![]() “I’ve always picked a giver, ‘cause I’ve always been the taker. “They say it’s bad karma bein’ such a heart breaker,” goes the chorus. You can hear it, too, on ‘Bad Karma’, her growling get together with Joan Jett. Is she pouring in whatever angst lingers after her split from Hemsworth? Who is to say? What’s beyond doubt is that this is a collection full of raw and ragged moments. Cyrus, however, jumps straight to the Limerick icons’ grunge phase with an interpretation that is all about the riffs and the rage. Early Cranberries is the standard go-to for young bands citing Dolores O’Riordan as an influence (Beabadoobee, Weyes Blood etc). Here the significance is surely that she is doing ‘Zombie’ rather than a more ethereal Cranberries highlight such as ‘Dreams’. This is spelled-out in the deluxe edition of Plastic Hearts via her covers of Blondie’s ‘Heart Of Glass’ – slowed down and steeped in guitars – and The Cranberries. Mixed in with that is her palpable desire to breath vitality into what is widely considered the most moribund genre of them all: rock ’n’ roll. Nonetheless, Plastic Hearts is audibly the work of a musician emerging from a storm and entering a period of reflection and personal growth. She doesn’t directly address her personal travails on the new LP (there was already a quasi-official break-up single, ‘Slide Away’ – which has nothing to do with Oasis). Confirmation arrived with snaps of her in a romantic clench with reality star Kaitlynn Carter. “But that doesn’t make me become some instantly ‘polite hetero lady.’”Įight months later, the relationship was over. “I wore a dress on my wedding day because I felt like it, I straightened my hair because I felt like it,” the pansexual Cyrus said at the time of the knot-tying. However, the immediate backdrop to Plastic Hearts is her marriage in 2018 to Liam Hemsworth. Hannah Montana and teenage fame are, of course, the contexts she can never escape as a grown-up artist. It is the most coherent mess you’ll hear all year. Cyrus knows who she is now and Plastic Hearts is a celebration of her evolution into a clear-eyed pop visionary. ![]() It is completely scattershot – one moment Cyrus is collaborating with Billy Idol (‘Night Crawling’), the next crooning over a remix of Stevie Nicks’ ‘Edge Of Seventeen’.Īnd yet this is also a project with a clear through-line. Large Plastic Canvas Heart 6' Plastic Canvas Heart Cut Out Plastic Needlepoint Heart Valentines Day CoffeeChickCrafts (1,418) 1.69 One Package (6 Buttons) Vintage 'Heart Shape' 2 Hole Button C2298 available in 5 colorways and size is 1.25' height x 1.375' width VintageButtonStore (4,519) 4. ![]() She has been a teen pop star, an “off the rails” young woman, a collaborator with Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips (though it sometimes felt that Coyne was serving chiefly as her muse).Īll these conflicting feelings, memories and trajectories are given a rock ’n’ roll gloss and spat out in thrillingly day-glo form on her new record, Plastic Hearts.Īs is often the case with great pop LPs, the album is full of contradictions. I melted into ballad “Never Be Me”, on which the troubled singer admits, “If you’re looking for stable, if you’re looking for faithful/ As hard as I try… that’ll never be me.Miley Cyrus has spent her entire life growing up in public. “Bad Karma” (feat Joan Jett) has a great “ah-uh” of a pulse that practically leans back on the jukebox with a fag on and eyeballs you. I like to imagine that rather than Collins, Cyrus had the Cadbury Gorilla in the studio on “Gimme What I Want”: there’s a fluffy/muscly vibe there that the tax exile doesn’t really deserve. The pulse is lifted straight from her beloved “Maneater” but also goes meta by referencing fellow Eighties-quoter Bruno Mars’s “Locked Out of Heaven”.Įlsewhere, pop pickers will spot her quoting from Prince, Fleetwood Mac and INXS and adding a sprinkling of Phil Collins-esque gated drums. “Plastic Hearts” is the first of many tracks to nod heavily at her Eighties influences. ![]() The chequered flag drops with a squelchy, rubber-burning bass turning over just as Cyrus lets rip with the unrepentant “WTF Do I Know”, before skidding into the title track.
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