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Jessica Hullman's avatar

"Cyrus has a unique singing voice. Her range tops out below a lot of men’s, but she has unnerving power and hyperbolically precise pitch control"

Randomly, I found out recently that her voice got much deeper because touring at an early age and heavy smoking had overstressed her vocal chords. She had a surgery on her vocal chords in 2019 to address it.

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Ben Recht's avatar

Yeah, she has lived a hard life! The child star thing is so weird.

That said, her voice was always on the low end. Listen to her talking at the beginning of this one from 11 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93CZ6oFR8Q0

(also a great cover!)

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Craig Citro's avatar

I think you'd be remiss to allow a Miley cover discussion without mentioning "On a Roll": https://youtu.be/BTsW30Ur0sg?si=rWsDdcmBIFFAGy4B

Also, small thing: "primal scheme" above probably should be "primal scream". (either that or she did a cover of EGA that I absolutely need to hear ...)

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Ben Recht's avatar

Hah, oops. Typo fixed.

And I never saw this Black Mirror episode. I'm queueing it up for tonight.

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Kevin M's avatar

I refuse to listen to AI generated music or look at AI generated artwork (at least intentionally). As someone who does do research in human-AI interaction, I probably should as this has become quite the rage in the HCI community and I am at risk at becoming out of touch with the trend as a result.

I can’t explain why. It just is to be quite honest. Also, since we’re on the topic of covers, here’s a tiny desk concert by Justin Timberlake where he basically re-imagined many aspects of his classic songs.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cMIJsoaxRjk&pp=ygUbanVzdGluIHRpbWJlcmxha2UgdGlueSBkZXNr

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Ben Recht's avatar

There will always be more hype cycles.

And you should go back and listen to Justified. That record bangs.

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Phillip Bowden's avatar

Ben, I was unaware of Miley's cover of "Heaven or Las Vegas". Thank you.

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Ben Recht's avatar

It's so good. I really would love to hear a full version.

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Maxim Raginsky's avatar

Dude, you left out her cover of The Cranberries’ “Zombie!” https://youtu.be/N8qx4nn0liY?si=fFU6XJQSjnJu5TLP

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Ben Recht's avatar

Let me ETA the post to add more, including my current personal favorite:

Like a Prayer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0IQm-MXh2s

Also incredible:

Sweet Jane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIwiODeHHwc

Mashup of We Can't Stop with Where is My Mind? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxNawyxKMf0

Also, this duet with Charli XCX makes me very disappointed they haven't collaborated! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6pTRxl7h8g

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Maxim Raginsky's avatar

Another cover I really like is Father John Misty doing Leonard Cohen’s “One of Us Cannot Be Wrong,” where he somehow succeeds in making it sound like an outtake from Death of a Ladies Man: https://youtu.be/m6xEkNMg25E?si=-X7euzDrwpqyAeUJ

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Ben Recht's avatar

This one is ruined because Joe Elliot's voice is shot, but the lines Miley sings on Photograph give me goosebumps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g50OISajGPI

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Christoph Molnar's avatar

Came for AI content, stayed for Miley Cyrus.

She also won me over with her covers. But her old songs with her "new" voice are incredible as well.

I can recommend the entire live album "ATTENTION: MILEY LIVE" from 2022.

Not only covers, but also mashups, like We Can't Stop + Where Is My Mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxNawyxKMf0

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