Miley Cyrus has given the first details of her next album, the successor to ‘Endless Summer Vacation’, in a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar. The singer has announced that it would be titled ‘Something Beautiful’, which is “just as visual as it is musical” and that it would be inspired by Pink Floyd’s 1979 classic, ‘The Wall’, but “with better costumes.”
The 31-year-old popstar would have been working on ‘Something Beautiful’ with her partner, guitarist Maxx Morando, and with Italian film director Panos Cosmatos, who would be in charge of the visual part of the LP. “My idea was to do ‘The Wall’, but with better costumes, more glamorous and full of pop culture,” details the singer.
The reference to Pink Floyd, Cyrus claims, was conceived in her adolescence, when she saw Alan Parker’s surreal 1982 film based on the album. Like the album written by Roger Waters, Cyrus assures that ‘Something Beautiful’ is a “conceptual” album: “It is an attempt to treat a sick culture through music.” Cosmatos has described the album as “more experimental than anything I’ve done, but in a pop way that I love.”
Cyrus has also clarified some aspects about the album’s sound: “The visual component drives the sound. It was important to me that each song had the properties of healing sounds. The songs, whether they are about destruction, heartbreak or death, are presented in a beautiful way, because the most unpleasant moments in our lives also have a point of beauty.
