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It has been said of
Miley Cyrus
that she is "the scandalous
it girl
of pop", that her musical career was "more a free vanity project than a formed work" or that her performance on MTV in 2013, spanking black dancers, it was "a minstrel show that might as well be called racism."
As an accompaniment, a good collection of photos and provocative videos that buried under the scandal better or worse criticism of her music.
And what about music?
Because this text tries to explain from the musical point of view who was born as Hannah Montana, gave her a kick to grow, embraced provocation and a good handful of old glories and
now, at 30, she is at the gates of her eighth album
, which will be released in March under the title
Endless Summer Vacation
("Endless Summer Vacation") with a clear premise from the author ("I can love myself better than you love me") and hundreds of impossible-to-decipher speculations.
The indecipherable term is the one that precisely defines this woman who went through commercial adolescent pop, associated with her character, in her first two albums until she came of age.
Let's stop at that beginning where she already strains a version of
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
or verses like "everything you've overloaded, the coating of your life is now imploding" in Good and Broken.
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Quite certain of the moment that transported her to 18 where bursting the past was the goal.
"Say goodbye to the people who tied you up.
It is a walk to freedom to feel your heart again", he sang in his single
Liberty walk
, a song with slight touches of rock, while in his concerts, such as Rock in Río in 2010 in Madrid,
a medley of songs was marked
by Joan Jett
.
Recovering classics 10 years before Rosalía or Tangana did and before getting on a wrecking ball.
Because anyone can remember the iconic image of a nude Miley Cyrus perched on that swinging ball to end it all or the MTV
twerking
with Robin Thicke
to the beat of
Blurred Lines
.
But it is that sexuality, typical of age, had already arrived with her album Bangerz, "the first as the owner of her own destiny," Billboard defined it, an amalgamation of country, pop, electro and even hip hop sounds.
Let's go back to the single #GetItRight: "You're sexy, I got things I want to do to you / Do me, do me.
Make my tongue go do-do-do."
Goodbye girl, hello tease.
That was
the time for haircuts, nude photos
, drug use, the bizarre
Her Dead Petz.
.. And also of the reconciliation with the past, less remembered and with little commercial success, in
Younger Now
and its folk sounds mixed with electronic music, which should not surprise someone raised in Tennessee, with a commercial star of the genre for father and an exceptional teacher: Dolly Parton.
He made
Rainbowland
with her , which apart from her obvious defense of the LGTBI collective, has a subtext: "I think we can start living in a rainbow where you and I go hand in hand."
Who?
Dolly and Miley.
Miley and country.
Miley and her past.
In 2019,
She is Coming
, his first work with Mark Ronson and Mike Will, seemed like the perfect oracle for what would come a year later:
Plastic Hearts
, the glam aesthetics and sound, the
hit
with Dua Lipa
, the punk mix with Billy Idol, Zombie's version of The Cranberries, the duet with Joan Jett, Liam Hemsworth's divorce... WTF Do I Know that says the title of the first single.
And now that?
Well, keep watching the
New Year's special
for NBC with Dolly Parton, David Byrne, Fletcher or Paris Hilton;
to wait for the new album with the single Flowers, which comes out today, and to continue without understanding Miley Cyrus.
"If I know that taking a risk will give me a greater reward, I will do it."
We are warned.
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