Miley Cyrus

After years trying to reconcile chart success with her leftfield musical instincts, the singer has delivered a hazily atmospheric album that plays to her ...

The other is to be a more traditional or even leftfield artist, making records that highlight the Stevie Nicks-ish qualities of her voice: the Miley Cyrus who roared her way through a lockdown cover of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here, who followed up Bangerz with the Flaming Lips collaboration [Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/31/miley-cyrus-her-dead-petz-first-listen-review), then followed that up with 2017’s country-rock flavoured [Younger Now](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/28/miley-cyrus-younger-now-review-rca). You can virtually hear the click-clacking of gossip-blog posts being typed in the background of Jaded – in which Cyrus lets an ex have it with both barrels – and Rose Colored Lenses’s languid depiction of post-coital bliss. The first is to be a 21st-century pop star, making the kind of committee-written electronic hits that 21st-century pop stars tend to make, as was the case with her 2013 album It also deploys the fashionable device of scattering in a trail of clues about its real-life subject. You might have thought the whole business of leaking albums belonged to a past era, before streaming supplanted downloads, and that people are now largely happy to adhere to the schedule knowing they’ll be able to stream the album for free when it arrives. It’s hit No 1 everywhere from Poland to Paraguay, seven weeks and counting at the top of the British charts, its lyrics and video painstakingly scanned by a media and fanbase eager to discover references to Cyrus’s ex-husband Liam Hemsworth, three years after their divorce.

Hear tracks by Bartees Strange, Nicki Nicole, Caroline Rose and others.

She mingles electronics and plucked strings in this piece, which opens with yawning, amorphous sounds and recordings of Hungarian frogs, then deploys a quintet of Japanese kotos to join her in a measured, echoey waltz and march, a tentative climb toward order. “Premiers Pas Au Marécage” translates as “First Steps in the Swamp,” and it’s a meditation on evolution — formlessness into forms — by Sarah Page, a harpist and composer from Montreal. Nothing ruffles her as she basks in bliss: “All I need is an ocean, all I need is time,” she coos. Slow gospel organ and piano chords, bluesy saxophone and patiently hand-played drumming sustain her amid — and in a long closing instrumental, beyond — something that sounds both life-changing and inevitable, as she sings, “Nothin’s free like breaking free/out of the past.” PARELES She blurts both “I can’t bear to lose you” and “Boy you’re going to hate this song!” She wonders if she should hold on; she wants to smash everything and move along. [“Farm to Table.”](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/arts/music/bartees-strange-farm-to-table-review.html) Now it’s streaming, and it sums up and expands the album’s moods and dynamics. In his early career, NF sounded as if he was internalizing all the pressures of the world, but now he sounds free and calm, dismissing those same pressures with a shrug. Future appears on this remix with a pair of verses that are somehow both utterly rote and also grossly charming, rapping about the place where carnality and expensive jewelry intersect, and the elation of toxic love. He collaborated with the African-tinged English group the Very Best on “Freak Out,” from his coming album, “Being.” Ignore the song’s psychedelic title. Latin R&B enjoys a whiff of hyperpop helium in “No Voy a Llorar” (“I’m Not Going to Cry”), a preemptively defensive breakup song. Both are capable of broad vocal theatrics, but it should be said, Carlile is holding back here, in order to allow Cyrus the space to ruminate in this song about failure: “I’m not always right/but still I ain’t got time for what went wrong.” In her post-Disney career, Cyrus has flirted with various forms of adulthood in terms of performance — sexual defiance, hippie experimentalism and so on. [Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20xKnXtlw6WHInmjLpS8NB?si=6cff6fb76b64407a) (or find our profile: nytimes).

Miley Cyrus dominates in new music video for 'dance floor banger' 'River'.

The music video is not the only visual content for the album as Cyrus released a music video for the Irish Singles Chart No. The video also ends with water pouring down on Cyrus and her backing dancers. The ‘River’ music video highlights the high energy of the song with seductive visuals and over a dozen shirtless men.

The lyrics to 'Muddy Feet' off of the 'Endless Summer Vacation' album seem to suggest Liam Hemsworth cheated on Miley Cyrus.

Some of the rumors seemed a little far-fetched (he supposedly slept with how many women?), and it wasn't until the full album dropped on March 10 that fans who believed the cheating rumors got a little vindication. [speculation that Hemsworth had been unfaithful](https://www.glamour.com/story/where-did-those-liam-hemsworth-cheating-on-miley-cyrus-rumors-come-from) and that Cyrus was alluding to the (alleged) cheating in the lyrics. [Miley Cyrus was hinting that Liam Hemsworth cheated](https://www.glamour.com/story/miley-cyrus-seems-to-have-a-special-message-for-liam-hemsworth-with-flowers) during their marriage with the “Flowers" lyrics, but the lyrics to “Muddy Feet” seem pretty specific.

Miley Cyrus' popular YouTube performance series is being revived on Disney+ for the release of her new album, Endless Summer Vacation.

She also knows when to push her vocal range to its absolute limit, as she does during her “Zombie” performance, and when to scale back, as she does on “Sweet Jane.” Cyrus adds her rock-star sheen to the music, and her voice glides across the melody easily. Releasing this cover of “Jolene” by her godmother, country music legend Dolly Parton, marked the moment that Cryus took control of her narrative. It would be a crime not to put this cover at the top spot because it’s the one that started it all. In 2010, as she geared up for the final season of Hannah Montana, she released her album “Can’t Be Tamed.” The title track charted high on the Billboard 200, but it wasn’t until December 2012 that Cyrus found the perfect venue to showcase her raw vocal ability: her popular YouTube series, “The Backyard Sessions,” in which Cyrus sings stripped-down covers (and later originals) in a casual outdoor setting. Grande smoothly jumps back into the song, and they both have a moment to shine on the last chorus, harmonizing elegantly. On Christmas Eve that year, she uploaded a cover of her godmother Dolly Parton’s seminal 1974 country banger, “Jolene.” It was one of the first times that Cyrus’ signature country twang, which lent itself well to the heartbreaking song, was on full display. The YouTube series took a five-year hiatus, and the first video released when it returned in 2020 was this sinuous cover of a cover: Cyrus is singing the hit Velvet Underground song “Sweet Jane,” but her version is modeled after the hit 1988 cover by New Zealand’s Cowboy Junkies. In the lead-up to the release of her seventh studio album, Plastic Hearts, the former child star slowed down Spears’ “Gimme More” and used her gruff vocals to add a rock edge to one of the pop star’s most notable hits. Noah Cyrus grew up in the shadow of her older sister, which can’t have been easy. Undoubtedly, there are parallels between how the media treated Cyrus in her early days of fame and how they treated her pop elder, Britney Spears. Once the show ended, Cyrus set out to prove herself as a bonafide singer with excellent songwriting skills (see: “7 Things”) that would put a spotlight on her stunning vocals in ways Hannah Montana had not. If you were a child in the late 2000s, there’s a good chance you watched Miley Cyrus in her breakout role on Disney Channel’s Hannah Montana.

For Versace's 2023 fall/winter fashion show, Miley Cyrus looked stunning in a greige outfit with her contrasting two-toned hair.

We don't think it's a coincidence that her outfit and makeup mimic the light and dark tones in her hair. We love the contrast between her dark roots, her white-blonde hair, and the brunette underlayer of her hair. Her tousled hair was roughly parted down the middle, giving us a full view of her dark roots growing in.

Miley Cyrus performed songs from her eighth studio album 'Endless Summer Vacation' for Disney+ special 'Endless Summer Vacation (Backyard Sessions).'

“The sequencing of an album is very important to me,” she explains, comparing the creation of the album to a film. “When we started writing the song ‘Wonder Woman,’ the lyrics felt like too big of a shoe for me to fill,” she explains. “Boredom for an artist can feel like torture, so I always need to reinvent,” Cyrus explains. “Somehow, that evolved to a song that’s about happiness and joy and being okay with not knowing exactly where you’re going.” “This song is about, I guess, that kind of generational strength and the wisdom that my grandma gave to my mom,” Cyrus adds. and p.m., to kind of represent almost like an act.” The morning is the potential of new possibilities, an unknown about what the next 24-hours may have in store. The house is the same location where she shot the “Flowers” music video, and it’s also the backdrop of [Endless Summer Vacation (Backyard Sessions),](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/miley-cyrus-backyard-sessions-endless-summer-vacation-1234690323/) the Disney+ special that premiered Friday and finds the singer debuting live performances of songs from her just-released eighth studio [Endless Summer Vacation](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/miley-cyrus-endless-summer-vacation-reaction-1234694050/). “It just makes me emotional because now the song is filled with so much joy in the music and it’s become something so far from the sadness that inspired the song,” she explains. “It feels like it’s only mine and it could only be mine,” she says. Then there’s some wisdom and there’s some humor and there’s some heaviness and depth,” she says. [Miley Cyrus](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-miley-cyrus-songs-1234684356/) is standing in the backyard of the Los Angeles home where [Frank Sinatra](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/an-appreciation-of-frank-sinatra-1915-1998-59176/) once lived, glowing in the sun as she sings about a man who broke his own heart. “Endless Summer Vacation represents, to me, my fearlessness when it comes to experimenting, not just with my sound but also with my identity and the way that I want to be seen,” Cyrus shares after running through “Jaded,” the song that opens the film’s setlist.

A song from Miley Cyrus' new album, 'Endless Summer Vacation,' is fueling rumors that that her ex-husband, actor Liam Hemsworth, cheated on her.

“If you’re a friend of mine and you’re close to me and you listen to this album, it sounds like a conversation with me,” she said on the Disney+ special. Miley Cyrus Muddy Feet instant classic,” “Liam and I have been together for a decade. The former Disney star and Hemsworth married in 2018 after dating on and off for about a decade. It airs out a list of damning evidence, such as the scent of “perfume that I didn’t purchase” and a trail of mud throughout the house. “Muddy Waters,” the ninth track on Cyrus’ new album that dropped late Thursday night, has all the makings of a revenge track.