Melissa Kacar

Miley Cyrus is the latest member of Spotify's coveted Billions Club , a series which honors some of the highest streamed artists on their platform. As of November 2024, Miley has six songs that surpassed a billion streams on Spotify, which is a rare and impressive accomplishment. These songs were released between 2009 and 2023, which is such a massive span of time for an artist that is still so young. Honestly, these six songs hardly even scratch the surface of her incredible musical legacy. Her extensive catalog is so varied and spans across three different decades. She has reinvented her sound and style countless times, even embodied different characters and personas over the years, but still always found a way to be authentically herself. She started in the industry when she was about fourteen years old and from the very start it was obvious that Miley is a natural born star. Miley has been and always will be one of my favorite artists ever. Looking back on it now, she is the f...

Bangerz is an album that marked a major turning point in Miley Cyrus ' career and the public's perception of her. "I know what I’m doing. I know I’m shocking you," she told Rolling Stone in 2013. While Miley now is known for always reinventing herself and her image with each new album cycle, Bangerz  was the first big transformation she had about a year and a half after Hannah Montana ended. She released it ten years ago to much controversy and backlash as it was such a huge departure from the image of Miley we all knew and loved from Disney Channel. I grew up loving Hannah Montana and have always been a huge fan of Miley through the years, so I do understand the level of shock factor that this music and her promotion of it held at the time. However, I have always thought the outrage surrounding Miley was very harsh and unwarranted. People were so critical of her at the time and for what? I think more people are starting to realize that in hindsight, how unfairly she ...

Miley Cyrus ' long-awaited eighth album, Endless Summer Vacation , is what she described to be her love letter to Los Angeles , which serves as the backdrop to these twelve tracks. This album feels like some of her strongest, most cohesive work yet, which she credited to the mental and physical transformation she went through during it's creation. As an artist, Miley is known to always reinvent her sound and style with each new album cycle, she is someone who never shies away from experimenting or pushing the boundaries of what is expected of her. She is a multi-faceted artist and has explored so many different genres, all of which she has truly excelled in. "I think Endless Summer Vacation , to me, represents my fearlessness when it comes to experimenting. Not just with my sound, but with my identity and the way that I want to be seen," Miley said in her Disney+  Backyard Sessions  special, released alongside the album. "This album feels like it's kind of a ...