The Life & Times of Miley Cyrus

My initial impression is A Little Bit Longer isn't as good as Jonas Brothers. The guitars are souped up a bit more but the songs aren't as good. Chris Lord-Alge is on hand again for the mix and he's been doing these kinds of records for years. Makes 'em all sound the same -- great right out of the box. But they fall down when the mix is the only thing holding up the tunes.

"Got Me Going Crazy" has a great fuzz-toned garage-rock style verse. Over and out in two and half a minutes, it's the Jonas Brothers or their producer having 'em mimic the Music Machine or Count 5, or someone's idea of the latter.

"BB Good" has big crunch chords. Reminded me briefly of BTO-style rock with kids instead of big fat men on vocals. "Burnin' Up" is distant the play list. Dumb and pointless rap stuck into the end. "Shelf" -- chugga-chugga palm-muted guitar pop isn't bad because Jonas Brothers aren't as pitiful as the slew of poverty-case festival emo bands (I went through a couple of years go for xhuxk) doing this kind of stuff.

"Lovebug" has dumbass ska at the beginning. "Video Girl" -- annoying in a minor way but not enough to make you hit eject. "Pushin' Me Away" -- skip. "Sorry" -- Cheap Trick and a lot of other bands have done a lot of this type of thing on their last couple albums. Def Leppard, on their new one for example, which isn't any good. "Sorry" is a bit better, somewhere closer to Cheap Trick.

Nothing on the new album seems as as good as "That's Just the Way We Roll," "Year 3000," the duet the Miley Cyrus and the remake of "Kids in America" as "Kids of the Future" or whatever.

But there are at least three keepers on it.

I dragged out some Chris Lord-Alge produced stuff in this vein, plats that never made it. And they're functionally indistinguishable. In fact, I'd dig for The Donnas' Spend the Night from a few years back used. It's on Atlantic, does the same style except with more lascivious lyrics pointed the other way. And the songs and attack smoke the Jonas Brothers.

btw what
the
fuck

at the rap in the middle of "burnin up"?

it's by their bodyguard Big Rob, who is not the bodyguard guy on Rob & Big, but was Britney Spears' old bodyguard. don't ask me why i know this. or why he's on their song.

ya it seriously gave me some like, aaron carter flashbacks or something

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/hahaxxno/Cyd%20and%20Happiness/hannahmontanners.png

a fine sentiment well expressed
a controversial thrust effectively delivered
a piece of shrewd common sense simply and plainly set out

That's pretty gross.

I'm just glad my Dad only showed a passing interest in "Blossom".

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00724/Miley_Cyrus_724884a.jpg

I wonder what they were think... no, I s'pose they don't think much.

lol actual Asian guy. "Can you BELIEVE this shit?"

The new single, "Party in the U.S.A." is like so many songs rolled into one.

even rolled some pole dancing into it

http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/20090810/293.cyrus.miley2.081009.jpg

New single. This is absolutely fucking BRILLIANT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkX-xrhmF2g

My favourite part of this song is "I'm nodding my head like 'Yeah....', I'm moving my hips like 'Yeah....'"

I think my favourite part is ALL OF IT. Just listened five times on the trot.

Plus, it's already a parlour game in my head to replace Jay-Z/Britney with someone else: "And a Megadeth song was on, and an ATR song was on..."

Wow! Really quite good. Pleasant surprise of the day.

i keep almost liking this song and then that "yeah" before she sings the title is so shrill and horiffic it makes me hate the whole thing

O my, she's a saucy one.

It's . . . okay. The best part are the lyric's sly reference to other pop-culture artists and their songs, but it's not enough to save an otherwise unremarkable, merely competent song.

To be fair, I'm more of a noncommercial rock fan than a pop fan. But I do like a lot of pop.

i hate how she says "tummy"

this is the kind of song that only gets improved by mass pop culture ubiquity, but if it doesn't get there i'll happily forget about it

The inevitable Biggie Smalls mash-up that swept the internet off its feet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENYsanXR0pQ

Got her new song stuck in my head.

It has very little to do with parties, though, if you asked me.

we need more parties in the U.S.A.

Pa-pa-pa-pa lupe loop.

Haang on Sloopy, Sloopy, hang on.

We need something.

If I think Miley Cyrus is hot, does that make me a pedophile?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_North_America#State_laws

It looks like you're legally free to make a move anywhere except Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, or Wyoming.
Good luck, Snrub.
Go get 'er, Snrub.
I think she's kind of a dog.

Last night I was in charge of my 12 yr old cousins birthday party/sleep over with 14 of his friends. At one point he asked me to play some music. They asked me if I have Party in The USA, so I let them play music of my itunes and they played this song on repeat endlessly through the night. Today it's all I've been singing.

community party in the usa was a big hit in the fifties for skeeter davis iirc

communist*

oh well

don't get the appeal of that song (or of most miley cyrus' songs, tbh)

Is this real?

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/d0dd0f8d2f/miley-cyrus-today-show-fail

wait.

The first comment had a link to the show as broadcasted:

http://www.celebritysmackblog.com/2009/08/28/miley-cyrus-today-show-video/

but people are saying the singing in the first video is the "real" one, unprocessed. Maybe I just want her to fail too much.

Very fake. Miley shreds.

Crap, now i'm gonna have to go back and see if that "McCain's greatest fartz" video on funnyordie.com that I sent around to everyone in fall 2008 is fake too! False alarm, sorry folks.

Very fake. Miley shreds. - Yeah, this loses me once she starts caterwauling. If they'd kept her just *off* enough to be o_O "wtf did Miley get into the night before" it could have been a lot more convincing (& funny).

Is this basically the same as the fake Beyonce Today Show clip?

i don't know if this has already been posted, but this is the funniest thing i've seen in a while

The Climb death metal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-TtqW1IE5Y&feature=related

it's the cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiimb

"And that lapdance was goin' on, and the lapdance was going on!"

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2010/05/exclusive-miley-cyrus-dirty-dancing-video-market

Late last year, pictures surfaced of Miley Cyrus grinding her teen ass into director Adam Shankman at a party in Hollywood. Even though Miley was underage it wasn’t a huge controversy because Shankman is gay, and teen girl ass means nothing to them. It’s almost as if she was testing him for gay and he scored a 100.

But now the non-controversy may become plus-controversy with the release of a video from the same party, one that shows Miley acting extremely sexual.

“The video was taken about seven months ago at a wrap party for The Last Song. The worst part is that there were little kids at the party and the dancing between Miley and Adam was so dirty that some of the parents actually left the party and took their kids home.”
The video shows Shankman on the dance floor with a drink in hand grinding up against Cyrus’ backside while she grinds back. At one point Cyrus turns around and seductively opens the top layer of her shirt, teasing Shankman with her flirty dance moves.
In a second clip to the video, Cyrus is seen giving Shankman a lap dance while children under the age of 10 sit less than five feet away watching the Hannah Montana star, and neither her mother Tish nor father Billy Ray were present at the party."

A lap dance is not sex. Nowhere in America is it illegal to get a lap dance from a fully clothed person. Maybe in Utah. Maybe you should move there.
by Golobulus

that new song "can't be tamed" is not very exciting to me

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20448642,00.html

n between bouts of giggles, she asks, "Is that me tripping? Does that look like Liam at all?"

The video, which was shot five days after her birthday, ends in Cyrus saying, "I want more of that s---," after laughing and rambling incomprehensibly.

bob miley is now trending on twitter

the only thing that has to be more annoying than miley cyrus irl is miley cyrus on drugs

at least the younger generation will have its lohan tho

miley cyrus is easy to ignore. miley cyrus on drugs is easy to ignore. the truly annoying thing imo is the ghoulishness of media outlets that sit perched in feverish expectation of the next young popstar to undergo lohan-style personal crises

“Flowers” is the biggest song in the world right now and has single(!)-handedly pushed Miley up to second-most streamed artist on Spotify. quite surreal.

I really like Flowers, shades of...later period George Michael? Among other things anyways good for Miley and good for the world very encouraging

don’t know what’s more surprising, how “tasteful” the album is (I mean, Brandi Carlisle and Sia are the features) or that it’s actually good bc of or despite its tastefulness (haven’t decided)

Good album. I prefer the last one.

Probably same

Glad she deleted Wayne Coyne from her contacts

31 today.

I don't follow the Top 40 but I just heard "Flowers" and thought, that's a pretty nice song.

top 40 is now geared toward ppl who only tune in once every several months for 10 mins, hence why they're still hammering that stale song

Yes, it was a surprise to me to notice that they still play songs from 2022 in heavy rotation. Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” is another one… they play that just as frequently as her two current singles. But then I looked at the Billboard Hot 100 and was very surprised to see that it’s now common for songs to remain high in the charts for six months… some even for close to a year.

Yeah, we had a discussion here about all the white folks in the top 40 a few months ago. Most of the top ten songs from back are still in the top 40, some still in the top 10.

What thread was that discussion in?

Itunes, Billboard, and the marginalization of black music and black audiences in America

Thanks. I dipped into that and yeah it is crazy, the same rereleased Taylor Swift song that people were complaining about three months ago when it was at #4 is now at #1, and it’s spent over six months on the chart. So the Hot 100 really is a whole different planet now.

Internet music nerds are going nuts over the new Miley album. Anyone here listen to it yet?

Walk Of Fame is completely perfunctory, bloodless disco so I'm surprised ILM isn't all over it

Didn't she just release an album? When did that "Flowers" song come out? Feels like last week. Anyway:

Cyrus executively produced the album with Shawn Everett and worked on it alongside various notable musicians, including Molly Rankin and Alec O'Henley of Alvvays, Cole Haden of Model/Actriz, Danielle Haim, Flea, Pino Palladino, and Adam Granduciel of the War on Drugs. Naomi Campbell and Brittany Howard appear as guest artists.

What does it even mean to executively produce your own album in this context? I thought that was a title made up for people who give financial support but don't otherwise contribute

these days it often means some high-level creative director role that isn't necessarily very hands-on - i'd assume it means she had the high-level vision and chose the producers & songwriters she wanted to work with & was the one giving them feedback to achieve the vision she had etc.

the album didn't really leave much of an impression on me, the arrangements are generally lovely (as i'd expect given who's involved) but the songs didn't capture my attention

Maybe it's because she wrote and directed an accompanying/corresponding film? (Along with Panos Cosmatos!) So, like, an overseer of the entire multi-media project? Who knows, but I bet she got paid for it. If I were a big star, the more credits the merrier.

Doubt it, I agree it's likely just a signal that it's her creative vision. I'll have to check it out because of Shawn Everett, but I'll probably be mad it took up so much of his time when he could have been engineering a more interesting record.

I found everything she did past "See you again" and "party in the USA" to be actively irritating, but this thing is a big goddamn swing, and it sails outta the park as far as I'm concerned… this record isn't looking to do things a record must to be a 4 quadrant 2025 pop juggernaut… like, Tate McRae or Sabrina Carpenter wouldn't dare to present some shit like she does on this record… like Chappelle Roan is sposed to make big statements, or Olivia Rodrigo is sposed to bring back rock music catharsis, but this thing outpaces anyone trying to do shit like that without breaking a sweat.

I dunno, maybe it's too solicitous of the predilections of a 54 year white guy who was listening to Joan Armatrading prior to this record? But this thing has four or five four on the floor bangers that are far far more than a rewrite of "I will survive." She did interviews variously when she said she didn't really know Jay Z or pop music, and she was into like basic rock… a few years ago, there was this live clip of her singing "Heaven or Las Vegas" and she sounded glorious but for her constant lapses into onstage schtick…So my guess is that this reflects her interests beyond what her career would demand she do…

I didn't fuck with the Wayne Coyne record cuz I strongly disliked the single, but this thing is really really good, not at all arch as that single was.

ok what's a really good song from the album then? i tried with "walk of fame" (because if imago dislikes it i'm interested) but it was pretty nothing-y imo. like, no lyrics at all?? 'flowers' was a great song with great lyrics, deceptively simple but convincingly rousing.