Miley Cyrus reveals details about new album “Something Beautiful”
At long last, fans will soon get to hear new music from Miley Cyrus, following the huge success of 2023's Endless Summer Vacation.
In a departure from her previous work, the Grammy-winning Disney alum has confirmed Something Beautiful is set to be a visual album.
“The visual component of this is driving the sound,” Cyrus teases in an interview for Harper’s Bazaar’s December 2024/January 2025 cover story. “It was important for me that every song has these healing sound properties.”
Ahead, we break down everything to know about Cyrus’s ninth studio album.
It will release in 2025
While an official release date has yet to be specified, Something Beautiful is slated for release some time next year.
Her boyfriend collaborated with her on the record
Cyrus’s longtime boyfriend, Maxx Morando, and the drummer for rock band Liily apparently played a role in the making of Something Beautiful. Cyrus reveals in her Bazaar. US cover story that Morando helped produce multiple tracks, and even helped her write the album’s title track.
Of mixing business with pleasure, she explained, “I worked with my dad forever. That’s how me and my ex-husband met each other. I’ve always worked with the people that I love. And Maxx just inspires me so much.”
It’s a visual album
“The visual component of this is driving the sound,” Cyrus teases in her Bazaar cover story. “It was important for me that every song has these healing sound properties. The songs, whether they’re about destruction or heartbreak or death, they’re presented in a way that is beautiful, because the nastiest times of our life do have a point of beauty. They are the shadow, they are the charcoal, they are the shading. You can’t have a painting without highlights and contrast.”
In terms of visuals, Cyrus has taken inspiration in everything from fashion to cinema. Key references include Thierry Mugler’s 1995 couture show, a seminal collection that includes the famous robot suit that Zendaya wore on the Dune: Part Two red carpet.
“She’ll want it to feel like this specific runway show or something,” music producer Shawn Everett tells Bazaar. “I love when she talks like that. For me, it opens up a whole world.”
Cyrus adds, “I can show [Everett] a painting or a dress, and I’ll tell him to convey those colours or that fabric with sound.”
Another key reference is 1982 surrealist musical drama, Pink Floyd: The Wall. Cyrus recalls watching the film as a teenager with her brother and a friend, during which the group rented a limo and got dressed up in ’70s-style fur coats. “We really leaned in. And so I have this heart-first attachment to it,” Cyrus says. “My idea was making The Wall, but with a better wardrobe and more glamorous and filled with pop culture.”
Something Beautiful is “more experimental” than any of her other albums.
In Cyrus’s Bazaar cover story, Everett teases, “[The album is] more experimental than anything she’s ever done, but in a pop way that I love.”
Cyrus herself describes the forthcoming record as “hypnotising and glamorous.” She continues: “It’s a concept album that’s an attempt to medicate somewhat of a sick culture through music.”
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