195-415: Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Miley Cyrus . It was surprise released independently to SoundCloud on August 30, 2015, and later released commercially to digital music stores and music streaming services by RCA Records on April 10, 2017. Cyrus began planning this fifth album before releasing her fourth album Bangerz (2013), and befriended
390-458: A bong "; the album "could use a hefty dose of editing" and was "annoying to any listener". According to Dan Weiss of Spin , "the total lack of unpredictability ... is what betrays Cyrus' true lack of imagination" and he raised the possibility of an "all-time backlash" she might experience if her return to the mainstream market "doesn't woo radio". Sasha Geffen wrote in Consequence of Sound that
585-479: A normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz received an average score of 60 ("mixed or average reviews") based on 21 reviews. According to Kyle Anderson of Entertainment Weekly , the project saw Cyrus "pulling 'a reverse Liz Phair ' in that she [started] with the glossy pop stuff and [ended] up producing something as intense and naked as Exile in Guyville ";
780-419: A sushi outing). Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz closes with "Twinkle Song", inspired by the death of her friend's cat; Cyrus' vocal begins in a "controlled country-ballad voice" which becomes "powerful yelling." At the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards , Cyrus said that Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz (untitled at the time) "might take me five years" to finish: "I'll just work on it until I'm done". According to
975-515: A tribute album to the band's homonymous record , featuring renditions recorded by various artists and released in conjunction to the original album's 30th anniversary. The track also features Elton John on the piano, Yo-Yo Ma and Red Hot Chili Peppers ' Chad Smith . The singer initially teased a Metallica cover album in October 2020 and had already performed the track live during her set at Glastonbury . To promote Plastic Hearts , Cyrus teased
1170-530: A "national uproar" because of her outfit and perceived pole dancing. She faced similar controversy over her performance of "Can't Be Tamed" (2010) on Britain's Got Talent , where the singer pretended to kiss one of her female backup dancers onstage; she defended the performance, arguing that she did nothing wrong. Cyrus became the subject of media and public scrutiny following her performance of "We Can't Stop" (2013) and " Blurred Lines " (2013) with Robin Thicke at
1365-538: A Christian, she was baptized in a Southern Baptist church before moving to Hollywood in 2005. She attended church regularly while growing up and wore a purity ring . In 2001, when Cyrus was eight, she and her family moved to Toronto, Canada , while her father filmed the television series Doc . After Billy Ray Cyrus took her to see a 2001 Mirvish production of Mamma Mia! at the Royal Alexandra Theatre , Miley Cyrus grabbed his arm and told him, "This
1560-695: A Roll " from the episode was released on June 13; the song itself and the B-side "Right Where I Belong" were released to digital platforms the next day. On June 27, it was revealed that Cyrus had collaborated with Ariana Grande and Lana Del Rey on " Don't Call Me Angel ", the lead single of the soundtrack to the 2019 film Charlie's Angels . It was released on September 13, 2019. In August 2019, Cyrus released " Slide Away ", her first song since announcing her separation from then-husband Hemsworth. The song hinted at their breakup and contained lyrics such as "Move on, we're not 17, I'm not who I used to be". A music video
1755-502: A US top-ten single. Cyrus's solo career started with the US number-one pop rock albums Meet Miley Cyrus (2007) and Breakout (2008). Her follow-up EP The Time of Our Lives (2009) reached number two in the US; its lead single " Party in the U.S.A. " became one of the best-selling singles of all time in the country and was later certified 14-times platinum by the RIAA . Trying to establish
1950-505: A coach on The Voice (2016–2017), starred in the " Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too " episode of Black Mirror (2019), hosts the yearly holiday special Miley's New Year's Eve Party (2021–present), and appeared in the documentary concert special Endless Summer Vacation (Backyard Sessions) (2023). Cyrus has received numerous accolades , including two Grammy Awards , one Brit Award , five Billboard Music Awards , three MTV Video Music Awards , and eight Guinness World Records . She
2145-1115: A cocktail of embarrassment". Cyrus entered the stage of her Bangerz Tour by sliding down a slide in the shape of a tongue, and draw media attention during the tour for her unique outfits and racy performances. In the early years of her career, Cyrus had a generally wholesome image as a teen idol. Her fame increased dramatically in the wake of the Vanity Fair photo scandal in 2008, and it was reported that photographs of Cyrus could be sold to photo agencies for up to $ 2,000 per photo. In subsequent years, her image continued to shift dramatically from her teen idol status. In 2008, Donny Osmond wrote of Cyrus's imminent transition to adulthood: "Miley will have to face adulthood... As she does, she'll want to change her image, and that change will be met with adversity." The release of her 2010 album Can't Be Tamed saw Cyrus officially attempting to distance herself from her teenage persona by releasing controversial music videos for her songs "Can't Be Tamed" and "Who Owns My Heart". Her behavior throughout 2013 and 2014 sparked
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#17330851402502340-624: A commercial success, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200 with first week sales of 270,000 copies. On October 5, Cyrus hosted Saturday Night Live for the second time. On November 5, Cyrus featured on rapper Future 's " Real and True " with Mr. Hudson ; an accompanying music video premiered five days later on November 10, 2013. In late 2013 she was declared Artist of the Year by MTV. On January 29, 2014, she played an acoustic concert show on MTV Unplugged , performing songs from Bangerz featuring
2535-461: A concert tour around the album's release. The tour was postponed due to the pandemic but Cyrus was able to headline several music festivals in the country during summer 2021, including Austin City Limits , Lollapalooza , and Music Midtown . Later that year, she revealed she would tour South America for the first time in seven years in early 2022. The second special off her deal with NBCUniversal
2730-484: A considerable amount of controversy over its lyrical content and Cyrus's live performances. It sold 106,000 copies in its first week of release and became her first studio album not to top the Billboard 200 chart in the United States. Cyrus released her final soundtrack as Hannah Montana that October; it was seen as a commercial failure due to its low position on the charts compared to her previous albums. Cyrus
2925-587: A darker and more political edge than much psychedelic rock. Psychedelic soul was pioneered by Sly and the Family Stone with songs like "" I Want to Take You Higher " (1969), and The Temptations with "Cloud Nine", " Runaway Child, Running Wild " (1969) and " Psychedelic Shack " (1969). Psychedelic rap is a microgenre which fuses hip hop music with psychedelia. Pioneers included New York's Native Tongues collective, headlined by De La Soul , Jungle Brothers and A Tribe Called Quest , and Shock G . Though
3120-475: A distinctive brand of electronic rock , known as kosmische musik , or in the British press as "Krautrock". Their adoption of electronic synthesisers, along with the musical styles explored by Brian Eno in his keyboard playing with Roxy Music , had a major influence on subsequent development of electronic rock . The incorporation of jazz styles into the music of bands like Soft Machine and Can, also contributed to
3315-560: A first-look deal with her studio Hopetown Entertainment, as part of which she will develop projects for the company's outlets and star in three specials; with the first project off the deal being the Stand By You Pride concert special, which was released the following month on Peacock . In June, Cyrus released a studio cover version of Metallica 's " Nothing Else Matters ", which was included in The Metallica Blacklist ,
3510-598: A foam finger were described as "disturbing" and the whole performance as "cringe-worthy". Cyrus released " Wrecking Ball " (2013) as the second single from Bangerz on the same day as the VMAs. The accompanying music video, which showed her swinging naked on a wrecking ball, was viewed over nineteen million times within 24 hours of its release, and drew criticism from some for allegedly objectifying Cyrus, including fellow singer Sinéad O’Connor , who said that "you will obscure your talent by allowing yourself to be pimped, whether it's
3705-470: A freshly unfettered pop renegade experimenting with her newfound power — roiling some with its hip-hop tourism and provocative visuals — the id-heavy experiments of Dead Petz reveal Miley as she exists now: aware of her position as a youth-culture spokeswoman, and openly keen on drugs, sex, animals and the environment". John Mayer called the album "a masterwork of whack genius" on Twitter , praising Cyrus' demonstration that "you can be one artist one year and
3900-634: A fuck / I ain't no hippie " in a style called reminiscent of " M.I.A. 's abrasive bravado". "Karen Don't Be Sad" is a "hazy ballad " that has been described as a "lost track from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots ." "The Floyd Song (Sunrise)" was written after the April 2014 death of Cyrus' dog, Floyd, while she was on the Bangerz Tour. The combination of " acoustic guitar , zapping electronics and warm synth pads" has been said to make Cyrus' vocals sound like she
4095-482: A guest appearance by Madonna . It became the highest-rated MTV Unplugged in the past decade, with over 1.7 million streams. Cyrus was also featured in the Marc Jacobs Spring 2014 campaign along with Natalie Westling and Esmerelda Seay Reynolds. She launched her controversial Bangerz Tour (2014) that year, which was positively received by critics. Two months into her tour, Cyrus's Alaskan Klee Kai
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#17330851402504290-476: A key role in her auditioning for Hannah Montana . She later signed with Jason Morey of Morey Management Group to handle her music career; Dolly Parton steered her to him. She hired her father's finance manager as part of her team. Cyrus auditioned for the Disney Channel television series Hannah Montana when she was thirteen years old. She auditioned for the role of the title character's best friend, but
4485-471: A limited release, the film's success led to a longer run. Cyrus and friend Mandy Jiroux began posting videos on YouTube in February 2008, referring to the clips as "The Miley and Mandy Show"; the videos garnered a large online following. In April 2008, several pictures of Cyrus in her underwear and swimsuit were leaked online by a teenager who hacked her Gmail account. Further controversy erupted when it
4680-923: A mature image, she explored dance-pop in Can't Be Tamed (2010), which received mixed reviews. Cyrus later shifted to RCA Records and took a new artistic direction with the hip hop and R&B -influenced Bangerz (2013). Her fifth chart-topping album, it yielded the hit single " We Can't Stop " and her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one " Wrecking Ball ". She then dabbled in experimental styles on Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz (2015), embraced country pop on Younger Now (2017), and ventured into rock and synth-pop on Plastic Hearts (2020). After signing with Columbia Records in 2021, Cyrus released her eighth studio album Endless Summer Vacation (2023). Its lead single " Flowers " topped charts internationally, broke several records, and marked her second US number-one. The song won two Grammy Awards including Record of
4875-423: A mixed review, Annie Zaleski of The A.V. Club called the 92-minute album's unrefined production a "slog to get through", although it was "commendable for its devil-may-care bravery". According to Jason Lipshutz of Billboard , the album should be enjoyed "as the work of an artist who ... will not be bound to the post- teen pop stardom she inherited less than two years ago"; although portions were "unlistenable",
5070-470: A penis and licked it. She made an appearance on the MTV television series Punk'd with Kelly Osbourne and Khloé Kardashian . Cyrus starred alongside Demi Moore in the independent film LOL (2012). The film had a limited release; it was a critical and commercial failure. She starred in the comedy film So Undercover playing the role of an undercover FBI agent at a college sorority. Cyrus released
5265-526: A pop and dance-pop record, features collaborations with Brandi Carlile and Sia . It debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 119,000 album-equivalent units. It marked Cyrus's tenth top-five and fourteenth top-ten entry on the chart. " River ", the second single off the record, was released on March 13, 2023. It debuted at number 32 on the US Hot 100 and reached number two on
5460-549: A possible revival of the show have been around ever since. On April 23, 2021, The Kid Laroi released a remix of his single " Without You " featuring Cyrus, her first release under Columbia Records. On April 3, 2021, Cyrus performed at the NCAA March Madness Final Four in Indianapolis with the frontline health care workers in the audience. In May 2021, Cyrus signed an overall deal with NBCUniversal , including
5655-565: A pre-show before Super Bowl LV . It aired on TikTok and CBS . The performance was featured in the music video for " Angels like You ". In March 2021, Cyrus departed RCA and signed with Columbia Records , a sister label of RCA under the Sony Music umbrella. That same month Cyrus embraced her days as Hannah Montana and wrote an open letter to the character on social media for the show's 15th anniversary, despite all statements that her days as Montana gave Cyrus an identity crisis . Rumors about
5850-431: A recap of her career's 15-plus years, with Cyrus breezing through genres with the ease of a well-seasoned tourist." Cyrus related its overall concept to her affection for Los Angeles. Cyrus's controversial musical performances have received significant media attention, including on her Bangerz Tour (2014) and Milky Milky Milk Tour (2015). Her performance of "Party in the U.S.A." at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards sparked
6045-554: A record "only [Cyrus is] daring enough to make". In its early conceptual stages, Cyrus called Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz "a little psychedelic , but still in that pop world". Mike Will Made It described it as "like country Lana Del Rey backed by a choir , except it's Miley pouring her heart out". The album is experimental , psychedelic, psychedelic pop , and psychedelic rock with elements of alternative pop , synth-pop , art pop , and space rock . The first half of Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz has "a healthy dose of
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6240-515: A scene with a similar visual aesthetic to earlier rave music, emphasizing visual effects: glowsticks , neon and other lights were common, and followers of the scene often dressed in extremely bright and fluorescent coloured clothing. Synthedelia is the fusion of psychedelia , electronic music , and avant-garde music , originating in the 1960s. Set and setting are critical in the design of psychiatric facilities and modalities of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies . Research has shown that
6435-601: A single from the soundtrack to the Hannah Montana feature film . It was met with a warm critical and commercial reaction, becoming a crossover hit in both pop and country music formats. The soundtrack, which features the single, went on to become Cyrus's fourth entry to top the Billboard 200; at age 16, she became the youngest artist in history to have four number-one albums on the chart. She released her fourth soundtrack as Hannah Montana in July 2009, which debuted at number two on
6630-640: A splash, then sinks like a brick, as ephemeral as the Tumblr culture Cyrus draws from. Maybe that’s the most visionary aspect of Dead Petz : it feels like it was built to disintegrate." Reviewing the album for NME , Nick Levine said that it was "the weirdest album made by a massive pop star in recent memory" and "an essential listen". The album has been applauded by musicians Troye Sivan , Anthony Green , and Charli XCX . Credits adapted from Cyrus' website. The first uploaded version on SoundCloud had "Cyrus Skies" at track 11 as well as "Miley Tibetan Bowlzzz" and "Pablow
6825-525: A string of live performances known as the Backyard Sessions on YouTube during the spring and summer of 2012; the performances were of classic songs she personally liked. Having begun working on a failed fourth album the previous year, Cyrus resumed working on a new musical project in late 2012. She collaborated with producers Rock Mafia on their song "Morning Sun" (2012), which was made available for free download online. She had previously appeared in
7020-713: A substantial amount of controversy, although her godmother Dolly Parton said "...the girl can write. The girl can sing. The girl is smart. And she doesn't have to be so drastic. But I will respect her choices. I did it my way, so why can't she do it her way?" Liel Leibovitz at Tablet noted in 2013: "Talking to the website Hunger , the singer argued that those adults who deem her gyrations too sultry and her music too saccharine were simply too ancient—and Jewish—to get it. 'With magazines, with movies, it's always weird when things are targeted for young people yet they're driven by people that are like 40 years too old', Cyrus opined. And one group stands out in [her] mind as deserving of most of
7215-458: A television series Woody Allen created for Amazon Studios . She played a radical activist who causes chaos in a conservative 1960s household while hiding from the police. On September 17, 2016, she appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and covered Bob Dylan 's "Baby, I'm In the Mood for You". Cyrus also had an uncredited voice cameo as Mainframe in the superhero film Guardians of
7410-456: A variety of music styles from the 2000s characterized by mellow beats , vintage synthesizers , and lo-fi melodies, including chillwave , glo-fi , and hypnagogic pop . These three terms were described as interchangeable by the Quietus , along with other terms "dream-beat" and "hipster-gogic pop." Altogether, they may be viewed as a type of synth-based psychedelic music. The term "chillwave"
7605-435: A verb in 2013". The journalist continued saying: "with her Dead Petz project, Cyrus does the musical equivalent of pivoting away from the cameras' gaze in search of something more fulfilling. The songs may not satisfy listeners the same way, but the process behind them is fascinating to watch. Even when Cyrus isn't demanding our attention, she manages to hold it anyway". Writing for Consequence Of Sound , Sasha Geffen said: "if
7800-540: A worldwide commercial success, topping charts in territories such as the United Kingdom. The song's music video set the Vevo record for most views within twenty-four hours of release and became the first to reach 100 million views on the site. Cyrus performed with Robin Thicke at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards , a performance that resulted in widespread media attention and public scrutiny. Her simulated sex acts with
7995-564: Is "fronting a Flaming Lips cover band". Like "Karen Don't Be Sad", the acoustic "Something About Space Dude" has been compared to material from the Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002). In "Space Bootz", Cyrus expresses affection for a love interest who is "emotionally unavailable", with a more "cosmic-pop" production and "interstellar whooshes and synths" than the lyrically similar "Something About Space Dude". "Fuckin Fucked Up"
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8190-442: Is a witch house -inspired interlude before " BB Talk "; in "BB Talk" Cyrus expresses distaste for public displays of affection from a love interest and a desire for him to "fuck [her] so [he stops] baby talking." The "swaying, stoney, piano -based" "Fweaky" describes a sexual encounter after drinking and using drugs . "Bang Me Box", a "raunchy electro R&B " song, expresses an explicit desire for lesbian sex . Cyrus sings
8385-405: Is a "soulful" number about moving on from a former love interest, and "Lighter" combines a Cyndi Lauper -esque vocal style with "percolating '80s pop" experimentation. "Tangerine" is a "spacey, acid dipped slow burner", with a verse by rapper Big Sean in the middle, followed by the chime -heavy "Tiger Dreams" with Ariel Pink as a background vocalist. The eighteenth track, "Evil Is But a Shadow",
8580-511: Is a professional DJ . The Cyrus farmhouse is located on 500 acres of land outside Nashville. Cyrus attended Heritage Elementary School in Williamson County while she and her family lived in Thompson's Station, Tennessee. When she was cast in Hannah Montana, the family moved to Los Angeles and she attended Options for Youth Charter Schools studying with a private tutor on set. Raised as
8775-539: Is a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia , a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as DMT , LSD , mescaline , and psilocybin mushrooms , to experience synesthesia and altered states of consciousness . Psychedelic music may also aim to enhance the experience of using these drugs and has been found to have a significant influence on psychedelic therapy . Psychedelia embraces visual art, movies, and literature, as well as music. Psychedelic music emerged during
8970-414: Is currently managed by Maverick 's Adam Leber ; Rudolph is best known for representing Britney Spears . It was confirmed that Cyrus had signed with RCA Records for her future releases. She worked with producers such as Pharrell Williams and Mike Will Made-It on her fourth studio album, resulting in a hip hop-influenced sound. She collaborated with numerous hip hop artists releases and appeared on
9165-584: Is derived from its internet origins and ethereal style. The rave scene emphasized house , acid house and techno . The rave genre "hardcore" first appeared amongst the UK acid movement during the late 1980s at warehouse parties and other underground venues, as well as on UK pirate radio stations . The genre would develop into oldschool hardcore , which led to newer forms of rave music such as drum and bass and 2-step , as well as other hardcore techno genres, such as gabber , hardstyle and happy hardcore . In
9360-409: Is often misused, with many acts playing in a variety of styles. Acknowledging this, author Michael Hicks explains: To understand what makes music stylistically "psychedelic," one should consider three fundamental effects of LSD: dechronicization, depersonalization , and dynamization. Dechronicization permits the drug user to move outside of conventional perceptions of time. Depersonalization allows
9555-418: Is often used interchangeably with the term "stoner rock" to describe this genre; however, not all stoner rock bands would fall under the descriptor of "desert rock". Stoner rock is typically slow-to-mid tempo and features a heavily distorted , groove -laden bass -heavy sound, melodic vocals, and "retro" production. The genre emerged during the early 1990s and was pioneered foremost by Monster Magnet and
9750-583: Is perhaps best described as a mixture of 70s disco and 60s psychedelia". Derived from acid house and techno music, it developed in Germany and the Netherlands with singles including "Energy Flash" by Joey Beltram and "The Ravesignal" by CJ Bolland . This was followed by releases by Robert Leiner, Sun Electric , Aphex Twin and most influentially the techno-trance released by the Harthouse label, including
9945-407: Is the third studio album by Scottish rock band Primal Scream released in 1991. The album marked a significant departure from the band's early indie rock sound, drawing inspiration from the blossoming house music scene and associated drugs such as LSD and MDMA . It won the first Mercury Music Prize in 1992, and has sold over three million copies worldwide. AllMusic states: "Aside from
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#173308514025010140-569: Is what I want to do, daddy. I want to be an actress." She began to take singing and acting lessons at the Armstrong Acting Studio in Toronto. Cyrus's first acting role was as Kylie in her father's television series Doc . In 2003, she received credit under her birth name for her role as "Young Ruthie" in Tim Burton 's Big Fish . During this period she auditioned with Taylor Lautner for
10335-516: The 66th Annual Grammy Awards , Cyrus received six nominations, including Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for Endless Summer Vacation , and won Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance for "Flowers"—her first set of wins. She appeared in a cameo role as Tiffany Plastercaster—inspired by Cynthia Plaster Caster —in the Ethan Coen -directed comedy road film Drive-Away Dolls , released later that month. Her first release of 2024
10530-523: The BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge . On October 2, as part of her one-week regular musical appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon , Cyrus sang her 2009 hit single "The Climb" for the first time since 2011 alongside a cover of " No Freedom " by Dido to honor the victims of the Las Vegas shooting . The former song has since been performed at multiple charity events, protests, and marches, including at
10725-475: The Billboard 200. Cyrus later launched her first fashion line, Miley Cyrus and Max Azria , through Walmart . It was promoted by the release of " Party in the U.S.A. " (2009) and the EP The Time of Our Lives (2009). Cyrus said the record was "a transitioning album [...] really to introduce people to what I want my next record to sound like and with time I will be able to do that a little more." "Party in
10920-532: The California bands Fu Manchu , Kyuss and Sleep . Neo-psychedelia (or "acid punk") is a diverse style of music that originated in the 1970s as an outgrowth of the British post-punk scene. Its practitioners drew from the unusual sounds of 1960s psychedelic music, either updating or copying the approaches from that era. Neo-psychedelia may include forays into psychedelic pop, jangly guitar rock, heavily distorted free-form jams, or recording experiments. Some of
11115-677: The Grateful Dead (financed by Stanley), then known as the Warlocks, known as the psychedelic symphony . The Pranksters helped popularise LSD use, through their road trips across America in a psychedelically decorated converted school bus, which involved distributing the drug and meeting with major figures of the beat movement, and through publications about their activities such as Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test in 1968. San Francisco had an emerging music scene of folk clubs, coffee houses and independent radio stations that catered to
11310-471: The Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart. " Jaded ", which peaked at number 56, was released as the third single on April 17, 2023. Endless Summer Vacation was the 19th best-selling album of 2023 globally, according to IFPI. A documentary concert special, under her Backyard Sessions series, titled Endless Summer Vacation (Backyard Sessions) , premiered on Disney+ on March 10, accompanying
11505-716: The Lil Twist song "Twerk", which also featured vocals by Justin Bieber . The song was unreleased for unknown reasons but leaked online. On May 23, 2013, it was confirmed that Cyrus would be featured on the Mike Will Made It single " 23 ", with Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J . The single went on to peak at number eleven on the Hot 100, and had sold over one million copies worldwide as of 2013. Cyrus released her new single " We Can't Stop " on June 3. Touted as her comeback single, it became
11700-625: The Manson Family to The Beatles songs such as " Helter Skelter " contributed to an anti-hippie backlash. The Altamont Free Concert in California, headlined by the Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane on December 6, 1969, did not turn out to be a positive milestone in the psychedelic music scene, as was anticipated; instead, it became notorious for the fatal stabbing of a black teenager Meredith Hunter by Hells Angels security guards. By
11895-536: The March For Our Lives demonstrations in Washington, D.C. That same year, Cyrus returned as a coach in the thirteenth season of The Voice after taking a one-season hiatus. On October 5, 2017, Cyrus confirmed that she would not be returning to The Voice for season fourteen. On October 30, 2017, Cyrus revealed she would not release any further singles from Younger Now , nor would she tour for it. Before
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#173308514025012090-543: The Mellotron , an early tape-driven 'sampler' keyboard. Elaborate studio effects are often used, such as backwards tapes , panning the music from one side to another of the stereo track, using the "swooshing" sound of electronic phasing , long delay loops and extreme reverb . In the 1960s there was a use of electronic instruments such as early synthesizers and the theremin . Later forms of electronic psychedelia also employed repetitive computer-generated beats. From
12285-470: The Milky Milky Milk Tour between November and December 2015. On my last record, everything we did was with computers. But [ the Flaming Lips are] real musicians – they can change keys on a whim. I've never seen anything like it. They've had me on this journey that's greater than anything I've been on. It's really deep. On October 4, 2013, after the release of Bangerz , Cyrus announced that she
12480-621: The Netflix sci-fi series Black Mirror , which was filmed in South Africa in November 2018. It was released on Netflix on June 5, 2019. In the episode, she played fictional pop star Ashley O and voiced her AI doll extension, Ashley Too. The plot was compared to Britney Spears 's conservatorship and the Free Britney movement , which Cyrus has been an advocate for. The music video for the song " On
12675-531: The Snoop Lion song " Ashtrays and Heartbreaks " (2013), released as the lead single from his twelfth studio album, Reincarnated . She collaborated with will.i.am on the song " Fall Down " (2013), released as a promotional single that same month. The song entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number fifty-eight, marking her first appearance on the chart since " Can't Be Tamed " (2010). She provided guest vocals on
12870-599: The UK Singles Chart as well as in Ireland and topped the charts in several Eastern European countries including Hungary or Croatia . During the first quarter of 2019, Cyrus became quite notable for her cover songs. Having already taken part in MusiCares Person of the Year in 2018 celebrating Fleetwood Mac , she returned the year after to honor the career of her godmother Dolly Parton by performing " Islands in
13065-451: The sitar and tabla , is common. Songs often have more disjunctive song structures, key and time signature changes, modal melodies, and drones than contemporary pop music. Surreal , whimsical, esoterically or literary-inspired lyrics are often used. There is often a strong emphasis on extended instrumental segments or jams . There is a strong keyboard presence, in the 1960s especially, using electronic organs, harpsichords , or
13260-484: The "Teen Queen" of the 2000s decade, Cyrus is cited as one of the few examples of a child star with a successful musical career as an adult. The daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus , she emerged as a teen idol at age 13 as the lead character in the Disney Channel television series Hannah Montana (2006–2011). As Hannah Montana, she achieved success on the Billboard charts with two number-one soundtracks and
13455-504: The "post-psychedelic hard rock/ heavy metal styles" that emerged had "a weaker connection to the hippie ethos" and "strongly emphasized the blues progression ". Psychedelic rock, with its distorted guitar sound, extended solos, and adventurous compositions, had been an important bridge between blues-oriented rock and the later emergence of metal. Two former guitarists with the Yardbirds , Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page , moved on to form key acts in
13650-602: The "squelchy" sounds and deep basslines produced by the Roland TB-303 synthesizer. As singles began to reach the UK the sound was re-created, beginning in small warehouse parties held in London in 1986–87. During 1988 in the Second Summer of Love it hit the mainstream as thousands of clubgoers travelled to mass raves. The genre then began to penetrate the British pop charts with hits for M/A/R/R/S , S'Express , and Technotronic by
13845-409: The "trip" in trip hop was more linked to dub music than psychedelia, the genre combined psychedelic rock with hip hop. Cloud rap is a subgenre of rap that has several sonic characteristics of trap music and is known for its hazy, dreamlike and relaxed production style. Rapper Lil B and producer Clams Casino have been identified as the early pioneers of the style. The term "cloud rap"
14040-579: The 1960s among folk and rock bands in the United States and the United Kingdom, creating the subgenres of psychedelic folk , psychedelic rock , acid rock , and psychedelic pop before declining in the early 1970s. Numerous spiritual successors followed in the ensuing decades, including progressive rock , krautrock , and heavy metal . Since the 1970s, revivals have included psychedelic funk , neo-psychedelia , and stoner rock as well as psychedelic electronic music genres such as acid house , trance music , and new rave . "Psychedelic" as an adjective
14235-425: The 1969 Woodstock Festival , which saw performances by most of the major psychedelic acts, including Jimi Hendrix , Janis Joplin , Jefferson Airplane and Santana . By the end of the 1960s, the trend of exploring psychedelia in music was largely in retreat. LSD was declared illegal in the United States and the United Kingdom in 1966. The linking of the murders of Sharon Tate and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca by
14430-682: The 1970s. King Crimson 's album In the Court of the Crimson King (1969), has been seen as an important link between psychedelia and progressive rock. While some bands such as Hawkwind maintained an explicitly psychedelic course into the 1970s, most bands dropped the psychedelic elements in favour of embarking on wider experimentation. As German bands from the psychedelic movement moved away from their psychedelic roots and placed increasing emphasis on electronic instrumentation, these groups, including Kraftwerk , Tangerine Dream , Can and Faust , developed
14625-445: The 2010s, artists such as Bassnectar , Tipper and Pretty Lights dominated the more mainstream psychedelic cultures. "Raves" became much larger and grew to mainstream appeal. In Britain in the 2000s (decade), the combination of indie rock with dance-punk was dubbed "new rave" in publicity for Klaxons , and the term was picked up and applied by the NME to a number of bands. It formed
14820-428: The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. Clad in a flesh-colored latex two-piece, she touched Thicke's crotch area with a giant foam finger and twerked against his crotch. The performance resulted in a media frenzy; one reviewer likened the performance to a "bad acid trip", while another described it as a "trainwreck in the classic sense of the word as the audience reaction seemed to be a mix of confusion, dismay and horror in
15015-467: The Bangerz Tour later that year. Producer Mike Will Made It , who collaborated with Cyrus on Bangerz , hinted in July that they were working on a new project and said in December that they had recorded six unfinished tracks for her record. That year, Cyrus severed creative ties with producer Dr. Luke to pursue a "different direction musically", and punk rock singer Kathleen Hanna offered to help her with
15210-592: The Beatles ' " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds " and " A Day in the Life " for the Flaming Lips' 2014 fifteenth studio album With a Little Help from My Fwends . Fascinated by their live instrumentation and its contrast with Bangerz ' computerized elements, Cyrus began writing material with the Flaming Lips for her then-untitled fifth studio album in May 2014 and expected to finish it after
15405-529: The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , With a Little Help from My Fwends , Cyrus began working with Wayne Coyne on her fifth studio album. She said that she was taking her time to focus on the music, and that the album would not be released until she felt it was ready. Coyne compared his collaborative material with Cyrus to the catalogs of Pink Floyd and Portishead and described their sound as being "a slightly wiser, sadder, more true version" of Cyrus's pop music output. Cyrus also worked on
15600-428: The Beatles' 1968 album (unofficially known as The White Album ), and Led Zeppelin's 1971 album , for which "there is up to this day no consensus about the title". According to him, post-psychedelic musicians like Brian Eno and Robert Fripp "explicitly advocated" this disconnection between the artist and their work or stardom. "In so doing", he adds, "they laid the foundations for a central tendency of post-punk " in
15795-504: The Billboard 200, with 60,000 units, becoming her twelfth top ten entry on the chart. With that entry, Cyrus broke the record for attaining the most US Billboard 200 top-five albums in the 21st century by a female music artist. Plastic Hearts marked a step of Cyrus into rock and glam rock music and spawned two other singles: " Prisoner " featuring English singer Dua Lipa and " Angels like You ", which peaked at 8 and 66 respectively in
15990-474: The Blowfish" switched, it was updated to the current tracklist later. Credits adapted from Cyrus' website. Miley Cyrus Miley Ray Cyrus ( / ˈ m aɪ l i ˈ s aɪ r ə s / MY -lee SY -rəs , born Destiny Hope Cyrus on November 23, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Regarded as a pop icon , she has been recognized for her evolving artistry and style. Having been dubbed
16185-433: The Flaming Lips while she continued working on the album in 2014. In addition to the psychedelic rock band, Cyrus worked with producers Mike Will Made It and Oren Yoel (with whom she had collaborated on Bangerz ). The album features guest vocals by Big Sean (who had appeared on Bangerz ), Sarah Barthel of Phantogram and Ariel Pink . Without previous promotion, Cyrus announced that Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz
16380-558: The Flaming Lips introduced "Tiger Dreams" during the Adult Swim upfront party at Terminal 5 in New York City on May 13, 2015. After the album's release, Cyrus was the host and musical guest for the 41st-season premiere of Saturday Night Live on October 3. She and the Flaming Lips were introduced by U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for their performance of "Karen Don't Be Sad" in animal onesies ; Cyrus "[stood] before
16575-676: The Galaxy Vol. 2 , released in May 2017. On May 11, 2017, Cyrus released " Malibu " as the lead single from her sixth album. The single debuted at No. 64 on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at No. 10 on the chart on its second week. On June 9, Cyrus released " Inspired " after performing the song at the One Love Manchester benefit concert. It served as a promotional single from the album. On August 8, Cyrus announced that her sixth studio album would be titled Younger Now and would be released on September 29, 2017. The album's title track
16770-537: The Gamblers ' 1960 surf instrumental "LSD 25". The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators , released in October 1966, was one of the first rock albums to include the word "psychedelic" in its title. Two other bands also used the word in titles of LPs released in November 1966: The Blues Magoos ' Psychedelic Lollipop , and the Deep 's Psychedelic Moods . At the same time, a more avant-garde development came with
16965-657: The Observatory in Santa Ana , California on October 12; Wayne Coyne sang the lead vocal, explaining that Cyrus was "at home". Music videos for "Dooo It!", "Lighter" and "BB Talk" were released on August 31, November 21 and December 11, respectively. After the video premiered, "Dooo It!" and "BB Talk" charted at 60th and 86th place on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 . Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz received mixed reviews from music critics . At Metacritic , which assigns
17160-701: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and one of the most successful artists of the 2010s , according to Billboard . Outside of music and acting, Cyrus founded the non-profit Happy Hippie Foundation in 2014, which focuses on the LGBTQ community and youth homelessness , and was supported by the web video series Backyard Sessions (2012–2023). Destiny Hope Cyrus was born November 23, 1992, in Franklin, Tennessee , to Leticia "Tish" Jean Cyrus (née Finley) and country singer Billy Ray Cyrus . She
17355-555: The Stone Roses , Happy Mondays , Inspiral Carpets , the Charlatans and 808 State . The rave -influenced scene is widely seen as heavily influenced by drugs, especially ecstasy ( MDMA ). At that time, the Haçienda nightclub, co-owned by members of New Order , was a major catalyst for the distinctive musical ethos in the city that was called the Second Summer of Love . Screamadelica
17550-598: The Stream " alongside Canadian singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes , with who she also performed " In My Blood " a couple days later at the 61st Grammy Awards . Cyrus's other covers include her version of Ariana Grande 's " No Tears Left to Cry " for BBC Radio 's Live Lounge , her participation at the Chris Cornell tribute concert I Am The Highway, where she sang "As Hope & Promise Fade" as well as her cover record of Elton John 's " Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me ", included in
17745-506: The U.S.A." (2009), her vocals feature belter refrains , while those on the song "Obsessed" (2009) are described as "husky". Releases such as "The Climb" (2009) and "These Four Walls" (2008) feature elements of country music and showcase Cyrus's "twangy vocals". Cyrus experimented with an electropop sound on " Fly on the Wall " (2008), a genre that she would explore further with the release of Can't Be Tamed (2010), her third studio album. It
17940-667: The U.S.A." became one of Cyrus's most successful singles to date and is considered to be one of her signature songs . She embarked on her first world tour, the Wonder World Tour (2009) which was a critical and commercial success. On December 7, 2009, Cyrus performed for Queen Elizabeth II and other members of the British royal family at the Royal Variety Performance in Blackpool , Lancashire . Billboard ranked her as
18135-514: The US Billboard Hot 100. The Wuki remix of "Mother's Daughter" received a nomination for Best Remixed Recording at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards while the original music video won two MTV Video Music Awards . Cyrus promoted the EP with a summer European tour that visited A-list festivals like Glastonbury and Primavera Sound . Cyrus starred in " Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too ", an episode of
18330-488: The United Kingdom. The album also included vocal collaborations with Billy Idol and Joan Jett . Due to popular demand and social media virality, Cyrus included the live covers of Blondie 's " Heart of Glass " and The Cranberries ' " Zombie ". Cyrus won a 2020 Webby Special Achievement Award . In February 2021, Cyrus performed at the first TikTok Tailgate show in Tampa , for 7,500 vaccinated healthcare workers. It served as
18525-479: The Year , and the album was nominated for Album of the Year . As an actress, Cyrus starred in the films Bolt (2008), Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009), The Last Song (2010), LOL (2012), and So Undercover (2013), and appeared briefly in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and Drive-Away Dolls (2024). On television, she was the subject of the documentary Miley: The Movement (2013), served as
18720-573: The [Flaming Lips]' warm guitars and uniquely unsettling approach to melody "; in its second half, the band's "organic approach" is integrated with the "throbbing computer [pop]" of Mike Will Made It's production. Jason Lipshutz of Billboard interpreted the album's drug and sexual references as Cyrus' way of "addressing the parents put off by her twerk -happy antics during her Bangerz run: You ain't seen nothin' yet!" " Dooo It! " incorporates elements of hip hop and trap music as Cyrus sings, "Yeah, I smoke pot / yeah, I love peace / but I don't give
18915-577: The album "is a huge mess, but at least it's an honest one"; Pitchfork ' s Meaghan Garvey criticized Cyrus for releasing "the definition of a vanity project". The album was ranked 10th, 25th and 42nd, respectively, on Entertainment Weekly 's , Time Out London 's and NME 's lists of the best albums of 2015. "Forgotten as quickly as it arrived, Dead Petz may also have predicted today's brisk, ephemeral post-album landscape." The surprise release of Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz caused mixed reactions among critics and fans, but Cyrus
19110-493: The album and was quoted as saying: "I just hope this record showcases that, more than anything, I'm a [song]writer." The songs on her early releases feature lyrics on the topics of love and relationships. Cyrus possesses a mezzo-soprano vocal range , although her vocals were once described as alto with a "Nashville twang " in both her spoken and singing voice. Her voice has a distinctive raspy sound to it, similar in vein to that of Pink and Amy Winehouse . On "Party in
19305-552: The album as a demonstration of artistic control and independence when her team expressed concern that the album might be "too long". Her father, Billy Ray Cyrus , recorded her playing the Tibetan bowls ; she "[wanted] people to listen all the way through just once, because it’s a nice story". "Pablow the Blowfish" is a piano-based ballad addressing Cyrus' grief for her pet fish, with "silly" and "endearing" lyrics (including "watching my friends eat my friends ruined my appetite", referring to
19500-453: The album was "curated by the fans for the fans". Emily Swingle of Clash gave acclaim to Cyrus's versatile vocals, saying her "voice is truly a force to be reckoned with, seamlessly fitting whatever genre she chooses to tackle. From the playful, country-hip-hop banger that is '4x4', to rap -heavy ' 23 ', to the bluesy , rich cover of Janis Joplin 's ' Maybe ', it seems like Cyrus can fit into just about any genre she gets her paws on." By
19695-593: The album was recorded during her concert as part of the Super Bowl Music Fest at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on February 12, 2022, with the set list including songs from her albums Plastic Hearts , Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz , Bangerz , The Time of Our Lives , Breakout , and Meet Miley Cyrus , along with multiple cover songs. The album also includes two unreleased tracks—"Attention" and "You". She said
19890-567: The album's release. Executive produced by Cyrus, it features her performing songs from the album, and her 2009 single " The Climb ", with an appearance by Rufus Wainwright . In June, she guest-voiced Van in the second season of the Netflix adult animated sitcom, Human Resources . An updated version of the Disney+ special, titled Endless Summer Vacation: Continued (Backyard Sessions) , premiered on ABC on August 24, 2023. The day after, Cyrus released
20085-469: The beginning of her music career, Cyrus has been described as being predominantly a pop artist. Her Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus debut studio effort was characterized as sounding similar to her releases as "Hannah Montana" featuring a pop-rock and bubblegum pop sound. Cyrus hoped that the release of Breakout (2008) would help distance her from this sound; the record featured Cyrus experimenting with various genres. Cyrus co-wrote eight songs for
20280-451: The blame: 'It can't be like this 70-year-old Jewish man that doesn’t leave his desk all day, telling me what the clubs want to hear.'" Cyrus was ranked number 17 on Forbes ' s list of the most powerful celebrities in 2014; the magazine notes that "The last time she made our list was when she was still rolling in Hannah Montana money. Now the pop singer is all grown up and courting controversy at every turn." In August 2014, her life
20475-464: The concept albums of Pink Floyd and the virtuosic instrumentation of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Yes . "Early-1970s post-psychedelic rock was hatched in small or medium-sized structures", he adds, naming record labels such as Virgin Records , Island Records , and Obscure Records . Many of the British musicians and bands that had embraced psychedelia moved into creating the progressive rock genre in
20670-563: The contingent of artists associated with Frank Zappa , including The Mothers of Invention , Captain Beefheart , Wild Man Fischer , The GTOs , and Alice Cooper . According to musicologist Frank Hoffman, post-psychedelic hard rock emerged from the varied rock scene, distinguished by more "cinematic guitar stylings and evocative lyric imagery", as in the music of Led Zeppelin , Black Sabbath , and Robin Trower . Music scholar Edward Macan notes that
20865-449: The development of the emerging jazz rock sound of bands such as Colosseum . Another development of the post-psychedelic era was more freedom with marketing of the artist and their records, such as with album artwork. Tandt identifies a recording artist's preference for anonymity in the economic market through the design of record sleeves having limited information about the musician or the record; he cites Pink Floyd's early 1970s albums,
21060-579: The early 1960s experimented with unusual recording techniques, including backwards tapes, and novel instrumental accompaniment including flute and sitar. His nineteen-minute "The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party" "anticipated elements of psychedelia with its nervy improvisations and odd guitar tunings". Similarly, folk guitarist Sandy Bull 's early work "incorporated elements of folk, jazz, and Indian and Arabic -influenced dronish modes". His 1963 album Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo explores various styles and "could also be accurately described as one of
21255-450: The early 1990s, before giving way to the popularity of trance music. Trance music originated in the German techno and hardcore scenes of the early 1990s. It emphasized brief and repeated synthesizer lines with minimal rhythmic changes and occasional synthesizer atmospherics, with the aim of putting listeners into a trance-like state. A writer for Billboard magazine writes, "Trance music
21450-803: The early-'80s Paisley Underground movement and the Elephant 6 collective of the late 1990s, most subsequent neo-psychedelia came from isolated eccentrics and revivalists, not cohesive scenes." They go on to cite what they consider some of the more prominent artists: the Church , Nick Saloman 's Bevis Frond , Spacemen 3 , Robyn Hitchcock , Mercury Rev , the Flaming Lips , and Super Furry Animals . According to Treblezine ' s Jeff Telrich: " Primal Scream made [neo-psychedelia] dancefloor ready. The Flaming Lips and Spiritualized took it to orchestral realms. And Animal Collective —well, they kinda did their own thing." The Atlantic writer Llewellyn Hinkes Jones identified
21645-615: The end of that month, Cyrus released the deluxe version of the album, which includes six additional songs including a mashup of "Mother's Daughter" and "Boys Don't Cry" featuring Anitta , that are mostly part of her time at the Lollapalooza festival in Brazil and other shows in Latin America; she commented on the addition of her single "Angels Like You" at her concert in Colombia in gratitude due to
21840-401: The end of the 1960s, many rock musicians had returned to the rootsy sources of rock and roll's origins, leading to what Barney Hoskyns called a "retrogressive, post-psychedelic music" development; he cited the country rock and blues/soul-inspired rock of the Rolling Stones , The Band , Delaney & Bonnie , Van Morrison , and Leon Russell . The first mention of LSD on a rock record was
22035-455: The essence of the project, including her divorce from Hemsworth, and the burning of the couple's house during the Woolsey Fire in California . "Midnight Sky" became her highest-charting solo single since " Malibu " in 2017, peaking at number 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Internationally, in the United Kingdom the song has thus far peaked at number five on the UK Singles Chart . The track
22230-572: The evolving sound of such artists, a number of which had songs of considerable success within independent music circles. Originally, it was common for the three terms to be used interchangeably, but chillwave later distinguished itself as a combination of dream pop , new age , muzak , and synth-pop . A 2009 review by Pitchfork ' s Marc Hogan for Neon Indian 's album Psychic Chasms referenced "dream-beat", "chillwave", "glo-fi", "hypnagogic pop", and "hipster-gogic pop" as interchangeable terms for "psychedelic music that's generally one or all of
22425-497: The feature film The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D . Although she was one of two finalists for the role, she chose to appear in Hannah Montana instead. Her mother took on the role of Miley's manager and worked to acquire a team to build her daughter's career. Cyrus signed with Mitchell Gossett, director of the youth division at Cunningham Escott Slevin Doherty. Gossett is often credited with "discovering" Cyrus and played
22620-413: The films The Night Before (2015) and A Very Murray Christmas (2015) during this period; both roles were cameos. Reports began to surface in 2015 that Cyrus was working on two albums simultaneously, one of which she hoped to release at no charge. This was confirmed by her manager who claimed she was willing to end her contract with RCA Records if they refused to let her release a free album. Cyrus
22815-589: The following years, groups such as Parliament-Funkadelic continued this sensibility, employing synthesizers and rock-oriented guitar work into open-ended funk jams. Producer Norman Whitfield would draw on this sound on popular Motown recordings such as the Temptations ' " Cloud Nine " (1968) and Marvin Gaye 's " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " (1969). Influenced by the civil rights movement , psychedelic soul had
23010-530: The following: synth-based, homemade-sounding, 80s-referencing, cassette-oriented, sun-baked, laid-back, warped, hazy, emotionally distant, slightly out of focus." Following the late 1960s work of Jimi Hendrix , psychedelia began to have a widespread impact on African American musicians. Black funk artists such as Sly and the Family Stone borrowed techniques from psychedelic rock music, including wah pedals , fuzz boxes , echo chambers , and vocal distorters, as well as elements of blues rock and jazz . In
23205-510: The fourth best-selling female music artist of 2009. Hoping to foster a more mature image, Cyrus starred in the film The Last Song (2010), based on the Nicholas Sparks novel. It was met with negative critical reviews but was a box office hit. Cyrus further attempted to shift her image with the release of her third studio album, Can't Be Tamed (2010). The album featured a more dance-oriented sound than her prior releases and stirred
23400-470: The freedom to experiment with one-offs - while they certainly can use the 'era' model if it serves their artistry best, not every release must connote the beginning of a heavily-promoted album cycle and matching persona". Dead Petz has been considered "a predecessor of today's rule-breaking, tradition-flipping pop scene". Nolan Feeney from Time called the project "one of the most prominent surprise releases to drop since Beyoncé first turned her name into
23595-401: The full-length album: She Is Coming on May 31, She Is Here in the summer, and She Is Everything in the fall. She Is Coming , which also included vocal collaborations with RuPaul , Swae Lee , Mike Will Made It and Ghostface Killah , debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200 with 36,000 album-equivalent units, while the lead single " Mother's Daughter " entered at number 54 on
23790-576: The genre emerged as a mainstream and commercial force. Psychedelic rock reached its peak in the last years of the decade. From 1967 to 1968, it was the prevailing sound of rock music, either in the whimsical British variant, or the harder American West Coast acid rock . In America, the 1967 Summer of Love was prefaced by the Human Be-In event and reached its peak at the Monterey International Pop Festival . These trends climaxed in
23985-509: The highest first-week sales of her career thus far and became her third to top the Billboard 200. Cyrus later starred with John Travolta in the animated film Bolt (2008), her debut as a film actress; she also co-wrote the song " I Thought I Lost You " (2008) for the film, which she sings as a duet with Travolta. The film was both a critical and commercial success and earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Song . In March 2009, Cyrus released " The Climb " (2009) as
24180-399: The label, but RCA said: "Miley Cyrus continues to be a groundbreaking artist. She has a strong point of view regarding her art and expressed her desire to share this body of work with her fans directly. RCA Records is pleased to support Miley's unique musical vision". Cyrus mentioned that the possibility of a free album in an August 2015 Marie Claire interview, with her manager adding that
24375-512: The late 1970s, as evinced by the first four albums by The Cure (featuring blurry photographs of the band members) and Factory Records ' dark-colored covers with serial numbers. By the mid-1970s, post-psychedelic music's emphasis on musicianship had "laid itself bare to an iconoclastic rebellion", as Tandt described: "Mid-1970s punk rock, with its genuine or feigned ethos of musical crudeness, reinscribed rock's autonomy through cultural means opposite to those developed 10 years earlier." Along with
24570-439: The late 1980s, rave culture began to filter through from English expatriates and disc jockeys who would visit Continental Europe . American raves began in the 1990s in New York City . Acid house originated in the mid-1980s in the house music style of Chicago DJs like DJ Pierre , Adonis , Farley Jackmaster Funk and Phuture , the last of which coined the term on his " Acid Tracks " (1987). It mixed elements of house with
24765-399: The material "was worth fighting Big Miley LLC over". Chris DeVille of Stereogum said, "After a second straight year dotted by surprise drops by everyone from Drake to Death Grips to Miley Cyrus and the Flaming Lips" (after Beyoncé 's self-titled fifth studio album in 2013), the practice ran the risk of becoming "standard". DeVille questioned the accuracy of the word "surprise", when
24960-598: The microphone wearing a blond beehive made of dreadlocks, tangled with string and sparkling things". She soloed on "Twinkle Song" for the second performance, where she "[sat] down at a piano covered in photos of animals [and] small blue lights"; the performance ended with Cyrus "in tears [and] her voice breaking". That night she announced her Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz Tour (later renamed the Milky Milky Milk Tour ), which visited eight North American clubs in November and December. The Flaming Lips performed "Karen Don't Be Sad" and "Tiger Dreams" during an impromptu performance at
25155-408: The most interesting aspect of Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz was RCA Records' willingness to let Cyrus release the material outside her recording contract: "Before the era of the surprise free album, record companies would refuse to release an uncommercial record, or let it choke to death without promotion". According to Weiss, the label supported Cyrus' launch strategy when it determined that none of
25350-507: The most-consumed song on US radio; in 2023. On Spotify, the single became the fastest track to surpass 100 million and 1 billion plays (7 and 112 days), at the time. Due to 57 weeks atop the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, it became the longest-running number one song on any Billboard airplay chart in history. It also earned the most cumulative weeks atop all Billboard airplay charts of all time. "Flowers" topped
25545-490: The much emulated "Acperience 1" (1992) by duo Hardfloor . Having gained some popularity in the UK in the early 1990s it was eclipsed by the appearance of new genres of electronic music such as trip hop and jungle , before taking off again towards the end of the decade and beginning to dominate the clubs. It soon began to fragment into a number of subgenres, including progressive trance , acid trance , goa trance , psychedelic trance , hard trance and uplifting trance . In
25740-401: The music business or yourself doing the pimping". Despite this, the single became Cyrus's first to top the Hot 100 in the US, and maintained the #1 spot for three weeks. It sold over two million copies. On October 2, 2013, MTV aired the documentary Miley: The Movement , that chronicled the recording of her fourth studio album Bangerz , which was released on October 4. The album was
25935-652: The music video for their debut single, " The Big Bang " (2010). Cyrus later provided guest vocals on " Decisions " (2012) by Borgore . Both Cyrus and Hemsworth appeared in the song's music video. She went on to guest star as Missi in two episodes of the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men . Cyrus drew significant media attention when she cut her traditionally long, brown hair in favor of a blonde, pixie cut ; she commented that she had "never felt more [herself] in [her] whole life" and that "it really changed [her] life." In 2013, Cyrus hired Larry Rudolph to be her manager, although she
26130-614: The new album "[feel] like a wonderfully unexpected progression" instead of a "contrived bid for credibility". Rob Sheffield called "Something About Space Dude" an album highlight in Rolling Stone , citing the line "our lips get me so wet / while I'm singing all the verses from the Tibetan Book of the Dead " from "Milky Milky Milk" as the project's best, although Cyrus attempted several "Coyne-like high notes that don't suit her lowdown voice". In
26325-445: The new blues rock-heavy metal genre, The Jeff Beck Group and Led Zeppelin, respectively. Other major pioneers of the heavy metal genre had begun as blues-based psychedelic bands, including Black Sabbath, Deep Purple , Judas Priest and UFO . According to American academic Christophe Den Tandt, many musicians during the post-psychedelic era adopted a stricter sense of professionalism and elements of classical music , as evinced by
26520-594: The next discover some crazy light inside yourself and shine it everywhere". Elton John commended the singer for her unorthodox collaboration with the Flaming Lips, which he called the "spur of the moment, out of leftfield stuff ... that would have happened during the '60s ". Father John Misty 's J. Tillman placed the album tenth on his list of ten favorite albums of 2015. Before the announcement of Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz , Cyrus sang "Twinkle Song" at Art Basel in Miami Beach , Florida on December 7, 2014. She and
26715-497: The overall project was "messy, imperfect, provocative and entertaining". In DIY , Kyle Macneill wrote that the tracks alternated between success and failure, praising Cyrus' "gigantic foam finger to industry constraints" and describing the album as "a dazzling insight into the twinkling mind of one of pop's biggest stars". Jim Faber of the New York Daily News wrote that Cyrus' vocals sounded like "they were recorded through
26910-638: The population of students at nearby Berkeley and the free thinkers that had gravitated to the city. There was already a culture of drug use among jazz and blues musicians, and in the early 1960s use of drugs including cannabis, peyote , mescaline and LSD began to grow among folk and rock musicians. One of the first musical uses of the term "psychedelic" in the folk scene was by the New York-based folk group The Holy Modal Rounders on their version of Lead Belly 's " Hesitation Blues " in 1964. Folk/avant-garde guitarist John Fahey recorded several songs in
27105-501: The projects' existence had been extensively discussed by the media before their release. Joe Coscarelli wrote for The New York Times that, given the success and duration of her career, Cyrus earned the privilege of "[debuting] a different, decidedly noncommercial version of herself" and her "performative, post- Disney , anything-goes ethos is more than a retail strategy – it's her all-encompassing aesthetic and lifestyle". Coscarelli also stated that "whereas Bangerz saw
27300-441: The psychedelic, folk rock, and British rhythm and blues styles that preceded it, the music of the post-psychedelic era later became associated with the classic rock category. Stoner rock, also known as stoner metal or stoner doom, is a rock music fusion genre that combines elements of heavy metal and/or doom metal with psychedelic rock and acid rock . The name references cannabis consumption. The term desert rock
27495-425: The record represented a "distillation of an artist’s soul that is both rare and wonderful". He noted that " Dead Petz is a remarkable accomplishment because Cyrus appears to have grasped all of her potential at once", highlighting the album's varied sound and influence. Nick Levine of NME wrote that "1 Sun" and "I Get So Scared" were lyrically similar to Cyrus' earlier "Wake Up America" and " Adore You ", which made
27690-470: The release of Can't Be Tamed , Cyrus officially parted ways with Hollywood Records. With her obligations to Hannah Montana fulfilled, Cyrus announced her plans to take a hiatus from music so she could focus on her acting career. She confirmed she would not be going to college. Cyrus hosted the March 5, 2011, episode of Saturday Night Live where she poked fun at her recent controversies. That November it
27885-609: The release of Younger Now in September 2017, Cyrus expressed she was "already two songs deep on the next [album]." Producers attached to her seventh studio album included previous collaborator Mike Will Made It and new collaborators Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt . Her first collaboration with Ronson, " Nothing Breaks Like a Heart " from his 2019 album Late Night Feelings , was released on November 29, 2018, to great commercial reception, especially in Europe, where it peaked at number two on
28080-568: The release of her fifth studio album the previous year, Cyrus resumed working on her sixth studio effort. She was a key advisor during the tenth season of the reality singing competition The Voice . In March, Cyrus had signed on as a coach for the eleventh season of The Voice as a replacement for Gwen Stefani ; Cyrus became the youngest coach to appear in any incarnation of the series. In September 2016, Cyrus co-starred in Crisis in Six Scenes ,
28275-547: The release of the soundtrack, Cyrus became the first act within the Walt Disney Company to have deals in television, film, consumer products, and music. Cyrus signed a four-album deal with Hollywood Records to distribute her non- Hannah Montana soundtrack music. She released the two-disc album Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus in June 2007. The first disc was credited as the second soundtrack by "Hannah Montana", while
28470-577: The scene's bands, including the Soft Boys , the Teardrop Explodes , and Echo & the Bunnymen , became major figures of neo-psychedelia. The early 1980s Paisley Underground movement followed neo-psychedelia. Originating in Los Angeles, the movement saw a number of young bands who were influenced by the psychedelia of the late 1960s and all took different elements of it. The term "Paisley Underground"
28665-442: The second disc served as Cyrus's debut studio album. The album became her second to reach the top of the Billboard 200, and has sold over three million copies. Months after the release of the project, " See You Again " (2007) was released as the lead single from the album. The song was a commercial success, and has sold over two million copies in the United States since its release. She collaborated with her father on
28860-410: The second edition of Miley's New Year's Eve Party , the singer's next lead single, " Flowers ", was announced. It was released on January 13, 2023, accompanied by a music video directed by Jacob Bixenman . "Flowers" debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, Global 200 , and Global Excl. US charts; it spent thirteen weeks each atop the global charts. The song became the longest-running and
29055-504: The second half of the 1950s, Beat Generation writers like William Burroughs , Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg wrote about and took drugs, including cannabis and Benzedrine , raising awareness and helping to popularise their use. In the early 1960s the use of LSD and other psychedelics was advocated by new proponents of consciousness expansion such as Timothy Leary , Alan Watts , Aldous Huxley and Arthur Koestler , and, according to Laurence Veysey , they profoundly influenced
29250-520: The series led to Cyrus' being labeled a " teen idol ." She toured with the Cheetah Girls as Hannah Montana in September 2006 and performed songs from the show's first season. Walt Disney Records released a soundtrack credited to Cyrus's character in October of that year. The record was both a critical and commercial success, topping the Billboard 200 chart in the United States; it went on to sell over three million copies worldwide. With
29445-516: The show with a previously unannounced performance of "Dooo It!" with Coyne, before telling the audience that Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz was available for free online streaming . Vinyl pressings of the record were announced in October 2015, but minimal were released. In April 2017, the album was officially uploaded to iTunes and paid music subscription services like Apple Music and Spotify , after only being available for free on SoundCloud for almost 2 years. Dan Weiss of Spin found that
29640-440: The singer was "prepared to buy herself out of the label" if RCA Records did not cooperate with her plan. That month, Cyrus was reportedly working on two albums simultaneously and considered releasing her project with the Flaming Lips for free. On the red carpet for the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards on August 30 (which she hosted), she said: "It's been kind of the most magical week of my life ... It feels like Christmas ". Cyrus closed
29835-490: The singer, the album is "about music [and is] not about twerking". In January 2015, Cyrus expressed her intention "to get this stuff out ASAP", adding that she was working on the album nearly every day. Although Bangerz cost "a couple million" dollars to produce, Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz cost about $ 50,000; she said that RCA Records , her label, did not hear the final product until she completed it. The album does not count towards her multi-album recording contract with
30030-461: The single " Ready, Set, Don't Go " (2007). Next Cyrus embarked on her highly successful Best of Both Worlds Tour (2007–08) to promote its release. Ticketmaster officials commented that "there [hadn't] been a demand of this level or intensity since The Beatles or Elvis ." The tour's success led to the theatrical release of the 3D concert film Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (2008). While initially intended to be
30225-404: The single " Used to Be Young ", which was included in the digital reissue of Endless Summer Vacation . The track debuted at number eight in the US. On October 20, Dolly Parton released a rock re-recording of "Wrecking Ball" featuring Cyrus as a guest vocalist, as the final single off her studio album Rockstar (2023). Billboard ranked Cyrus as the ninth-best-selling musician of 2023. At
30420-719: The song reaching the number one spot on iTunes in that country and because her fans sang the song all night outside the hotel where she was staying in Bogotá. The following month, NBC announced that Miley's New Year's Eve Party had been renewed for a second iteration set to be aired on New Year's Eve 2022–23. In August 2022, it was announced that Cyrus was set to star in a Christmas television film Dolly Parton's Mountain Magic Christmas , produced by Dolly Parton for NBC . In December 2022, Morrissey announced that Cyrus wanted her backing vocals taken off from his upcoming record that
30615-453: The tenth song, "Milky Milky Milk", in a "robotic" voice over a "wiggy synth" beat. It shares the lyrics "I feel like a slab of butter / that is melting in the sun / oppression melts away / now that you and me are one" with the next track, "Slab of Butter (Scorpion)", which features Sarah Barthel of Phantogram . The " '80s robo- funk " interlude "I'm So Drunk" precedes "I Forgive Yiew", with its elements of "cartoonish funk-hop." "I Get So Scared"
30810-675: The thinking of the new generation of youth. The psychedelic lifestyle had already developed in California, particularly in San Francisco, by the mid-1960s, with the first major underground LSD factory established by Owsley Stanley . From 1964, the Merry Pranksters , a loose group that developed around novelist Ken Kesey , sponsored the Acid Tests , a series of events involving the taking of LSD (supplied by Stanley), accompanied by light shows, film projection and discordant, improvised music by
31005-463: The third longest-running leader on the charts, at the time, respectively. Topping the Hot 100 for eight non-consecutive weeks, it marked Cyrus's second and longest-running US number-one single, after " Wrecking Ball " (2013). "Flowers" became a global success topping the charts in 37 countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the UK. It was the most-streamed and most-downloaded song across various platforms in numerous countries, and
31200-632: The top ten in the US, the UK, and on the Global 200. As one of 16 acts featured on the Talking Heads tribute album Everyone's Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense , Cyrus provided a synth-driven dance-pop rendition of the band's " Psycho Killer ". The album was released on May 17, 2024, by A24 Music . In 2024, she recorded a song "Beautiful That Way" for the film The Last Showgirl , directed by Gia Coppola . In an interview with Harper's Bazaar in November 2024, she revealed she
31395-453: The tribute album Revamp: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin . Cyrus also honored John at the I'm Still Standing: A Grammy Salute to Elton John tribute concert in 2018, where she covered " The Bitch Is Back ". On May 31, 2019, Cyrus tweeted that her seventh studio album would be titled She Is Miley Cyrus and would comprise three six-song EPs, which would be released before
31590-475: The use of hip hop and synthpop on the album. The album's songs are placed in chronological order telling the story of her failed relationship with Liam Hemsworth. Cyrus described Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz (2015) as "a little psychedelic, but still in that pop world". For her rock-influenced album, Plastic Hearts , Cyrus cited Britney Spears and Metallica as major influences. Inspired by pop and dance-pop, Endless Summer Vacation (2023) "feels like
31785-418: The user to lose the self and gain an "awareness of undifferentiated unity." Dynamization , as [Timothy] Leary wrote, makes everything from floors to lamps seem to bend, as "familiar forms dissolve into moving, dancing structures"... Music that is truly "psychedelic" mimics these three effects. A number of features are quintessential to psychedelic music. Eastern instrumentation, with a particular fondness for
31980-445: The very first psychedelic records". Soon musicians began to refer (at first indirectly, and later explicitly) to the drug and attempted to recreate or reflect the experience of taking LSD in their music, just as it was reflected in psychedelic art , literature and film . This trend ran in parallel in both America and Britain and as part of the interconnected folk and rock scenes. As pop music began incorporating psychedelic sounds,
32175-402: The world’s still looking — and Cyrus made sure they were looking — why not give them something to look at? Dead Petz succeeds as a spectacle, even if it collapses under the weight of its own irreverence". On her review for Pitchfork , Meaghan Garvey wrote: "In a way, Dead Petz is a fascinating milemarker of pop music in the post- album , post-Internet era: a major pop album that lands with
32370-529: The year-end charts in various regions, and ranked as the second best-performing song of the year on the Billboard year-end Hot 100 chart of 2023 . According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), it was the best-selling song of 2023 globally. A demo version of the track followed on March 3, 2023. Cyrus's eighth studio album, Endless Summer Vacation ,
32565-794: Was Miley's New Year's Eve Party , which Cyrus co-hosted from Miami with Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson and also co-executive produced under her production company Hopetown Entertainment, featuring performances by Cyrus, 24kGoldn , Anitta , Billie Joe Armstrong , Brandi Carlile , Jack Harlow , Kitty Cash, and Saweetie . In February 2022, Cyrus embarked on her music festival concert tour, Attention Tour , in support of Plastic Hearts , which took place in North , South , and Central America . This marked her first tour to South America since her Gypsy Heart Tour in 2011. The tour concluded on March 26, 2022. On April 1, 2022, Cyrus released her third live album, Attention: Miley Live . Most of
32760-507: Was "using Miley as a lens through which to explore sociological thinking about identity, entertainment, media and fame". In 2015, Cyrus was listed as one of the nine runners-up for The Advocate ' s Person of the Year. In March 2024, to commemorate the 65th anniversary of International Women's Day , Cyrus was one of a number of celebrities who had their likeness turned into Bratz doll. Psychedelic music Psychedelic film Psychedelic music (sometimes called psychedelia )
32955-420: Was announced that Cyrus would be the voice of Mavis in the animated film Hotel Transylvania ; however by February 2012 she was dropped from the project and replaced with Selena Gomez . At the time Cyrus said her reason for leaving the movie was wanting to work on her music; later it was revealed the real reason behind her exit was because she bought her then-boyfriend Liam Hemsworth a birthday cake shaped like
33150-414: Was as a feature on " Doctor (Work It Out) " by Pharrell Williams . The song is an outtake from her fourth album Bangerz (2013); it was leaked online in 2017 and was reworked and re-recorded before being released on March 1, 2024. Cyrus was also featured on the duet " II Most Wanted " from Beyoncé 's album Cowboy Carter . The song was released as the album's third single in April 2024, and reached
33345-541: Was available for free online streaming when she hosted the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards , released independently. Critics were divided in their opinions of the album; some applauded Cyrus' ambition and experimentation , and others considered its production and overall finish lacking. Cyrus promoted the album with music videos for " Dooo It! ", "Lighter" and " BB Talk ", and performances of "Karen Don't Be Sad" and "Twinkle Song" when she hosted Saturday Night Live . Additionally, she embarked on her fifth and short concert tour,
33540-523: Was born in April 1992 and grew up separately with his mother, waitress Kristin Luckey, in South Carolina . All of Cyrus's maternal siblings are established entertainers. Trace is a vocalist and guitarist for the electronic pop band Metro Station . Noah is an actress and, along with Braison, models, sings, and is a songwriter. Brandi was formerly a musician for the indie rock band Frank + Derol and
33735-459: Was born with supraventricular tachycardia , a condition causing an abnormal resting heart rate. Her birth name, Destiny Hope, expressed her parents' belief that she would accomplish great things. Her parents nicknamed her "Smiley", which they later shortened to "Miley", because she often smiled as an infant. In 2008, she legally changed her name to Miley Ray Cyrus; her middle name honors her grandfather, Democratic politician Ronald Ray Cyrus , who
33930-433: Was called to audition for the lead role instead seeing her comical performance. Despite being denied the part at first because she was "too small and too young" for the role, she was later cast as the lead because of her singing and goofy acting abilities. The series premiered in March 2006 to the largest audience for a Disney Channel program and quickly ranked among the highest-rated series on basic cable. The success of
34125-806: Was coined in July 2009 on the Hipster Runoff blog by Carles (the pseudonym used by the blog's author) on his accompanying "blog radio" show of the same name. Carles invented the genre name for a host of similarly sounding up-and-coming bands. In August 2009, "hypnagogic pop" was coined by journalist David Keenan to refer to a developing trend of 2000s lo-fi and post- noise music in which artists from varied backgrounds began to engage with elements of cultural nostalgia , childhood memory, and outdated recording technology. By 2010, albums by Ariel Pink and Neon Indian were regularly hailed by publications like Pitchfork and The Wire . The terms "hypnagogic pop", "chillwave", and "glo-fi" were soon adopted to describe
34320-616: Was compared to Portishead ; when heard with "Tangerine" and "Tiger Dreams", it has "druggy" and "hypnotic" elements. In "Cyrus Skies", Cyrus sings "I’ve been alive but I’ve been a liar" in an exaggerated manner over an "opulent pop" beat that "comes off like a horror movie Lana Del Rey." "1 Sun" has been called a " Lady Gaga - Sky Ferreira hybrid" with an " industrial -electro-tinged" production and environmentally-conscious lyrics reminiscent of "Wake Up America" from Cyrus' second studio album, Breakout (2008). According to Cyrus, she " passive aggressively " included "Miley Tibetan Bowlzzz" on
34515-506: Was documented in a comic book titled Fame: Miley Cyrus ; it begins with her controversial 2013 MTV Video Music Awards performance and covers her Disney fame as well as exploring her childhood in Tennessee. The comic book was written by Michael L. Frizell, drawn by Juan Luis Rincón, and is available in both print and digital formats. In September 2010, Cyrus placed tenth on Billboard ' s first-ever edition of its 21 Under 21 listicle; she
34710-536: Was found mauled to death at her home after fighting with a coyote. Two weeks later, Cyrus suffered an allergic reaction to the antibiotic cephalexin , prescribed to treat a sinus infection, resulting in her hospitalization in Kansas City . Though she rescheduled some of her US tour dates, she resumed the tour two weeks later, beginning with the European leg. While collaborating with the Flaming Lips on their remake of
34905-407: Was from Kentucky . Cyrus's godmother is singer-songwriter Dolly Parton . Against the advice of her father's record company, Cyrus's parents secretly married on December 28, 1993, a year after her birth. They had two more children, son Braison and daughter Noah . From a previous relationship, her mother has two other children, Brandi and Trace . Her father's first child, Christopher Cody,
35100-412: Was initially intended to feature rock elements prior to its completion, and Cyrus claimed after its release that it could be her final pop album. The album's songs speak of Cyrus's desire to achieve freedom in both her personal and professional life. She began working on Bangerz (2013) during a musical hiatus, and described the record as having a "dirty south feel" prior to its release. Critics noted
35295-451: Was later mashed up with Stevie Nicks ' " Edge of Seventeen ". In October, Cyrus had a third Backyard Session on MTV and announced via Instagram that her seventh studio album Plastic Hearts would be released on November 27, 2020. It was previously intended to be called She Is Miley Cyrus , completing the EP series once finalized. The album was released to positive reviews from critics and performed well, debuting at number two on
35490-502: Was later expanded to include others from outside the city. Madchester was a music and cultural scene that developed in the Manchester area of North West England in the late 1980s, in which artists merged alternative rock with acid house and dance culture as well as other sources, including psychedelic music and 1960s pop. The label was popularised by the British music press in the early 1990s, and its most famous groups include
35685-415: Was praised for her pursuit of artistic freedom . Some critics applauded Cyrus's choice to release the record for free online outside her multi-album contract with RCA Records. In an article for Billboard , Tatiana Cirisiano said Cyrus made "a bold and potentially lethal move for any artist today, let alone a pop star in 2015 ". The project was recognized for "asserting that pop stars, too, should be afforded
35880-444: Was ranked as one of the greatest artists of all time, the ninth-greatest Billboard 200 female artist, and among the greatest pop stars of the 21st century by Billboard . Cyrus has featured in listicles such as the Time 100 (2008 and 2014), Forbes Celebrity 100 (2010 and 2015), and 30 Under 30 (2014 and 2021). She is the eighth-highest-certified female digital singles artist by
36075-519: Was ranked twenty-first in 2011 and eighteenth in 2012. In 2013, Maxim listed Cyrus as number one on their annual Hot 100 list. Cyrus was chosen by Time magazine as one of the finalists for Person of the Year in November 2013; she came in third place with 16.3% of the staff vote. In March 2014, Skidmore College in New York began to offer a special topics sociology course entitled "The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender and Media" which
36270-439: Was recorded two years earlier, but not yet released. In late 2022, Cyrus and her longtime collaborator Mike Will Made It teased new music to be released in 2023, on the latter's social media. Cyrus continued to tease a new musical era through a cryptic promotional campaign—which included posters in cities around the world, countdowns on her website, and video previews—with the caption, "New Year, New Miley". Days later, during
36465-524: Was released as the second single from the album on August 18 and debuted and peaked at No. 79 on the Billboard Hot 100 . On August 27, Cyrus performed the track at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards . On September 15, she performed "Malibu", " Younger Now ", " See You Again ", " Party in the U.S.A. " and a cover of the Roberta Flack hit " The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face " (written by Ewan McColl ) for
36660-438: Was released in September 2019 that contained further references, including a ten of hearts playing card at the bottom of a pool to represent the end of her decade-long relationship with Hemsworth. On August 14, 2020, Cyrus released the lead single from her seventh studio album, " Midnight Sky " and confirmed the cancellation of the EPs She Is Here and She Is Everything due to major recent changes in her life that did not fit
36855-412: Was released on March 10, 2023. She co-produced it with Kid Harpoon , Greg Kurstin , Mike Will Made It, and Tyler Johnson . Cyrus announced the album in January, with its artwork and a trailer. Her first studio effort with Columbia Records, she described the record as "[her] love letter to LA", which reflects upon the "strength [she] found in focusing on [her] physical and mental well-being". The album,
37050-411: Was reported that the then-15-year-old Cyrus had posed topless during a photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair . The New York Times subsequently clarified that although the shot left the impression that Cyrus was bare-breasted, she was wrapped in a bed sheet and was not topless. Cyrus went on to release her second studio album, Breakout (2008), in June of that year. The album earned
37245-585: Was the host of the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards , making her its first openly pansexual host, and gave a surprise performance of a new song " Dooo It! " (2015) during the show's finale. Immediately following the performance, Cyrus announced that her fifth studio album, Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz (2015), was available for free streaming on SoundCloud . The album was written and produced primarily by Cyrus, and has been called experimental and psychedelic , with elements of psychedelic pop , psychedelic rock , and alternative pop . In 2016, following
37440-477: Was the subject of further controversy when a video posted online in December 2010 showed her, then aged eighteen, smoking salvia with a bong . 2010 ended with her ranking at number thirteen on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list. She embarked on her worldwide Gypsy Heart Tour in April 2011 which had no North American dates; she cited her various controversial moments as the reason, claiming that she only wanted to travel where she felt "the most love". Following
37635-466: Was touring for Bangerz . Two weeks later, after bawling through some performances, Cyrus was hospitalized for more than a week in Kansas with a severe allergic reaction to antibiotics . There she was visited by Wayne Coyne , long one of her musical heroes, with whom she had recently begun collaborating. Cyrus befriended Coyne and his band, the Flaming Lips ; they joined her for performances during her Bangerz Tour , and Cyrus recorded cover versions of
37830-453: Was working on a follow-up album. She said, "I'm already at a different time than I was when I finished [ Bangerz ]" and was so removed from daily life because of her career that "I need something to work for". In an interview to The New York Times , Cyrus explained the personal evolution, including death and love as she'd never known, that led to this project. First came the killing in April 2014 of her beloved dog, Floyd, by coyotes while she
38025-651: Was working on a visual album Something Beautiful , slated for a 2025 release, and described working on its title track. Miley Cyrus has been described mainly as a pop singer who has also developed a rock style. Her music has also spanned many other different genres including teen pop , country , hip hop , and psychedelic . Cyrus has cited Elvis Presley as her biggest inspiration. She has also cited artists such as Madonna , Lana Del Rey , Dolly Parton , Timbaland , Whitney Houston , Christina Aguilera , Joan Jett , Lil Kim , Shania Twain , Hanson , OneRepublic , and Britney Spears as influences. Since
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