Daily Beacon: Cyrus Progresses With New Album

A specific disclaimer is needed before this review gets any longer: Miley Cyrus is loved more than the Southern Baptist Conference loves Jesus.

With that said, Cyrus has gone from nothing to everything in a matter of seconds. What started as a cute Disney production starring her dad has transformed her into an entertainment triple threat: singing, acting and well, just being an icon to all.

Cyrus’ latest gift to the common folk is “Can’t Be Tamed,” the album released recently in late June. Jumping right into the mix of things, she starts with “Liberty Walk,” which serves, if anything, as inspiration to be whoever one is and to not care about what others think. Singing “don’t live a lie … just walk, just walk” serves as a message to all of her fans, both old and young, that they need to be who they think they are and not let others tell them what that is, because only they know what their own dreams are.

Her normal, upbeat rhythms that confuse the elderly and serve as adrenaline to the youth are extremely apparent in most of her tracks, leaving room for a few emotional hits like “Two More Lonely People” to really make people feel better knowing that Cyrus is right there with them through their depression episode.

After getting through “Liberty Walk,” which could motivate a deeply closeted homosexual to jump right out wearing a rainbow Christmas light necklace, Smiley Miley gives us a taste of something that could be a personal experience of a relationship, asking the audience “Who Owns My Heart,” like anyone would know, but all secretly hope that she is singling them out.

Downplaying the remarks that she is a Disney-made slut, she sneaks in a little mention of creationism in the first line of “My Heart” to prove to all the soccer moms out there that she is still keeping the faith, to only reassure her more liberal audience that she cannot be caged with her extremely popular single “Can’t Be Tamed.”

So is Cyrus playing both fields to keep all listeners happy? When she says that “every rose has a thorn,” is she really disclosing to the public that she, too, has a poker face? It’s a nice sentiment to Poison, but still one has to wonder. Honestly Hannah Montana couldn’t possibly have a thorn growing from any part of her body.

Cyrus sure does know how to get people to think philosophically, though. With her excruciatingly emotional “Forgiveness and Love,” she reminds us that money isn’t everything, but it sure does help her travel to “London then to Paris, Australia and Rome.” Although it’s not clear why she claims that being cold-hearted is like a “Permanent December,” seeing how she knows only of Tennessee and L.A. winter seasons.

“Take Me Along” is a great sentiment toward her neighborhood of “city of angels,” while sporting a country-inspired twang in the pitch and rhythm progressions. Although speaking directly to the critics who are worried that she’s falling down the same trail that led Lindsay Lohan into disgust, she claims that she’ll “be OK … you can’t hold me down forever.”

A song worthy of being on the soundtrack to MTV’s “The Hills,” “Robot” has all the essence that Cyrus wanted to pull off for her new “look.” Not sure why her new look involves a birdcage, but whatever floats her theoretical boat is just fine with the devoted admirers.

She might claim to be merging what she has of “the best of both worlds” into something even more catastrophic, or exposing the public of something “no one really knows,” but quite obviously, “she’s just being Miley.”

Source: dailybeacon.utk.edu