Miley Cyrus' new single "Wrecking Ball" is only a few days old but its already dominating the social media, from Facebook to Vevo to Twitter and to all online magazine her life and music is a constant topic for the past few months now.

The release of "Wrecking Ball" makes her name synonymous to the demolition device as the video quickly earned unprecedented views, with lots of fans and people who don't even like her sharing the links just to spread to word. Try a quick online search for the term "wrecking ball' and you'll be surprise that all the top hits are all related to Miley and how she bared it all in this video.

But Miley is not the first artist to use the demolition device and its double meaning to conveniently express the feeling of being powerful and destroyed. Using the powerful device to describe one's state sends a lot of message and that' what makes Miley's "Wrecking Ball" the most viewed video plus of course the fact the she is naked and licks the sledgehammer.

So here are three artists who uses the demolition device as a metaphor and without the nudity.

Wrecking Ball - Bruce Springsteen

Known as the best album of 2012 by Rolling Stone, "Wrecking Ball" is Bruce Springsteen's seventeenth studio albu and was released March 5, 2012. The album's first single "We Take care Of Our Own" was nominated for three Grammy Awards and Hollywood Reporter called the album Springsteen's at his "angriest yet".

Wrecking Ball - Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

The final track on Gillian Welch's fourth album Soul Journey, "Wrecking Ball" is the artist attempt to create a happier record as it represents a new sound for Welch and Rawlings. This is the song you want to listen when you're driving down the road on a sunny summer day.

Wrecking Ball - Emmylou Harris

Released on September 26, 1995, 'Wrecking Ball" is Emmylou Harris' eighteenth studio album as she moves away from the traditional acoustic sound for which she had become famous. Noted for its atmospheric feel, the album featured guests performances by Niel Young, Steve Earle, Larry Mullen, Jr. and Lucinda Williams.