Two years after Endless Summer Vacation, the American pop star returns with a ninth album, Something Beautiful, expected on May 30, 2025. An introspective album, produced by Shawn Everett, which will be accompanied by a musical film released in June.
A concept album between glamour and darkness
Promotion for Something Beautiful began in an enigmatic way: black and white posters in several major cities, dramatic visuals on social media, and a cover by Glen Luchford, where Miley Cyrus appears wearing a Mugler archive look from 1997, adorned with feathers and crystals. Here, the artist embraces a darker, almost theatrical return, the opposite of the sunshine of her previous album.
In an interview with Harper's Bazaar, she describes a “visual” project, directly inspired by Pink Floyd's The Wall and the cult film Mandy. Each piece, she explains, will evoke a raw emotion—loss, grief, transformation—treated as an object of beauty. “Even in pain, there is something sublime,” she says. The album, which will feature 13 tracks, promises to be a cathartic journey, as much musical as cinematic.
A major creative turning point for Miley Cyrus
Produced with Shawn Everett (Alabama Shakes, Kacey Musgraves), Something Beautiful will mark a new stage in Miley Cyrus's artistic metamorphosis. She returns to more abrasive sounds, possibly influenced by Plastic Hearts (2020), where she embraced 70s rock accents. The ballad “Beautiful That Way,” recently heard in The Last Showgirl, gives a first glimpse of this more introspective and lyrical atmosphere.
The project, co-produced by Miley herself, will be accompanied by a film scheduled for release in June. Directed in collaboration with Panos Cosmatos (writer of Mandy), this long, hybrid video will blend the album's songs with a hallucinatory visual universe. Cyrus, who has always oscillated between provocation and sincerity, seems to be aiming here to offer the most ambitious work of her career: a total artistic statement, where music, image, and emotion intertwine.
With Something Beautiful, Miley Cyrus perhaps releases her most personal, conceptual, and mature album yet. It's enough to spark immense anticipation among her fans... and a growing curiosity among fans of ambitious pop.
