Ever eager to prove to us how delightfully weird or reassuringly trad she is from one era to the next, she felt calculated and hard to pin down, musically, which perfectly suited a pop career full of surprises but also rose suspicions about her intentions as a visitor in the far-reaching subgenres her albums wandered through. Miley Cyrus spent the last decade on the run from her own perception, shape-shifting her way in and out of fantastic achievements and exacting dilemmas, going to great lengths to express that she knew how to party in the years when everyone had her pegged as the squeaky-clean Disney kid and then, when that posturing started to rub people the wrong way, diving into a psychedelic rabbit hole with the Flaming Lips. Song highlight: "You can't blame me for who I am.She gets how to attract and how to provoke a crowd - how to craft party anthems and tear-jerkers and head-scratchers - and she’s choosing to bring these narratives to upbeat conclusions. If she's going to be lost and foolish, at least she's going to own it. "Moving on up and forward onto all that will become." You could hardly accuse pixie-haired, tongue-wielding, 20-year-old Cyrus of being insecure or second-guessing her path, so the central lyric of this song truly feels like a sucker punch: "You might think I'm crazy / That I'm lost and foolish leaving you behind," she fumes before admitting, "Maybe you're right."īut the bridge seizes those same doubts, those same fears, and twists them until they become triumphant: "This chapter's done," Cyrus declares. The album runs the heartbreak gamut, featuring moments of denial, devastation, fury, and plenty of post-breakup rage.īut the self-doubt expressed in "Maybe You're Right" is a unique, acute shade of anguish. "Maybe You're Right" is rivaled only by "Wrecking Ball" as the most stirring emotional moment on "Bangerz." "Maybe You're Right" is the 12th track on "Bangerz." If you like this, listen to: "Adore You," "Space Bootz" She adopts an airy, eerie tone - enhanced by an echo effect - sounding like a cute-girl ghost with unfinished business on earth. Song highlight: We all know that Cyrus loves to belt, but she uses her voice in such a different and fresh way on this song. "Something About Space Dude" epitomizes that very strength.Īs Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield wrote in his review, "'Something About Space Dude' is the real killer here - an aching acoustic sex ballad about a Bowie boy who isn't even there, leaving her to sob, 'I want to be there skateboarding in a space dude's evil lair.'" Cyrus explores disappointment and insecurity in an unrefined, disarming way. In reality, "Dead Petz" is a mesmeric journey through the pop rebel's inner world.ĭespite the album's numerous drug references, it's not her highs, but rather her lows that make "Dead Petz" interesting. "Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz" is too often maligned, largely thanks to "Dooo It!" - an aberration for an artist who's usually fantastic at selecting singles - and Cyrus' questionable style during this era. "Something About Space Dude" is the fourth track on "Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz." Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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