While researching information of the essay topic to argue for against if music the purest form of storytelling, I explored this storytelling idea in any random album. I decided to explore this is Miley Cyrus’ ‘Bangerz’ album. This album has a very simple and structured narrative over the whole album, even arguable that is has little turning points in its acts.
This is noted in the original no-deluxe edition.
The album opens with the song ‘Adore You’ setting up the story of Cyrus being hopelessly in love, and devoted, to another, saying that she will always love him more than he will. Over the next couple of songs, she talks about sex, noted in the song ‘#GetItRight’ which also has a slight martial type sound towards the conclusion of the song. Next the next couple of songs, like ‘Love Money Party’, ‘Wrecking Ball’ explores Cyrus’ lifestyle but starts to show the fractures in her relationship, first setup in ‘Adore You’.
The turning point of the album is the song ‘FU’ which is a real juxtaposition to the album’s first song, where is details Cyrus’ anger against her partner for what sounds like him cheating on her. ‘Adore You’ and ‘FU’ are both ballads on the but both lyrically and through Cyrus’ vocal range explore two different scenarios. Ironically, the song after ‘FU’ is ‘Do My Thang’ which is the only song on the original album that only really talks about Cyrus and not about a relationship. In the song she says she’ll be ok, and is gaining her independence back. This song is leading to the album’s last song, to me considered as the narrative’s climax, ‘Someone Else’.
In ‘Someone Else’ Cyrus sings about that love doesn’t live with her anymore because someone took it from her but because of it she became someone completed different; she became someone else.
The range from the song ‘Adore You’ to ‘FU’ to ‘Someone Else’ really has a cohesive narrative that shows a drastic character development.
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