Miley Cyrus is engaged on a brand new album, ‘One thing Lovely’, and it’s impressed by Pink Floyd’s The Wall.
‘One thing Lovely’, as Cyrus has mentioned in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, goes to be a visible album, too, and whereas the singer hasn’t revealed a launch date, it’s regarded as popping out subsequent 12 months.
She defined that she noticed The Wall as a young person with one among her brothers and an in depth buddy, renting a limousine, smoking hashish, and carrying Seventies-style fur coats for the expertise. She stated: “We actually leaned in. And so I’ve this heart-first attachment to it. My thought was making The Wall, however with a greater wardrobe and extra glamorous and stuffed with popular culture.”
She described the vibe of her album as “hypnotising and glamorous,” saying: “It’s an idea album that’s an try to medicate considerably of a sick tradition via music.
“I want to be a human psychedelic for individuals. I don’t need anybody attempting to be like me or imitate me and even be impressed by me. I wish to impression frequencies in your physique that make you vibrate at a unique stage.”
Discussing the visible aspect, she stated that it’s “driving the sound.” She added: “It was essential for me that each music has these therapeutic sound properties. The songs, whether or not they’re about destruction or heartbreak or loss of life, they’re introduced in a method that’s lovely, 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 may’t have a portray with out highlights and distinction.”
Cyrus additionally stated that her boyfriend Maxx Morando, the drummer for Los Angeles band Liily, has been working together with her on ‘One thing Lovely’, producing plenty of songs and dealing on the title monitor. She stated about working with a associate on her music, “I labored with my dad eternally. That’s how me and my ex-husband [Liam Hemsworth] met one another. I’ve at all times labored with the folks that I really like. And Maxx simply conjures up me a lot.”
Additionally working with Cyrus on the upcoming album is Shawn Everett, who beforehand labored together with her on the 2023 album ‘Infinite Summer time Trip’ and may checklist Alabama Shakes, The Warfare On Medication, Kacey Musgraves and The Killers among the many different massive names he’s labored with.
Cyrus has been within the studio recording with Everett over the previous couple of months, and he spoke concerning the big selection of references she attracts from, explaining: “She’ll need it to really feel like this particular runway present or one thing. I really like when she talks like that. For me, it opens up a complete world.”
Considered one of Cyrus’ inspirations is the 2018 horror film Mandy, which stars Nicolas Cage as a lumberjack who hunts down the cult that killed his girlfriend. Considered one of Cyrus’ favorite movies – she named her canine Mandy due to it – she stated that she thought of remaking it a musical.
“I needed to play Nicolas Cage,” she stated. “I really like that it’s a romance revenge story. Romance and revenge – these are a few of the best tragedies. I eternally and at all times might be thinking about these.”
Cyrus reached out to the film’s director, Panos Cosmatos, and whereas the remake of Mandy by no means got here to fruition, he’s nonetheless closely concerned in ‘One thing Lovely’. Discussing the affect of The Wall, Cosmatos stated: “[The album is] extra experimental than something she’s ever finished, however in a pop method that I really like.”
Additionally within the interview, Cyrus – who reached out to Chappell Roan after the singer requested followers to deal with her with extra respect on TikTok – stated that she needs “individuals wouldn’t give her a tough time,” including: “It’s in all probability actually exhausting 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.”
For her half, Roan spoke of Cyrus’ affect in a video message for the previous Hannah Montana star’s induction into the Disney Legends in August, saying: “The factor that I love about Miley Cyrus is that she always reinvents herself and at all times works. For lots of artists, it might probably appear inauthentic or out of the blue, however she’s very open about her transformations artistically and personally, and she or he’s so true to herself. She places out music that’s so genuine.
“Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana tour with Jonas Brothers opening was my first live performance ever. She got here down in a field from the ceiling. I used to be like, ‘How do I do this in the future?’ I nonetheless give it some thought. I nonetheless take into consideration the present. I wish to be like Hannah Montana.
“There’s lots of crossover between Miley and my venture, and it’s similar to, I’m such a fan too.”
