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‘Something Beautiful with Miley Cyrus’ Review: The Star Co-Directs an Album’s Worth of Music Videos, Celebrating Her Sexuality…and Herself
Cyrus reaches back to the spirit of the '80s for a series of strutting, pouting, letting-it-all-out videos that are very pre-ironic.
But the current moment, typified by stars like Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, and Charli XCX, tends to be about showcasing one’s sexuality ironically, or with an acid flippancy, or from behind a mask, or with a certain cool stance of meta control. At the Tribeca Festival, where the “Something Beautiful” visual album premiered tonight, the audience cheered every femme fatale glower, every showgirl flash of writhing flesh, every doffed piece of slinky designer punk clothing. In “Easy Lover,” she strips down to her underwear in a soundstage dressing room, then walks onto an empty Hollywood lot wearing light-blue ruffled chaps and a winged jacket, sauntering through that land of make-believe as if to say, “What you’re seeing is just…an image!” (Well, yes.)
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