![]() ![]() “She a great singer who surprised a lot of people with that album. An eponymous album filled with psychedelic rock surprised the mainstream, which had received a steady diet of Cyrus’ sheen-covered pop. The provocative pop star and the Flaming Lips wrote and recorded as Cyrus and Her Dead Petz. It’s disappointing once you’ve heard what Cyrus can do when she lets rip live: if you haven’t, Heart of Glass and Zombie are appended to the deluxe edition.When chatting with Flaming Lips singer-songwriter Wayne Coyne in September about the band’s then-upcoming date at Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox in March, Coyne’s pal, Miley Cyrus, entered the conversation.Ĭyrus, 28, veered in another direction after befriending the Flaming Lips in 2014. With the exception of Bad Karma, produced by Mark Ronson and lent a live feel through its thumping drums, it sounds like rock music put through an Instagram filter. Despite the distortion, there’s something antiseptic about the guitars that back her picking over her recent divorce on WTF Do I Know, while the obligatory sheen of Auto-Tune succeeds in neutering Cyrus’s voice, making her full-throated roar oddly reedy. The latter are by some distance the least successful things here, largely because they offer a mainstream 2020 pop producer’s idea of what rock music should sound like. It pitches ballads that display varying degrees of Nashville traditionalism – from the acoustic High to the concluding Golden G-String, which comes decorated with lovely Abba-esque synths – against mainstream 2020 pop, electronic leftovers from the scrapped album She Is Miley Cyrus and tracks that lean into Cyrus’s penchant for rock. The guest list highlights the tricky path that Plastic Heart picks through Cyrus’s tastes: punky 80s stars Billy Idol and Joan Jett alongside Dua Lipa. To use the kind of term Cyrus might have deployed during the Bangerz tour, she sang the shit out of them all, her rasping voice – a very different-sounding instrument to that of any other big mainstream pop vocalist – adding a raw power even to a version of the Cranberries’ terminally windy and overbearing Zombie. These were rapturously received, and it’s pretty obvious why. It was trailed by a fantastic single, Midnight Sky, that interpolated Stevie Nicks’s 1981 hit Edge of Seventeen (the Fleetwood Mac vocalist later appeared on a mashup remix), and a succession of cover versions including an acoustic take on Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here and Blondie’s Heart of Glass recorded with a live band. Her latest arrives packaged like an 80s new wave album: neon pink on black, Mick Rock photo of a peroxide-mulleted Cyrus wearing leather gloves and a T-shirt that reads “CENSORED”. She made a coolly-received country album followed by a synth-heavy EP that featured guest appearances from Ghostface Killah, Rae Sremmurd’s Swae Lee and RuPaul. ![]() She followed Bangerz with Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, which featured her playing Tibetan bowls and collaborating with the Flaming Lips, whose sound it frequently recalled. This wasn’t a pop star dutifully padding out her set with a few well-known singalongs: it was audience-challenging evidence of the intriguingly catholic taste that Cyrus’s subsequent career has tried to accommodate.
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