Miley Cyrus is difficult at work on a brand new album titled One thing Lovely, and she or he’s been impressed by Pink Floyd’s seminal 1979 idea album The Wall and its accompanying movie.
Cyrus mentioned her new enterprise in a latest interview with Harper’s Bazaar, first referring to it as “a visible album” set for launch someday in 2025. She’s working with veteran indie producer Shawn Everett on the music aspect, in addition to director Panos Cosmatos for the visible aspect — Cosmatos directed the 2018 horror movie Mandy, which Cyrus names as one other main reference level for her new materials.
Most of all, nonetheless, Cyrus needs to seize the identical feeling she obtained when she watched The Wall as a teen. “We actually leaned in. And so I’ve this heart-first attachment to it,” she stated in regards to the 1982 companion movie. “My thought was making The Wall, however with a greater wardrobe and extra glamorous and stuffed with popular culture.”
Along with describing the album as “hypnotizing and glamorous,” Cyrus calls the venture “an idea album that’s an try to medicate considerably of a sick tradition by music.” She elaborated on the visible facet, saying “It was vital for me that each music has these therapeutic sound properties. The songs, whether or not they’re about destruction or heartbreak or dying, they’re offered in a manner that’s stunning, as a result of the nastiest occasions of our life do have a degree of magnificence. They’re the shadow, they’re the charcoal, they’re the shading. You possibly can’t have a portray with out highlights and distinction.”
Cosmatos is actually a fan, describing the document as “extra experimental than something she’s ever finished, however in a pop manner that I like.” Everett echoed his claims, telling the journal that when working with Cyrus, “You sort of really feel such as you’ve recognized her eternally, and she or he provides you the grace to really feel that manner.”
Along with collaborating with Cosmatos and Everett, Cyrus additionally enlisted her boyfriend Maxx Morando, producer and drummer for the band Liily, to supply a number of songs on the venture. Morando, who additionally labored on Cyrus’ final album Infinite Summer season Trip, helmed the music “One thing Lovely” with Cyrus, which is presently slated to be the brand new album’s title monitor.
Elsewhere in her chat with Harper’s Bazaar, Cyrus discusses reaching out to Chappell Roan as her profile skyrocketed this summer season. “I want folks wouldn’t give her a tough time,” Cyrus stated. “It’s in all probability actually laborious coming into this enterprise with telephones and Instagram. That wasn’t at all times part of my life, and I’m not part of it now. I don’t even have my Instagram password.”
After taking dwelling her first set of Grammy wins earlier this 12 months, Cyrus has been pretty quiet all through 2024. She contributed a canopy of “Psycho Killer” for The Speaking Heads tribute album Everybody’s Getting Concerned: A Tribute to Speaking Heads’ Cease Making Sense. She additionally joined Beyoncé for the COWBOY CARTER duet “II MOST WANTED,” which we named as Music of the Week upon launch.