MUSIC REVIEW: Endless Summer Vacation: Miley Cyrus (2023)

Miley Cyrus drops an album that will definitely send waves across the music industry while simultaneously bringing both depth in lyric writing and Easter eggs that have been littered both with the release of the album and within the lyrics (about other artists as well as her personal life).

Miley Cyrus did shuddhikaran somewhere between 2012-17, after which her musical trajectory has been very different, starting with the album "Bangerz", and reincarnating with "Younger Now".

While this entire stretch had mostly been poor and marred with many personal challenges for Miley, she seemed to finally come through with glimpses of maybe an exception on "Plastic Hearts". This album still lacked a certain depth, which was finally fully realised on "Endless Summer Vacation".

The album goes through many emotions related to relationship, such as feeling alone while in a relationship, cheating, hurting someone before they hurt you, only wanting to be wild with your "the person" in life and retrospecting on a really old relationship. Many hidden references to exes such as Liam Hemsworth or current Maxx Morando are littered, as well as hidden gems of references paying odes to other songs, such as Bruno Mars's When I Was Your Man on Flowers, or Billy Joel's You May Be Right on Thousand Miles.

The lyrics for the most part hit deep, and are extremely sarcastic and poetic at the same time. They revert back to more surface level lines in Handstand, River and Violent Chemistry, but the album picks right back up from the next song onwards.

Miley's raspy voice is also such a treat to listen to on every song as she sings her heart out with paintings she has let nest over time.

This album could have done with fewer tracks, but it still doesn't change the fact that the album is wonderful, and a classic. Depth of lyrics is something AI cannot recreate, and hopefully it becomes very influential in pop music in the coming years!

Light 8/10!

FAV TRACKS: Flowers, Thousand Miles, You, Jaded, Rose Coloured Lenses, Muddy Feet, Wildcard, Island

LEAST FAV: River