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Miley Cyrus Is on a Ceaseless Quest to Be Timeless
Her ninth album, Something Beautiful, aims to pitch more hits into the pantheon of great American songs.
The sense that things could get really weird is ever present and most delicious in the title track, a smoldering, intimate missive that explodes into a stunning rock coda on the insinuation that to fall in love is to literally, viscerally lose a sense of self: “Eat my heart / Break my soul / Take my parts.” Later, the six-minute scorcher “ Walk of Fame ” features head Alabama Shake Brittany Howard alternating between a high howl and a vinegary rock howl with Cyrus playing chipper, clean counterpoint over production that barrels through disco, synth pop, and French house. Miley admires the Shakes enough to have invited their Sound & Color engineer, Shawn Everett, to join Something Beautiful ’s production crew (also present: Cyrus’s punk-rock significant other, Maxx Morando; pop penman Michael Pollack; and members of indie-rock acts Foxygen and Alvvays). Meeting her audience at a remedial ground level in the lyrics while waxing ecstatically in interviews about the ambitions of Pink Floyd rock operas, Panos Cosmatos films, and Beyoncé documentariesrelays a humming dissonance.
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