Miley Cyrus premiered her One thing Stunning visible album for a packed viewers at New York’s Beacon Theatre as a part of the 2025 Tribeca Pageant.
However Cyrus, who simply launched her One thing Stunning audio recording final week, with the visible album set to return out subsequent week, is already trying to the long run.
At an album launch social gathering final week on the Chateau Marmont, Cyrus teased that One thing Stunning is merely “the appetizer” for a “an especially experimental” upcoming album.
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter earlier than the One thing Stunning visible album premiere, Cyrus shared just a little extra about what to anticipate from this future launch, which she stated would possible be 12 tracks.
“And I feel I do know what these not less than really feel like and that’s what I began out with this album too the place it wasn’t essentially concerning the sound first and even the look or the imaginative and prescient — it’s what it makes you’re feeling like,” Cyrus advised THR of these dozen songs. “So I really feel that I considerably know what that’s.”
And she or he teased that this future album would hopefully include much less “strain” and be extra “concerning the music.”
“For me, personally, it will simply be the success of all the time making the factor that’s actual and proper in that second however I feel it’ll additionally come with out the strain that I’ve placed on myself for nearly the previous 20 years of my profession,” she stated. “I actually need to do one thing that doesn’t have that kind of energy over me and is simply actually concerning the music.”
Contained in the Beacon Theatre, One thing Stunning performed on the massive display screen to a principally enthusiastic viewers (there have been a handful of people that had been beneath the impression that the occasion was a live performance, together with one vocal viewers member who interrupted the Q&A to ask if Cyrus was going to sing, after she’d already delivered an impromptu a capella model of “The Climb”) that regularly cheered and even sang alongside at occasions to the visible illustration of the 13 tracks on the album.
Cyrus has already debuted Act 1, consisting of the prelude, title observe, “Finish of the World,” “Extra to Lose” and “Simple Lover.” The performance-heavy visible album performs out considerably like a collection of music movies, with every track getting a definite visible illustration and the singer sporting a lot of dramatic outfits just like the Thierry Mugler ensemble she wears in “Prelude.”
Largely acting on soundstages, Cyrus ventures outdoors for a part of “Simple Lover,” the place she’s seen strolling round a studio lot and winking to an onlooker, and for “Stroll of Fame,” which she filmed on the eponymous Hollywood sidewalk in the course of the evening, strolling away with a “brutal” knee an infection, as she beforehand defined.
The visible album ends with Cyrus singing within the rain to “Reborn” (“Give Me Love” performs over the credit) and encompasses a cameo from One thing Stunning visitor Naomi Campbell on “Each Lady You’ve Ever Cherished,” which has echoes of George Michael’s “Freedom,” which Campbell equally was a part of. The 2 runway stroll alongside one another in an deserted warehouse and strike a number of “pose”s as Campbell sings.
Talking in a post-screening Q&A with co-directors Jacob Bixenman and Brendan Walter and producer Panos Cosmatos, moderated by Derek Blasberg, Cyrus opened up about getting Campbell to affix her for One thing Stunning.
“When Naomi desires to do one thing, similar to myself or any artist, they make it occur. They do it,” Cyrus stated. “And there was by no means a time that there was any difficulties for us getting collectively in the identical room, slicing these vocals. It was all the time one thing that felt easy and straightforward. And when these issues begin taking place, that’s once I know that there was no actuality wherein it was by no means written within the stars. I feel it was all the time, from the very starting, going to be one thing that her and I shared collectively, and it was only a matter of time, and there was no higher time than now, and she or he’s truly carrying my [Thierry] Mugler [clothes] in that video. I stated, ‘I don’t share style with my buddies except they’re Naomi.’”
Cyrus stated she and Michael Pollack, who wrote the album along with her, wrote the verse on “Each Lady” for Campbell, basically “channeling” her.
“And she or he had no notes,” Cyrus stated of Campbell, one thing that shocked Blasberg as properly. “I didn’t consider them once they stated she’s already minimize her verse, and it was higher than I ever might think about. … We had been actually attempting to embody her essence, which is simply the final word grace, energy and sweetness and legacy. Actually, she actually is one among our dwelling legends. And so to get to spend speaking to her and speaking to her about style within the ’90s and the place she is now as a mom and watching that evolution has been extraordinarily inspiring for me.”
Regardless of Campbell’s affect, Cyrus stated typically for One thing Stunning, she “was truly very protecting of not having many references, as a result of I wished to be the reference, one thing that nobody’s ever executed earlier than … I utterly worship and idolize the Tina Turners, the Donna Summers, Diana Ross, so many women earlier than me paved this path that I’m on. That is my journey, however they’ve made it a lot simpler as a result of they’ve already damaged down all of the doorways for me.”
One thing Stunning the visible album will play in theaters throughout North America on June 12 for one evening solely earlier than getting a global launch on June 27.