With the new album Miley Cyrus abandons rock to return to a more mature, eclectic and ambitious pop. Here is our review of her new album, Endless Summer Vacation
The first thing to say about Miley Cyrus’ new album is that the singer seems to have definitely abandoned its rock phaseadopted for the album plastic hearts (2020) and for the quarantine periods. Now Mileywho is now in her thirties, also seems to have got tired of showing off on IG and seems ready for a part of her career more “mature”.
His new album proves it, with productions as always refined but with slightly more reflective, less euphoric and less captivating sounds than his latest works. The pop of this new album, Endless Summer VacationAnd delicatesometimes disruptive but always in one way elegantand evidently intended for a non-adolescent audience.
If in songs like You And Wonder Woman seems to feel the Christina Aguilera Of strippedthey are really striking Handstandsexperimental track in which the influence of Tame Impala (now taken up a bit by everyone, come on Gorillaz to Kali Uchis And Lil Yachty) And Riverwhich sounds like a song from Lady Gaga Of The Fame.
The friccheggiante is also very good Rose Colored Lenses the duet with the semi-cancellata is valuable Both Furler in Muddy Feet. Potentially interesting but a bit half-developed Islandan attempt to The Isla Bonita at the Camila Cabello which however sounds more like a divertissement than anything else.
An album in principle in which Miley he finally seems to be looking for his own musical adulthoodforget (for now, at least) about the times of Wrecking ball and of Bangerz, and more determined to be taken seriously as an author. Certainly there are now no doubts about her vocal qualities, expressed here at the highest levels.
Said this, Endless Summer Vacation but it sounds like a record that stops too soon and doesn’t push as far as it could. The eclecticism of the style and the validity of at least half of the tracklist are elements that are somewhat lost in a dispersive set and not very consistent even at the concept level (the AM / PM division you announced is far from evident).
Ultimately, an interesting passage in the singer’s career and which perhaps in the future will be considered important in her stylistic evolution or perhaps even as the beginning of a new era in her discography. For now we limit ourselves to defining it a good pop record of an artist who has been able to make her way here and survive different eras: for sure, we can say that Miley is alive.
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