Miley Cyrus has shared "Prelude," the first single from new album "Something Beautiful." The spoken-word, electronic symphony comes with a suitably cinematic visual directed by Cyrus, Jacob Bixenman, and Brendan Walter, with cinematography by Benoît Debie. Cyrus and Shawn Everett—the album's executive-producers—are credited with the song's production alongside Michael Pollack, Jonathan Rado, and Maxx Morando. Check out the video, featuring Cyrus in archival Thierry Mugler couture, below.
Cyrus' follow-up to 2023's "Endless Summer Vacation" arrives May 30 via Columbia. She has compared the record to Pink Floyd's The Wall, "but with a better wardrobe and more glamorous and filled with pop culture."

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Miley Cyrus has released "End of the World," the lead single from her upcoming visual album, "Something Beautiful," the follow-up to 2023's "Endless Summer Vacation." "End of the World" is decidedly more pop-friendly than the two cuts from "Something Beautiful" that Cyrus previewed earlier this week, the spoken-word "Prelude" and the title track, an intermittently explosive, prog-rock ballad.
Accompanied by a rollicking midtempo beat, live strings, and '70s-coded piano chords, "End of the World" finds Cyrus pining for her lover in a pre-apocalyptic landscape: "Someday you woke and you told me wanted to cry/The sky was fallin' like a comet on the Fourth of July." The lyrics also make nods to Malibu, a city close to Cyrus's heart, and the Beatles: "[Let's] throw a party like McCartney with some help from my friends," the singer quips.
Inspired by Pink Floyd's 1982 rock opera "The Wall" "but with a better wardrobe" (Cyrus wears Thierry Mugler archival couture on the album's cover and accompany visuals), "Something Beautiful" is, according to Cyrus, a "concept album that's an attempt to medicate…a sick culture through music." The album is due May 30 via Columbia Records.

Behind its carefree title, Miley Cyrus’ eighth album is an edgeless and synthetic collection of disco-pop bummer jams.