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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2015 0:47:11 GMT -5
It's good that she's got a "real" album coming. I take it this was the EP-but-really-a-mixtape with the Flaming Lips.
I'm glad we got this for what it is, but I'm not totally sold on what she tried to do here. There are some really striking moments, but it doesn't come together too well for me. This stuff definitely has an audience, though. Really respectable that she put this together and paid for it herself too.
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Post by adamalterlago on Aug 31, 2015 0:47:13 GMT -5
I'm actually feeling this. I think it's the perfect transitional album between Bangerz and her next official album.
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Post by DiscoπΆοΈπ on Aug 31, 2015 0:50:16 GMT -5
Some of the songs are a bit out there, just as she is, but it's interesting to hear her be all experimental and stuff. It's all over the place and in your face like a mixtape, yet it's cohesive (yeah, I realize that is a contradictory statement).
I like "Karen Don't Be Sad", "Bang Me Box", and "The Floyd Song (Sunrise)".
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Post by Wrecking Ball on Aug 31, 2015 0:57:33 GMT -5
I'm really impressed with the ones she' is credited as writing herself.
My favorites are: Space boots I get scared BB talk fwreaky Twinkle song
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Post by Carlitoz on Aug 31, 2015 8:52:08 GMT -5
I'm on track #2 right now and really liking the album so far. So is there an official album cover art?
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Post by Wrecking Ball on Aug 31, 2015 12:13:25 GMT -5
Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz: first-listen review β leaving her wrecking ball behind There arenβt many pop stars in the industry quite like Miley Cyrus. Namely, there donβt seem to be any former teenybopper Disney singers able to wield as much creative freedom as she does on this sprawling, 23-song album. Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, surprise-released after Cyrus hosted this yearβs MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday 30 August, completes her transformation into dual-identity star: both provocative tween idol and free-wheeling chaser of the muse.Her fifth album presents Cyrus as the colourful, twisted and self-dubbed pansexual, the furthest removed sheβs yet been from the Hannah Montana persona that made her famous. If youβre not up to speed with her latest topless Instagram selfies or various interviews addressing body dysmorphia and sexual fluidity, Cyrus uses this album to tackle the extreme highs and lows of love and death, careening from crisp synthpop and trap to a woozy, buzzing psychedelia. You can hear lead producer Wayne Coyneβs hand all over Dead Petz. The Flaming Lips frontman shares production duties with the rest of his band, as well as hip-hop hitmaker Mike Will Made It, Cyrusβs core collaborator on her all-grown-up-now RCA debut Bangerz. The results ping back and forth between all of Cyrusβs different guises. There are still the hints of the hip-hop and trap pastiches from Bangerz. Cyrusβs distorted voice screams: βYeah, I smoke pot / yeah, I love peace / but I donβt give a fuck / I ainβt no hippie,β before opener Dooo It! flips from sub-bass rumbles into a boombap coda β and you can hear hints of MIAβs abrasive bravado throughout. The Floyd Song (Sunrise), written for a pet dog that died in April 2014 while Cyrus was on tour, meshes acoustic guitar, zapping electronics and warm synth pads in a way that almost sounds like Cyrus fronting a Flaming Lips cover band. This isnβt her first time working with the band, and when they co-produce they opt for full-on synthpop shimmer. They smother tracks like Tangerine in processed sounds indebted to 80s pop and the Flaming Lipsβ own unhinged psychpop. You get the impression that although Bangerz was painted as Cyrusβs break from the cutesy constraints of Hannah Montana and Disney, Dead Petz really allows her to experiment. Sheβs making Hype Machine-ready synthpop rather than acting out a pseudo-twerking, tongue-wagging rap caricature that courts the charts. Quoting her own team of advisers, in a New York Times profile about the making of Dead Petz, Cyrus said they had βnever seen someone at my level, especially a woman, have this much freedom. I literally can do whatever I want. Itβs insane.βAnd sheβs right. This album is definitely too long, and starts to meander into bonus-track territory just over the halfway mark, but marks an important signpost in her career. Itβs hard to imagine many other artists signed to Disneyβs Hollywood Records label who could convincingly make music that flirts with Metronomy-style bassline riffing (on cunnilingus anthem Bang Me Box) and then sounds like Die Antwoord or a PC Music reject on 46-second interlude Iβm So Drunk. Unlike Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato and other former Nickelodeon or Disney performers, Cyrus has been afforded the privilege of collaborating with producers and musicians who let her make whatever the hell she wants. Even her label, RCA, arenβt fussed. Dead Petz wonβt count towards her multi-album deal with them, but theyβve happily let her skip off and do it, saying theyβre βpleased to support Mileyβs unique musical visionβ, in a statement to the New York Times. You may not have the patience to set aside an hour and a half for Cyrus singing about her past hook-ups, clingy lovers, and dead pet dog and blowfish β especially when this psychpop mish-mash slips close to lyrical self-parody during its most frank moments . But thereβs a sweetness to her naivety. After a childhood lived in the spotlight, Dead Petz feels like the first time Cyrus has truly let her guard down in song, Wrecking Ball and all. Sheβs mastering her voice, belting it out on closer Twinkle Song or letting it crack with emotion on Pablow the Blowfish, and doing so on her own terms. In her corner of the industry, thatβs saying something.
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Post by Wrecking Ball on Aug 31, 2015 12:15:25 GMT -5
Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz Is Miley As Youβve Never Heard Her BeforeSome first impressions of the singer's new surprise album, which she announced during her closing performance at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards Miley Cyrus is used to forcing her way to the center of attention. At the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, she upstaged much-hyped, dueling performances from Lady Gaga and Katy Perry with the twerk heard βround the world. Two years later, returning to the program as a host, Cyrus may have stolen the show from Kanye West (whose acceptance speech was a masterclass in slightly stoned trolling) or at least Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj (who performed together after a high-profile Twitter spat) by closing out the ceremony and announcingβoh yeahβthat she was releasing an album for free online that very evening. Yet what stands out about that album, titled Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, is how much sheβs not at the center of it allβat least at first. Her head is elsewhere: βYeah, I smoke pot/ Yeah, I love peace,β she cries on the twitchy opening number βDoo it!,β which she debuted at Sundayβs awards show in a sea of drag queen contestants from RuPaulβs Drag Race. These 23 tracks are meant for lighting up and pondering the universe, if theyβre not about indulging in those activities explicitly. More than half of them top four minutes in length, and several approach five or six. Being in the moment, at least in this dimension, is hardly the goal. Yet it isnβt just subject matter that accounts for Cyrusβ low-key presence. The songs themselves push her voice deep into the mix behind fuzzy guitars and ethereal keyboards she dreamed up with Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, who lends his psychedelic touch to several songs. (In particular, his fingerprints are all over the βYoshimiβ-esque βKaren Donβt Be Sad.β) The tracks resemble leaked demos more than they do songs from Cyrusβ last album, 2013βs flashy Bangerz. There is a rough, homemade quality to the these sketches, even though master beatsmith and Bangerz architect Mike WiLL Made-It returned to the boards to produce a few songs. With a little self-editing and polish, some of the strongest ideas here could be transformed into more recognizable and digestible pop songs, but doing so would be beside the point. Dead Petz is a collection of unhurried, un-airbrushed stoner-pop; itβs not a conventional Miley Cyrus album, and it canβt really be judged as one. It reportedly cost a fraction of what Bangerz did to make, it does not count toward her multi-album contract with RCA Records and Cyrus only presented the album to her label after it was complete. Because of that last fact, though, it feels more representative of Cyrus than anything else sheβs done. βWhen I made Bangerz, it was as true to me then as this record is now,β she said in a recent New York Times interview about the making of the album. βIt just happened naturally in my head. Itβs like anythingβstyles just change.β She claims sole writing credits on 10 of 23 songs, and while some of those are more like interludes than complete compositions, others rank among the albumβs best material (βSpace Boots,β βFweaky,β βLighterβ). All that negative space observed earlier, it turns out, is by her very design. When Cyrus returns to earth, she proves to be a captivating performer. Dead Petz is Cyrus as weβve never heard her before: her husky voice croaks, squeals and makes the kind of noises even the most adventurous pop singers try and avoid, but itβs that color and character that make her adept at channeling whatever pain sheβs feeling into her music. This wonβt come as a surprise to listeners whoβve kept close tabs on her evolution from Hannah Montana to headline fixture. Her 2013 guest appearance on Snoop Lionβs βAshtrays and Heartbreak,β the first real taste of her hip-hop makeover that year, was a surprisingly poignant gut-punch about staving off darkness and creeping isolation. Some of Dead Petz, evident from the projectβs name, was inspired by the death of her dog Floyd, and if the albumβs songs about loss and depression donβt make you feel something, you might be patient zero in a real-life Fear the Walking Dead situation. (The way Cyrus shuts down a partnerβs lovey-dovey PDA on βBB Talkβ suggests she hasnβt lost her sense of humor, either.) Because Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz is one of the most prominent surprise releases to drop since BeyoncΓ© first turned her name into a verb in 2013, itβs hard not to think of its predecessor. If BeyoncΓ©βs self-titled βvisual album,β arriving with 17 exquisite music videos, represented the full, unbridled execution of BeyoncΓ©βs singular vision, Cyrusβ record is the promising formation of one. Here is one of the boldest young pop stars identifying what she stands for, questioning everything from drugs and sexual politics to the business of the music industry and the limits of her sound. The VMAs performance in which Cyrus announced her surprise album was as garish as one might expect from artist whose adult-career philosophy could be summed up with the words, βLook at me!β But with her Dead Petz project, Cyrus does the musical equivalent of pivoting away from the camerasβ gaze in search of something more fulfilling. The songs may not satisfy listeners the same way, but the process behind them is fascinating to watch. Even when Cyrus isnβt demanding our attention, she manages to hold it anyway
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Post by Carlitoz on Aug 31, 2015 12:26:58 GMT -5
Ok, I've been listening to this all morning (although with a low volume since I'm also working) and I have to say it sounds very interesting and many tracks have caught my attention. I knew she wasn't coming back with an easy ready-made manufactured track from Max Martin and I was right. I was expecting more from her, something really interesting and she's delivered. There is growth here and there is a brave woman that has something to say in her music and regarding social issues. I'm looking forward to continue discovering this album. I never thought i was going to end up liking her this much.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2015 15:37:56 GMT -5
It's good that she's got a "real" album coming. I take it this was the EP-but-really-a-mixtape with the Flaming Lips. I'm glad we got this for what it is, but I'm not totally sold on what she tried to do here. There are some really striking moments, but it doesn't come together too well for me. This stuff definitely has an audience, though. Really respectable that she put this together and paid for it herself too. She releases another album after this? Will it be this year or next year?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2015 15:41:08 GMT -5
I put out 5 Songs and now it's an awsome Album that fits on a CD :) I put out the Interludes (the really short songs), Dooo It, Bang Me Box and Evil Is But A Shadow
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Post by Wrecking Ball on Aug 31, 2015 17:13:24 GMT -5
It's good that she's got a "real" album coming. I take it this was the EP-but-really-a-mixtape with the Flaming Lips. I'm glad we got this for what it is, but I'm not totally sold on what she tried to do here. There are some really striking moments, but it doesn't come together too well for me. This stuff definitely has an audience, though. Really respectable that she put this together and paid for it herself too. She releases another album after this? Will it be this year or next year?Β No one knows, but she's actually done a lot of work on it already, and Mike Will has been tweeting about it and playing some of it for other artists. I think the only reason RCA let her release this is because she's giving them a mainstream album soon. Hopefully at the latest we will have a new single by early 2016. Apparently this album is going to be released for sale soon with all proceedes going to Miley's Happy Hippie Foundation.
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Post by Hurricane Lee on Aug 31, 2015 18:03:24 GMT -5
Meanwhile, I just started listening to the album. Karen Don't Be Sad is BEAUTIFUL. Then again, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots was one of my favorite albums for like 5 years so I am not surprised I am into this. Sounds SO much like Miley fronting the Flaming Lips, at least on that song. I look forward to the rest. Floyd is also excellent. Impressive that she is doing this kind of shit as effortlessly as Bangers. A true artist.
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Post by gbaby on Aug 31, 2015 19:32:15 GMT -5
Did I mishear her last night or did she say it was available for download on that site? If so, is there a trick to D/Ling it? I can't quite figure it out.
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Post by Wrecking Ball on Aug 31, 2015 19:46:23 GMT -5
Did I mishear her last night or did she say it was available for download on that site? If so, is there a trick to D/Ling it? I can't quite figure it out. It's streaming on that site, download is being set up soon apparently
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Post by Wrecking Ball on Aug 31, 2015 19:50:20 GMT -5
Meanwhile, I just started listening to the album. Karen Don't Be Sad is BEAUTIFUL. Then again, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots was one of my favorite albums for like 5 years so I am not surprised I am into this. Sounds SO much like Miley fronting the Flaming Lips, at least on that song. I look forward to the rest. Floyd is also excellent. Impressive that she is doing this kind of s**t as effortlessly as Bangers. A true artist. I am impressed that some of the best songs on this are the ones she wrote by herself. I have been a huge fan of hers for a long time but I'm surprised how good they are. Some of the ones that could easily be on a mainstream album (with different production) are the ones she wrote by herself. She's always cowritten material, but hopefully this shows RCA that she can solo write as well.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Aug 31, 2015 20:46:54 GMT -5
I like Lighters.
I think this album has some decent songs. I do like the experimentation - or at the very least, the abnormal - in the songs. It's definitely an interesting listen that kind of borders on psychedelic too. She could probably cut 9 or 10 songs and actually make it a pretty strong album though.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2015 23:22:45 GMT -5
I don't really like Pablow The Blowfish and Twinkle Star.
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Post by nikkominaj on Sept 1, 2015 10:11:32 GMT -5
will there be a song sent to pop?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2015 11:18:12 GMT -5
will there be a song sent to pop? Probably not. She doesn't have the label supporting the project, so any additional promo would have to be paid for out of pocket. It doesn't help that there isn't a single radio friendly track in the bunch, not to mention none of them are even mastered.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2015 11:38:21 GMT -5
will there be a song sent to pop? Probably not. She doesn't have the label supporting the project, so any additional promo would have to be paid for out of pocket. It doesn't help that there isn't a single radio friendly track in the bunch, not to mention none of them are even mastered. They aren't mastered?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2015 11:38:33 GMT -5
It's so hard to rank them :(
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Post by Spidey on Sept 1, 2015 11:40:50 GMT -5
Probably not. She doesn't have the label supporting the project, so any additional promo would have to be paid for out of pocket. It doesn't help that there isn't a single radio friendly track in the bunch, not to mention none of them are even mastered. They aren't mastered? Nope. This was a side project essentially, released independently by Miley. She has also been recording an official new studio release for her contract with RCA. Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz doesn't count as an album toward her contract with the label.
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Post by nikkominaj on Sept 1, 2015 12:27:08 GMT -5
will there be a song sent to pop? Probably not. She doesn't have the label supporting the project, so any additional promo would have to be paid for out of pocket. It doesn't help that there isn't a single radio friendly track in the bunch, not to mention none of them are even mastered. I think a remixed version of Do it would do something. I liked the performance she did of it.
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Post by Wrecking Ball on Sept 1, 2015 15:20:11 GMT -5
This has a better review on metacritic then any of her previous music!
Honestly Do it is the one song on there that I don't like. I really don't know why that is what she performed, there are better songs that would have attracted more people
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Sept 1, 2015 15:21:41 GMT -5
Space Boots is the only halfway listenable song here.
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Post by Hurricane Lee on Sept 1, 2015 15:29:45 GMT -5
I was half expecting some sloppy shit, to be honest, judging by some reactions here. I should have known better than to doubt the Queen. Also, I guess I don't know much about mastering, but some of these songs sound no less mastered than the ones that Flaming Lips have recorded and they (especially Wayne) are perfectionists.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Sept 1, 2015 15:47:33 GMT -5
Has it been said they aren't mastered? It doesn't sound as crisp as most pop records do but the audio levels are pretty consistent all the way through - or at least I didn't notice anything off in the actual sound of it. Also, mastering is a pretty simple and not time-consuming process (relatively speaking) that I can't imagine she would just skip that step entirely.
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Post by Wrecking Ball on Sept 1, 2015 16:09:28 GMT -5
The credits say it was mastered. I can never tell the difference. Might it be less quality because it came from sound cloud as opposed to a cd or iTunes?
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Post by Hurricane Lee on Sept 1, 2015 20:20:17 GMT -5
Yeah. I forgot that the credits said the songs were mastered too.
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Post by Heart Shaped Box on Sept 1, 2015 22:19:00 GMT -5
Oh okay, Miley, I see you. I'm not sure what I just listened to, but I am totally behind it. This is exactly what I was anticipating when Lady Gaga was trying so desperately to make Art Pop happen. There's some interesting layers of sound here and it's so Miley, creative and artistic.
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