On October 4, 2013, Miley Cyrus released her album entitled, Bangerz and it was a cultural phenomenon. In this album is showed her rap-loving, profanity-embracing pop side. It was certainly not what she did in the past, which made it so big. It included tracks like “We Can’t Stop” and “Wrecking Ball.” Her single “We Can’t Stop” stayed on the Billboard chart for 26 weeks. It debuted number one on the Billboard chart and sold 270,000 copies in its first week. By May of 2014, it hit a million records sold. Despite Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and Justin Timberlake are all releasing new albums, “Bangerz” is the album everyone listened to first because she was the artist everyone was talking about.
Miley got so much success by doing hip-hop, so why did she stop? On September 29th Miley dropped her latest album, Younger Now which combined country and pop elements. Although I thought it was one of her best records, it didn’t do so well on the charts, and besides the first single “Malibu,” the album didn’t do so well. She debuts at number five (behind A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie) with 45,000 units. Younger Now only managed to sell 33,000 traditional copies. This was kind of a shock for Miley fans because it was such a great album.
So what do you think the next step for Miley is? Will she continue to do the music that is true to her, or will we see her take a step to the rap and hip-hop direction once again? Recently she just commented on Cardi B’s Instagram post that she wanted to hang out:
I would be excited to see Miley go back to this style again, but would the hip-hop community accept her back?
