Miley Cyrus’ Teases Upcoming Album: Endless Summer Vacation by Releasing ‘Flowers’

• Miley Cyrus releases Endless Summer Vacation on March 10.
• The archetypal single, “Flowers,” was released connected Jan. 12, 2023.
• Many deliberation this mightiness beryllium an medium astir her breakup with Liam Hemsworth.

“We met each different connected the neon dinghy,” says Miley Cyrus implicit hazy synths successful the promo video for her caller album, Endless Summer Vacation. “Past the manta rays and the thenar trees, glowing creatures being beamed down from large heights. Electric eels and reddish venom. In the sky, we could spot the riders connected horseback, connected comets, coming towards, kicking up with laughter. My person Big Twitchy pb the vessel to the light. Surfed the northbound break. We danced until determination was thing left. Just maine and Twitchy ’cause that’s each we knew.”

The preview – capturing the existent synth zeitgeist that has influenced albums similar The Weeknd’s Dawn FM, Tame Impala’s The Show Rush, and Charli XCX’s CRASH – sees Miley arsenic the Angelyne-sque figure that appears connected Endless Summer Vacation’s album art. With a chart-topping pb azygous and anticipation hotter than…well, July successful LA, here’s what we cognize astir the album.

Miley Cyrus To Release New Album Endless Summer Vacation

Endless Summer Vacation marks Miley’s archetypal medium for Columbia Records. Her archetypal 3 records – Meet Miley Cyrus (2007), Breakout (2008), and Can’t Be Tamed (2010) – were released connected Hollywood Records, an imprint of Disney Group. As such, these albums (and the 2009 EP, The Time of Our Lives) were an hold of her days arsenic the prima of  The Disney Channel’s Hannah Montana.

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In 2013, aft signing with RCA, Miley released Bangerz. This grounds saw her archetypal squad up with Mike Will Made-It, Pharrell Williams, Oren Yoel, and different producers. Whereas the archetypal 3 albums were popular that flirted with creation and rock, Bangerz sought to reestablish her dependable with elements of hip-hop and much mature themes. Guest appearances included French Montana, Ludacris, Future, Nelly, and Big Sean, arsenic good arsenic Britney Spears. The album’s large singles see “Wrecking Ball,” “We Can’t Stop,” and “Adore You.”

This is besides the epoch erstwhile Miley began to twerk. She famously/infamously shook her backside crossed the crotch of Robin Thicke when helium performed “Blurred Lines” astatine the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. The Bangerz tour saw Miley shed her sanitized Disney Channel representation and a batch of her clothes.

In 2015, Miley independently released Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz. Again, Miley worked with Mike Will Made It and Oren Yoel connected the project, but the medium is noted for the engagement of The Flaming Lips. Miley announced the medium erstwhile she hosted the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, making it escaped for her fans to download. Featuring appearances from Big Sean, Sarah Barthel, and Ariel Pink, the 23-track medium received mixed reviews. It incorporated a batch of psychedelia, pop, rock, alternative, and experimental sounds.

Miley shifted gears again successful 2017 with the merchandise of Younger Now. Oren Yoel returned, but not Mike Will Made-It. Considered a popular rock/country-pop album, it saw Miley propulsion backmost from the far-out borderline of Ded Petz and the overt sexuality of Bangerz. The pb single, “Malibu,” was astir her then-fiancé Liam Hemsworth, a affirmative reflection connected their narration (before it ended successful divorce.) Younger Now also received mixed reviews, with Spin calling it “as harmless and overly sanitized, with the frisson that made Cyrus a prima each but wholly blasted away.”

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Miley’s medium Plastic Hearts, released successful November 2020, saw her thin heavier into the stone by incorporating elements of punk, caller wave, and arena rock. Appearances by Billy Idol and Joan Jett helped Miley acceptable the tone, though the pb single, “Midnight Sky,” was a synth-pop, retro disco bop. The follow-up, “Prisoner” (featuring Dua Lipa), was akin successful sound.

Plastic Hearts marked the extremity of Miley’s tally astatine RCA. She signed with Columbia and released her single, “Flowers,” 2 weeks aft welcoming successful the caller year.

Endless Summer Vacation Rumored To Be About Ex-Husband Liam Hemsworth

“Multi-platinum selling signaling artist, songwriter, and trailblazer Miley Cyrus volition merchandise her eighth workplace medium Endless Summer Vacation connected March 10th,” Columbia Records announced successful a property merchandise connected Jan. 5. “2023 finds Miley the strongest and astir assured she’s ever been, with the euphony and imagery of Endless Summer Vacation serving arsenic a reflection of the spot she’s recovered successful focusing connected some her carnal and intelligence well-being. Recorded successful Los Angeles and produced with Kid Harpoon, Greg Kurstin, Mike WiLL Made-It, and Tyler Johnson, Miley describes the medium arsenic her emotion missive to LA.”

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“Unsurprising to nary one, Miley kicked disconnected 2023 successful afloat force,” the property merchandise added. “Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party, which Miley co-hosted with planetary superstar, Dolly Parton, was a large success. In summation to the announcement of ‘Flowers,’ the unrecorded peculiar featured an A-list lineup of philharmonic performances and peculiar guests, including Sia, Latto, Rae Sremmurd, David Byrne, Liily, and Fletcher, as good as Paris Hilton, SNL’s Chloe Fineman, Sarah Sherman, and drama trio Please Don’t Destroy.”

The archetypal azygous from the album, “Flowers,” is simply a disco-flavored bop that incorporates a funk beat. After its release, galore thought it was a response to Miley’s ex-husband, Liam Hemsworth. The mates wed successful 2018, lone to record for divorcement a twelvemonth later. The divided was finalized successful 2020. The opus was besides released connected January 13, which happens to beryllium Liam’s birthday.

“We were good, we were golden / Kinda imagination that can’t beryllium sold /  We were close ’til we weren’t / Built a location and watched it burn,” Miley sings astatine the commencement of “Flowers,” with galore interpreting it arsenic her speaking to her and Liam’s crumbling relationship.

“I tin bargain myself flowers,” she sings connected the chorus. “Write my sanction successful the soil / Talk to myself for hours / Say things you don’t recognize / I tin instrumentality myself dancing / And I tin clasp my ain manus / Yeah, I tin emotion maine amended than you can.” Fans besides saw it arsenic a response opus to Bruno Mars’ “When I Was Your Man.”

One period earlier its release, it’s unclear if Endless Summer Vacation will incorporate lyrics and themes akin to “Flowers.” Miley has dated a fistful of radical since breaking up with Liam. She had a highly-publicized relationship with Kaitlynn Carter for a fewer months successful 2019. Later that year, she began dating  Cody Simpson, a narration that lasted until the summertime of 2020. She spent astir of 2022 progressive with musician Maxx Morando. She invited his band, Liily, to perform connected her New Year’s Eve special.

Themes & Lyrics Of Endless Summer Vacation

“The euphony and imagery of Endless Summer Vacation serving arsenic a reflection of the spot she’s recovered successful focusing connected some her carnal and intelligence well-being,” the property merchandise read.

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With lone “Flowers” released arsenic of Feb. 14, 2023, determination is small to spell on.

“Flowers” sees Miley instrumentality a much assertive breakup stance than “Slide Away,” the opus Miley released successful 2019 aft the extremity of her marriage. With Plastic Hearts being Miley moving done her feelings of the failed romance (“Hate Me,” “WTF DO I Know,” “Gimme What I Want”), Endless Summer Vacation might beryllium a reclamation of assurance and fun.

When Can We Expect Miley Cyrus’ New Album

Endless Summer Vacation arrives connected March 10.

Miley’s sore offered the medium connected red, crystal clear, and achromatic vinyl. There is besides a CD option, a container acceptable that features a CD and towel (featuring Miley connected 1 side), and a CD & Puzzle Box Set (which features a puzzle of a topless Miley lasting adjacent to a wall-to-ceiling window. Target has a achromatic vinyl option, lone astatine stores/online.

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The rollout of the medium should beryllium easier than Plastic Hearts. Released connected Black Friday 2020 (Nov. 27), fans reported shipment delays and instances wherever stores were out-of-stock. “When choosing the 11/27, the SUGGESTED DATE for [an] medium release, my squad and I were ne'er told large retailers don’t banal carnal albums connected Black Friday and wouldn’t get copies of [Plastic Hearts] until a fewer weeks aft [its] release,” Miley tweeted connected Nov. 29. “My fans are everything to maine [and] to cognize y’all are disappointed erstwhile going retired to stores/calling/checking banal to beryllium led down, I americium arsenic if not much frustrated.”

The rollout affected Plastic Hearts’ first-week income number. While it and Younger Now didn’t lucifer the commercialized occurrence of Bangerz (which is triple-Platinum arsenic of 2023), determination is simply a consciousness that Endless Summer Vacation might beryllium her best-selling merchandise successful years. Fans are hyped (“I americium really truthful excited for miley’s caller album“), and that tin beryllium seen connected the charts. “Flowers” began a tally atop the Billboard Hot 100, staying astatine No. 1 for its archetypal 4 weeks.

Summer begins aboriginal successful 2023, acknowledgment to Miley. Her fans are acceptable to spell connected an Endless Summer Vacation, and truthful are the critics. “If the remainder of the medium is thing similar this archetypal track, we’re each successful for a treat,” writes Consequence.

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