Miley Cyrus has officially announced her next album — including some sad news about what happened to her previous work.
Miley’s recent slew of killer covers (including The Cranberries’ “Zombie”) was clearly leading up to some kind of release. On October 22, she revealed her next album will be called Plastic Hearts.
The album will include 12 original songs, and a press release hints that the rock ‘n roll sound she’s been leaning into lately will be heavily incorporated. It’s her first multi-song release since 2019’s She Is Coming EP. That record was supposed to be part of an EP trilogy called She Is, but Miley’s life circumstances got in the way.
In a letter to fans, she wrote about the music she lost when her home burned down in the 2018 California wildfires. “If you’re reading this… know that I f*cking love and appreciate you on the deepest level,” she wrote. “I began this album over 2 years ago. Thought I had it all figured out. Not just the record with its songs and sounds but my whole f*cking life. But no one checks an ego like life itself. Just when I thought the body of work was finished… it was ALL erased. Including most of the music’s relevance.”
“Because EVERYTHING had changed,” she continued. “Nature did what I now see as a favor and destroyed what I couldn’t let go of for myself. I lost my house in a fire but found myself in its ashes. Luckily my collaborators still had most of the music that was burned up in journals and computers filled with songs for the EP series I was working on at the time. But it never felt right to release my ‘story’ (each record being a continual autobiography) with a huge chapter missing. If it were a chapter in my book I guess I would call it ‘The Beginning’ which usually when something is over we call it ‘The End.’ But it was far from that.”
All of that leads up to Plastic Hearts, which will include previously-released single “Midnight Sky.” The album drops on November 27.
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