Miley Cyrus' new song: 'Flowers'

It was a joy to see the Disney star's rebellion as she transformed from a decent girl to a hypersexualized beast with a joint in front of a global audience.

"New Year, New Miley" is the slogan with which we began 2023. The first huge single of the year is "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus, the bad girl of worldwide music, with which she announces her new, eighth studio album, "Endless Summer Vacation," which will be released in early March.

In the middle, there's an irresistible disco funk where Miley sings for the umpteenth time about her love for herself and says farewell to her long-term boyfriend and short-lived husband, actor Liam Hemsworth. Miley dances back home from a night out in a gold vintage YSL dress in the video, singing that she doesn't need him anymore - because whatever he can do for her, she can do better.

This enticing wild lady releases enormous songs on a regular basis, such as "Midnight Sky" or "Nothing Breaks Like The Heart," which was written for her by Mark Ronson. Despite her innate appeal and the fact that she has shown to be an extraordinary singer whose versions of rock classics such as Blondie's "Heart of Glass" breathe new life into old songs, her albums rarely venture beyond bland pop.

This year is ten years since we first met the new Miley. With the album "Bangerz" and the smash hit "Wrecking Ball," the teenage singer bid farewell to the character who catapulted her to global prominence - Hannah Montana.

And it was a tremendous delight to see the Disney star's revolt, in which she transformed from a good girl to a hypersexualized beast with a joint in front of a global audience. She arrived like a wrecking ball, naked, atop a large ball with which she demolished all the walls surrounding her. The youthful vocalist was 21 years old when she introduced twerking to the big door.

Looking back, her detour at the Video Music Awards, when she twerked beside an utterly puzzled and devastated Robin Thicke, who had that year's major single "Blurred Lines," and in the interim it became discredited, was, in reality, a foreshadowing of a new wave of pop-feminism.

We also met Emily Ratajkowski in the video for "Blurred Lines," who related to us many years later how Thick drunkenly groped her during the video shoot. Cyrus was barely an adult at the time, but she gave the image of a - genuine - rather insane young woman in control of her own destinies and vocations.

She chose her own pals and collaborators and opted to explore psychedelia in all its forms alongside Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips. Miley's only shortcoming in the context of pop is the jumbled sound she leaves behind. It's all there - pop, hip-hop, psychedelia, a nod to her roots (her father is country music legend Billy Ray Cyrus), but it's all somewhat disjointed. It's as though she lacks the concentration to finish the story.

Miley Cyrus is now on the verge of maturity, and at the age of 31, she is one of the world's biggest pop sensations. She's still provocative as if she's following in Madonna's footsteps. She has yet to find an author with whom she can fully blossom musically, but this is why she has become a great performer.

For the second year in a row, she presented the NBC New Year's Eve event in Miami, and after Pete Davidson in the first version, her co-host was her godmother Dolly Parton. The song "Midnight Sky," in which Miley repeats her favorite themes of freedom and not belonging to anyone, was the show's high point.

We've learned too many times that Miley Cyrus has a lot of charisma but just a few catchy pop tunes. "Flowers" is another feminist anthem in the spirit of the "Sex and the City" concept, when Carrie says in the series or film conclusion that the most important emotional relationship you have is with yourself.

Post by Bryan C.