WHO IS MILEY WITHOUT THE CYRUS?
New name, new era. And a very deliberate reset.
At the end of August, @mileycyrus became @miley. And her website moved from mileycyrus.com to mileyofficial.com. The launch post was a red-and-black portrait shot by Mert Alas with a one-word caption: MILEY.
THE MONONYM CLUB
The move puts her alongside Cher, Prince, Rihanna, Beyoncé and Adele. A single name isn’t vanity.
It’s a quiet way of saying: I’m enough. No famous surname, no titles, nothing tying you to anyone else.
NEW RECORD: BASS PERSUADES
Bass Persuades is her tenth album and the first released under the mononym Miley. It’s also her first release through Atlantic Records, as she’d called it a “love story” with a red theme.
Every era so far came with a character: the country rebel, the Bangerz provocateur, the Plastic Hearts rock star, the Something Beautiful art.
This one opens dark and industrial, then softens into ballads and slow-burning love songs, most of them made with her fiancé. Critics are split on whether that’s growth or a loss of edge.
Friday’s show at the Hollywood Bowl was her first live performance in four years.
Miley stepped off the album-tour-album treadmill a long time ago, and for Bass Persuades, she booked just two nights.
Now the clips are everywhere: Miley in tears, Miley dancing like nobody’s filming, Miley not even trying to play the flawless rock star.
“THE SOBRIETY IS LIKE, THAT’S LIKE MY GOD. I NEED IT, I LIVE FOR IT”
She quit weed in 2017 and alcohol in 2020, and she’s never pretended it was easy. Now the routine is the point – she picked the Hollywood Bowl because her bed was ten minutes away by 11 pm, and she isn’t sure endless touring is sustainable. The party girl didn’t disappear, she just goes to bed early now.
OUR TAKE
Anyone who’s stood in a British crowd knows that singing back is half the point of a gig. Miley isn’t trying to be the Bangerz girl anymore. She's stopped proving anything to anyone.
It’s brave, deeply human, and we’re fully behind her.
