★★★★★
From the most manufactured of reality show alumni to the most earnest of authentic bluesmen, the worth, reputation and success of a recording artist has always been about more than just the music. As much as someone like Jake Bugg likes to insist that he's "just a lad who writes tunes", he has a brand and he has an image, and those feed into the public perception of him and the number of records he sells...
- www.noripcord.com
2013-10-24
★★★★★
Chances are you need absolutely no introduction to Miley Cyrus and the media circus surrounding her various antics for the last few months. Whatever she's doing, whether it's licking hammers, twerking that skinny white butt of hers, or swinging naked on a wrecking ball, there's no denying Miley is a hot commodity right now. And her antics are paying off, with millions upon millions of hits on her videos and her album Bangerz heading straight to the number one spot...
- www.theaureview.com
2013-10-16
★★★★★
Erm ... wasn't this supposed to be game-changing and dangerous? Its hollow, unremittingly roboticised sheen is, on reflection, no surprise at all; its stupefying blankness entirely predictable. But, for this much-trumpeted 'growing up' record, a super-hot assemblage of producers up front and co-stars in tow, the word was Bangerz was Miley Cyrus revealed: the 'adult' album, Miley in your face and writ large...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2013-10-16
★★★★★
Last week, MTV aired Miley: The Movement, a one-hour documentary offering a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Miley Cyrus' new album, Bangerz. Apparently, the silly, surreptitious spectacle that unfolded at this year's VMAs is part of this "movement." Here's what the artist formerly known as Hannah Montana had to say to all of those silly, hifalutin, smarty-pants critics at The Times and The Atlantic: "This isn't some mess. This is all thought out in my mind...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2013-10-10
★★★★★
Peanut gallerists ready to love or hate Miley Cyrus's fourth studio album - her first as the VMA-owning, Sinéad-riling, hip-hop darling we've come to know - will be disappointed. The capital-P pop star backs up her I-just-don't-give-a-fuck persona with killer singing and decent songwriting, but keeps us waiting for a banger that never comes. Opener Adore You is pretty, but way too slow and plodding to kick off a project thusly named...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-10-10
★★★★★
I'll be the first one to tell that I think what Miley Cyrus has been doing for the last six months or so is among the most "punk" action undertaken by a straight-up pop artist in some time. In a world dominated by Dr. Luke and Max Martin's generally abominable songwriting and production methods, Miley instead turned to rising star Mike WiLL Made It for "something that sounds black" for the lead single off of her new album, Bangerz. And that is awesome...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-10-10
★★★★★
I hear you. There have been problems with Miley Cyrus . Read Jody Rosen's ironclad takedown or the countless other essays by women of color to get a taste of how she's messed up, at her VMA performance and elsewhere. I read all of them, and I'm glad that conversation has been started, that those voices are being heard...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-10-10
★★★★★
Who is Miley Cyrus? To much of the public, she's a tongue-waggling, sexed-up former child star who writes dumb songs about Americans' right to party. And actually, that might be exactly who she is. On the other hand, she could be a 20-year-old kid who's lived hard and fast without many rules and is probably going to do some stuff she regrets, stuff that will live online forever...
- origin.avclub.com
2013-12-16
★★★★★
Who is Miley Cyrus? To much of the public, she's a tongue-waggling, sexed-up former child star who writes dumb songs about Americans' right to party. And actually, that might be exactly who she is. On the other hand, she could be a 20-year-old kid who's lived hard and fast without many rules and is probably going to do some stuff she regrets, stuff that will live online forever...
- www.avclub.com
2013-10-08
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