She Is Miley Cyrus

She Is Miley Cyrus is the upcoming seventh studio album by American singer Miley Cyrus, to be released by RCA Records. Cyrus began working on the project shortly before the release of her sixth studio album Younger Now (2017). The album was originally planned to be released as a trilogy of extended plays (EPs), one of which was released in 2019 (She Is Coming). However, Cyrus' divorce from Liam Hemsworth, vocal cord surgery, and the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the cancellation of the last two EPs. "Midnight Sky" was released as the lead single from She Is Miley Cyrus on August 14, 2020.

She Is Miley Cyrus
Studio album by
Miley Cyrus
ReleasedTBA[1]
Recorded2017–present
LabelRCA
Producer
Miley Cyrus chronology
She Is Coming
(2019)		 She Is Miley Cyrus
(TBA)
Miley Cyrus studio album chronology
Younger Now
(2017)		 She Is Miley Cyrus
(TBA)
Singles from She Is Miley Cyrus
  1. "Midnight Sky"
    Released: August 14, 2020

Background and development
"[Younger Now] was obviously a little bit more country influenced, but I still really love pop music and I love music that can be played at the club."

— Cyrus discussing her shift in musical direction since Younger Now (2017)[2]

Cyrus grew distant from the mainstream hip hop culture she was involved with while working on her albums Bangerz (2013) and Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz (2015), and leaned towards "rootsy" country music elements while making her sixth studio album Younger Now (2017).[3] The album was released on September 29, 2017 to lukewarm critical and commercial performance. It received an average score of 58 out of 100 on Metacritic,[4] and charted at number five on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 33,000 copies and 45,000 overall album-equivalent units.[5] Its lead single "Malibu" became her ninth top-ten single on the US Billboard Hot 100, while the title track peaked at number 79.[6] Cyrus confirmed there would be no further singles only one month after the album was released and that she would not be touring for it.[7]

Two weeks before Younger Now was released, Cyrus stated that she was "over [the album]" and was "already two songs deep on the next one;"[8] however, she later said that she began working on the album in early 2018.[9] Cyrus befriended Finnish singer Alma after they met at an album release party for Lykke Li's 2018 album So Sad So Sexy, and subsequently began writing songs together for her project.[10] She first collaborated with British DJ Mark Ronson that summer;[11] they released their first song "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart" as the lead single from Ronson's own album Late Night Feelings (2019) in November, which Cyrus described as a "nice introduction" to and "heavier" than her forthcoming record.[2] In December, Cyrus acknowledged that the musical direction of Younger Now "wasn't exactly the home for [her]" and credited Ronson with "[helping her] carve out [her] sound, where [she] could do everything that [she wanted], which is more modern."[2]

Cyrus also collaborated with producers Max Martin,[12] Mike Will Made It,[13] The Neptunes (the production duo of Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams),[14] and Andrew Wyatt from Miike Snow;[13] musicians Billy Idol,[15] Ryan Tedder,[16] and Andrew Watt;[15] and songwriter Ali Tamposi.[16] Mike Will Made It played an integral part in the production of Bangerz and Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz.[13]

Release
"My record is called She Is Miley Cyrus. 'She' does not represent a gender. She is not just a woman. 'She' doesn’t refer to a vagina. She is a force of nature. She is power. She can be anything you want to be, therefore, she is everything. She is the super she. She is the she-ro. She is the She-E-O."

— Cyrus describing the meaning of the album title to Elle[17]

Cyrus deleted all posts from her Instagram account in July 2018 and was absent from social media through November, when she returned to announce her collaboration with Ronson and continued work on her forthcoming record.[18][19] While promoting "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart", Cyrus and Ronson told Matt Wilkinson of Beats 1 that they were "80% done" with their albums, and tentatively planned for Cyrus' project to be released in June 2019.[20]

Cyrus held a private listening session of the album for iHeartRadio executives upon announcing its completion in May.[21] On May 9, Cyrus announced on social media that she would be releasing new music on May 30,[22] and later stated that the rollout of her new music would be "unconventional."[23] On May 31, Cyrus tweeted that the record would be titled She Is Miley Cyrus, and that it would be preceded by three six-song extended plays: She Is Coming on May 31, She Is Here in the summer, and She Is Everything in the fall.[24][25] Cyrus described the three EPs to be "different [chapters] to a trilogy" that together form the full-length record.[26] Their track listings were to be "seasonal" in nature; she related She Is Coming to "[wanting to feel] light and feel the warmth" of early summer, and She Is Here and She Is Everything to being "colder and a little darker" as the release cycle was to extend into the fall.[9] She Is Here was inspired by "the present of where [Cyrus is] at," while She Is Everything was to be comparatively more ballad-driven.[9] She later explained that the "she" pronoun in the album title describes the "most confident version of herself."[17]

Cyrus continued work on the record following her separation from husband Liam Hemsworth in August.[27] The following month, it was reported that Cyrus was undecided between updating the existing album that was completed before her divorce or scrapping that version of the record altogether.[28] On October 20, it was speculated from Cyrus' Instagram Live video that the release date for the full-length album was scheduled for her birthday on November 23, 2019.[29] On November 3, Ronson stated that Cyrus' collaborations with him were tentatively planned to be released before the end of that year.[30] On November 9, however, it was reported that Cyrus' new music would be delayed until early 2020 due to her vocal cord surgery earlier that month.[31]

On New Year's Day 2020, Cyrus uploaded a highlight video of the past decade and announced that "[the] new era starts now."[32] She stated that "[she was] getting super close [and was] feeling the urgency" during an interview with DJ Smallzy on March 4,[33] and tweeted a clip of the music video for her Meet Miley Cyrus song "Start All Over" with the hashtags "#sheiscoming" and "#butforrealthistime" on August 4.[34] With the release of the single "Midnight Sky" on August 14, Cyrus confirmed the cancellation of the She Is Here and She Is Everything EPs, citing that "this year has been extremely unexpected [and] I guess I was feeling like it didn't make sense for me to continue the next two projects."[1] She stated that she did not have plans to release the full-length project in the near future because "when you write a record, a lot of the time, you're writing your experiences, and then by the time the record comes out, you've evolved past that experience" whereas releasing standalone singles "allows you to talk to your fans in real time."[1]

Promotion

Several engagements in which Cyrus was to participate were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. She was scheduled to perform at the Bonnaroo Music Festival, which was originally scheduled for June 12 in Manchester, Tennessee before ultimately being substituted for a virtual showing.[35][36] Cyrus will perform for the virtual iHeartRadio Music Festival in September.[37] BottleRock Napa Valley (May 22 in Napa, California) was postponed until May 2021,[38][39] and the Governors Ball Music Festival (June 5 in New York City) was cancelled altogether.[40]

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