Miley Cyrus’ Bangerz tour starts with a twerk in Vancouver: Photos, videos

It was only about a minute into the opening song, SMS (Bangerz), before Miley Cyrus bent over and twerked before the adoring Vancouver crowd on the first night of her new tour.

The cheers and screams were deafening.

Cyrus kicked off her Bangerz tour in Vancouver on Valentine’s Day and played to an adoring crowd of about 15,000 at Rogers Arena.

She played every song off her new studio album, with some old favourites thrown in for good measure.

Piece of advice: Cyrus does two encores so don’t leave after the first one!

the strings of balloons, cotton candy and animal costumes should have been some indication this was Miley Cyrus’ party and she can grab her crotch if she wants to.

The controversy queen unleashed her highly anticipated and purportedly “educational” Bangerz tour in a packed, but not sold out, Rogers Arena in Vancouver Valentine’s Day night.

An estimated 18,000-plus fans let out blood-curdling screams at the first sight of her floating head slowly rising up on the stage’s video screen. Dancers poured onto the stage as a door-sized opening emerged behind Cyrus’ video screen mouth to reveal a slowly thrusting tongue slide. The real-life Cyrus then rode onto the stage, finally mic in hand, to the tune SMS (Bangerz).