Miley Cyrus's Next Album Will Probably Sound More Like Bangerz Than Younger Now

Soon after cruising down the nation lane for last year's Younger Now, Miley Cyrus will pivot back to pop and hip-hop for a portion of her next album. And she's bringing one of her most trusted Bangerz collaborators along for the ride.


The 26-year-old has been hard at work this week promoting "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart," her stellar group effort with Mark Ronson that's set to appear on his upcoming album. She's also, nevertheless, taken the possibility to lose some light on her own impending project, which sounds like it'll be a return to form of sorts.


"[Younger Now] was certainly a little more nation influenced, although I still really love pop music and I love music that can be played at the club," she explained on New York's 103.5 KTU. She added of last year's LP, "I felt like that wasn't exactly the residence for me, and I think that Mark helped me carve out my sound, where I may do everything that I want, which is more modern."


As for what her seventh album will sound like, Miley had more to mention throughout a conversation with New York's 95.5 PLJ, where she revealed that the record will be produced by Ronson, Mike Will Made-It, and Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow.


"I think ["Nothing Breaks Like A Heart"] is a nice introduction to the sound that we've got going on the second record," she mentioned. "One song that [Ronson] and I have done with each other is more rock-driven; sort of like modern Debbie Harry and Joan Jett. Then we've got songs with Mike Will that lean more hip-hop, and songs with Andrew Wyatt that lean more pop and option. I just have sort of everything, and then just some down-the-middle pop records too."


Reuniting with Mike Will — who contributed a handful of tracks to 2013's Bangerz, yet none to Miley's last two albums — is sure to turn some heads, immediately following the singer distanced herself from rap music last year. In a 2017 interview with Billboard, she mentioned she no longer subscribed to the genre's materialism and uncensored sexual content, saying, "It was also much 'Lamborghini, got my Rolex, got a girl on my cock' — I am so not that." Nevertheless, she later walked back those comments right after deriving criticism from fans who felt she was guilty of appropriating hip-hop culture.


As for once we can finally hear the fruits of Miley and Mike Will's labor, she says new music is coming "sometime next year." She explained, "I'll certainly put out a record next year, although once and why is still up airborne for me, just 'cause I never like to feel that pressure or think also far ahead."


In the meantime, I'll be getting hype for album No. 7 by revisiting this Bangerz classic: