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Album of the week:

Miley Cyrus - "Plastic Hearts"

In an interview with Apple Music DJ Zane Lowe this week, Miley Cyrus described what has happened in her life in recent years as a "Cocktail of Chaos".

This is, of course, a fitting image for a pop star whose most notorious appearance was to sit naked on a wrecking ball and postulate aloud: "I came in like a wrecking ball".

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Plastic Hearts [Explicit]

Label: Ariola (Sony Music)

Label: Ariola (Sony Music)

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What happened?

In 2018, her home in Malibu fell victim to the California forest fires, and in the summer of 2019, long-term lover Liam Hemsworth filed for divorce after just eight months of marriage.

The former teen idol Cyrus, who became famous as the singer in the TV series "Hannah Montana" and has since tried to drive out the image of the good Disney girl with a demonstrative rock'n'roll attitude, seemed to take control of her life to lose.

But Cyrus, apparently trusting himself to have iconic status, did not want to join the infamous "27 Club" of early stumbled and deceased pop stars like Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, she said in the interview.

In June she proudly announced that she had not touched alcohol in six months.

Soon after, she reported a relapse in the corona lockdown, but also announced her new album "Plastic Hearts", which has now been released a few days after her 28th birthday.

For her comeback, Cyrus presents himself as a pop professional who is willing to survive, who adapts to the current hit parade trend with a mullet hairstyle and shameless quotes from the 80s.

Others, like duet partner Dua Lipa, are still riding the current disco vogue, Cyrus is already anticipating a revival of the sparkling after hip-hop tourism (“Bangerz”, 2013) and country play (“Younger Now”, 2017) Designer trash glampops.

The rock veterans Joan Jett and Billy Idol appear as guests on their album.

With her roughened and matured voice, Cyrus himself now sometimes sounds like Bonnie Tyler, that's really funny.

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Late-born Miley-Minions will it be care less, older pop music audience, however, sheer

despair about the fact that Cyrus and her current songwriting pool is not made before that stop, is dull for the intro of the power ballad "Angels Like You" at "In My Life «by the Beatles.

In the chorus of “Midnight Sky” Laura Branigan's “Self Control” and the currently ubiquitous “In The Air Tonight” are condensed motivically to maximum catchiness, “Prisoner”, the Dua-Lipa collaboration, steals the hook from Olivia Newton- John's "Physical".

Even The Weeknd probably wouldn't have dared to do that.

The production, by Mark Ronson and Louis Bell among others, is on the one hand aseptic, on the other hand programmed so competently to full blast that Cyrus should have a whole series of new radio hits.

Her lyrics fluctuate between hungover self-pity ("WTF Do I Know", "High") and defiant heroization of their own fucked up ("Hate Me", "Bad Karma").

You can do it, Cyrus is not the first.

Inedible, however, is the last song, coquettishly titled "Golden G-String", in which Miley stylizes herself as a victim of patriarchy ("The old boys hold all the cards, and they ain't playing gin"), which she calls crazy- frivolous scandal noodle defamed, but she did everything to be loved: "I did it all to make you love me and to feel alive".

This is accompanied by a sugary waltz, as it should be for an anthem tipsy from its own drama at the end of an epic party.

It's all about as glamorous as whiskey-cola.

But somehow also likeable.

(6.5)

Listened briefly:

Ducks on Drugs - "Stably unstable"

It's a shame that Schnipo Schranke are history, but the new band of singer Daniela Reis with her husband Ente Schulz is also great: It's about neo-NDW electro and Billo-Geschrammel, about Mowgli and Balu, about the ecstasy of couple shit - so sweet and painful, so disarming and unvarnished as with the Audiolith colleagues from Sorry 3000. "Give me feelings" is the hit of this autumn depression.

(8.5)

Shygirl - »Alias«

“She came to fuck”, states one of the four cartoon avatars that Blane Muise invented for her multiple feminist pop persona Shygirl in the slippery track “Slime”.

The Londoner, whose first EP fascinates with dark club music, comes from the environment of the Nuxxe label, where everything is "post-": post-grime, post-trap, post-gender.

But not post-sex!

The Berghain variant of »Wap«.

Tom Liwa - "The One My Friend Knew"

The great Duisburg songwriter Tom Liwa, once the head of flower porn, has often wanted to quit, annoyed by the music industry.

Fortunately, Liwa, now 59, has continued to write "normal songs" on her own.

His 27th album contains some of the saddest and most beautiful: they're actually about dying, but they're as warm as a friend's hug.

(8.0) (via Bandcamp)

The Smashing Pumpkins - "Cyr"

New synth sound despite the comeback of guitarist James Iha: 25 years after their rock relevance, the »Pumpkins« remain flexible.

The band around the bald demon Billy Corgan didn't sound so concise for a long time: "Ramona" is one of a surprising number of pop hits, but "Wyttch" suffers from the old bombshell, it's better not to listen to the lyrics - and of course 20 songs are overkill again.

(6.0)