This is Miley Cyrus' prime time
The singer appears to have taken her steadfast step to date as the best rock 'n' roll cover band in the world.
I can't speak for everyone when I say that watching Miley Cyrus squirm on stage at Whiskey A Go Go doing an unrivaled rendition of The Cranberries' "Zombie" hit me like a Sambuca chaser at 2 AM, but she seems to have played. a chord in all of us.
The performance has been trending on social media since it aired live on Sunday, usually accompanied by words like "INCREDIBLE" and "WOW." I suppose we all feel the same, but his voice of James Hetfield smoking 20 cigarettes a day and his interpretation of a song written in memory of two children who died in an IRA attack, left me with emotions to the surface.
Miley Cyrus has been in constant transformation since 2008. She went from being a Disney actress to a controversial pop star; from releasing a long psychedelic album with Wayne Coyne, to country pop, and then to collaboration with RuPaul; and all in the same amount of time it took Ed Sheeran to make three nearly identical albums with the same plaid shirt.
Objectively, it has been unpredictable. For example, she put out Bangerz, an album eternally tied to 2013 and not for the best reasons; or her presentation at the VMAs with Robin Thicke (which was like seeing all my demons throwing a party on Ketamine); or the song "Milky Milky Milk" that nothing would have happened if it didn't come out. Although her public persona has remained largely the same throughout the 2010s, each artistic reinvention has been an extreme departure from the one before and, for one reason or another, they had all failed.
Miley has the same problem as Nicki Minaj: they certainly have talents and a unique personality, but her albums rarely reflect the full scope of both. They've had great songs in their career, but nothing that Kesha, Katy Perry or Taylor Swift couldn't have done. All things considered, it has been strangely rewarding to see Miley take her strongest step to date as the lead singer of the world's largest rock 'n' roll cover band.
If there is one thing that haters and her fans can agree on, it is that Miley sings very bastard. It's not uncommon for pop stars who have been in the public eye since childhood to spend a lot of time figuring out what's "their thing," yet covers have been the only consistent part of Miley's artistic identity from the very beginning — since her powerful rendition of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" on her 2008 debut, to her cover of Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" on her 2010 album Can't Be Tamed, and her much-loved version of "Jolene." in 2012.
Her live shows of hers have also been recognized for her covers (in 2011 she performed Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" 21 times), but last year her sets began to be almost half rock covers. classic, half her own material. For example, at Glastonbury 2019 she co-operated Nine Inch Nails, Metallica, Amy Winehouse, and Led Zeppelin, prompting this NME headline: Miley Cyrus Reinventing Herself as a Rock Star.
