Endless Summer Vacation

Endless Summer Vacation is a love letter to Los Angeles and reflects her newfound confidence.

On the other hand, single River from Endless Summer Vacation compares her companion to a river. Flowers is the first song on the Endless Summer Vacation tracklist. Cyrus performed several of her brand-new songs during the live webcast, including hits like The Climb and Flowers.

Fans of Miley Cyrus have picked up on every time she alludes to Liam Hemsworth in Endless Summer Vacation and it's a lot. Here's a rundown of all of them.

In Wildcard she sings about a marriage that was not an act of love but a necessity. Get the fuck out of my life with that shit.” She then goes on and alludes to smelling another woman’s perfume on her partner. Miley makes it clear she didn’t fit in with her partner’s family. Obviously Miley hasn’t explicitly confirmed her album is about her ex but fans have listened to the whole thing and drawn their own conclusions. She dropped Flowers on Liam Hemsworth’s birthday and it was the ultimate track for a hottie coming back from a bad breakup. Fans have assumed Miley labels Liam as the problem in their relationship.

'Endless Summer Vacation' may appear subdued by her standards, but it remains remarkably intriguing. Read the NME review.

The infectious second single ‘River’, which Cyrus has described as “dancefloor banger” with “nasty” lyrics, feels like a relative of her [Stevie Nicks](https://www.nme.com/artists/stevie-nicks)-inspired hit ‘Midnight Sky’. Cyrus has called ‘Endless Summer Vacation’ her “love letter” to LA, the city she moved to as a teenager when she landed her career-launching role in the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana. Cyrus is a straight-talker who is normally game for a laugh on the promo circuit, but since co-hosting a televised New Year’s Eve special with her godmother [Dolly Parton](https://www.nme.com/artists/dolly-parton), she has kept a curiously low profile and even stayed quiet on social media. If ‘Flowers’ finds Cyrus rebuilding herself after a break-up – “We were right ’til we weren’t / Built a home and watched it burn” – then the album feels like a messier, more complex extension of this process. [Harry Styles](https://www.nme.com/artists/harry-styles)‘ producers Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson, climaxes in a psychedelic swirl that sounds like something from ‘Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz’, the experimental 2015 album she made with The [Flaming Lips](https://www.nme.com/artists/the-flaming-lips). [Miley Cyrus](https://www.nme.com/artists/miley-cyrus)‘ eighth studio album arrives on a cloud of mystery, which is unusual for an artist who isn’t exactly the shy and retiring type.

After years trying to reconcile chart success with her leftfield musical instincts, the singer has delivered a hazily atmospheric album that plays to her ...

The other is to be a more traditional or even leftfield artist, making records that highlight the Stevie Nicks-ish qualities of her voice: the Miley Cyrus who roared her way through a lockdown cover of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here, who followed up Bangerz with the Flaming Lips collaboration [Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/31/miley-cyrus-her-dead-petz-first-listen-review), then followed that up with 2017’s country-rock flavoured [Younger Now](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/28/miley-cyrus-younger-now-review-rca). You can virtually hear the click-clacking of gossip-blog posts being typed in the background of Jaded – in which Cyrus lets an ex have it with both barrels – and Rose Colored Lenses’s languid depiction of post-coital bliss. The first is to be a 21st-century pop star, making the kind of committee-written electronic hits that 21st-century pop stars tend to make, as was the case with her 2013 album It also deploys the fashionable device of scattering in a trail of clues about its real-life subject. You might have thought the whole business of leaking albums belonged to a past era, before streaming supplanted downloads, and that people are now largely happy to adhere to the schedule knowing they’ll be able to stream the album for free when it arrives. It’s hit No 1 everywhere from Poland to Paraguay, seven weeks and counting at the top of the British charts, its lyrics and video painstakingly scanned by a media and fanbase eager to discover references to Cyrus’s ex-husband Liam Hemsworth, three years after their divorce.

Summer has come early! Miley Cyrus' new album Endless Summer Vacation is here! The 30-year-old songstress dropped the 13-track project at midnight Friday, ...

[Endless Summer Vacation](https://mileycyrus.lnk.to/EndlessSummerVacation) is available to stream now. Endless Summer Vacation is Miley’s eighth studio album and is the follow-up to 2020’s Plastic Hearts. [Endless Summer Vacation (Backyard Sessions)](https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/miley-cyrus-endless-summer-vacation-backyard-sessions/MbkiReincbRE) — in which “one-of-a-kind performances are threaded together with exclusive interviews where she provides insight to her new album and the person she is today,” as described by the streamer.

Miley Cyrus' new album, "Endless Summer Vacation," showcases her versatility, but it's a step back from her 2020 record, "Plastic Hearts.

The tearjerker’s third-person narrative is intriguing. But even she knows solitude isn’t always the solution. [catches a partner cheating](https://pagesix.com/2023/03/10/miley-cyrus-muddy-feet-sparks-liam-hemsworth-cheating-theories/) as she snarls, “Get the f–k out of my house with that s–t / Get the f–k out of my life with that s–t.” [mourns the “kind of dream that can’t be sold”](https://pagesix.com/2023/01/13/miley-cyrus-details-liam-hemsworth-marriage-in-new-song-flowers/) before she learns the importance of self-love. [“Jolene”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOwblaKmyVw) and [“Heart of Glass,”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbdRLyixJpc) the last person you ever want to face off against in a karaoke contest. [“Endless Summer Vacation”](https://mileycyrus.lnk.to/EndlessSummerVacation) (out Friday), Cyrus packs it all into one, showcasing the versatility that has kept her on the music charts for nearly two decades.

The pop star's eighth LP isn't a straightforward divorce album; instead, it focuses on budding romances and self-love. By Brittany Spanos ...

Tracks like “Thousand Miles,” “Island” and “Wonder Woman” zero in specifically on the complexities in being your own support system: the sadness that often propels you to that discovery as well as the freedom and relief that follow. [Plastic Hearts](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/miley-cyrus-plastic-hearts-album-review-1096369/) (and the one-off kiss-off “Slide Away”) were Cyrus’ more direct statements on the end of her marriage to longtime love [Liam Hemsworth](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/off-the-cuff-liam-hemsworth-on-hunger-games-and-xbox-addiction-238690/). The tracks are buzzing with the hope of new love and the end of sexual and romantic droughts, as the second single “River” shows. In the credits, her more surprising collaborators like director Harmony Korine (“Handstand”), James Blake (“Violet Chemistry”) and Greg Kurstin (“Jaded”) never detract from Cyrus’ clear vision. Teased by the enlightened divorce bop [“Flowers,”](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/miley-cyrus-releases-flowers-video-1234660056/) Cyrus zeroes in on the independence angle as she reflects on past relationships and finally accepts the heartbreak while welcoming in new love for herself and others. The final result is a powerful artistic statement, focused and clear-eyed as Cyrus seems to have found herself in her thirties.

Miley Cyrus' 'Endless Summer Vacation' wins in ditching her previous album's rock for straight pop ballads, quirkier synth-pop and dance numbers.

The album cover sets the tone nicely: Cyrus is not coming in like a wrecking ball, but as — sure — something of a trapeze artist, one who right about now might be too high to fail. That’s followed by the one contribution Greg Kurstin has as a writer-producer, “Jaded,” which is pure mellow-gold in its generous and breezy approach to the end of a love affair. (For all its radio-friendliness, “Jaded” also includes the first of enough F-bombs on the album that there’s surely going to be a lot of judicious bleeping in the record’s accompanying Disney+ special.) “You’re questioning the science, ’cause you don’t understand / How I’m doing what I’m doing in a fucking handstand,” Cyrus sings, sounding a little like the recently ultra-empowered Taylor Swift, but on an even higher dosage of cockiness steroids (or acid). There’s so much to like here, though, starting, of course, with “Flowers.” It’s derivative, in an “I Will Survive” meets “Lose You to Love Me” meets “Don’t Start Now” kind of way, but that’s no knock. Cyrus also plays it soft on “Wonder Woman,” an almost entirely piano-focused ballad you might presume is inspired by her mother, or some other stolid and occasionally sad role model — it sounds kind of like a feminist “Desperado.” “Island,” buried late in the track list, is an odd number that never quite works, even with an interesting key change between the tense verses and the tropical choruses, courtesy of collaborator BJ Burton. (Well, maybe not literally the last, because the album closes with a quiet demo version of “Flowers,” but an extended bout of revenge writing is not really where her head is at.) The succeeding songs don’t get too stuck in the single’s post-Dua Lipa brand of disco thump, but neither is there even a hint of revisiting the previous album’s Blondie-isms for a second. Yes, “Muddy Feet” is one of the tracks where the growl returns — it earns it, on an album that otherwise isn’t firing too many shots across any bows. The throughly massive hit single that preceded it into the culture a couple of months ago, “Flowers,” seemed to promise a belated divorce album in the confessional style that’s come back into fashion. The singer just knows her inner Joan Jett doesn’t need to rev up its engines when she’s mellowing out with a minimalist, rhythm-section-based ballad like “Rose Colored Glasses” or getting a little more wacked out with a spooky avant-pop discursion like “Handstand.” Successive records found her swinging back and forth — or sideways — from the pop-diva dominance she established with “Bangerz” to the one-woman back-to-roots movement of “Young Again,” on up to the rockin’ new-wave revivalism of 2021’s “Plastic Hearts.” (Somewhere in there came her Flaming Lips collab…

On her ex-boyfriend Liam Hemsworth's birthday, Miley Cyrus releases "Flowers" along with other brand-new songs. Now on March 10, she unveiled her album.

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). In the second verse, Carlile's sweet voice blends with Cyrus' as the song flutters to the sound of country guitar mingled with a clear percussion rhythm. For ‘Thousand Miles’ (featuring Brandi Carlile), Cyrus sings, "I told myself to lock the door, but I'm right back here again," her knowledge is evident. Although the catchy chorus is infectious, the screeching guitar solo that brings the mid-tempo chugger to a close serves as a constant reminder of how much Cyrus adores rock 'n' roll. [Rose Colored Lenses](/topic/rose-colored-lenses), the album's standout track, veers between resignation ("we went to hell but we never came back," she laments in "Jaded"), sweet dreaminess ("Rose Colored Lenses"), and sleazy fun. Like in "Who Needs You, Anyway, [Buddy](/topic/buddy)?"

Endless Summer Vacation represents a full pop return for Cyrus after her 2020 album Plastic Hearts, which saw the singer channeling '80s glam rock in a natural ...

“River,” the album’s second single, is out today to coincide with the LP’s release. To accompany the album, Cyrus returned to Disney (specifically, Disney+) after more than a decade by bringing back her popular “Backyard Sessions” series. The LP arrives today with songwriting and production contributions from talented artists across the industry.

Or a few people, as she does in the video for new single “River.” The simple black-and-white visual starts with Cyrus singing the synth-rock anthem on a lit ...

Of course, “River” kicks off the “P.M.” side of things. Brandi Carlile and Sia are featured on the 12-song set, which is divided into bright “A.M.” and rowdy “P.M.” sides. Cyrus worked on “River” with Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson, the Harry Styles and Maggie Rogers producers who also did her long-running No. “You could be the one, have the honor of my babies.” And yes, by the end of the clip, everyone ends up soaking wet. And judging by the song, Cyrus is already obsessed: “Blowing bubbles in the bath, I can’t stop from thinking lately,” she says in the second verse. Or a few people, as she does in the video for new single “River.” The simple black-and-white visual starts with Cyrus singing the synth-rock anthem on a lit runway, but soon cuts to scenes of sexy, shirtless, six-packed dancers.

After spending the decade following her Disney Channel rise by trying on different styles of popular music, from hip-hop to country-pop to guitar-rock, Cyrus ...

The extended bridge, where the production simplifies to focus on the beats and bass as Cyrus turns sex into a Monet simile, makes “Violet Chemistry” both the longest song on Endless Summer Vacation and one of the best. There’s a reason why “River” is being positioned as Cyrus’ potential follow-up smash to “Flowers”: the single handles its synth-pop flourishes and sexual innuendoes with funk and personality, its melodies blasting out like laser beams and Cyrus opting for sashaying monotone on the verses to offset the “ooh-ooh-OOH!” maximalism of the chorus. “Rose Colored Lenses” contains the title Endless Summer Vacation in the second verse, and it makes sense: Cyrus is capturing a warm moment in time here, and pleading for it to stay eternal. “Wildcard” functions as a late-album vocal showcase, the snares complementing Cyrus’ statements of self before ceding the floor to showy synths on the high-powered hook. Knowingly messy but captivating in its weirdness, “Handstand” could be misplaced in the heart of Endless Summer Vacation or exactly at home as the meltdown of the album’s Side A, depending on your vision of the track list; either way, points to Cyrus for never giving up her freak flag. With its short running time and repeated phrases, “Muddy Feet” comes across as slightly incomplete compared to the rest of the Endless Summer Vacation tracks — but boy, is this one going to rip when Cyrus performs it live.

A return to Bangerz producer Mike WiLL Made-It. Features by fellow belters Brandi Carlile and Sia. And, of course, “Handstand,” produced by Cyrus's drummer ...

“You can definitely see this idea of mayhem on the docks of Miami,” Korine told Vice of the paintings. The director had a 2019 exhibition of paintings at Gagosian called “Young Twitchy.” In [a statement](https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2019/harmony-korine-young-twitchy/), he explained that the paintings were re-created from photos that he would take on his phone of scenes around Florida, where he lives. “It’s just kind of a strange party that starts to come alive.” It’s also apparent from the paintings that Twitchy is pretty harmless and nice. “Sometimes he gets pissed when people creep up on him,” Korine told Garage. From the paintings, Twitchy indeed seems to enjoy the water, but also seems to prefer hanging out during the day. It’s not just the collaborators that make that track stand out — it’s an eerie electro freak-out that would be more at home on [Bangerz](https://www.vulture.com/2013/10/rosen-on-miley-cyruss-bangerz.html) or [Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz](https://www.vulture.com/2015/09/miley-cyruss-dead-petz-is-hard-to-like.html) than this album’s moonlit Malibu pop. [Miley Cyrus’s](https://www.vulture.com/2023/03/miley-cyrus-new-album-endless-summer-vacation-river.html) new album, [Endless Summer Vacation](https://www.vulture.com/2023/02/miley-cyrus-new-album-endless-summer-vacation.html). In other words, it’s not hard to see how they’re friends with Cyrus. With a name like that, it’s hard not to be instantly captivated. But in the song’s spoken-word intro (which may be familiar if you saw the [album trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn4AGj_aRo4)), Cyrus introduces us to the most memorable figure on this album: Big Twitchy. And, of course, “Handstand,” produced by Cyrus’s drummer boyfriend, Maxx Morando and co-written by [Beach Bum and Spring Breakers filmmaker Harmony Korine](https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/harmony-korine-interview-the-beach-bum.html).

Miley Cyrus performed songs from her eighth studio album 'Endless Summer Vacation' for Disney+ special 'Endless Summer Vacation (Backyard Sessions).'

“The sequencing of an album is very important to me,” she explains, comparing the creation of the album to a film. “When we started writing the song ‘Wonder Woman,’ the lyrics felt like too big of a shoe for me to fill,” she explains. “Boredom for an artist can feel like torture, so I always need to reinvent,” Cyrus explains. “Somehow, that evolved to a song that’s about happiness and joy and being okay with not knowing exactly where you’re going.” “This song is about, I guess, that kind of generational strength and the wisdom that my grandma gave to my mom,” Cyrus adds. and p.m., to kind of represent almost like an act.” The morning is the potential of new possibilities, an unknown about what the next 24-hours may have in store. The house is the same location where she shot the “Flowers” music video, and it’s also the backdrop of [Endless Summer Vacation (Backyard Sessions),](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/miley-cyrus-backyard-sessions-endless-summer-vacation-1234690323/) the Disney+ special that premiered Friday and finds the singer debuting live performances of songs from her just-released eighth studio [Endless Summer Vacation](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/miley-cyrus-endless-summer-vacation-reaction-1234694050/). “It just makes me emotional because now the song is filled with so much joy in the music and it’s become something so far from the sadness that inspired the song,” she explains. “It feels like it’s only mine and it could only be mine,” she says. Then there’s some wisdom and there’s some humor and there’s some heaviness and depth,” she says. [Miley Cyrus](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-miley-cyrus-songs-1234684356/) is standing in the backyard of the Los Angeles home where [Frank Sinatra](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/an-appreciation-of-frank-sinatra-1915-1998-59176/) once lived, glowing in the sun as she sings about a man who broke his own heart. “Endless Summer Vacation represents, to me, my fearlessness when it comes to experimenting, not just with my sound but also with my identity and the way that I want to be seen,” Cyrus shares after running through “Jaded,” the song that opens the film’s setlist.

The singer's latest album, a radio-friendly patchwork of pop, is her softest pivot in years.

[Heart of Glass](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbdRLyixJpc)” and the Cranberries’ “ [Zombie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l81u-oSIAp4).” When she sings other people’s songs, undaunted by the challenge of crafting her own artistic identity, she seems uniquely free, at least to me. Until then, ballads like “ [Jaded](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MiaHlOUExM)” and “ [You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Xqzji5p_0)” get weighed down by their own repetitive refrains. But on “ [Rose Colored Lenses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yyS4aBJKn0),” she finds sensual bliss with a new lover, crooning, “We could stay like this forever, lost in wonderland,” over fairy-tale riffs. [Flowers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7KNmW9a75Y),” released in January, rocketed to the top of the charts around the world within a week. Cyrus has been surprisingly quiet about her new work, staying off social media and keeping the second single, “ [River](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_4fljfr2r4),” under wraps until just yesterday. But this only reinforces the sense that, without a particular aesthetic to anchor herself in, Cyrus doesn’t quite know how she wants to sound. In the video, stripped of all her controversy-courting accoutrement — bleached space buns, latex bra-and-panty sets, and [appropriated](https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2014/01/60539/miley-ratchet-race-appropriation-bullett) [hip-hop signifiers](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/miley-cyrus-discarding-hip-hop-is-the-least-surprising-thing-ever_n_590b793fe4b0104c734cf502) — she is a fantastic singer, plain and simple. But by 2017, she came full circle, making the [unsettling choice](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/miley-cyruss-creepy-return-to-wholesomeness) to rebrand as family-friendly again. Based solely on the title of the album and the style of “Flowers” — a disco-inflected empowerment anthem seemingly about the singer’s previous relationship with actor Liam Hemsworth — fans guessed that the album would be a sunny pop reflection on the art of moving on after love. [dirty South hip-hop](https://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/09/miley-cyrus-talks-new-album/).” She stripped naked for the “Wrecking Ball” video and started dancing pornographically, leading to that unfortunate performance with Thicke. [though not always](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephlongo/olivia-rodrigo-disney-channel-stars-sour) — requires a hard break, and no one broke away harder than Cyrus. Since the beginning of her solo career, she has been more famous for her persistent reinvention than for any recognizable sound.