Joan Jett is also a modern-nostalgic track that hits the sweet spot in this edgy, spunky track with another rock legend. This bop features a perfect verse from 70s legend Billy Idol and nostalgic synth beats. Billy Idol, a high-energy, classic rock track, is an example of her musical excellence. This album is about the good, the bad and the ugly all amalgamating to the discovery that, “pain and pleasure are both the same.” Miley sings in her titular song, “Plastic Hearts,” “I just want to feel something, but I keep feeling nothing.” She describes desensitized emotions and being numb to any feeling at all hence, her “plastic heart bleeding.” This fast-tempoed song evokes fierce emotion about ironically, not being able to feel anything.Ĭyrus has some thrilling collaborations on the album, such as her song “Prisoner” featuring Dua Lipa, which is an example of her rock and pop blends. After her last album, “Younger Now,” went mostly under the radar, the pandemic era seems to have jolted her quality of music, and her ability to translate raw emotion. “Plastic Hearts” feels natural and speaks to common emotions such as anxiety, depression, rage and all the chaotic good that Miley represents. It holds the effortless feeling of fruition. She suggests through the lyrics “Angels like you can’t fly down here with me/I’m everything you said I would be” that her darker side has influenced her relationships, and one can’t help but speculate if this is about her ex Hemsworth.Īfter her Disney days, Cyrus’s music suggested a total abandonment of her identity associated with Hannah Montana, such as with “Bangerz” and “Dead Petz.” However, “Plastic Hearts” doesn’t try as hard. It’s a beautiful song about mental illness and how “people say she looks happy,” but she’s not doing as well as she always appears. “Angels Like You” is a slow rock ballad that boasts Cyrus’s impressive vocal range and timbre. With Cyrus’s roots in country and influences in pop from her “Hannah Montana” days and “Bangerz,” she has completely distinguished herself as more than a past Disney star or daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus-she instead seems to be discovering more fully her musical identity. Her voice has matured and has become audibly more trained, and these tracks seem to have found some equilibrium between notes of pop, country and rock. Amid all the media revolving her controversial career and relationship status to Liam Hemsworth, I sometimes forget Cyrus is a celebrity with true talent. Cyrus owns her soulful voice and unique rasp, which really lends itself to the rock-punk blend she vaunts. Musically, it is punky, punchy and painful. “Midnight Sky” balances raw emotion and her poetic truth of not being able to “fight the devil on the tongue.” Cyrus finds another way to say she can’t be tamed: “I was born to run, don’t belong to anyone.” Her single “Midnight Sky” has some surprisingly poetic lines that highlight Cyrus’s musical growth, like “The midnight sky is the road I’m taking, head high up in the clouds.” (I truthfully never expected to be impressed by a Miley Cyrus lyric, but here is 2020 surprising me once again). The inaugural track of “Plastic Hearts,” titled “WTF Do I Know?” acknowledges this from the get-go, which sets the rebellious and emotional yet high-energy rockstar energy for the rest of the album. Miley Cyrus’s new album “Plastic Hearts” captures feelings of complex youthful sorrow and navigating identity through the lens of pleasure and pain in her lyrics.
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