![]() ![]() Someone could say, ‘It would be this number if you did that, or this number if you sell your soul…’” She shrugs again. I had no way of knowing what number it would, and it wasn’t of importance to me because it wouldn’t have changed anything. “My boyfriend brings his phone and I don’t bring one. I don’t like to stay big.” When Endless Summer Vacation was released she wasn’t even in LA and didn’t have her phone with her. “That’s not pessimistic,” she continues, smiling. “A lot of headlines have said, ‘This is Miley’s moment.’ And I’m like, ‘That’s exactly what it is. She thinks we all need to be more honest about the false god of unfluctuating success – even pop stars. I might be No1 now, but No2 is on its way.’ Everything is seasonal,” she says, her grey-blue eyes finally alighting on mine. “The song is a little fake it till you make it,” she says. Like: ‘Sure, I can be my own lover, but you’re so much better,’” she says. The chorus was originally: ‘I can buy myself flowers, write my name in the sand, but I can’t love me better than you can.’ It used to be more, like, 1950s. “It will set itself on fire all by itself.” Rather than an explicit diary of her experience, she says she simply wanted to make a song that she could do with hearing. “I never need to be a master at the craft of tricking an audience,” she says, shrugging. Are the lyrics of self-care and personal triumph (“I can love me better than you can”) a direct riposte to her ex-husband, the Australian actor Liam Hemsworth? Did the video, with more than 435 million views on YouTube (and counting), exquisitely directed by Jacob Bixenman, with nods to Helmut Newton and Michael Mann, really feature Cyrus wearing one of Hemsworth’s old tux jackets? Instead, she tossed the song out into the world and let social media eat itself alive. She achieved her latest internet-smashing moment despite doing next to no press. Given the album is called Endless Summer Vacation – which, for Miley, is as much lifestyle mantra as record title – perhaps it will? Released in January, at this point its staying power is so remarkable it seems in danger of becoming the song of the summer. In early May it became the fastest song in the history of Spotify to clock up a billion streams. At the time of writing, the song – an addictive comeback single that has made its way to instant classic status – has spent eight weeks at the top of the US Billboard charts, with another 10 consecutive at No1 in the UK. ![]()
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