Dropping Cyrus, Keeping Miley

Bass Persuades arrives as Miley’s tenth studio album and marks a particularly visible reset in her career.

Released just over a year after the ambitious Something Beautiful, it is her first album credited simply to Miley, with Cyrus removed from her professional artist name. The change extends across her public branding and accompanies her move to Atlantic Records, giving the project the feel of a deliberately defined new chapter.

After nearly two decades of shifting between pop, rock, country, psychedelia and more experimental territory, Miley enters this era with little need to establish another persona.

Bass Persuades presents an artist treating reinvention as a permanent part of her identity, pairing the shortened name with a compact album centered on movement,

Let the Bass Do the Persuading

Bass Persuades puts Miley back in a dance-pop setting, building much of its appeal around heavy low-end, electronic production and songs designed for movement. The title track establishes the album’s physical, club-facing attitude, while Different Religion pushes into darker territory and Let’s Get Married brings a dreamy romantic tone inspired by her relationship with Maxx Morando.

Across its brief runtime, the record moves through dance pop, atmospheric electronics and more intimate songwriting, with tracks including Aftermath and Innocent Ways bringing personal reflections into the mix. Miley’s distinctive rasp remains the connecting force, giving even the album’s sleekest productions a recognizable personality.