Miley Cyrus Prepares To Give 'Something Beautiful' To Her Fans And The Music World
Miley Cyrus has announced her next project: 'Something Beautiful,' a visual album based on the iconic Pink Floyd album, 'The Wall.'
Fans of Miley Cyrus now have "something beautiful" to look forward to in the coming year.
The Grammy-winning Disney alum has announced her next project: A visual album based on the iconic Pink Floyd album, The Wall, with the tentative title, Something Beautiful.
It will arrive sometime in 2025.
Miley Cyrus’ New Project, 'Something Beautiful,' Aims To Be A 'Glamorous' Take On A Classic Album
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Speaking with Harper’s BAZAAR, the 31-year-old “Flowers” vocalist explained her vision for the upcoming Something Beautiful, the follow-up to 2023’s Endless Summer Vacation, as a fashion-forward homage to the legendary English rock album.
“It was inspired by Pink Floyd’s The Wall,” Cyrus shared, while additionally noting that the accompanying film to the 1979 LP is one that she was first introduced to as a teenager.
“We really leaned in [to the idea],” the singer continued. “And so, I have this heart-first attachment to it. My idea was making The Wall, but with a better wardrobe and more glamorous and filled with pop culture.”
Miley Co-Created 'Something Beautiful' With Her Current Boyfriend, Maxx Morando
“They’ve been working together on the new album too. He produced multiple songs and helped her write “Something Beautiful,” which is currently slated to be the title track.” - Happers Bazzar on Miley Cyrus new album produced with her boyfriend Maxx Morando pic.twitter.com/QVMuFnxNKW
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Cyrus’ reverence of The Wall is shared by one of the album’s writers, Maxx Morando, who also happens to be the singer’s longtime boyfriend.
Harper’s BAZAAR notes that the two have been attached for several years, with the women’s fashion publication relaying to the 32-year-old Morrando as Cyrus' “Gen-Z internet interpreter.”
“He looks at life really differently than I do,” Miley mentions. “He grew up with a laptop. I had a desktop computer that I shared with my brothers and sisters. Honestly, he’s raised our dog off Reddit. I’m like, Are you sure we’re supposed to be doing this? And he’s like, 'On Reddit it says blah, blah, blah.'”
As for why you may not have the pair out-and-about, Miley Cyrus appears to be keeping her relationship with Morrando under wraps – a sign that she’s seemingly picked up on the downfalls of both living and loving in the public eye.
“He’s very similar to me,” the singer noted (Morrando himself is a musician, a drummer with the band Lilly). "We just don’t take life too seriously.”
Miley’s Deliberate 'Synesthesia' Ties Together the Aspects of 'Something Beautiful'
Miley Cyrus new album will be much as visual as it is musical. pic.twitter.com/jIioONXqGj
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Never a stranger to fashion do’s (and occasional don’ts) list, it makes sense that fashion and visuals are just as important to Cyrus’ Something Beautiful as the music.
BAZAAR journalist Izzy Grinspan makes mention of how the singer often taps into a “cultural synesthesia, pulling from fashion, film, music, and visual art.”
For example, film director Panos Cosmatos was initially reached out to by Miley in hopes of getting him to remake Mandy, a 2018 cult-classic horror film led by Nicolas Cage, with her as the titular character. Though Cosmatos turned her down, he did take up her offer of helping her style the visual side of Something Beautiful.
“[The album is] more experimental than anything she’s ever done,” Cosmatos tells Harper’s, adding, “but in a pop way that I love.”
Miley herself notes the “vibe” of the project as being “sick and glamourous,” a combination she hopes “medicate[s] somewhat of a sick culture through music.”
Miley Hopes To 'Heal' Listeners And 'Impact' Them Toward Personal Greatness With Her Music
One of the biggest inspirations for Miley’s new album is “The Wall” by Pink Floyd. “My idea was making “The Wall” but with a better wardrobe and make more glamorous and filled with pop culture.” - Miley Cyrus pic.twitter.com/LU0OnMfKj6
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With a career spanning 23 years of her young 31-year-old life, it makes sense that Cyrus would be on a different playing field than most of her pop contemporaries.
At this stage of the professional game, she claims she wants to not just be an entertainer, but a “healer” who uses their craft to help others achieve greatness through their own means.
“I would like to be a human psychedelic for people,” she says. “I don’t want anyone trying to be like me or imitate me or even be inspired by me. I want to impact frequencies in your body that make you vibrate at a different level.”
“It was important for me that every song has these healing sound properties,” Miley further explained. “The songs, whether they’re about destruction or heartbreak or death, they’re presented in a way that is beautiful, because the nastiest times of our life do have a point of beauty. They are the shadow, they are the charcoal, they are the shading. You can’t have a painting without highlights and contrast.”
Miley Cyrus Looks Back At One Of Recent Hits And Wonders If She Shared Too Much
Further proof of Miley’s growth as an artist can be seen in the way she questions “Used to Be Young,” the introspective 2023 ballad released as a capper to the Endless Summer Vacation era.
Easily one of Cyrus’ most vulnerable offerings, the singer now wonders if she gave too much of herself away through its emotive lyrics.
“I actually listened to that song yesterday, and I was asking myself, 'Did I really need to put this out?,'” she wondered. “It was one of those things that maybe now that I’m a bit more private, I would’ve kept private, but I’m happy to have shared it. It just feels like a song that’s so personal that it’s hard for people to relate.”
