Miley Cyrus's new life: she's no longer "high" and hates her own music
Miley Cyrus, from the looks of it, doesn't like Miley Cyrus too much. Every now and then Elsa Pataky's sister-in-law and great American pop star stops by, she watches herself from a distance, and decides that the time has come to leave herself behind.
And who could blame her. "That's what kills a man: the lack of change," Bukowski writes in The Fucking Machine about a conversation between Luke and Hank. Reinvent yourself or die. What happens to Miley Cyrus is not very different, after all, from what happens to all of us. In the beginning of time, when she was still a teenager, Miley Cyrus was Hannah Montana, a television product created to be consumed by the most elementary minds of the family, such as Punky Brewster, Inspector Gadget or the scenes of lifeguards in swimsuits running Slow motion of Baywatch.
From that stage come the discs that contain the first songs written by Cyrus (Meet Miley Cyrus and Breakout), but her name and her image are still closely associated with the Disney Channel universe. After Hannah Montana, the movie, Cyrus declares, “I don't want to be a singer in another movie. I don't want to do it anymore. I want to do something a little more serious ”. Miley was observed and not liked. It was time for her to try a new personality.
Lights and shadows
The fourth and final season of Hannah Montana begins airing when the singer is about to come of age. After a couple of years of ill-fated film forays, Cyrus returns to the world of music as a woman on a wrecking ball. Literally and figuratively. She dresses how she wants, sings what she wants and dances with whoever she wants and how she wants. She would only be missing. Not even the debris remains of Hannah Montanah's angelic image.
It is a time of light and shadow. On the one hand, she reaches number one of hers on the Billboard chart with Wrecking Ball and the album "Bangerz" becomes a best seller. But on the other, controversial scenes such as her appearance in public smoking marijuana, the cover of her in Rolling Stone leaving a pool without clothes or her twerking with Robin Thicke during an MTV awards gala make her the target of countless critics.
Suddenly she finds herself in the middle of a crossfire between the more puritanical morality, which charges against her both for her behavior and for her public image, and the more liberal mentality, which believes that the singer offers an image of submission that is harmful. . Years later she would declare that at that time she "was totally high", but the controversy served her to realize that she needed to shed her skin again and become a new Miley Cyrus.
And so she has landed in the present. Much more focused. Much more serious. Much more adult. "I realized that if all those people were going to talk about what I said or what I did, it would be more interesting if it was something good, something that could change people's lives instead of being controversial" , he explained a few weeks ago on the James Corden program.
The social awareness
Now, declared feminist and involved in different social causes, she looks back and realizes that, instead of adopting a position of rejection, her attitude towards her own life must be exactly the opposite: “I have stopped running away of what I was and I have decided to embrace him ”, he explained to Corden, indicating that all that was what had allowed him to be the person he is today.
The only downside is that, now that he is living his third life and has begun to accept his past, he has understood that the music that he has been making for years is not what he likes to make. And as a consequence, Billy Ray's daughter Cyrus has decided to return to her origins and publish a new album, Younger Now, in which she approaches folk and country music. Critics have not been particularly kind to this new work by the artist, who has not found much support on the sales charts either: in the week of its release in the United States it barely reached 33,000 copies.
A few days ago, while carrying out her work as a jury for the talent show The Voice, the new Miley Cyrus made a striking reflection aloud: “There are many times that you listen to music on the radio and do not identify with it. I'm the pop star sitting here and half the time I don't even like pop. "
Despite everything, despite her new image and her vaunted maturity, anyone would say that these are the words of an artist who does not quite accept herself. It would be necessary to see, of course, what kind of pop he refers to. Because maybe it refers to the songs of Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, Katy Perry or Pablo Alboran, in which case I could not agree more with her. But if you refer to the pop of Badfinger, Fleetwood Mac, Supertramp, Wilco, R.E.M., Love or The Divine Comedy, to name a few examples, it is difficult to agree with her opinion.
Fortunately, the singer herself helps us understand her criteria. "Most of the time I don't even like my own music," she added. Well, hey, we totally agree on that, Miss Cyrus.
