Miley Cyrus can easily be branded a controversy queen. Blackpool residents blasted the twerk queen on Twitter after she called the place "zombieland." The 20-year-old singe made her comments during a radio interview on Rock FM in Preston.

The "We Can't Stop" singer went on to great lengths and called the resort one of the "weirdest place" she had ever visited. The show's host DJ Hywel Evans tried to justify her statement by saying that the singer "probably didn't catch a sunset over the prom" and expressed his irk by saying, "But that's no excuse for calling us strange."

The singer visited the Lancashire town in December 2009 to perform in the Royal Variety Performance at the Opera House and stayed on its most famous resort Pleasure Beach.

"I got there and was like this is the weirdest place, there was like this amusement fair but no-one was there because it wasn't summertime. It reminded me of like a zombieland," the singer said.

However, Miley, who has almost 13 million followers on Twitter and Instagram, faced an online backlash over her comment. Residents of Blackpool used the hash-tag #educatingmiley to let their feelings out.

"Blackpool seafront is every kid's dream!" while the other said "Great people live here with big hearts - and you've just made the majority of us angry," one user wrote.

"Miley Cyrus has said Blackpool is one of the strangest places she'd ever been to in her entire life. Now we definitely know she's on crack," said one Twitter user.

"Apparently #Mileycyrus called Blackpool a Zombieland saying all the people are weird etc.. like she can hardly talk the slag wannabe! -.- [sic]"

"#educatingmiley @MileyCyrus Blackpool is fabulous, it's Las Vegas without the gun crime."

"The clown at the front of pleasure beach can sing better than you," one Twitter user said of Miley's comments.

The Beatles had a long a varied history in Blackpool, a borough, seaside town, and unitary authority area of Lancashire, in North West England. The Beatles did a significant event in John Lennon's early childhood and multiple gigs in the town in 1963 and 1965.

Blackpool was notorious for having imposed an indefinite ban on the Rolling Stones from performing in the town in 1964 after a riot broke out among the audience who had found their performance suggestive during their concert at the Empress Ballroom. The ban was lifted 44 years later in March 2008.

Blackpool remains a summer through to the end of the light in November and an all-holiday period entertainment venue, specialising in variety shows featuring many renowned entertainers.