Will Miley Cyrus perform at the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show?

Miley Cyrus’ fans are excited over reports that she will host the Super Bowl halftime show in 2025.

On Monday, July 8, reports circulated online that the “Flowers” ​​singer would be performing at football’s biggest night next year, set to take place at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Popular sports website MLFootball was the first to pick up the rumors, pointing out that 31-year-old Cyrus was “one of the finalists” for the halftime show last year before the job ultimately went to Usher.

One fan on X wrote that a possible performance by the “Wrecking Ball” singer would be “life-changing,” while others called her performance at the 2024 Grammys a preview of the energy and vocals Cyrus could bring to the show.

Neither Cyrus, 31, nor the NFL have commented on the possible news, although PEOPLE has reached out to both for comment.

Of course, Super Bowl LIX is still a long way off, as the football season doesn’t start until September 5. The big game will take place on February 9, 2025.

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If Cyrus actually performs, it would be a big step for the Grammy winner. She said British Vogue in May 2023 that she would rather perform for her friends than in stadiums full of fans.

“Singing for hundreds of thousands of people is not really what I love,” Cyrus said. “There’s no connection. There’s no safety. It’s not natural either. It’s so isolating because when you’re in front of 100,000 people, you’re alone.”

Cyrus said the negative impact of performing in stadiums on her mental health was the reason she had not toured since her Bangerz tour in 2014.

“This has nothing to do with a lack of appreciation for the fans, it’s just that I don’t want to get worked up in a dressing room, which is the reality of life on tour,” she wrote on X“I just don’t want to sleep on a moving bus. It’s not the best thing for me right now.”

However, if there’s anyone who could bring Cyrus onstage at the Super Bowl, it’s probably her godmother, Dolly Parton. After all, Parton was responsible for bringing Cyrus onstage at the Grammys.

“I told her, ‘I’m wondering if I’m going to do the Grammys or not,'” Cyrus recalled in an episode of the Netflix series “The Last Man.” My next guest needs no introduction with David Letterman in June 2024. “And she said, ‘Of course you’re going to be at the Grammys. And you’re not just going to show up, you’re going to show off. And you’re going to be everything you are when you’re sitting here in front of me.'”

“She always said to me, ‘You are your thing, and I am my thing, and together we are ourselves,'” she continued. “So she didn’t tell me to be Dolly, she didn’t tell me to be fabulous and hide behind the glitter and the hair. She told me to be myself.”

Parton herself has never performed in the Super Bowl halftime show in her decades-long career, but said she has been offered the prestigious gig “many times” in the past but has turned it down.

“I couldn’t do it for other reasons, or I just thought I wasn’t big enough for it – for such a big production,” said the 78-year-old country icon The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published in November 2023. “When you think about these shows, they are big, big productions. I’ve never done anything with such a big production. I don’t know if I could have done it. I think that’s what I thought at the time.”

Maybe she and Cyrus could do it together, as fans have been asking for. “Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton should do the Super Bowl halftime show,” one fan wrote on social media last August, with another commenting, “That’s something I’d love to see.”