martel explained the significance of the fight, and even called Miley her hero.

"That fight scene is awesome. What female artist lets themselves get their ass kicked in their own video?" she said.

"She is very much alive in a way I find very beautiful. She is living in the moment and this is inspiring... Miley is my hero," Martel continued.

On "Good Morning America," Miley admitted that the music video's scenes were based on true events. "The video's based off true events," she said. "Some funny things have gone down in my life, so it's just been great, letting people see that-not just the glammed up beauty shot girl because that's not who I am." 

Neither Miley nor Martel commented on Miley's twerking skills.