Miley Cyrus has just announced her ninth album. Something Beautiful is out May 30 via Columbia Records. Though most details are still murky, Cyrus worked with Panos Cosmatos, the director behind the 2018 art horror flick Mandy, on the visual front for Something Beautiful.

Something Beautiful was produced by Shawn Everett who has worked with the War on Drugs, Anjimile, Alabama Shakes, SZA, Big Thief, and plenty more. Everett and Cyrus previously worked together on her track “Used to Be Young.” Maxx Morando, Cyrus’s boyfriend and drummer of the band Liily, also worked on the record with the duo. Though the album’s tracklist hasn’t been released yet, Cyrus announced that it will be 13 songs.

Back in November 2024, Cyrus had teased the titled of her next record and stated that it was inspired by Pink Floyd’s 1971 album The Wall, plus the accompanying Alan Parker film that was released three years later; “My idea was making The Wall, but with a better wardrobe and more glamorous and filled with pop culture,” Cyrus said in her cover story with Harper’s Bazaar.

Cyrus was also inspired by Thierry Mugler’s 1995 couture collection, (she’s wearing 1997 Mugler couture on the album’s cover), plus Cosmatos’ film Mandy, starring Nicholas Cage as a lumberjack seeking retribution from the cult that murdered his girlfriend. “I love that it’s a romance revenge story... those are some of the greatest tragedies. I forever and always will be interested in those,” she said.

“It’s a concept album that’s an attempt to medicate somewhat of a sick culture through music… I would like to be a human psychedelic for people,” she told Harper’s Bazaar. “The visual component of this is driving the sound. It was important for me that every song has these healing sound properties. The songs, whether they’re about destruction or heartbreak or death, they’re presented in a way that is beautiful, because the nastiest times of our life do have a point of beauty. They are the shadow, they are the charcoal, they are the shading. You can’t have a painting without highlights and contrast.”

Most recently, Cyrus joined Beyoncé on the COWBOY CARTER duet “II MOST WANTED,” which won a Grammy for Best Country Duo/Group Performance. She also released a cover of Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer” as part of Everyone's Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense. Check out the album cover below.