At long last, fans will soon get to hear new music from Miley Cyrus. Not only is the Grammy-winning Disney alum on track to unleash new music to the masses in 2025, but Something Beautiful is also set to be a visual album.
“The visual component of this is driving the sound,” Cyrus teases in an interview for Harper’s Bazaar’s December 2024/January 2025 cover story. “It was important for me that every song has these healing sound properties.”
Ahead, we break down everything to know about Cyrus’s ninth studio album.
It will release in 2025.
Something Beautiful is slated for release on May 30. The album’s accompanying film will release in June.
It’s a visual album.
“The visual component of this is driving the sound,” Cyrus teases in her Bazaar cover story. “It was important for me that every song has these healing sound properties. The songs, whether they’re about destruction or heartbreak or death, they’re presented in a way that is beautiful, because the nastiest times of our life do have a point of beauty. They are the shadow, they are the charcoal, they are the shading. You can’t have a painting without highlights and contrast.”
Expect a fashion extravaganza.
In March, Cyrus released the cover art and the trailer, both of which showcased a tour de style with fashion cameos from Thierry Mugler, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alexander McQueen, and Alaïa. The cover itself features a shot of Cyrus dressed in a feather and crystal-adorned headpiece and bodysuit, an archival look from Mugler’s 1997 couture collection.
In terms of visuals, Cyrus has taken inspiration in everything from fashion to cinema. Key references include Thierry Mugler’s 1995 couture show, a seminal collection that includes the famous robot suit that Zendaya wore on the Dune: Part Two red carpet.
“She’ll want it to feel like this specific runway show or something,” music producer Shawn Everett tells Bazaar. “I love when she talks like that. For me, it opens up a whole world.”
Cyrus adds, “I can show [Everett] a painting or a dress, and I’ll tell him to convey those colors or that fabric with sound.”
Another key reference? The 1982 surrealist musical drama, Pink Floyd: The Wall. Cyrus recalls watching the film as a teenager with her brother and a friend, during which the group rented a limo and got dressed up in ’70s-style fur coats. “We really leaned in. And so I have this heart-first attachment to it,” Cyrus says. “My idea was making The Wall, but with a better wardrobe and more glamorous and filled with pop culture.”
You can pre-order the album.
Fans can already pre-order Something Beautiful merch, CDs, and vinyls directly on Cyrus’s website. However, certain exclusive pieces, such as signed records, are sold out.
Something Beautiful is “more experimental” than any of her other albums.
In Cyrus’s Bazaar cover story, Everett teases, “[The album is] more experimental than anything she’s ever done, but in a pop way that I love.”
Cyrus herself describes the forthcoming record as “hypnotizing and glamorous.” She continues, “It’s a concept album that’s an attempt to medicate somewhat of a sick culture through music.”
Her boyfriend collaborated with her on the record.
Cyrus’s longtime boyfriend, Maxx Morando, and the drummer for rock band Liily apparently played a role in the making of Something Beautiful. Cyrus reveals in her Bazaar cover story that Morando helped produce multiple tracks, and even helped her write the album’s title track.
Of mixing business with pleasure, she explained, “I worked with my dad forever. That’s how me and my ex-husband met each other. I’ve always worked with the people that I love. And Maxx just inspires me so much.”
