A date that will always be marked in red on the calendar of Miley Cyrus is January 12, 2023. The American artist began the year with the launch of Flowersa song that, despite his discreet welcome on the day of the premiere, just took a weekend to show evidence of what would end up becoming: one of the greatest hits of this decade. While the theme accumulated 7 million views on its first day in Spotify, the next day it was heard 9 million times, the subsequent 11 million and the following to 17 million times. It was a shocking phenomenon that caused the song accountant to end the a whopping 96 million views only on this platform.
The truth is that Flowers He did not put Cyrus in the media focus, because the singer and actress is one of the most famous celebrities in the world and does not need any song that transcends all the interest she alone raises in itself. But he did something that is much more important for the artist’s trajectory: he managed to highlight her again for her music. Cyrus, who has published throughout his career eight studio albums and has dominated the radio with successes such as Party in the USA (2009) and Wrecking Ball (2013), has not had precisely a little constant career. However, despite his recurring releases, Cyrus had never just had a place in an entertainment industry still too dedicated to his stage like Hannah Montana.
Unlike other “Disney girls” such as Ariana Grande or more recently Olivia Rodrigo, who stripped without problem as actresses so that her music was taken seriously, Miley Cyrus has never run the same fate and has suffered to defend her own art. Flowers It was a before and after: the song not only helped the irregular album Endless Summer Vacation He became one of the most anticipated projects of that year, but gave him the critical acclamation that he was missing. The album received 6 grammy nominations, winning two awards for Flowers to the best recording of the year and best pop song. His change of letter when interpreting the subject – with his “I just won my first Grammy!” – It is already a prizes history.
Since then, his musical contributions have been a discreet collaboration with Pharrell Williams entitled Doctor (Work it out) (2024) and the most triumphal II MOST WANED (2024) In Beyoncé’s album, which has not been a hit but earned him his third statuette in the Grammy for the best Country song in duo. The artist’s next project, therefore, was presented as a work with the aspiration to consecrate the artist beyond the triumph of Flowers. The result has been Subject Beautifulthe ninth studio album by Miley Cyrus, composed of 13 clues – two of them being interludes. The letter of presentation of the album was the homonymous song, a psychedelic journey that perfectly predicts the tour that the singer has proposed for her last work.
“My new album Subject Beautiful The world means for me, it has been my world for a few years, ”said the singer through social networks.“ This process has been full of pure devotion and sharing it now with all of you is my greatest joy, ”he added. However, as opposed to opposition to Endless Summer Vacationthe project reaches the market without a phenomenon as Flowers under which to protect yourself. It has not been for not trying: the main single, End of the worldit is a song so made for the radio that surprises that it has not set enough. This preceded More to lise A few weeks ago, the most recent advance of what Cyrus keeps a key to Subject Beautiful.
‘Prelude’
“Like when you follow an image from a train, your eyes cannot prevent the landscapes that pass to be swallowed by an infinite distance.” Thus the album begins Miley Cyrus, with a prelude that seems to refer to everything that will be heard below. When we look through the window of a train, the stages are changing quickly, distorting reality and succumbing to the passage of time. To this idea is the artist, looking back towards a past that is now only a “handful of ashes.” The reflection, as mystical as the sound that the project will permeate, leaves a conclusion: “The beauty that one finds when it is only a sentence that longs to be shared.”
‘Submithing Beautiful’
The prayer that yearns to be shared makes its way on the second theme, which successfully shows a much more mature sensuality of Miley Cyrus. The American singer returns to yearn “something beautiful” that lasts more than just a moment, and does so by exchanging absorbent parts that captivate a completely clear voice with others that, in her attempt to surprise and innovate, embrace the madness by the hand of a ruffled and psychedelic sound. The homonymous track of the album ends up being a faithful letter of presentation, because while it shines in its most jazz sound, it stumbles into the unnecessary and abrupt interruptions of the melody.
‘End of the world’
It was the ace under Miley Cyrus’s sleeve to try to replicate the success of Flowers And, although he has failed in his attempt to flood the radio stations, not for that reason the song deserves to be less celebrated. With mentions of McCartney, Picasso and Nirvana, the theme plays with the occurrence that the world is about to end, an increasingly frequent topic among artists. Despite its little surprising base, Cyrus stands out with this bet because it is not imposed or with a sound that costs too much effort to defend, one of the keys that promoted Flowers. The American invites dancing and it is difficult for the listener to not want to join her.
‘More to lise’
The interpreter of The Climb It is more alive than ever in this incredible ballad that is little place for demands. In the words of the artist, it is “a song that is rather a story”: “I do not want it to be interrupted or overcome or seek perfection. I never wanted me to More to lise It was perfect, but it will sound significant and emotional. ”The result is, unfortunately from Cyrus, quite perfect. In this search for emotionality, without flourishing or ornaments about sound, the singer not only reflects her most personal and artistic side, also her most honest side. She, as an artist, continues to be everything she represents More to lise.
‘Easy Lover’
After the first interlude of the album, the sixth track of the album emerges under an instrumental that does not want to make too many complications. “You are a forest fire and I’m on your way,” Cyrus sings, “I have decided that I want to continue dancing in the ashes.” With a rather rock atmosphere that reminds slightly of its remarkable Plastic Hearts (2020), the theme resorts to a popera base that also stops to absorb country dyes. It is not strange, therefore, that it was one of the songs that the artist considered to yield to Beyoncé for his collaboration in Cowboy Carter (2024). Finally, Beyoncé opted for II MOST WANEDthat inhales much more magic.
‘Golden Burning Sun’
Preceded by an interlude whose production is in complete ascent from the beginning, this song is also cooked over low heat. “You are the only one under the burning golden sun,” claims Cyrus wrapped up with delicate guitar textures that, although they feel the theme of a rocker tone again, is much softer than that of the previous track, a positive factor that improves the song. Towards her second half, the artist’s clear voice is diluted in pursuit of an instrumental that transforms momentarily to give rise to the final repetition of the chorus, much more epic and making the closure magnificent. It is one of the great passages of the album.
‘Walk of Fame’ (next to Brittany Howard)
In a time dominated by the streaming And in the middle of the immediacy, the songs of only two minutes, without a bridge, predominate in the lists of successes around the world. Give A & wwhich was not left over. It is a shame, however, that the ninth track of Subject Beautiful It becomes so long to the point that a couple of minutes. The theme has the American Brittany Howard, the only vocal collaborator of the album, and stands out for an eighties disco sound that is very European.
‘Trend you’re God’
The album fails to trace with the following song, which sins boring from the hand of a Miley Cyrus that sounds reluctant. The filter that invades your voice does not end up in despite its intention to bring the eighties rock back, and only awakens attention towards the end, when the track plays with production without much effort to want to create anything new. “Abrak me in your arms, pretend that you are God,” claims the singer to her lover, who confesses that she does not want to “wake up” if he leaves. “Do you still love me? I have to know,” he recognizes in the second stanza. His unvolved is impregnated in many different ways in the song itself.
‘Every girl you’ve Ever Loved’ (next to Naomi Campbell)
Miley Cyrus also takes place for Vogue of Madonna in the minutes of his ninth record project. As if the theme were a tour that aims to find Madonna’s classic, the artist is embraced by a sound that likes and bores to the same extent. The force of the chorus loses strength in its characteristic insistence, although it continues to be entertaining. Naomi Campbell’s interventions, however, do not help enliven the second half of the song. “Am I not pretty enough for something more than fun in the dark? Miley Cyrus wonders. Under this sound it costs to contemplate another type of luminosity.
‘Reborn’
“The reason I love Reborn It is because he has gained so many lives that he has really reborn from the model, ”said Miley Cyrus on the subject in an interview with Zane Lowe.” Some of the lyrics simply fell from heaven, “says the singer about the inspiration that invaded Greg Aldae, one of the accredited composers, when he thought in the song” Sitting in a church of New York. ” He proposes, is very different from what Cyrus has done musically on other occasions, and there lies his main singularity.
‘Give me love’
The end of Subject Beautiful It is also the conclusion of the famous prayer that, yearning to be shared, Miley Cyrus has yelled at a complicated world that makes it very difficult not to want to go back and let himself be fond of the factor of the deceptive nostalgia. So I will say goodbye to the earthly pleasures, while my perfect Eden collapses in flames, ”says the artist,” I am devoured alive by the mouth of a monster while shouting your name without fear. “It is a very nice closure that manages to leave a good taste despite the different obstacles that have been found along the way.
Despite the mistakes of an album that is cohesive in its sound but leaves behind the beauty of a good song, Miley Cyrus signs a very complete artistic work that focuses more as a whole and not so much on individual tracks. Subject Beautiful It will not be the most important album of the year, it does not seem likely to have great hits and it does not aim to succeed in the awards season; However, Cyrus feels more artist than ever and makes the notoriety he gave him Flowers The opportunity to claim your most free and personal vision.
