Lyrical Muse

Miley Cyrus is back with a pop punch—and she’s not whispering about the apocalypse, she’s belting right through it. Her new single, “End of the World”, marks the first official track from her upcoming visual album Something Beautiful, and it lands with all the theatrical weight Cyrus has been teasing in recent months. The 13-track album is slated to drop this May via Columbia Records, with an accompanying film set to premiere in June.

Unlike the genre-defying “Something Beautiful” or the cinematic spoken-word “Prelude,” this single is pure pop—catchy, emotionally charged, and dressed up in just the right amount of glam. But don’t mistake polish for simplicity. “End of the World” captures a tension between romance and ruin, pairing melodic uplift with lyrics that read like love letters written at the edge of time.

“Let’s pretend it’s not the end of the world/ The sky is falling, falling like a comet now / I can see it coming down,” she sings sultry and slow, in a lyric that feels less like denial and more like a defiant toast to everything worth feeling.

There’s a wink at Beatles legend Paul McCartney—“Let’s spend the dollars you’ve been saving on a Mercedes Benz / And throw a party like McCartney with some help from our friends”—and a melancholy nod to Malibu, a place that once held personal meaning and painful loss for Cyrus. But nostalgia isn’t the point. This is a song about now. About squeezing magic from a moment even when everything’s burning down.

The accompanying visual? Minimal but magnetic. Directed with signature Cyrus flair, the music video shows her alone on stage, thrashing in a glittering green custom Mugler minidress as golden lights pulse around her. No dancers. No distractions. Just Miley, a mic, and the mood. It echoes her stripped-down GRAMMYs performance, but with a quiet devastation laced into every move.

First previewed during intimate, invite-only sets at the Chateau Marmont in 2023 in front of hand-picked audience, “End of the World” now stands as a compelling introduction to what Cyrus calls “one of a kind pop opera.” And if this is the opening act, we’re in for a world that’s ending—but beautifully.

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