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When you hear the words ‘Rock ‘n’ roll!’ Miley Cyrus probably isn’t the first person you’d think of... Or the second... or the 43rd. So what’s up with Hanna Montana, Miley Cyrus, a god damn pop star going into rock? 

Let’s get some background on this album first:

This album was originally meant to be called ‘She is Miley Cyrus’ and come out in 2019, but of course the world had different plans for her. After a divorce, a vocal surgery, her house burning down and a global pandemic things changed up. 

She had started work on the album in 2018, but everything was erased due to her house fire, although other people did have her recordings she didn’t feel it would be right to counite on with it.

2020 new years day ‘The new era starts now’ is what Miley says, and no one would be ready for what comes next! 

The Album:

In August she releases the leading single ‘Midnight sky’ this song having an 80s vibe. After this in October she does her most notable cover, which is ‘Heat of Glass’ at the IheartRadio festival. This cover brought a lot of attention to her because of how amazing it was. Her stage presence, her outfit and the power of her voice where just incredible, in fact Debbie harry herself praised Miley for the cover.

As well as this in October she announces the album title ‘Plastic hearts’ with a heart felt note talking about her experiences and thanking her fans.  

She counited on with her jaw dropping covers including ‘Zombies’ by The Cranberries at the #SOSFest, this cover was also released for streaming.

In November she released a remix of Midnight sky called ‘Edge of midnight’ with none other then Stevie nicks! As well as this in November she has released the track list.

WTF do I know

plastic hearts

Angels like you

Prisoner (Feat. Dua Lipa)

Gimme what I want

Night Crawling (Feat Billy idol)

Midnight sky

High

Hate me

Bad karma (feat Joan jett)

Never be me

Golden G string

Featured artists:

It may be surprising to some the queen of rock ‘n’ roll herself, Joan Jett, is doing a song with Miley but need I remind you this is not Miley’s first collab with Joan Jett. Joan Jett did a cover of ‘androgynous’ along with Miley in 2007.

Billy Idol! The famous punk rocker from the 70s famous for songs such as ‘Rebel Yell’ and ‘Dancing with myself’.

Dua Lipa. She is currently one of the biggest artists in the world (6th on spotify!). Her song ‘new rules’ stayed on the pop charts for 45 weeks!

Personally, I feel that these featured artists show what this album will have to offer. With influences such as the badass Joan Jett shows how hard this new album could go. With the addition of Billy Idol adding some punk spice. With regards to Dua Lipa although she isn’t a rock star, she’s a damn good song writer and singer.

She’s always been a rocker!

Say what?! Miley was actually brought up on country and rock, away from the mainstream pop and hiphop movements. Way back in the past she was doing covers of rock songs, but people criticized her for these covers. Some of these covers include ‘I love rock ‘n’ roll’ and ‘Smells like teen spirit’. Only did she really get some positive attention about her covers when she sung ‘Nothing Else Matters’ by Metallica at Glastonbury. 

Will it be good?

In my opinion? Fuck yes, this girl will rock the stage and win album of the year. If you listen to her many, many covers you will  hear that her voice is prefect for rock. It’s deep, raspy and powerful (and she also has that Rock ‘n’ roll attuite). Another thing that excites me is that  this isn’t just a rocker, it’s a female rocker that can inspire little girls to be bold and show them that they can do what ever they want.

My final thoughts:

As rock fans we should be welcoming Miley with open arms. I’m sure we all sometimes stand here and think ‘When will the new wave of rock happen??’  ‘I want more rock!’ Well, this could help the start of new wave of rock. We already have GVF so another artist going to some good ‘ol fashion rock ‘n’ roll that will definitely get on the charts?! Amazing!