Miley Cyrus to release visual album inspired by Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'

In a new feature for Harper's Bazaar, Grammy-winning pop star Miley Cyrus gave a wide-ranging interview that covers her childhood stardom, her artistic influences and, most excitingly, her future projects.

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According to the article, the "Flowers" singer has spent the last several months working on a visual album called Something Beautiful, which she is hoping to release sometime in 2025. Although specific details about the project are scant, Cyrus named some of the influences she returned to while creating it, including Pink Floyd's 1979 album, The Wall.

More specifically, Miley referred to the Roger Waters-written film based on the iconic album. According to her, this surrealist rock opera served as a key source of inspiration for Something Beautiful.

"My idea was making The Wall, but with a better wardrobe and more glamorous and filled with pop culture," she said.

Other touchstones for the project include Mandy, the 2018 horror film in which Nicolas Cage plays a lumberjack hell-bent on seeking revenge on the cult that killed his girlfriend. In fact, that film was such an inspiration for Cyrus, that she recruited its director, Panos Cosmatos, to help guide the album's visual language.

“[The album is] more experimental than anything she’s ever done, but in a pop way that I love," Cosmatos said.

Cyrus described Something Beautiful as "a concept album that’s an attempt to medicate somewhat of a sick culture through music."

She went on to say:

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.”

Something Beautiful will be produced by Shawn Everett, whose past collaborators include The Killers, Julian Casablancas, and The War and Drugs. He also produced Cyrus' recent top 10 hit, "Used to Be Young".