Miley Cyrus’ ‘Can’t Be Tamed’ Review: Album Is Lame

It’s been quite some time that Disney darling Miley Cyrus announced a change in style and, most importantly, sound. Said change was supposed to come with her newest album, the aptly titled “Can’t Be Tamed,” which came out yesterday but which, according to a review by USA Today, is not really worth the money. Or the attention for that matter.

Though the lead single off the album, also called “Can’t Be Tamed,” was welcomed warmly by fans (whether the so-called controversial video had something to do with it or not is still to be determined), that’s about as good as it gets with the album, the review in the aforementioned e-zine says. Just like Britney Spears before her, Miley tries to go full pop but, unlike the Princess of Pop, she fails to do so and instead delivers a collection of tracks that are as forgettable as they are all similar.

“Anyone doubting that Miley Cyrus has made the full leap from tween queen to pop tart need only refer to the video for the title track from her new album, Can’t Be Tamed. The apple-cheeked 17-year-old appears as a feral winged creature, writhing suggestively amid similarly hot-and-bothered dancers. The song, a blandly thumping declaration of independence, is in sync with the other heavily produced dance-pop, rock candy and power ballads on Tamed, each one more generic and anonymous than the last,” USA Today writes in a 2-star-and-a-half review of the newly released album.

“Like Britney Spears before her, Cyrus seems determined to follow in the footsteps of older female stars who have asserted their autonomy, and professed love, over catchy hooks and [hot] beats. But as with Spears, you sense less a tender but distinctive voice than a very young artist encouraged by her vast creative and marketing teams to emote and titillate. When Cyrus sings on Robot ‘Stop telling me I’m part of the big machine,’ you wonder whether she’s addressing a controlling beau or a professional colleague. Either way, you root for her – and worry, too,” the review further reads.

Of the entire album, USA Today recommends only two tracks, and those too only if forced to listen to anything off it: “Take Me Along” and “Two More Lonely People.” In the end, though, when it comes to performance in the charts and on the market, the final word belongs to fans, for it is they who decided whether an album is good or bad by choosing to buy it or ignore it ever came out.