Hannah Montana Just Joined Twitter: A Love Letter To Nostalgia, 15 Years Later

Hannah Montana Twitter: The advantage of being a person born at the turn of the century is that one can lay claim to a wider array of nostalgia than kids from the 1990s and the 2000s combined. And to teen girls straddling both those eras, among the most sustaining symbols of our childhood was Hannah Montana.

A mic-wielding, song-belting, blonde wig-sporting icon living a secret dual life. She was all stars and spangles, personifying the very essence of Disney that so charmingly left young girls in those years starry-eyed.

And in March 2021, when you realise Hannah's first television appearance turns 15, it shakes your entire life into perspective. Fifteen years - a wistful reminder of simpler times, of yourself climbing the age ladder with no way to turn back, of how easy it was to find aspiration in imagination.

I'm clearly not the only one feeling that way. Miley Cyrus, the real reel Hannah (who has never distanced herself from this long-lost persona of hers, for which my nostalgic heart is so thankful to her) shares my, and a million other people's, sentiment. She penned a long love letter on Hannah paper - yes, this beautiful little curiosity exists - to the girl she once was. To the girls, we all once were.

Dear @HannahMontana, I still love you 15 years later. #HMForever pic.twitter.com/TBqZd5aOKh

— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) March 24, 2021

"Since the first time I slid those blond bangs over my forehead in the best attempt to conceal my identity... I didn't know then... that is where you would live forever. Not just in mine but millions of people around the world," she

Dear @HannahMontana, I still love you 15 years later. #HMForever pic.twitter.com/TBqZd5aOKh

Hannah Montana Twitter: A Sprinkle Of Nostalgia Into Mundanity

There are things I have still in the deep corners of my cupboards - teen pop magazines, Hannah-inspired bracelets and trinkets, an old t-shirt plastered with her face and even (pardon me) a purple Hannah towel. Fangirling was a serious, full-time job back then. But they are artefacts of a different time and try as I might, it would be impossible to organically resurrect them into my life which has moved so agonisingly far along into adulthood.

Now a Hannah Montana Twitter account, that's perhaps a more seamless way to weave what we have outgrown into our present with relevance. It may be all promotional, without intent, daily reinforcement of our aging years. But the thought of Hannah try to find space into the advanced strappings of technology well beyond her time is so humorously comforting as the ancient glitter heart stickers she uses.

For instance, Hannah penning a love letter to her (and therefore every girl's) teen crush, Jake Ryan. What a very Twitter thing to do, but with such innocent 2000s naivete as is hard to come by on this social media battleground.

💕 pic.twitter.com/IokicSeXWV

— Hannah Montana (@hannahmontana) March 25, 2021

Finally an agenda for visiting Twitter every morning. Finally!

Views expressed are the author's own.