Miley Cyrus has come a long way since her days as the "Hanna Montana" star. She has been showcasing an edgier, more adult like look which has also begun to cross over into the star's music. In an interview with Billboard magazine she talks about her new look and sound she explains why she won't let people box her in and what caused her transformation, which some dubbed as "Miley 2.0."

Cyrus who is "determined to swim as hard as she can against the tide of public expectation," recently released her new single "We Can't Stop." The song is completely different for Cyrus who was known for her catchy, pop tunes. Billboard calls the singer's new sound a mix of "hip-hop edge and country twang."

"I want to start as a new artist. I consider my upcoming album my first, really," Cyrus told the magazine, adding that the music she made as a 16-year-old artist now seems "so irritating."

"Right now, when people go to iTunes and listen to my old music, it's so irritating to me because I can't just erase that stuff and start over," she said. "I feel so disconnected from it. I was 16 or 17 when I made it. When you're in your 20s, you just don't really know that person anymore."

The former child actress told the magazine that she felt like a lot of people wanted to try and make her into the "white Nicki Minaj" but that's not who she is even though she is beginning to move into a more urban sound. She said she wouldn't describe her new sound as hip-hop though.

"I'm not coming in trying to rap. It's more like, I don't see any girls out there doing what Miguel and Frank Ocean are doing," she explained to Billboard. "We've been calling it 'count-step,' because it's like country, dubstep and a little trap."

Peter Edge, CEO of RCA added that Cyrus' new single and sound is definitely drawing the line between the more mature, adult-like Cyrus and who she was before.

"What's she doing now is not what people expect from her," Edge said describing the song as a "mature version of 'Party in the U.S.A."

Cyrus said she is putting everything into her music now and is hoping that her album will be her best album yet.

"I've given everything to get here, even down to friends and relationships- I've just put my music first," she said. "It's not like I'm losing who I am- I actually found out more about who I am by making this music. I'm going on a journey, and that's more than a lot of 20-year-olds can say. And I'm still going to change so much."