MILEY CYRUS BRINGS IT
NPR Tiny (Home) Desk Concert
Plastic Hearts is Miley Cyrus‘ seventh studio album, and her Tiny Desk (Home) Concert showcases three of the album’s songs. It begins with a cover of Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You,” a psychedelic anthem with melancholic lyrics like “a stranger’s heart without a home.” Next is “Golden G-String,” a country ballad about winning a golden g-string and the affections of men. Cyrus promotes a musical persona of radical feminism and uses innovative tools to project her approach to life. Her Tiny Desk Concert reflects this avant-garde attitude and how music-making helps her hold onto her influential position in 21st-century music. It’s another example of her expressiveness and creativity and how her talents eclipse all forms of art–music, acting, fashion, creation of image, and performance.
In the concert, her final song, “Prisoner,” is about how hard it is to go on after a failed relationship. The emotions make Cyrus a prisoner, “locked up,” in someone else’s old memories, and she transcends musical styles to show the fluidity of musical genres. The setting replicates a teenage bedroom where she displays all of her angst.
Cyrus has live concerts planned for June in Tennessee since Plastic Hearts released last December. The Tiny Desk (Home) Concert is a sampling of the new music. We here at PROVOKR enjoyed it, and we suggest if you’re missing concerts, you watch it too.
