Miley Cyrus Hopes to Be a 'Human Psychedelic' with 'Hypnotizing' New Visual Album Inspired by Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'

Mar. 15, 2025

Miley Cyrus for Harper’s BAZAAR; The movie poster for Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’.Photo:Ethan James Green; The Legacy Collection/THA/Shutterstock

Ethan James Green; The Legacy Collection/THA/Shutterstock

Miley Cyrusis revealing some of the inspirations behind her upcoming album!

The singer-songwriter, 31, is busy in the studio working on her ninth studio album, she revealed in a new interview forHarper’s BAZAAR’s Art Issue, published Nov. 20. Tentatively titledSomething Beautiful, the concept album will center on healing — and feature seriously trippy visuals, Cyrus teased.

While speaking with the magazine, the Grammy winner shared some of the art that she tapped for inspiration while working onSomething Beautifulthroughout the past six or seven months — including an iconic rock film that she first experienced as a teen.

Miley Cyrus for ‘Harper’s BAZAAR’.Ethan James Green

Ethan James Green

The trio “really leaned in” to the rockstar vibe to watch, employing a limo, weed and fur coats à la ‘70s rockers, Cyrus toldHarper’s BAZAAR. “And so I have this heart-first attachment to it.”

Her idea forSomething Beautiful, she explained, “was makingThe Wall, but with a better wardrobe and more glamorous and filled with pop culture.”

Actually,Mandywas originally the only inspiration behind the singer’s upcoming album, which started with her wanting to remake the trippy horror flick as a musical.

“I wanted to play Nicolas Cage,” she toldHarper’s BAZAAR. “I love that it’s a romance revenge story. Romance and revenge — those are some of the greatest tragedies. I forever and always will be interested in those.”

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Even though her musical spin onMandydidn’t end up happening, the film’s director, Panos Cosmatos, has remained heavily involved with the making ofSomething Beautiful. Much like Cosmatos’ style, the record will be “hypnotizing,” Cyrus teased. That, and “glamorous.”

“It’s a concept album that’s an attempt to medicate somewhat of a sick culture through music,” she told the magazine.

“It was important for me that every song has these healing sound properties,” she said. “The songs, whether they’re about destruction or heartbreak or death, they’re presented in a way that is beautiful, because the nastiest times of our life do have a point of beauty. They are the shadow, they are the charcoal, they are the shading. You can’t have a painting without highlights and contrast.”

Rather, she said, “I want to impact frequencies in your body that make you vibrate at a different level.”

source: people.com