The critical response to Miley Cyrus’s Something Beautiful exposes pop’s gender double standards

By Glenn Fosbraey, Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
Sarah Shawcross, Music Educator, Lecturer & Songwriter, University of Winchester

With her latest album Something Beautiful debuting at number four in the Billboard 200 and in contention to reach the top of the UK album charts, Miley Cyrus’s commercial appeal appears as strong as ever.

Something Beautiful is Cyrus’s 9th studio album, described by the singer-songwriter as an attempt to bring the divine into the day to day. It’s an ambitious, sprawling…

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