Those moments reveal a preternaturally gifted vocalist just leaning into the possibilities her instrument offers, while cruising through the back pages of music history.īackyard Sessions plays an integral part in Miley’s newest evolution, another concerted push toward tying the disparate threads of her career together. The best arguments for the merits of Miley’s musical molting occur during her Backyard Sessions series, where the breadth of her interests and connections set the scene for effortless fun like a cozy, costumed 2015 duet with Ariana Grande on New Zealand rockers Crowded House’s ’86 hit “Don’t Dream It’s Over,” or the smoky take from 2020’s MTV Unplugged Presents: Miley Cyrus Backyard Sessions on the Velvet Underground’s 1969 gem “Sweet Jane” that plays up the spectral vocal affectations of the 1988 Cowboy Junkies cover on the way to a booming climax. The kookier country-rap Bangerz tracks get there bringing a roots-rock rasp to the New Wave jams on Plastic Hearts was another savvy act of alluring juxtaposition. Miley Cyrus has been working for years to thread her interests in pop, rock, rap, country, and dance music, to make something only her palette of experiences and sensibilities could come up with, to varying degrees of success. It’s just dicey positioning a seven-minute “Party in the U.S.A.” in that lineage. You could respect the mind connecting the dots between Madonna, Cher, Dolly Parton, and Sinéad O’Connor, women who continue to catch hell for provocative fashion, lyrics, personal lives, and politics. She thanked fans for bearing with “all of those identities that I was trying on and seeing if they fit me,” stressing that at the root of every experiment was honesty. After a jarring opening stretch zooming through a mashup of Bangerz’s “We Can’t Stop” and the Pixies’ 1988 alt-rock gem “Where Is My Mind?,” a cover of Blondie’s “Heart of Glass,” a bit of the Flaming Lips collab “Dooo It!,” and a rendition of her Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J collab “23,” Cyrus paused to address the audience, joking that surely many of them had shown up a little too early for headliner Green Day and happened into the spectacle of her set. Last spring’s Attention: Miley Live - largely a document of her performance at the 2022 Super Bowl Music Fest - offered a clinic in the singer-songwriter’s dueling urges to impress and confuse a crowd. A good bit of that drift is perfectly germane to sticking a microphone in anyone’s face at various points in their 20s and teens, years where we figure ourselves out one mistake at a time.īut some of it seemed to communicate that Miley simply thrives on throwing us off and winning us over again. Ever eager to prove to us how delightfully weird or reassuringly trad she is from one era to the next, she felt calculated and hard to pin down, musically, which perfectly suited a pop career full of surprises but also rose suspicions about her intentions as a visitor in the far-reaching subgenres her albums wandered through. Miley Cyrus spent the last decade on the run from her own perception, shape-shifting her way in and out of fantastic achievements and exacting dilemmas, going to great lengths to express that she knew how to party in the years when everyone had her pegged as the squeaky-clean Disney kid and then, when that posturing started to rub people the wrong way, diving into a psychedelic rabbit hole with the Flaming Lips. More tracks like My First Crush (feat.She gets how to attract and how to provoke a crowd - how to craft party anthems and tear-jerkers and head-scratchers - and she’s choosing to bring these narratives to upbeat conclusions.Playlists containing My First Crush (feat.Users who reposted My First Crush (feat.I like how you put so much meaning into it and it's just really cool to listen to! Comment by italoinspace Smells good like 80's spirit :) Comment by Barton Boi ![]() ![]() ![]() Such touching melody love this! Comment by GಉENIPLΌḑΌҚបS Omg! Great song! Comment by Elena Tavoulari Trevor something and timecop1983 = awesome! Comment by Jennifer Thomason 1 Timecop + trevorsomething = best stuff Comment by Mark Geyer I love your music so much Timecop1983! :) Comment by WALKMAN TPS-L2 I love this part!! Kind of gives me chills though. Makes me feel like i went to the 80s and bumped into INXS Comment by Angel Saxonīro I feel like Im fucking drifting in a Delorean on the edge of the universe holy gods Comment by TulekeelĬhilling song!! love the melody Comment by Fendora Hands down mah FAV song! Teh FEELZ! Comment by Azzy
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |