She stated ' getting super close feeling the urgency' during an interview with DJ Smallzy on March 4. On New Year's Day 2020, Cyrus uploaded a highlight video of the past decade and announced that ' new era starts now'. On November 9, however, it was reported that Cyrus' new music would be delayed until early 2020 due to her vocal cord surgery earlier that month. On November 3, Ronson stated that Cyrus' collaborations with him were tentatively planned to be released before the end of that year. On October 20, it was speculated from Cyrus' Instagram Live video that the release date for the full-length album was scheduled for her birthday on November 23, 2019. The following month, it was reported that Cyrus was undecided between updating the existing album that was completed before her divorce or scrapping that version of the record altogether. Д¬yrus continued work on the record following her separation from then-husband Liam Hemsworth in August. She later explained that the 'she' pronoun in the album title described the 'most confident version of herself'. She Is Here was inspired by 'the present of where at', while She Is Everything was to be comparatively more ballad-driven. Their track listings were to be 'seasonal' in nature she related She Is Coming to ' light and feel the warmth' of early summer, and She Is Here and She Is Everything to being 'colder and a little darker' as the release cycle was to extend into the fall. Cyrus described the three EPs as 'different to a trilogy' that together would form the full-length album. On May 31, Cyrus tweeted that the album would be titled She Is Miley Cyrus, and that it would be preceded by three six-track extended plays: She Is Coming on May 31, She Is Here in the summer, and She Is Everything in the fall. On May 9, Cyrus announced on social media she would be releasing new music on May 30, and later stated the rollout of her new music would be 'unconventional'. Д¬yrus held a private listening session of the album for iHeartRadio executives upon announcing its completion in May. Cyrus and Ronson told Matt Wilkinson of Beats 1 that they were '80% done' with their albums, and tentatively planned for Cyrus' project to be released in June 2019. In November 2018, Cyrus announced she was collaborating with Ronson, and continued work on her forthcoming record.

Cyrus describing the meaning of the album's original title She can be anything you want to be, therefore, she is everything.

In December 2019, Cyrus acknowledged that the musical direction of Younger Now 'wasn't exactly the home for ' and credited Ronson with ' carve out sound, where could do everything that, which is more modern.' Cyrus later cited Britney Spears and Metallica as musical influences on the album. Two weeks prior to Younger Now being released, Cyrus claimed that she was 'over ' and was 'already two songs deep on the next one' however, she later said that she began working on the album in early 2018. Cyrus confirmed there would be no further singles only one month after the album was released and that she would not be touring for it. Its lead single ' Malibu' became her ninth top-ten single on the US Billboard Hot 100, while the title track peaked at number 79. It received an average score of 58 out of 100 on Metacritic, and charted at number five on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 33,000 copies and 45,000 overall album-equivalent units. The album was released on Septemto lukewarm critical and commercial performance.

Cyrus on her shift in musical direction since Younger Now (2017) ДЇeeling distant from the mainstream urban culture she explored on Bangerz (2013) and the musical experimentalism of Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz (2015), Cyrus decided to go for 'rootsy' country music elements while making her sixth studio album Younger Now (2017). ' was obviously a little bit more country influenced, but I still really love pop music and I love music that can be played at the club.'

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