Miley Cyrus Album Cover of 'Plastic Hearts'

Album Review: Miley Cyrus Is Moving On In ‘Plastic Hearts’

On Friday 27th November pop sensation Miley Cyrus blew us away with her sassy, uptempo ‘Plastic Hearts‘ album.

Her seventh studio album yet, and we can already tell it is going to be another successful album full of captivating lyrics to sing to. 

Listening to the ‘Plastic Hearts‘ album is an astonishingly beautiful album which contains fifteen tracks where Miley sings her heart about moving on, reminiscing about past relationships and showing her true ‘Cyrus vibes’. 

Throughout the album, it is empowering and shows that Miley is in her element as she uses her talented voice with those amazing chords while dancing to the rock-orientated music inside her songs. During the tracks, the electric guitar and drums thrive through the album, making you want to rock out and be a legend just like Miley Cyrus is. 

Since her 2009 album, ‘The Time Of Our Lives‘, Miley has grown immensely as an artist; before she had a theme of sweet melodies and soft rhythms, now Miley is becoming a powerful woman and is in her world filled with rock, punk and being carefree.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 07: Miley Cyrus attends the Tom Ford AW/20 Fashion Show at Milk Studios on February 07, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

In the rock-orientated album, Miley reflects on past-relationships, conveying emotions of love, pain, hatred and hurt. ‘Yeah, it’s been a long night and the mirror’s tellin’ me to go home (home). But it’s been a long time since I felt this good on my own. Uh, lotta years went by with my hands tied up in your ropes. Forever and ever, no more‘. In tracks such as ‘Midnight Sky‘, ‘Prisoner‘, ‘WTF Do I Know‘, she provides listeners on her perspective of her past-relationships, which we assume could be past-relationships that relate with Liam Hemsworth and how the divorce she experienced affected her. 

Tracks in the album that reminisce on hurt and heartbreak are songs which are overflowing with power and pain are ones where you can listen to when you need that strength to get through life or a heartbreak experience. 

With the rock music theme and the emotive lyrics of the album ‘Plastic Hearts’, it could symbolise how these song elements are a way of relieving heartbreak as you become carefree while listening to rock and you are drawn in with the lyrics of the song too. This is seen when Miley is in her own carefree, wild atmosphere in songs such as ‘Midnight Sky‘. 

Not only the album is surrounded by punk and rock-pop music, but it also contains soothing music where Miley analyses why she continues to have thoughts on her past lovers and why did she fall in love in the first place. ‘I woke up in Montecito. I was thinkin’ about my life. And the questions made more questions. Starin’ out into the night. Yes, I’ve worn the golden G-string. Put my hand into hellfire. I did it all to make you love me and to feel alive‘. Songs such as ‘Golden G String‘ and ‘Plastic Hearts‘, Miley sings about reasons why she chose to stay in her life with certain relationship involvements, she tries to contemplate on the love she was navigated to in her life. 

While singing on the album, Miley collaborates with artists such as Billy Idol, Dua Lipa, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts and Stevie Nicks too.

Although the album is titled ‘Plastic Hearts‘ which means ‘fake hearts’, the songs show how Miley doesn’t have a ‘plastic heart’, she represents that she has got a heart that is full of love, passion as well as pain and hurt. We are all programmed with crippling emotions when we experience love; it is evident to be complex, chaotic, but passionate. This is what we find out in the ‘Plastic Hearts‘ album. 

Why not listen to her album now?

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