Album Review: Something Beautiful by Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus finally cashes in on her potential to deliver the best work of her career, while making a strong bid for the best pop album of 2025. For how abundantly clear it is that Miley Cyrus is an extremely talented entertainer, it's pretty baffling just how unessential her actual music has been since her heel turn as a Rebellious, Sexy Adult a little over a decade ago. Make no mistake, there have been plenty of brilliant sprinkles throughout ("Adore You" and "We Can't Stop" alone are responsible for me mistaking Bangerz to be a far better album than it is), but much of her music has failed to escape the almost boogeyman-like shadow of her idiosyncratic antics or make much of an impact at all.

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For more than a decade, Miley Cyrus has swung deliberately back and forth between maximalism and a relatively simple pop formula. For every Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz in her discography there's a Bangerz. For every "Mother's Daughter," there's a "Malibu." And like clockwork, Cyrus's ninth studio album, Something Beautiful, finds the singer squarely in the former mode, following up the more straightforward pop of 2023's Endless Summer Vacation with a post-apocalyptic prog-pop visual album.

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Miley Cyrus has always followed her muse. Since at least her 2013 reinvention “Bangerz,” she’s tried on multiple personas and styles, traipsing from du jour hip-hop to glam rock and glitter-smeared psychedelia, oftentimes falling somewhere in between. If anything, one could never accuse Cyrus of ambivalence; her creative vision is always whole, even when it defies tangibility.

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