She knows she’s good at this heavy shit, too. Both leaned heavily on rock and roll standards. Already this year she’s delivered two of the great performances of the quarantine: a brand-new Backyard Session for MTV Unplugged, and her powerhouse set for #SOSFest. Cyrus has brought back glam rock, and she’s done it with a practiced eye for fashion and a scorching vocal instrument. The singer emerged in 2020 with a Joan Jett mullet and “Midnight Sky”. At the age of 28, she’s reaping the rewards. She’s roamed farther afield than most of her peers, and, in the process, risked failure and personal humiliation. Now, Miley Cyrus has tried just about everything. She became less faithful to the original, more willing to rearrange a song’s furniture and slap on a new coat of paint. Her covers during this period start to change, too. Her voice changed - a result of more experience, more skill, a shit-ton of pot, an unfortunate vocal cord surgery, and eventually, sobriety. It took her a few more wandering years to return to rock and roll, and in the subsequent half-decade she released the forgettable Younger Now and promising but uneven She Is Coming EP. They’ve had me on this journey that’s greater than anything I’ve been on.” But they’re real musicians – they can change keys on a whim. She said at the time, “On my last record, everything we did was with computers. But working with Wayne Coyne and the Lips had a profound effect on her approach to music.
It’s bracingly personal, strikingly experimental, far too horny for its own good - and at 90 minutes, excruciatingly tedious. These covers were an important step on Cyrus’ journey to finding her own voice.Įditor's Pick Song of the Week: Miley Cyrus and Friends Take on Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters”Ģ015’s Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz is a bizarre piece of pop psychedelia, influenced by hip-hop and rock and roll, and made in collaboration with The Flaming Lips. She seemed to rediscover her fondness for music, covering classic songs at the 2012 Backyard Sessions. Cyrus shined like never before, and her renditions of “Jolene” and “Lilac Wine” remain some of the finest performances of her career. In response, she introduced a lot more songs by Joan Jett into her sets, using Jett and her band The Runaways to help channel her frustrations and independence.Īfter a turbulent tour, she took some time off and returned to acting.
MILEY CYRUS UNPLUGGED PROFESSIONAL
As she transitioned away from her squeaky-clean image, she found herself hounded by pearl-clutching parents and professional media scolds - people apparently scandalized at the very thought of a 17-year-old having sex. She tried to leave her Hannah Montana days behind her with 2010’s Can’t Be Tamed. The message was clear: The favored child of a country superstar, groomed from a young age to be the perfect pop princess, had grown disenchanted with some of her old music.
“But then, I sing a couple songs for me.” She then launched clear into outer space for a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb”. “You know, I sing songs like ‘Can’t Stop’ for you,” she said with a smile. After ploughing through “We Can’t Stop” and “Slide Away,” she took a moment to level with the audience. At the 2019 iHeart Radio music festival, Miley Cyrus had some surprising words about her biggest hits.
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