Pop icon Miley Cyrus has revealed that her upcoming album – due for release in 2025 – was inspired by an unlikely source. "It was inspired by Pink Floyd’s ” , claiming that she originally saw the movie as a teenager cosplaying for the screening by renting a limo, smoking weed and wearing a 70s-style fur coat. "We really leaned in," she says.
The film left its mark, and now Cyrus, who describes her upcoming collection as "a concept album that’s an attempt to medicate somewhat of a sick culture through music," is leaning in further still. "My idea was making but with a better wardrobe and more glamourous and filled with pop culture," she says. "I would like to be a human psychedelic for people.
I don’t want anyone trying to be like me or imitate me or even be inspired by me. I want to impact frequencies in your body that make you vibrate at a different level." Which sounds lovely.
Cyrus, who on the lockdown-era show in 2020, has an ever-growing résumé of rock that includes working with , a version of , a cover of at the Chris Cornell tribute concert in 2019, and Glastonbury in 2022. Sadly, her promise to deliver has yet to come to fruition. Sign up below to get the latest from Classic Rock, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! "It was an opening into a world of rock 'n' roll, sleaze, sexuality, drugs, violence and danger.
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