Miley Cyrus and her Dead Petz (2015)

Miley Cyrus and her Dead Petz (2015)

“I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.”

John Lydon

By: Ghost Writer

If you ask me to name you 10 Madonna's songs, perhaps I can fairly do it, if you ask me to name you just one single Miley Cyrus song, I can't (although I remember one lousy song by his father, the awful Achy Breaky Heart by the now forgotten Billy Ray Cyrus) for me, the girl is more about scandals and showbiz than anything else, yes I have seen the video with the wrecking ball and the other in which she does twerking to the guy dressed as Beetlejuice, but that's it, yes, I was excited by her collaboration with Against Me! On some video on internet and with the Flaming Lips collaboration on the senseless Beatles covers record the made, I think she's a better sideshow than protagonist, I presume.

Yes we all know that the Flaming Lips can be at times too risky experimentalists, but getting too close to the sun can melt the wax in your wings like what happen to Icarus, the guy from the Greek mythology who became later the inspiration for an Iron Maiden song.

Strangely, Cyrus might be doing something Madonna should have done a decade ago, getting risky, going out of mainstream pop by the hand of an adventurous band and getting revitalized in the act, but Miley is a disposable singer, her voice has no identity, she can write a single memorable song and when in company in someone else she gets lost pretty easy.

Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz is the result of the Flaming Lips continuing their route towards weirdness, but always keeping the eye on money, whereas for Cyrus is simply entertainment without much substance or transcendence, it’s a fact that Cyrus is not aiming at becoming something, I guess she still doesn’t know what…a hip hopper, a rock star…here he sounds like Lana Del Rey gone very, very wrong, but she is smart when it comes to getting masses attention.

The result is a quite confusing mess, with slightly interesting tracks like opener Dooo it!, which quickly finds common ground between the FL's Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and Cyrus mediocre pop career, Karen Don't be Sad tries to get serious on the side of the Lips, it’s a Lips tune sung by Cyrus, but not even this formula or a decent melody can save The Floyd Song, and things go downhill from there, as neither the Lips or Cyrus worry about giving the less form to their musical "creations"..., and its only in Bang Me a Box where the weed daze seems to get a little clear.

The problem here is that this is not a Miley Cyrus and the Flaming Lips record, of course Miley name is here, but there is reason for the Lips name not appearing officially on the cover, and that is the fact that the Lips are not 100% sure of the project, yeah, it might be fun, they play hiding in the shadows, they now aligning 100% with the Cyrus is a bit too risky, one thing is aligning with Yoko Ono, who is risky but an awesome artist anyway, but the Cyrus…she´s more a clown, and that might be the reason this whole thing simply goes down…

But nothing really serious, and while I Forgive Yiew and I Get So Scared show some promise, they ate mostly formless, sound vehicles without much talent imprinted on them, Cyrus might have talent to get people's attention, now is time that she learns how to write decent songs