A surprising disc: the sound journey of a global pop star that allows itself the luxury of experimenting. And have fun …
Beyond the hits there is life, and above all there is music. Something BetaFul is definitely less pop by Miley Cyrus from the point of view of the stylistic choice of sounds and songs. And in fact it sounds like a real, mature album, full of different shades with atmospheres ranging from the Fleetwood Mac to Abbaleat Pet Shop Boys, to the Arena rock with hints of psychedelia.
Album manifesto is Something Beautiful that alternates soul jazz shades with moments of distortion and chaos. Exactly at the antipodes the subsequent end of the world, the most classic, and certainly less original, a radio and captivating pop piece. At least for the first five plays.
That his ballads are among the most effective in circulation says it once again More To Lose, poignant and intense and not even taken for granted. Interlude 1 with its atmosphere between musical and soundtrack from action movie, introduces eAsy Lover, Gunk Soul Pop of great impact, undoubtedly one of the highlights of Something Beautiful.
A dance rhythmic button and a vocal line that at times remembers the Frankie Goes To Hollywood accompanies the six minutes of Walk of Fame with the complicity of Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes. Still soundfloor sounds with some rock accent in Every Girl You’ve Ever Loved (Feauturing Naomi Campbell). Another sound context in pretending you’re pleasantly visionary and psychedelic.
“I never wrote a song thinking ‘I want to win a Grammy’, but receive that Grammy for Flowers It was like … like a patch on a broken heart, in a certain sense “told the Cyrus to the journalist Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1.” And therefore, once the Grammy has been received, I thought: “Here, when you are looking for me on Google, it is written ‘Miley Cyrus, winning artist of a Grammy.’ Now I can go to do my strange stuff that I like to do. And somehow I ended up making an experimental albumbut I never wanted to abandon pop music because I believe that The Beatles, Elvis, David Bowie, Prince, Madonna … are all pop artists “…”.
