Miley Cyrus Releases New Album “Something Beautiful”
American singer-songwriter Miley Cyrus released her ninth studio album “Something Beautiful” on May 30, 2025.
It is her first album in two years since the 2023 album “Endless Summer Vacation”.
The album comprises 13 tracks, featuring guest appearances from American singer-songwriter Brittany Howard and British fashion model Naomi Campbell.
It was inspired by British rock band Pink Floyd's 1964 album “The Wall”.
Miley Cyrus told Harper's Bazaar about the idea of the album in an interview, “It was inspired by Pink Floyd's The Wall. We really leaned in. And so I have this heart-first attachment to it. My idea was making The Wall, but with a better wardrobe and more glamorous and filled with pop culture.”
Produced by Alec O'Hanley, BJ Burton, Ethan Shevin, Ian Gold, Jonathan Rado, Max Taylor-Sheppard, Maxx Morando, Michael Pollack, Miley Cyrus, Molly Rankin, Shawn Everett and Tyler Johnson.
Miley Cyrus said of the album, “'Something Beautiful' is a really meaningful and purposeful era for me personally, and that really translates into the album. How much of a journey and how much personal growth that I've had. And because of the experience that I've shared with the fans growing up together. I feel like we're always kind of at the same place, at the same time. So I think the music is really gonna relate and resonate with them as much as it does for me.”
She continued, “I think something that's really important for the fans to know about this album. And about 'Something Beautiful', as an entire project, is how involved in every detail I've been saying, every strand of hair and eyelash and anything on the clothes, the sound, the strings, the music, the writing. Every bit of the detail, is just a libra of love from me and I've been involved in every moment in every decision. And so in this way, it's really kind of regaining that power, and that freedom that I really take pride in when it comes to my creativity, and my music.”
She added, “'Something Beautiful' has been years in the making, so touching the finished vinyl for the first time feels magical. I'm grateful for all the genius co-creators who turned this fantasy into a reality. Thank you Glen Luchford for telling the story of the music and film through these images.”
Miley Cyrus told Apple Music about the album title, “As soon as [Taylor-Sheppard] played the first chord, I just said, 'Tell me something beautiful tonight.' It was so easy, but I have no idea where it came from. The chord he played was so beautiful that what needed to be said had to be beautiful.”
Miley Cyrus explained some tracks for the album.
“End of the World” “This, to me, is pop music in its fullest form. Pop gets given a bad name by manufactured label creations, and that's just not what it is.”
“More to Lose” “On a song like 'More to Lose,' I try to keep it a singular take. I add my harmonies, ad-libs at the end, but it's really a song that's more of a story and I never want that to be interrupted or overthought or chasing perfection. I never wanted 'More to Lose' to feel perfect, I wanted it to sound meaningful and emotional.”
“Easy Lover” “I had written originally that song around Plastic Heart days and never got the production quite where I wanted it, but I had written it with a totally different verse but the chorus, I had always loved that chorus, and so that was around you know like 2020, 2021, and then I held on to it and when Beyoncé was looking for songs on her country record, I remembered that chorus and was like that would work really well for country and so I started working on that and she chose 'Shotgun Rider,' what you call it? 'II MOST WANTED,' She was like, 'Two most wanted, like, that's us,' I was like, 'That is so the perfect title,' but I still had 'Easy Lover,' and so I just was like, 'What am I going to do about 'Tell 'em, B'?' Britney Howard's like, 'I'll play the guitar on it, so that's her playing all that electric guitar.'”
“Walk Of Fame” featuring Brittany Howard “I filmed this video in October, and by November at Thanksgiving, I was put in the ICU for a moment. Just for a moment, but it was mostly because it was Thanksgiving and my leg began to disintegrate within some way around the kneecap area.”
“Every Girl You've Ever Loved” featuring Naomi Campbell “The visual I'm most excited for the world to see is 'Every Girl You've Ever Loved' because I have a very special feature and it's major. It's iconic.”
“Reborn” via Apple Music
“'Reborn' was one of my favorite songs to make and to produce. The reason I love 'Reborn' is because it has taken on so many lives it has truly been reborn since the demo. I worked on this you know probably right in the beginning of this journey 2 years ago and it evolved so much and Greg Aldae, I had sent it to him and I sent him some ideas that I had and he happened to actually be sitting in a church in New York when he received it and he'll be able to tell you the story better than me but some of the lyrics just dropped in, from what he said, from heaven. He was sitting at a pew in an old church and he said you know, oh, it gives me chills, when he started saying like, 'If heaven exists, I've been there before, drown me in love, let's be reborn,' it was just dropping in for him yeah and it just like melted me. I mean he came up with some beautiful things like, 'We're so beautiful, letting go, nature's taking all control,' you know there was things that he just planted these seeds that then just gave me you know the freedom to find like, 'In my dreams, I see you standing there you're all alone,' like it was just so our poetry just you know meshed together but he found you know the idea of the title 'Reborn,' while actually sitting in church.”
“Give Me Love” via Apple Music
“Writing that was a really interesting process and I was excited to tell you about it. It's not real but I got a Bosch painting, there was like a yard sale down the street like Deep Valley and I saw this Bosch painting that was just amazing and, obviously, it's not a Bosch painting but it's a recreation. It's incredible, I love those panels so much and the story that they tell in that like love was basically, in this take, was the path to sin, love itself was the path to hell. So in the panels you know it's showing that sex is damning, you know, this middle panel to then lead us to the third panel which is hell which actually shows music as evil there's you know a lot of instruments which, fun fact, a lot of those instruments from that Bosch third panel is in 'Give Me Love,' it was really important to me that those instruments were actually incorporated into the production. So I brought this painting with me everywhere I was going and I realized that I mostly write songs about myself and I learned as much as I could about the painting and then I put all these details so everything that I'm actually saying in the song is factual in regards to the painting. It was commissioned for the St. John's Cathedral, the fountains that, you know, they father these swans by the lake, this orb, everything is actually factual about this because it was just a little challenge of myself of can I write something that is not about myself and then you know, given my nature, it eventually the third verse is about me. But so I took it to Tom Harpoon who we all love and I took this crazy song that I had written and brought it to Tom and I was like. 'I don't know what to do with the chorus, you know, but I definitely don't think this is the first single, so we could probably have some fun with it,' and he goes, 'Well, I think you've kind of said everything like what really more is there to say? Tthe chorus could maybe just be about love since that's what the song is about,' and he was like, 'Yeah, like just give me love or something about love.' And those are the genius like producers that don't try to change or don't try to fix or don't try to take this song that was just a little challenge for myself and it's not track two, like it's not going to be the first single like, let it live, let it be and him giving me that freedom and then building this bed of beauty beneath it and then taking it to Shawn who takes that bed of beauty and turns it into like an entire hotel full of bedrooms of beauty.”
