Thirteen years ago, a teenage Miley Cyrus released "See You Again," a snarling dance-rock single and her first without the Hannah Montana moniker that made her famous. It was a mild surprise, reports Rolling Stone — it was cocky, clever, and a bit cooler than anyone really expected from the daughter of the "Achy Breaky Heart" guy.
More notably, "See You Again," was Cyrus at her most self-assured and in her element — a feeling she hasn't been able to quite replicate until now, on her glam-rock throwback album Plastic Hearts.
"Listening through Plastic Hearts is like bar-hopping along the Sunset Strip — if the Sunset Strip somehow played host to the biggest rock acts of the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties on a single Friday night, and they were all fronted by Axl Rose. There's creeping Nine Inch Nails industrial rock on 'Gimme What I Want' and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road-era Elton John on the passionate 'Angels Like You.' If you listen closely (or not), the opening on the title track is a dead ringer for those 'Sympathy for the Devil' bongo drums.
"Tying it all together is Cyrus, whose full-throated vocals turn the whole album into an instant karaoke go-to. But even she's not afraid to cop to her influences: The album's lead single, 'Midnight Sky,' earned so many comparisons to 'Edge of Seventeen' that Cyrus decided to double down and release an official mash-up remix, with Stevie Nicks herself in tow. You may call it shameless, but Cyrus knows exactly what kind of leather-jacket-and-combat-boot show she's putting on here, and her full embrace of rock at its most bombastic, artificial, hair-metal glory is refreshing to say the least." — Rolling Stone
Side A
1. WTF Do I Know
2. Plastic Hearts
3. Angels Like You
4. Prisoner feat. Dua Lipa
Side B
1. Gimme What I Want
2. Night Crawling feat. Billy Idol
3. Midnight Sky
4. High
Side C
1. Hate Me
2. Bad Karma feat. Joan Jett
3. Never Be Me
4. Golden G String
Side D
1. Edge Of Midnight (Midnight Sky Remix) feat. Stevie Nicks
2. Heart Of Glass (Live from the iHeart Music Festival)
3. Zombie (Live from the NIVA Save Our Stages Festival)
More notably, "See You Again," was Cyrus at her most self-assured and in her element — a feeling she hasn't been able to quite replicate until now, on her glam-rock throwback album Plastic Hearts.
"Listening through Plastic Hearts is like bar-hopping along the Sunset Strip — if the Sunset Strip somehow played host to the biggest rock acts of the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties on a single Friday night, and they were all fronted by Axl Rose. There's creeping Nine Inch Nails industrial rock on 'Gimme What I Want' and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road-era Elton John on the passionate 'Angels Like You.' If you listen closely (or not), the opening on the title track is a dead ringer for those 'Sympathy for the Devil' bongo drums.
"Tying it all together is Cyrus, whose full-throated vocals turn the whole album into an instant karaoke go-to. But even she's not afraid to cop to her influences: The album's lead single, 'Midnight Sky,' earned so many comparisons to 'Edge of Seventeen' that Cyrus decided to double down and release an official mash-up remix, with Stevie Nicks herself in tow. You may call it shameless, but Cyrus knows exactly what kind of leather-jacket-and-combat-boot show she's putting on here, and her full embrace of rock at its most bombastic, artificial, hair-metal glory is refreshing to say the least." — Rolling Stone
Side A
1. WTF Do I Know
2. Plastic Hearts
3. Angels Like You
4. Prisoner feat. Dua Lipa
Side B
1. Gimme What I Want
2. Night Crawling feat. Billy Idol
3. Midnight Sky
4. High
Side C
1. Hate Me
2. Bad Karma feat. Joan Jett
3. Never Be Me
4. Golden G String
Side D
1. Edge Of Midnight (Midnight Sky Remix) feat. Stevie Nicks
2. Heart Of Glass (Live from the iHeart Music Festival)
3. Zombie (Live from the NIVA Save Our Stages Festival)