Younger Now (Miley Cyrus)

EN "Younger Now" is the sixth studio album by American singer Miley Cyrus, released on September 29, 2017, by RCA Records. The album was made only with the usual producer Oren Yoel and was executed in a way that intends to remind us of the singer's roots, more linked to the country genre, although we know that it is not at all the style with which the singer identifies with. The artist herself made this very clear in an article, which made the cover of Billboard, in which she ended up criticizing herself, saying that the materialism and sexualization of women "pushed her out of the rap scene" and influenced the creation of this project, a cheerful pop-rock album that arises around country music.

Miley started the disclosure with the track “Malibu", her first single after reconciliation with Liam Hemsworth, being a single full of life, with all the California sun and love hearts directed at her boyfriend. For me it was an excellent presentation track for the project and at the time I couldn't have been happier that they had reconciled and given love another chance. The second single, the title track, is another animated song, and in the video we have a puppet that accompanies the artist, dressed in a style of a 50s rodeo cowgirl. In the lyrics she reflects on her change until then: “No one stays the same" while a dancer spins incisively on a pole. “Even though it's not who I am/I'm not afraid of who I used to be.”

Although the previous two albums seem confusing, but painfully sincere, “Younger Now" seems safe and excessively "clean", without the usual enthusiasm of the artist, ending up looking more like a character on this album than in previous projects. And I think the era suffered due to the lack of connection of people with the project, because it seems too forced and, nowadays, the artist herself recognizes this and does not identify with what she composed for the album. But not everything is bad, the album has very good tracks, as is the case of “Thinkin’", which has an contagious chorus over fantastic guitar chords, and “Love Someone", which is also one of the tracks that stands out the most from the album due to its uniqueness, quite distinct from everything else, ending up unraveling the fateful end of the relationship with Hemsworth, with a refrain that said “Ever since the day that I met you/I knew you weren't the one”.

What the artist was trying to do with the project - making it more easily “consumable” by the public - is obvious, but the album makes it clear that, for better or for worse, that message ends up not passing, or at least the creative process was not the best to make it possible. “Younger Now" is Cyrus' first album where it really feels like she's trying to sell us something, pushing our thinking about her to a predetermined place, and that appears on an album that is, contrary to her appeals, rather uninspired.

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