The dangerous story behind his new album

A serious infection after recording without permits in the Paseo de la Fama He took the singer to the ICU: “My kneecap began to disintegrate.” What seems like a pop anecdote is also a metaphor for its artistic evolution.

“I rolled on the sidewalk and caught something,” He said with a sneer Miley Cyrus, As if talking about a casual encounter. But what caught was not fame, or inspiration, but a bacterium that was about to cost his leg.

Miley Cyrus He has lived enough lives to write several biographies. Former Disney starprovocative compulsive, Country singer, Queen of psychedelicexperimental artist, muse queer … and now, almost Guerrilla video clip martyr. What began as a glamorous scene – she crawling on the stars of the Paseo de la Fama – ended an income in intensive care and an infection that touched the tragic.

During a recent interview in Jimmy Kimmel Live!the 31 -year -old artist shared one of the most unusual (and dangerous) episodes of her career: in October 2024, while rolling the video clip of Walk of Fameone of the audiovisual pieces of his new album Subject Beautifulhe decided to do it No permits, without closing streets, without production conventional. Only her, her minimum team and the most iconic (and dirty) street in Los Angeles.

“I was shooting on the sidewalk, all glam, very Hollywood decadent, you know? And then I caught something.”he said with the naturalness of who makes each drama a pop anecdote. What caught was an infection that, as he revealed, began to devour the branch area.

When the performance becomes dangerous

A month after filming, during the celebration of Thanksgiving, Miley was Entted in the Intensive Care Unit by an infection that had progressed quickly. “My leg began to disintegrate around the kneecap”he explained without drama, but with the forcefulness of who has felt the body betraying his artistic vocation.

The doctors, he said, were surprised both for the seriousness of the case and for their cause: a mixture of exposure to urban bacteria, open wounds and lack of immediate treatment.

“We shot without permits because it was cheaper. I had a big dream and a small budget. Well, I really had a decent budget, but I spent it on clothes,” he joked.

His confession, beyond the relaxed tone, is an exact radiography of how many current musical productions are financed: between the precariousness and epic of the “do it yourself”, even for global stars. In his case, the consequence was physical, tangible, almost grotesque. A painful metaphor – and literal – of what it means to leave everything on stage … or on the ground.

The aesthetics of decline and pain

Subject Beautifulthe album that will see the light May 30is presented as a visual, introspective and psychedelic project. According to Cyrus herself, it is “An attempt to medicate a sick culture through music”. And that phrase, after knowing the context, becomes a prophecy fulfilled: music as a treatment, art as an antidote, the body as a battlefield.

The infected video clip is now part of that major narrative. In an era where excess is recycled as an artistic speech, Miley has managed to channel excess from a vulnerable, genuine, almost poetic place. Glamor is mixed with urban rot. The pop star is literally crawls on the stars of fame. And it ends with a wound that returns it to the real world, to the physical limits of the body.

This is not the only health problem that the singer has gone through. In conversation with Zane Lowe, Cyrus revealed that she suffers from a polyp on vocal strings and a Reinke’s edemaa condition that seriously compromises vocal quality and makes tours difficult. “I have not made a world tour in more than a decade”he admitted, pointing out that his vocal problems are not recent.

All this has conditioned its relationship with the live and with the public exhibition: it is no longer the wild teenager of Bangerznor the hyperactive star of Wrecking Ball. Now moves from a more controlled, more intimate, more artistic place. And perhaps, more dangerous.