Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus unfurled her new single "River," as well as its associated music video, on Friday (March 10) via RCA Records.

They can start as something that was a trouble, like, it just feels like it’s an April shower, it never stops raining and then it started raining down love” before adding, “Sometimes we just need a dance floor banger a.k.a. [teased](https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/miley-cyrus-river-endless-summer-vacation-inspiration-1235282368/) what inspired the sexually-charged follow-up to her smash single “Flowers,” saying, “It was a time in my life where I was going through just a lot emotionally and personally. [Miley Cyrus](https://www.billboard.com/artist/miley-cyrus/) unfurled her new single “River,” as well as its associated [music video](https://www.billboard.com/t/music-video/), on Friday (March 10) via RCA Records.

Harmony Korine, Tobias Jesso Jr., BJ Burton, Brandi Carlile, Sia, Bibi Bourelly, James Blake, Greg Kurstin, and more contributed to Cyrus' follow-up to ...

Published by: MCEO Publishing (BMI)/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. by Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing (BMI)/Songs Of Universal, Inc. o/b/o itself, Aidenjulius Music, and Pineapple Lasagne (ASCAP)/ James Blake Publishing Designee o/b/o itself and Sounds From Eardrummers LLC (ASCAP)/EMI April Music Inc. Published by: MCEO Publishing (BMI) / WC Music Corp. o/b/o itself and Sounds From Eardrummers (ASCAP) Published by MCEO Publishing (BMI) / Universal-PolyGram Int. Published by: MCEO Publishing (BMI) / EMI April Music Inc. Published by: MCEO Publishing (BMI) / Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. She closed out 2022 as the host of her own New Year’s Eve special on NBC, which featured guest appearances from [Dolly Parton](https://pitchfork.com/news/miley-cyrus-and-dolly-parton-perform-new-years-medley-watch/) and [David Byrne](https://pitchfork.com/news/david-byrne-and-miley-cyrus-cover-david-bowie-new-years-celebration-watch/). In [an interview clip](https://twitter.com/MileyCyrus/status/1632810833339113473/) she posted to social media, Cyrus said the record is divided into halves that loosely represent daytime and nighttime. She also covered Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” for the collection [The Metallica Blacklist](https://twitter.com/jackantonoff/status/1633172277910024194).

Endless Summer Vacations (Backyard Sessions) is currently streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.

In the nighttime, it feels like there is a slinky seediness and kind of a grime but a glamour at the same time,” the singer stated. River, which happens to be a part of Endless Summer Vacation, is an upbeat pop number with lyrics that compare her partner to a river. In the live stream, Cyrus sang her new songs including the smash-hit Flowers and the multi-Platinum hit The Climb.

Miley Cyrus has shared the official music video for her latest single, 'River', which appears on her eighth studio album. Watch here.

In the evening, it’s a great time for rest, it’s a time to recover. Cyrus previously described the LP as a “love letter to LA”. Or it’s a time to go out and experience the wild side. “It was a time in my life where I was going through just a lot emotionally and personally,” she recalled of how the single came about. It’s a new day,” she said. Later, water begins to rain on the performers as ‘River’ intensifies towards the end.

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The id of California—the id of America—is strong in both of them. She can climb to rapture, as in the storming falsetto finale of “In My Feelings,” or add an exquisite detail: “We could get lost in the purple rain,” she sings in “Let Me Love You Like a Woman,” and the little accent of transport she puts on rain turns it from a shopworn Prince reference to a … Can’t stay fucked up forever!” And the oldest wolf in Yellowstone bursts into tears, and wild young couples across the nation drive straight into the flames of a better day. A sequence of personas?](https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/09/lana-del-rey-says-she-never-had-persona-really/597883/) It’s never clear. Cyrus has made her voice a drama of experience: the ravagings of good times and bad times, the scraping-out of new depths, the attainment of raucous new heights. [performance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N1E80FY0aw) of her there-goes-my-marriage song, “Slide Away,” at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards had me reaching for the oxymorons: a rueful shout, a soaring growl, a rumble on wings of sorrow. “All these bitches want something from me / Got me fucked up on LA money.” Cyrus, singing these lines in a demo version of “LA Money,” sounds genuinely disgruntled; if Del Rey sang them (as she might), hushing the consonants and dilating the vowels, they would be smoking with her special metallic irony. Out there in YouTube limbo, unreleased as of this writing, is a thundering Cyrus ballad called “Fucked Up Forever.” What a vocal performance this is: Cyrus’s age and youth, her tenderized understanding and her hooligan snarl, in perfect, momentary balance. Cyrus has lived several lifetimes, [burned through several careers](https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/12/miley-cyrus-plastic-hearts-catchy-defiance/617287/), made some beautiful music (“Adore You,” “High,” “Malibu”) and some not-so-beautiful music, and still—at age 30—gives the impression of not being able to manage, not quite, her freakish powers, like the pupils at Professor Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters in X-Men, knocking down walls with their elbows and accidentally putting people in comas. [Dark-blue Americana.](https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/10/blue-banisters-lana-del-rey-album/620548/) A Doorsian West Coast trip. [moved from Tennessee to L.A.](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-miley-cyrus-10-things-pg-photogallery.html) (see: “Party in the U.S.A.”), broke out, and became a bong-brandishing hip-hop appropriator, twerk transgressor, [sometime Flaming Lips collaborator](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/see-miley-cyrus-and-flaming-lips-insanely-trippy-superfreak-video-55579/), and pop/country/glam-rock anarchic aberration obsessed with freedom and nudity and Molly and “getting some,” chafing and rattling in her corporate cage, her magnificent voice growing steadily/unsteadily deeper and rougher and omnivorous, from a gurgling mezzo-soprano to an anthemic libertine roar to something like Metallica’s James Hetfield belching flames of pure estrogen, all the while achieving higher and higher levels of pop visibility until finally, in January, she smashed Spotify’s all-time weekly-song-streaming record (and took the top spot on the Billboard charts) with her post-breakup empowerment frolic “Flowers.” “I can buy myself flow-uuuuuuhs …” Is it her best song? And for pop stars in particular.

Miley Cyrus' "Flowers" co-writer Michael Pollack shares behind-the-scenes stories.

But it’s the record-breaking success of “Flowers” that has grown highest; not just on the charts, but to become one of the biggest success stories in Cyrus’ already blockbuster legacy. Riding that inspiration, an ephemeral and anthemic moment in “Flowers” comes in the form of a cacophony of voices where Cyrus proudly announces to the world, “I can love me better, baby, I can love me better.” Pollack says the discovery of that puzzle piece was his favorite moment in the (excuse the metaphor) blossoming of the song. “I personally struggle to write songs when no one in the room can tap into the source of the emotion. “We were also so engulfed in the writing process for the album that I didn’t really overanalyze any of the individual songs we made, but instead just focused on what we were going to write next.” “I think they’re all easy types of songs to write, as long as there is a genuine emotion to tap into and an authentic muse,” says Pollack. For the latter band he co-wrote “Memories,” and with Bieber he collaborated on his Justice track “Holy.” As a result of Pollack’s prolific discography, he shared the title of songwriter of the year for 2022 at the It’s a subtle cliffhanger to take you to the chorus.” Perhaps that’s why “Flowers” soars with its singular sound, presenting a blend of genres that simultaneously compete and gel together. When it comes to the song’s birth, the songwriter says the majority of the track easily came into view. “Compared to other songs, the lyrics for ‘Flowers’ came relatively quickly,” he notes. “This is the kind of record you dream about having your whole career and I’m so grateful to be a part of it.” “The idea really began with the word ‘flowers’ itself,” says “Flowers” co-writer Michael Pollack, speaking to Billboard from a music camp ahead of the release of Cyrus’ new album Endless Summer Vacation.

Miley Cyrus danced away her heartbreak with 14 shirtless men in a steamy music video for her new track River, two years after her divorce from Liam ...

Singing her feelings: As lights flashed around the Grammy nominee began to sing: 'Heart beats so loud that it’s drowning me out/Living in an April shower/You’re pouring down, baby. Miley Cyrus sings about moving on from her ex-husband Liam Hemsworth as she dances with 14 shirtless men in a steamy music video for her new track River... And then it started raining down like love' Long over: She and her ex-husband dated on/off for nearly a decade after meeting on set of their film, The Last Song (2010), when Miley was 17 and Liam was 19 (seen together in 2019) Drowning me out/You’re just like a river/You go on forever.' It's nasty' after the release of her post-divorce album Endless Summer Vacation And then it started raining down like love.' like it just feels like it's an April shower,' Cyrus said. It's nasty.' It's [bleeping] nasty. On Wednesday, she posted a video of herself explaining the meaning behind her song, River, which she said was written at a time when she was 'going through just a lot emotionally and personally.'

From pop-rock to R&B and country-disco, the chameleonic Miley Cyrus has done it all. With single Flowers a huge hit and LP Endless Summer Vacation out today ...

'this pushed me out of the hip-hop scene a little' was insensitive as it is a privilege to have the ability to dip in and out of ‘the scene," Cyrus Cyrus followed her triumphant Glastonbury performance by honing her rock chops on 2020's retro-leaning Plastic Hearts album, for which she duetted with two icons of the genre: Joan Jett and Billy Idol. During the same year, Cyrus returned to hip-hop-infused pop with She Is Coming, a well-received EP featuring collaborations with Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ghostface Killah, singer-rapper Swae Lee and drag icon RuPaul. She raised eyebrows in particular for her exuberant embrace of twerking, a dance form that originated on the black-led bounce scene in 1980s New Orleans, and for surrounding herself in music videos with women of colour. Hugh McIntyre, a music journalist with Forbes, believes "it is accurate to call Cyrus a shapeshifter or a chameleon" because "she has shown, time and time again, that she can deliver high-quality music that performs well in a variety of genres". "It was Miley's moment to step out of the Disney spotlight and try something edgier and more adult, and that is always going to be received with some caution," he says. “It’s mind-boggling to me that there was even a controversy around me having black dancers," Cyrus protested to [Billboard](https://www.billboard.com/music/features/miley-cyrus-cover-story-new-music-malibu-7783997/) when asked about the latter in 2017. However, it is important to acknowledge that Cyrus's Bangerz era also attracted a more valid strain of criticism – namely, that she had cherry-picked aspects of black culture to accentuate her new, edgier image. Cyrus and subtlety haven't always gone hand in hand – she quite literally rode a wrecking ball in the video for her 2013 chart-topper Wrecking Ball – but Flowers is notable for its vocal and musical restraint. McIntyre notes that though Cyrus has not "tackled everything" musically, "she has done rock and pop and electronic music, and even leaned into country and hip-hop from time to time". See You Again, a standout single from the Meet Miley Cyrus side, offered a glimpse of the pop-savvy but idiosyncratic artist she would blossom into. Since Cyrus launched her recording career 17 years ago, when she played a fictional pop star in the hit Disney series Hannah Montana, she has released everything from peppy pop-rock to risqué R&B, and reflective folk-pop to spangly country-disco.

Miley Cyrus returned in a massive way with "Flowers," and now the chameleonic singer has more emotions to share on her "Endless Summer Vacation" album.

[ crumble in the quiet](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2020/11/23/miley-cyrus-opens-up-sobriety-slip-up-two-weeks-sober/6396462002/). The most unique offering on the album carries a vague Caribbean lilt along with a luxurious chorus (“Am I stranded on an island, or I have I landed in paradise?”). vibes.](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/miley-cyrus-endless-summer-vacation-two-parts-am-pm-1234691644/) “River,” the seventh among 13 tracks on the album, feels like the changeover. 1 since “Wrecking Ball" a decade ago) with her [“who needs you, anyway, buddy?](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2020/12/04/miley-cyrus-opens-up-sobriety-relationship-liam-hemsworth/3823018001/)” anthem, Cyrus, 30, has dropped a full slate of emotionally seesawing songs. But Cyrus’ vocal, which starts off hushed, climbs to a pained peak and then plummets to soft hoarseness, pointedly capturing the melancholy and the strength. [the chameleonic singer](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2021/03/05/miley-cyrus-talks-playing-hannah-montana-disney-identity-crisis/4597789001/) returned to the charts in a massive way (six weeks at No. It’s a sweaty dance floor banger filled with glossy synths that would have made “Ray of Light”-era Madonna proud. But only with the very specific “you.” Cyrus is undeniably besotted – and unapologetic – while she unspools various scenarios (crashing a wedding, provoking a fight merely to make up “on the floor of your room”). This seductive swayer is the ultimate Cyrus offering. Sure, she knows whatever this is probably won’t last (“let’s just keep pretending”), but her yearning is real. As Cyrus sings, “I told myself to close that door, but I’m right back here again,” her awareness is palpable. The only quibble is the electronic vocal effects on the fadeout, which distract more than court intrigue.

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The transitions are seamless, going from the chorus of “Wrecking Ball” to that of “Nothing Compares 2 U” and then sliding into the verse of the ballad and back into the “Wrecking Ball” bridge. “On a Roll” later blew up on TikTok with its recognizable “Oh, honey.” The DallasK remix adds a beat drop that takes the uplifting track to the next level and demonstrates that Cyrus can nail any kind of song, including an EDM banger. While Cyrus has a discography packed with songs fans can passionately belt along to, her “Plastic Hearts” collaboration with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, “Bad Karma,” might be one of the few that hasn’t fully reached audiences. “I Would Die for You” masquerades as a love song with soft-spoken lyrics like “I am yours and you are mine/ I have your heart, I don’t even need a ring.” But mournful lines like “I’ve heard I’ve got words like a knife/ That I don’t know how to choose just so wisely” suggest the track might be a love letter to a relationship that could have been. Miley Cyrus was just entering her next gen-Stevie Nicks phase when she collaborated with Mark Ronson on “Nothing Breaks Like a Heart,” the song that would become the first single on his 2019 album “Late Night Feelings.” She announced she was already tired of her then most recent album “Younger Now” two weeks before its release, but you can immediately tell how revitalized she was to collaborate with someone who understood, leaned into and amplified her old-soul rock goddess spirit in the way Ronson does here. 2 with “We Can’t Stop”), Cyrus swung away from the hip-hop-influenced commercial success of her fourth album “Bangerz” in favor of the off-kilter pop psychedelia of “Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz,” which features song titles like “Milky Milky Milk” and “Miley Tibetan Bowlzzz.” While “Dead Petz” split critics and flopped on the charts — it didn’t even make the Billboard 200 — it’s since been branded as an underrated, bold artistic choice and garnered somewhat of a cult following. Cyrus continued the driving-metaphor breakup anthem trend with “Drive” on “Bangerz,” singing “Drive my heart into the night/ You can drop the keys off in the morning/ ‘Cause I don’t wanna leave home, without your love.” Infusing elements of dub-step, hip-hop and EDM, “Drive” shapes up to be a heartbreaking electro-R&B ballad where Miley comes to terms with her ending relationship. For listeners, it offers the exact kind of advice they’re most apt to listen to — from a person acknowledging how complicated it can be — but for Cyrus, whose romantic entanglements she puts on such unvarnished, vivid display, it feels like a celebration and a warning to herself all at once. The chorus is simple, but so effective (“I miss you/ I miss your smile/ And I still shed a tear every once in a while”) and Cyrus’ sugary-sweet voice glides over the notes with her signature country twang. A heavy electric guitar riff sets the tone for Cyrus to wail into the mic, singing jaded lyrics like: “Out of the fire and into the fire again/ You make me want to forget/ And start all over.” In the corresponding music video, Cyrus even dresses the part of a punk rocker, clad in suspenders, a black sequined vest and fiery red pants. The song’s folky and elliptical harmonies are enough to trigger tears as Cyrus’ ragged vocals describe an innate yearning to ease the pain of her broken partner — “Just hold on, in a minute it’ll be over and gone,” she begs while the music soothingly unspools to support her. The opening track of her 2007 debut album “Meet Miley Cyrus,” “See You Again” introduced fans to Cyrus’ spunky, confident side that’s still alive and well today.

Miley Cyrus makes it eight straight on the ARIA Singles Chart with "Flowers"

[ARIA Albums Chart](https://www.aria.com.au/charts/albums-chart), [Harry Styles](https://www.billboard.com/artist/harry-styles/) nabs a 10th non-consecutive week at No. [PinkPantheress](https://www.billboard.com/artist/pinkpantheress/)’ “Boy’s A Liar” (Parlophone/Warner) is “very close behind” at No. [NCT 127](https://www.billboard.com/artist/nct-127/) enjoys a top 20 debut with Ay-Yo – The 4th Album Repackage (Virgin Music [Australia](https://www.billboard.com/t/australia/)/Universal), at No. The 20-year-old Sydney singer won the ARIA Award for breakthrough artist (now the Michael Gudinski breakthrough artist award) in 2018, and bagged a No. 30 with I Am The River, The River Is Me (Inertia), her fifth studio album. 2 on the latest survey, published March 10, is One Day At A Time (Mercury/Universal), the third studio effort by U.S. Miley Cyrus is now head of the Cyrus clan.The U.S. 1 on Australia’s chart, beating the old Cyrus mark set by Billy Ray b 3 on the national survey with his 2019 EP, Free Time. His sophomore longplay Fine Line dips 5-6, and his debut self-titled holds at No. 12 on the albums survey, while “As It Was,” IFPI’s 1 with Harry’s House (Columbia/Sony), his third solo album.

The strength of Cyrus is suiting her mighty voice to so many styles.

On Violet Chemistry she’s the last one in the club, with a lost phone and no more cigarettes: “When the floor is wet and the lights come on but you don’t wanna leave.” The daughter of Billy Ray and goddaughter of Dolly Parton stays in touch with her country roots on Thousand Miles, a classy duet with Brandi Carlile, and lets that lived-in voice do some more heavy lifting on the piano-led torch song You. Unusually, that means the slow ones come first, including the twinkling melody of Jaded, a break-up song where her rocky rasp lets rip on a grandiose chorus. In any case, no one can predict what the hyperactive social media platform will latch on to next. The rest of Endless Summer Vacation should still appeal, though, thanks to a restless roaming between musical genres that means it’s impossible to feel bored. [Miley Cyrus](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/miley-cyrus-billy-ray-cyrus-grammy-los-angeles-montana-b1066192.html) album is guaranteed to be a huge hit.

What is Miley Cyrus singing about in 'River'? Inside the lyrics of the pop star's latest hit from her eighth studio album.

You’re just like a river (Ooh, ooh, ooh) You're just like a river (Ooh, ooh, ooh) Throughout the track she uses water imagery with the song acting as one big metaphor.

Miley Cyrus' album 'Endless Summer Vacation' is here and one of the songs fans are already obsessed with is 'Jaded'.

I'm sorry that you're jaded (Jaded) I'm sorry that you're jaded Months prior to their marriage, their home in Malibu burned down and the couple lost everything.

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The other is to be a more traditional or even leftfield artist, making records that highlight the Stevie Nicks-ish qualities of her voice: the Miley Cyrus who roared her way through a lockdown cover of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here, who followed up Bangerz with the Flaming Lips collaboration [Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/31/miley-cyrus-her-dead-petz-first-listen-review), then followed that up with 2017’s country-rock flavoured [Younger Now](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/28/miley-cyrus-younger-now-review-rca). You can virtually hear the click-clacking of gossip-blog posts being typed in the background of Jaded – in which Cyrus lets an ex have it with both barrels – and Rose Colored Lenses’s languid depiction of post-coital bliss. The first is to be a 21st-century pop star, making the kind of committee-written electronic hits that 21st-century pop stars tend to make, as was the case with her 2013 album It also deploys the fashionable device of scattering in a trail of clues about its real-life subject. You might have thought the whole business of leaking albums belonged to a past era, before streaming supplanted downloads, and that people are now largely happy to adhere to the schedule knowing they’ll be able to stream the album for free when it arrives. It’s hit No 1 everywhere from Poland to Paraguay, seven weeks and counting at the top of the British charts, its lyrics and video painstakingly scanned by a media and fanbase eager to discover references to Cyrus’s ex-husband Liam Hemsworth, three years after their divorce.

Miley Cyrus' new album, "Endless Summer Vacation," showcases her versatility, but it's a step back from her 2020 record, "Plastic Hearts.

The tearjerker’s third-person narrative is intriguing. But even she knows solitude isn’t always the solution. [catches a partner cheating](https://pagesix.com/2023/03/10/miley-cyrus-muddy-feet-sparks-liam-hemsworth-cheating-theories/) as she snarls, “Get the f–k out of my house with that s–t / Get the f–k out of my life with that s–t.” [mourns the “kind of dream that can’t be sold”](https://pagesix.com/2023/01/13/miley-cyrus-details-liam-hemsworth-marriage-in-new-song-flowers/) before she learns the importance of self-love. [“Jolene”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOwblaKmyVw) and [“Heart of Glass,”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbdRLyixJpc) the last person you ever want to face off against in a karaoke contest. [“Endless Summer Vacation”](https://mileycyrus.lnk.to/EndlessSummerVacation) (out Friday), Cyrus packs it all into one, showcasing the versatility that has kept her on the music charts for nearly two decades.

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Tracks like “Thousand Miles,” “Island” and “Wonder Woman” zero in specifically on the complexities in being your own support system: the sadness that often propels you to that discovery as well as the freedom and relief that follow. [Plastic Hearts](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/miley-cyrus-plastic-hearts-album-review-1096369/) (and the one-off kiss-off “Slide Away”) were Cyrus’ more direct statements on the end of her marriage to longtime love [Liam Hemsworth](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/off-the-cuff-liam-hemsworth-on-hunger-games-and-xbox-addiction-238690/). The tracks are buzzing with the hope of new love and the end of sexual and romantic droughts, as the second single “River” shows. In the credits, her more surprising collaborators like director Harmony Korine (“Handstand”), James Blake (“Violet Chemistry”) and Greg Kurstin (“Jaded”) never detract from Cyrus’ clear vision. Teased by the enlightened divorce bop [“Flowers,”](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/miley-cyrus-releases-flowers-video-1234660056/) Cyrus zeroes in on the independence angle as she reflects on past relationships and finally accepts the heartbreak while welcoming in new love for herself and others. The final result is a powerful artistic statement, focused and clear-eyed as Cyrus seems to have found herself in her thirties.

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The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). In the second verse, Carlile's sweet voice blends with Cyrus' as the song flutters to the sound of country guitar mingled with a clear percussion rhythm. For ‘Thousand Miles’ (featuring Brandi Carlile), Cyrus sings, "I told myself to lock the door, but I'm right back here again," her knowledge is evident. Although the catchy chorus is infectious, the screeching guitar solo that brings the mid-tempo chugger to a close serves as a constant reminder of how much Cyrus adores rock 'n' roll. [Rose Colored Lenses](/topic/rose-colored-lenses), the album's standout track, veers between resignation ("we went to hell but we never came back," she laments in "Jaded"), sweet dreaminess ("Rose Colored Lenses"), and sleazy fun. Like in "Who Needs You, Anyway, [Buddy](/topic/buddy)?"

Or a few people, as she does in the video for new single “River.” The simple black-and-white visual starts with Cyrus singing the synth-rock anthem on a lit ...

Of course, “River” kicks off the “P.M.” side of things. Brandi Carlile and Sia are featured on the 12-song set, which is divided into bright “A.M.” and rowdy “P.M.” sides. Cyrus worked on “River” with Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson, the Harry Styles and Maggie Rogers producers who also did her long-running No. “You could be the one, have the honor of my babies.” And yes, by the end of the clip, everyone ends up soaking wet. And judging by the song, Cyrus is already obsessed: “Blowing bubbles in the bath, I can’t stop from thinking lately,” she says in the second verse. Or a few people, as she does in the video for new single “River.” The simple black-and-white visual starts with Cyrus singing the synth-rock anthem on a lit runway, but soon cuts to scenes of sexy, shirtless, six-packed dancers.

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She mingles electronics and plucked strings in this piece, which opens with yawning, amorphous sounds and recordings of Hungarian frogs, then deploys a quintet of Japanese kotos to join her in a measured, echoey waltz and march, a tentative climb toward order. “Premiers Pas Au Marécage” translates as “First Steps in the Swamp,” and it’s a meditation on evolution — formlessness into forms — by Sarah Page, a harpist and composer from Montreal. Nothing ruffles her as she basks in bliss: “All I need is an ocean, all I need is time,” she coos. Slow gospel organ and piano chords, bluesy saxophone and patiently hand-played drumming sustain her amid — and in a long closing instrumental, beyond — something that sounds both life-changing and inevitable, as she sings, “Nothin’s free like breaking free/out of the past.” PARELES She blurts both “I can’t bear to lose you” and “Boy you’re going to hate this song!” She wonders if she should hold on; she wants to smash everything and move along. [“Farm to Table.”](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/arts/music/bartees-strange-farm-to-table-review.html) Now it’s streaming, and it sums up and expands the album’s moods and dynamics. In his early career, NF sounded as if he was internalizing all the pressures of the world, but now he sounds free and calm, dismissing those same pressures with a shrug. Future appears on this remix with a pair of verses that are somehow both utterly rote and also grossly charming, rapping about the place where carnality and expensive jewelry intersect, and the elation of toxic love. He collaborated with the African-tinged English group the Very Best on “Freak Out,” from his coming album, “Being.” Ignore the song’s psychedelic title. Latin R&B enjoys a whiff of hyperpop helium in “No Voy a Llorar” (“I’m Not Going to Cry”), a preemptively defensive breakup song. Both are capable of broad vocal theatrics, but it should be said, Carlile is holding back here, in order to allow Cyrus the space to ruminate in this song about failure: “I’m not always right/but still I ain’t got time for what went wrong.” In her post-Disney career, Cyrus has flirted with various forms of adulthood in terms of performance — sexual defiance, hippie experimentalism and so on. [Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20xKnXtlw6WHInmjLpS8NB?si=6cff6fb76b64407a) (or find our profile: nytimes).

After spending the decade following her Disney Channel rise by trying on different styles of popular music, from hip-hop to country-pop to guitar-rock, Cyrus ...

The extended bridge, where the production simplifies to focus on the beats and bass as Cyrus turns sex into a Monet simile, makes “Violet Chemistry” both the longest song on Endless Summer Vacation and one of the best. There’s a reason why “River” is being positioned as Cyrus’ potential follow-up smash to “Flowers”: the single handles its synth-pop flourishes and sexual innuendoes with funk and personality, its melodies blasting out like laser beams and Cyrus opting for sashaying monotone on the verses to offset the “ooh-ooh-OOH!” maximalism of the chorus. “Rose Colored Lenses” contains the title Endless Summer Vacation in the second verse, and it makes sense: Cyrus is capturing a warm moment in time here, and pleading for it to stay eternal. “Wildcard” functions as a late-album vocal showcase, the snares complementing Cyrus’ statements of self before ceding the floor to showy synths on the high-powered hook. Knowingly messy but captivating in its weirdness, “Handstand” could be misplaced in the heart of Endless Summer Vacation or exactly at home as the meltdown of the album’s Side A, depending on your vision of the track list; either way, points to Cyrus for never giving up her freak flag. With its short running time and repeated phrases, “Muddy Feet” comes across as slightly incomplete compared to the rest of the Endless Summer Vacation tracks — but boy, is this one going to rip when Cyrus performs it live.

Miley Cyrus' fans have noticed some subtle jabs that might be aimed at Liam Hemsworth in her new music video "River," which she dropped overnight with her ...

You’re just like a river (Ooh, ooh, ooh) Cyrus confirmed the song was about someone — but didn't say who — in the clip for her Disney+ special. Fans think the imagery, which features Cyrus striking poses and dancing alongside various men, has a hidden meaning. They can start as something that was a trouble, like, it just feels like it’s an April shower. “It was a time in my life where I was going through just a lot emotionally and personally, and I guess all my songs kind of evolve. And then it started raining down like love," she said.

Miley Cyrus was at the Versace fall 2023 fashion show in Los Angeles in an ombre gown with silver chains. Album 'Endless Summer Vacation' March 10.

To coordinate with the album, Cyrus, whose breakthrough role was in the 2006 Disney series “Hannah Montana,” is releasing “Miley Cyrus Endless Summer Vacation Backyard Sessions” on Disney+. Cyrus collaborated with her stylist Bradley Kenneth on her look. Cyrus released her break-up-themed single “Flowers,” this year, a part of her eighth studio album “Endless Summer Vacation,” which will be released on Friday.

Miley Cyrus had quite the evening on Thursday night ahead of the release of her eighth studio album, Endless Summer Vacation. There was a runway show to ...

[Variety](https://variety.com/2023/music/album-reviews/miley-cyrus-endless-summer-vacation-album-review-1235549124/) calling Endless Summer Vacation, “one of her most enjoyable albums.” Cyrus has been reinventing herself from album to album from her days as Hannah Montana to Can’t Be Tamed to Bangerz. This allowed the singer the chance to attend the show during what had to be a busy night. There was a runway show to attend, a party in her honor, a boyfriend to tote around. Miley Cyrus had quite the evening on Thursday night ahead of the release of her eighth studio album, Endless Summer Vacation. Morando, though, can always be seen in the background, supporting Cyrus, which is exactly what he was doing on Thursday night. The pair have been dating since late 2021, but continue to keep a low profile, rarely walking the red carpet together, and keeping their relationship very much off-line.

For their fall 2023 in the heart of Los Angeles, Versace drew out a star-studded guestlist of Hollywood's finest—including Cher, Miley Cyrus, Lily James, ...

[Cher](https://www.vogue.com/article/cher-uggs-feel) made an appearance with her new boyfriend Alexander Edwards, while [Miley Cyrus](https://www.vogue.com/tag/celebrity/miley-cyrus), who is also celebrating the release of her latest album Endless Summer Vacation today, went for a more delicate look featuring reams of pink and black chiffon overlaid with serpentine chains. [Anne Hathaway](https://www.vogue.com/tag/celebrity/anne-hathaway) showed up in a killer LBD and a pair of Donatella-worthy, towering platform heels, while Oscar-winner (and latter-day [meme queen](https://www.vogue.com/article/ariana-debose-bafta-rap-obsession)) [Ariana DeBose](https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/ariana-debose-oscars-valentino-fashion) wore a show-stopping gown featuring see-through black crystal netting and stilettos. Any fears that the fashion extravaganza’s last-minute change of timing (due to inclement weather, it was pulled forward a day in the run-up to [the Oscars this weekend](https://www.vogue.com/article/guide-to-international-film-category-oscars-2023)) might curb the ability of celebrities to attend were unfounded: the event was one of the most star-studded of the entire fashion season. From [Danielle Deadwyler](https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/danielle-deadwyler-sag-awards-louis-vuitton) to [Lily James](https://www.vogue.com/article/pam-tommy-hulu-lily-james-pamela-anderson-transformation-hair-makeup-prosthetics), [Gabrielle Union](https://www.vogue.com/tag/celebrity/gabrielle-union) to [Pamela Anderson](https://www.vogue.com/article/pamela-anderson-netflix-documentary-memoir-interview), the actors in attendance all fully embraced the [Versace](https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/designer/versace) spirit of full-throttle glamour. [Naomi Campbell](https://www.vogue.com/tag/model/naomi-campbell) and [Gigi Hadid](https://www.vogue.com/tag/model/gigi-hadid), but Versace brought out the cream of Hollywood to celebrate the occasion, too. [Donatella Versace](https://www.vogue.com/tag/designer/donatella-versace) headed to Los Angeles to stage [her first Versace show](https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2023-ready-to-wear/versace) in the city in more than 20 years—and pulled out all the stops.

The lyrics to 'Muddy Feet' off of the 'Endless Summer Vacation' album seem to suggest Liam Hemsworth cheated on Miley Cyrus.

Some of the rumors seemed a little far-fetched (he supposedly slept with how many women?), and it wasn't until the full album dropped on March 10 that fans who believed the cheating rumors got a little vindication. [speculation that Hemsworth had been unfaithful](https://www.glamour.com/story/where-did-those-liam-hemsworth-cheating-on-miley-cyrus-rumors-come-from) and that Cyrus was alluding to the (alleged) cheating in the lyrics. [Miley Cyrus was hinting that Liam Hemsworth cheated](https://www.glamour.com/story/miley-cyrus-seems-to-have-a-special-message-for-liam-hemsworth-with-flowers) during their marriage with the “Flowers" lyrics, but the lyrics to “Muddy Feet” seem pretty specific.

Here, we explain the "Muddy Feet" lyrics from Miley Cyrus' new album "Endless Summer Vacation." Fans speculate that Miley confirmed her ex-husband's ...

She closes the theoretical door, trusting that better things that she's worthy of will come around as a result. Miley calls out this ex-lover for causing her to doubt herself, even to the point of gaslighting her and picking apart her questions when confronted. Miley's line about perfume that she didn't purchase is a potential reference to an ex (Liam?) cheating on her with someone who wears an unfamiliar scent. Miley kicks off the song by establishing a strong sense of self and unwavering self-worth. Throughout the song, it's apparent that Miley is speaking directly to someone who has cheated on her in the past. Sia instead harmonizes and vocalizes throughout the piece, drawing the focus back to Miley's raw performance.

A collaboration with Sia, the ninth track on Endless Summer Vacation is a vicious takedown of a cheating ex-partner. With lyrics like these, her don't-mess-with ...

“Only Miley knows the truth.” In one verse, she accuses someone of manipulating her (“Back and forth always questioning my questioning / Get the fuck out of my head with that shit”), and in another part, she calls a partner out for putting her down (“You watered the weeds / And you killed all the roses”). [She said](https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a42635620/miley-cyrus-sister-brandi-flowers-liam-hemsworth-fan-theories-response/), “Then the other one [theory] was, ‘The house is the house where Liam used to take people [to] cheat on her with.’ The narratives are f*cking hilarious, but it’s so great. What I cannot accept is being told I’m lying to cover up a crime I haven’t committed. Whoever the song is based on, listening to it will probably ruin their day. Miley Cyrus does not hold back on her new song “Muddy Feet.” A collaboration with Sia, the ninth track on Endless Summer Vacation is a vicious takedown of a cheating ex-partner.

Miley Cyrus' new album, "Endless Summer Vacation," is finally here. Read our breakdown of the "River" lyrics meaning here.

She describes how it feels to be intimate with her new partner. "And I guess all my songs kind of evolve — they could start as something that was a trouble, like, it just feels like it's an April shower. Miley can't stop thinking about her new connection and where it could possibly lead. it was a time in my life where I was going through just a lot emotionally and personally," Miley said. After the [ongoing success](https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/music/a42711775/miley-cyrus-celebrates-flowers-no-1-instagram/) of her lead single, fans anticipated more music from Miley and she delivered. ["Flowers"](https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/music/a42532819/miley-cyrus-flowers-lyrics-liam-hemsworth-easter-eggs/) singer just released her eighth studio album, [Endless Summer Vacation](https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/music/a43097571/miley-cyrus-endless-summer-vacation/), which is full of lyrics alluding to heartbreak, new love, and hopefulness.

For Versace's 2023 fall/winter fashion show, Miley Cyrus looked stunning in a greige outfit with her contrasting two-toned hair.

We don't think it's a coincidence that her outfit and makeup mimic the light and dark tones in her hair. We love the contrast between her dark roots, her white-blonde hair, and the brunette underlayer of her hair. Her tousled hair was roughly parted down the middle, giving us a full view of her dark roots growing in.

Miley Cyrus' popular YouTube performance series is being revived on Disney+ for the release of her new album, Endless Summer Vacation.

She also knows when to push her vocal range to its absolute limit, as she does during her “Zombie” performance, and when to scale back, as she does on “Sweet Jane.” Cyrus adds her rock-star sheen to the music, and her voice glides across the melody easily. Releasing this cover of “Jolene” by her godmother, country music legend Dolly Parton, marked the moment that Cryus took control of her narrative. It would be a crime not to put this cover at the top spot because it’s the one that started it all. In 2010, as she geared up for the final season of Hannah Montana, she released her album “Can’t Be Tamed.” The title track charted high on the Billboard 200, but it wasn’t until December 2012 that Cyrus found the perfect venue to showcase her raw vocal ability: her popular YouTube series, “The Backyard Sessions,” in which Cyrus sings stripped-down covers (and later originals) in a casual outdoor setting. Grande smoothly jumps back into the song, and they both have a moment to shine on the last chorus, harmonizing elegantly. On Christmas Eve that year, she uploaded a cover of her godmother Dolly Parton’s seminal 1974 country banger, “Jolene.” It was one of the first times that Cyrus’ signature country twang, which lent itself well to the heartbreaking song, was on full display. The YouTube series took a five-year hiatus, and the first video released when it returned in 2020 was this sinuous cover of a cover: Cyrus is singing the hit Velvet Underground song “Sweet Jane,” but her version is modeled after the hit 1988 cover by New Zealand’s Cowboy Junkies. In the lead-up to the release of her seventh studio album, Plastic Hearts, the former child star slowed down Spears’ “Gimme More” and used her gruff vocals to add a rock edge to one of the pop star’s most notable hits. Noah Cyrus grew up in the shadow of her older sister, which can’t have been easy. Undoubtedly, there are parallels between how the media treated Cyrus in her early days of fame and how they treated her pop elder, Britney Spears. Once the show ended, Cyrus set out to prove herself as a bonafide singer with excellent songwriting skills (see: “7 Things”) that would put a spotlight on her stunning vocals in ways Hannah Montana had not. If you were a child in the late 2000s, there’s a good chance you watched Miley Cyrus in her breakout role on Disney Channel’s Hannah Montana.

Miley Cyrus performed songs from her eighth studio album 'Endless Summer Vacation' for Disney+ special 'Endless Summer Vacation (Backyard Sessions).'

“The sequencing of an album is very important to me,” she explains, comparing the creation of the album to a film. “When we started writing the song ‘Wonder Woman,’ the lyrics felt like too big of a shoe for me to fill,” she explains. “Boredom for an artist can feel like torture, so I always need to reinvent,” Cyrus explains. “Somehow, that evolved to a song that’s about happiness and joy and being okay with not knowing exactly where you’re going.” “This song is about, I guess, that kind of generational strength and the wisdom that my grandma gave to my mom,” Cyrus adds. and p.m., to kind of represent almost like an act.” The morning is the potential of new possibilities, an unknown about what the next 24-hours may have in store. The house is the same location where she shot the “Flowers” music video, and it’s also the backdrop of [Endless Summer Vacation (Backyard Sessions),](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/miley-cyrus-backyard-sessions-endless-summer-vacation-1234690323/) the Disney+ special that premiered Friday and finds the singer debuting live performances of songs from her just-released eighth studio [Endless Summer Vacation](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/miley-cyrus-endless-summer-vacation-reaction-1234694050/). “It just makes me emotional because now the song is filled with so much joy in the music and it’s become something so far from the sadness that inspired the song,” she explains. “It feels like it’s only mine and it could only be mine,” she says. Then there’s some wisdom and there’s some humor and there’s some heaviness and depth,” she says. [Miley Cyrus](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-miley-cyrus-songs-1234684356/) is standing in the backyard of the Los Angeles home where [Frank Sinatra](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/an-appreciation-of-frank-sinatra-1915-1998-59176/) once lived, glowing in the sun as she sings about a man who broke his own heart. “Endless Summer Vacation represents, to me, my fearlessness when it comes to experimenting, not just with my sound but also with my identity and the way that I want to be seen,” Cyrus shares after running through “Jaded,” the song that opens the film’s setlist.

What do Miley Cyrus' "Muddy Feet" lyrics mean and is the song about Liam Hemsworth? Read the meaning for Miley Cyrus' "Muddy Feet" from "Endless Summer ...

Please note that if you purchase something by clicking on a link within this story, we may receive a small commission of the sale. Cyrus told Howard Stern that she and the 30-year-old Hunger Games star “lost everything.” Miley references the disaster in the first verse “We were right ’til we weren’t / Built a home and watched it burn.” In an interview with [Rolling Stone](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/miley-cyrus-liam-hemsworth-home-california-wildfire-755628/) in 2020, she revealed that the fire “did what I couldn’t do myself”. I am the healthiest and happiest I have been in a long time. “Me being an intense person and not wanting to sit with it and not wanting to go, you know, ‘What could be purposeful about this?’ I just clung to what I had left of that house, which was me and him,” she told Stern. Pop culture Twitter PopTingz claimed that the set of the [ music video](https://stylecaster.com/liam-hemsworth-cheat-miley-cyrus/) was where Hemsworth allegedly cheated on Cyrus with 14 women. We had been like, engaged—I don’t know if we really ever thought we were actually going to get married, but when we lost our house in Malibu—which if you listen to my voice pre- and post-fire, they’re very different so that trauma really affected my voice. In one instance in an interview with Howard Stern, Miley also revealed that she didn’t think her and Hemsworth would ever [ “Flowers”](https://stylecaster.com/miley-cyrus-flowers-lyrics/) launched large speculations that the song and the subsequent songs on the album are about Liam’s infidelity. [reacted](https://twitter.com/mckaylaknows/status/1634064466173124608?), to the song on Twitter “Muddy Feet – oh she was MAD! there’s a certain energy to the night that you can kind of feel trouble boil up to the surface and it’s very inspiring to me.” “Muddy Waters” is the third song in the P.M. The lyrics are pretty blunt about her anger towards a partner who is guilty of cheating. “In the nighttime, it feels that there’s a slinky, seediness, and kind of a grime, but a glamor at the same time.