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May 30, 2025Something Beautiful is an absolute triumph that casts aside any qualifiers to make a strong bid for the best major pop album of 2025 so far.
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Jun 16, 2025Cyrus' restless creativity and expert craft is a formidable combination, and at its best, Something Beautiful has a fearlessness and sensuality that could be the beginning of something exciting for her music.
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Jun 2, 2025Something Beautiful is a taste of everything she’s done well without overcooking any singular concept. How the charts will take to such a record so allergic to categorization remains to be seen, but Miley Cyrus at her very best was well worth the wait.
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May 30, 2025Something Beautiful is another bold swerve in one of pop’s most delightfully unpredictable careers.
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May 30, 2025So while ‘Something Beautiful’ probably isn’t Cyrus’s most hit-packed album, it does feel like a fully realised artistic statement. This post-genre pop star has pulled off another pretty big swing.
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May 27, 2025The music on Something Beautiful oozes as much personality as the singer herself.
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Jun 2, 2025The result is messy, ambitious, occasionally frustrating, and one-of-a-kind — a testament to rare anatomy and even rarer choices.
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May 30, 2025What it lacks in accessibility, it makes up for in scope. “Something Beautiful” is a record that attempts to show that Cyrus can do it all in ways that you wouldn’t expect, or maybe even want. That she does it so convincingly and confidently doesn’t seem so much a rebuking of her past success as it does an evolution of it.
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Jun 12, 2025Miley’s commitment to new horizons can’t really be faulted, and ‘Something Beautiful’ does indeed add yet another string to the star’s already considerable musical bow.
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Jun 2, 2025As ever with Miley Cyrus, there’s a lot going on with Something Beautiful, and sometimes it doesn’t quite work. Yet it’s definitely another pleasingly unpredictable swing from one of our more intriguing and exciting pop stars.
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Jun 6, 2025There’s a feeling that ‘Something Beautiful’ is searching for a unity that doesn’t quite coalesce, all while lacking some of the towering peaks of Miley’s more commercially-focussed work. A fascinating one-off, potentially; ‘Something Beautiful’ adds another layer to Miley Cyrus’ story.
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May 30, 2025Something Beautiful isn’t quite as crazy or groundbreaking as she seems to think, but its spirit of adventure encapsulates what we’ve come to know and love about one of our most frustrating yet endearing pop stars.
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May 29, 2025If the rest of the album steadfastly fails to make the listener vibrate at a different level – it’s all about as psychedelic as a baked potato – and you struggle to identify any kind of concept, it’s still all very well written and well made, a varied succession of good vehicles for Cyrus’s powerfully raspy voice.
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Jun 3, 2025It is more interested in signaling than embodying. Cyrus can access the best musicians and producers, and she can register a genuine interest in more subversive art, but few songs on her new album feel like they emerge from experience, or a burning desire to explore new sounds.
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Jun 3, 2025Something Beautiful does, of course, sound beautiful — Shawn Everett's production is widescreen and larger than life, but still remembers to dial things back when needed, although maybe not always quite enough (Cyrus is an impressive balladeer! "The Climb" was a moment!) — but it also rings hollow.
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May 29, 2025Something Beautiful has three decent tracks (fizzy dance song End Of the World, emotional ballad More to Lose and the elegiac Golden Burning Sun) and one absolute monster of a sad banger, Easy Lover, that stands out like a blazing beacon amidst a parade of trite ditties overstretched far beyond their natural life to encompass banal poetic codas.