12/17/2023 0 Comments Plastic hearts album miley cyrus![]() “Gimme what I want or I’ll give it to myself,” she demands, later warning that “If you’re looking for faithful, that’ll never be me” on ‘Never Be Me’, one of the album’s slower songs. She ditches heartache for anthems of bisexuality, non-monogamy, and self-liberation. Her earlier covers expose the vocal heft heard on ‘Heart Of Glass’ and the Cranberries’ ‘Zombie’ (a pandemic fundraiser for grassroots venues) that appear on the deluxe edition of ‘Plastic Hearts’, as if these older songs can handle her raspy range in a way that modern pop can’t.Īlongside years of hero-worshipping, Miley’s also been mired in controversy and drama, most recently divorce and the loss of her home to the Californian wildfires – but ‘Plastic Hearts’ makes it clear she’s not after your pity. She’s covered everyone from Dolly Parton in 2012 to Metallica at her Glastonbury 2019 headline show, trying on Crowded House, Pearl Jam, Hall & Oates, Arctic Monkeys, and Lana Del Rey along the way. ![]() Some might call Miley a culture vulture, but her appreciation is genuine. It’s been a good month for cross-generational collaboration: last week Springsteen rode shotgun on new Bleachers song ‘chinatown’, and now, on Miley’s ‘Plastic Hearts’, Billy Idol, Joan Jett, and Stevie Nicks all come along for the ride. She stamps herself on rock history at every turn of the new record, commanding eighties tropes, making classic hits “uniquely hers”, as Debbie Harry described her ‘Heart Of Glass’ cover, and even writing new songs with her heroes. ![]() “I was born to run / I don’t belong to anyone,” Miley Cyrus sings on ‘Midnight Sky’, the first single from her seventh album ‘Plastic Hearts’, turning an extremely Springsteen phrase into an extremely Miley phrase. ![]()
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