Miley Cyrus

What is Miley Cyrus singing about in 'River'? Inside the lyrics of the pop star's latest hit from her eighth studio album.

You’re just like a river (Ooh, ooh, ooh) You're just like a river (Ooh, ooh, ooh) Throughout the track she uses water imagery with the song acting as one big metaphor.

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The infectious second single ‘River’, which Cyrus has described as “dancefloor banger” with “nasty” lyrics, feels like a relative of her [Stevie Nicks](https://www.nme.com/artists/stevie-nicks)-inspired hit ‘Midnight Sky’. Cyrus has called ‘Endless Summer Vacation’ her “love letter” to LA, the city she moved to as a teenager when she landed her career-launching role in the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana. Cyrus is a straight-talker who is normally game for a laugh on the promo circuit, but since co-hosting a televised New Year’s Eve special with her godmother [Dolly Parton](https://www.nme.com/artists/dolly-parton), she has kept a curiously low profile and even stayed quiet on social media. If ‘Flowers’ finds Cyrus rebuilding herself after a break-up – “We were right ’til we weren’t / Built a home and watched it burn” – then the album feels like a messier, more complex extension of this process. [Harry Styles](https://www.nme.com/artists/harry-styles)‘ producers Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson, climaxes in a psychedelic swirl that sounds like something from ‘Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz’, the experimental 2015 album she made with The [Flaming Lips](https://www.nme.com/artists/the-flaming-lips). [Miley Cyrus](https://www.nme.com/artists/miley-cyrus)‘ eighth studio album arrives on a cloud of mystery, which is unusual for an artist who isn’t exactly the shy and retiring type.

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The other is to be a more traditional or even leftfield artist, making records that highlight the Stevie Nicks-ish qualities of her voice: the Miley Cyrus who roared her way through a lockdown cover of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here, who followed up Bangerz with the Flaming Lips collaboration [Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/31/miley-cyrus-her-dead-petz-first-listen-review), then followed that up with 2017’s country-rock flavoured [Younger Now](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/28/miley-cyrus-younger-now-review-rca). You can virtually hear the click-clacking of gossip-blog posts being typed in the background of Jaded – in which Cyrus lets an ex have it with both barrels – and Rose Colored Lenses’s languid depiction of post-coital bliss. The first is to be a 21st-century pop star, making the kind of committee-written electronic hits that 21st-century pop stars tend to make, as was the case with her 2013 album It also deploys the fashionable device of scattering in a trail of clues about its real-life subject. You might have thought the whole business of leaking albums belonged to a past era, before streaming supplanted downloads, and that people are now largely happy to adhere to the schedule knowing they’ll be able to stream the album for free when it arrives. It’s hit No 1 everywhere from Poland to Paraguay, seven weeks and counting at the top of the British charts, its lyrics and video painstakingly scanned by a media and fanbase eager to discover references to Cyrus’s ex-husband Liam Hemsworth, three years after their divorce.

Miley Cyrus' album 'Endless Summer Vacation' is here and one of the songs fans are already obsessed with is 'Jaded'.

I'm sorry that you're jaded (Jaded) I'm sorry that you're jaded Months prior to their marriage, their home in Malibu burned down and the couple lost everything.

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Tracks like “Thousand Miles,” “Island” and “Wonder Woman” zero in specifically on the complexities in being your own support system: the sadness that often propels you to that discovery as well as the freedom and relief that follow. [Plastic Hearts](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/miley-cyrus-plastic-hearts-album-review-1096369/) (and the one-off kiss-off “Slide Away”) were Cyrus’ more direct statements on the end of her marriage to longtime love [Liam Hemsworth](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/off-the-cuff-liam-hemsworth-on-hunger-games-and-xbox-addiction-238690/). The tracks are buzzing with the hope of new love and the end of sexual and romantic droughts, as the second single “River” shows. In the credits, her more surprising collaborators like director Harmony Korine (“Handstand”), James Blake (“Violet Chemistry”) and Greg Kurstin (“Jaded”) never detract from Cyrus’ clear vision. Teased by the enlightened divorce bop [“Flowers,”](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/miley-cyrus-releases-flowers-video-1234660056/) Cyrus zeroes in on the independence angle as she reflects on past relationships and finally accepts the heartbreak while welcoming in new love for herself and others. The final result is a powerful artistic statement, focused and clear-eyed as Cyrus seems to have found herself in her thirties.

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Cyrus has been dating Maxx Morando, 24, who is also a musician, since the end of 2021. Cyrus references the awkward meeting of a past lover’s parents in the new album’s track Wildcard. The second track, Jaded, is about regret and missed opportunities in a past relationship – reflecting on the burden of what was left unsaid. Her track has already become the most commercially successful of Cyrus’ near two-decade career, topping the charts in over 35 countries. Wearing rose-coloured glasses, pretend we’ll never end.” Especially her

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“Only Miley knows the truth.” In one verse, she accuses someone of manipulating her (“Back and forth always questioning my questioning / Get the fuck out of my head with that shit”), and in another part, she calls a partner out for putting her down (“You watered the weeds / And you killed all the roses”). [She said](https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a42635620/miley-cyrus-sister-brandi-flowers-liam-hemsworth-fan-theories-response/), “Then the other one [theory] was, ‘The house is the house where Liam used to take people [to] cheat on her with.’ The narratives are f*cking hilarious, but it’s so great. What I cannot accept is being told I’m lying to cover up a crime I haven’t committed. Whoever the song is based on, listening to it will probably ruin their day. Miley Cyrus does not hold back on her new song “Muddy Feet.” A collaboration with Sia, the ninth track on Endless Summer Vacation is a vicious takedown of a cheating ex-partner.

Miley Cyrus' new track Muddy Feet has sparked a social media backlash against her ex Liam Hemsworth - with fans wildly speculating the song's lyrics are ...

Get the f**k out of my house. In November 2018, their home was completely destroyed as a result of the devastating Woolsey Fire. Miley Cyrus Muddy Feet instant classic.' Who the hell you think you're messin' with.' Another typed: 'Oh Liam Hemsworth you will crumble for your sins, Miley went into muddy feet mad mad! 'Now I know why you've been closing the curtains.

Miley Cyrus performed songs from her eighth studio album 'Endless Summer Vacation' for Disney+ special 'Endless Summer Vacation (Backyard Sessions).'

“The sequencing of an album is very important to me,” she explains, comparing the creation of the album to a film. “When we started writing the song ‘Wonder Woman,’ the lyrics felt like too big of a shoe for me to fill,” she explains. “Boredom for an artist can feel like torture, so I always need to reinvent,” Cyrus explains. “Somehow, that evolved to a song that’s about happiness and joy and being okay with not knowing exactly where you’re going.” “This song is about, I guess, that kind of generational strength and the wisdom that my grandma gave to my mom,” Cyrus adds. and p.m., to kind of represent almost like an act.” The morning is the potential of new possibilities, an unknown about what the next 24-hours may have in store. The house is the same location where she shot the “Flowers” music video, and it’s also the backdrop of [Endless Summer Vacation (Backyard Sessions),](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/miley-cyrus-backyard-sessions-endless-summer-vacation-1234690323/) the Disney+ special that premiered Friday and finds the singer debuting live performances of songs from her just-released eighth studio [Endless Summer Vacation](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/miley-cyrus-endless-summer-vacation-reaction-1234694050/). “It just makes me emotional because now the song is filled with so much joy in the music and it’s become something so far from the sadness that inspired the song,” she explains. “It feels like it’s only mine and it could only be mine,” she says. Then there’s some wisdom and there’s some humor and there’s some heaviness and depth,” she says. [Miley Cyrus](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-miley-cyrus-songs-1234684356/) is standing in the backyard of the Los Angeles home where [Frank Sinatra](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/an-appreciation-of-frank-sinatra-1915-1998-59176/) once lived, glowing in the sun as she sings about a man who broke his own heart. “Endless Summer Vacation represents, to me, my fearlessness when it comes to experimenting, not just with my sound but also with my identity and the way that I want to be seen,” Cyrus shares after running through “Jaded,” the song that opens the film’s setlist.

Miley Cyrus' popular YouTube performance series is being revived on Disney+ for the release of her new album, Endless Summer Vacation.

She also knows when to push her vocal range to its absolute limit, as she does during her “Zombie” performance, and when to scale back, as she does on “Sweet Jane.” Cyrus adds her rock-star sheen to the music, and her voice glides across the melody easily. Releasing this cover of “Jolene” by her godmother, country music legend Dolly Parton, marked the moment that Cryus took control of her narrative. It would be a crime not to put this cover at the top spot because it’s the one that started it all. In 2010, as she geared up for the final season of Hannah Montana, she released her album “Can’t Be Tamed.” The title track charted high on the Billboard 200, but it wasn’t until December 2012 that Cyrus found the perfect venue to showcase her raw vocal ability: her popular YouTube series, “The Backyard Sessions,” in which Cyrus sings stripped-down covers (and later originals) in a casual outdoor setting. Grande smoothly jumps back into the song, and they both have a moment to shine on the last chorus, harmonizing elegantly. On Christmas Eve that year, she uploaded a cover of her godmother Dolly Parton’s seminal 1974 country banger, “Jolene.” It was one of the first times that Cyrus’ signature country twang, which lent itself well to the heartbreaking song, was on full display. The YouTube series took a five-year hiatus, and the first video released when it returned in 2020 was this sinuous cover of a cover: Cyrus is singing the hit Velvet Underground song “Sweet Jane,” but her version is modeled after the hit 1988 cover by New Zealand’s Cowboy Junkies. In the lead-up to the release of her seventh studio album, Plastic Hearts, the former child star slowed down Spears’ “Gimme More” and used her gruff vocals to add a rock edge to one of the pop star’s most notable hits. Noah Cyrus grew up in the shadow of her older sister, which can’t have been easy. Undoubtedly, there are parallels between how the media treated Cyrus in her early days of fame and how they treated her pop elder, Britney Spears. Once the show ended, Cyrus set out to prove herself as a bonafide singer with excellent songwriting skills (see: “7 Things”) that would put a spotlight on her stunning vocals in ways Hannah Montana had not. If you were a child in the late 2000s, there’s a good chance you watched Miley Cyrus in her breakout role on Disney Channel’s Hannah Montana.

Miley Cyrus' new album, "Endless Summer Vacation," is finally here. Read our breakdown of the "River" lyrics meaning here.

She describes how it feels to be intimate with her new partner. "And I guess all my songs kind of evolve — they could start as something that was a trouble, like, it just feels like it's an April shower. Miley can't stop thinking about her new connection and where it could possibly lead. it was a time in my life where I was going through just a lot emotionally and personally," Miley said. After the [ongoing success](https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/music/a42711775/miley-cyrus-celebrates-flowers-no-1-instagram/) of her lead single, fans anticipated more music from Miley and she delivered. ["Flowers"](https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/music/a42532819/miley-cyrus-flowers-lyrics-liam-hemsworth-easter-eggs/) singer just released her eighth studio album, [Endless Summer Vacation](https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/music/a43097571/miley-cyrus-endless-summer-vacation/), which is full of lyrics alluding to heartbreak, new love, and hopefulness.

A song from Miley Cyrus' new album, 'Endless Summer Vacation,' is fueling rumors that that her ex-husband, actor Liam Hemsworth, cheated on her.

“If you’re a friend of mine and you’re close to me and you listen to this album, it sounds like a conversation with me,” she said on the Disney+ special. Miley Cyrus Muddy Feet instant classic,” “Liam and I have been together for a decade. The former Disney star and Hemsworth married in 2018 after dating on and off for about a decade. It airs out a list of damning evidence, such as the scent of “perfume that I didn’t purchase” and a trail of mud throughout the house. “Muddy Waters,” the ninth track on Cyrus’ new album that dropped late Thursday night, has all the makings of a revenge track.