Hey y'all, DJ Louis here, just dropping a little preview of our latest Patreon episode,

which is an in-depth deep dive review into Miley Cyrus's new record, Endless Summer Vacation,

which came out last week with the great Shaw D'Souza, who was our guest on the Miley Cyrus

episode of the show, and who just reviewed Endless Summer Vacation in Pitchfork.

So I wanted to give you a little preview of this episode.

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And yeah, without further ado, here is a little snippet of

my conversation with Shad DeSouza about Endless Summer Vacation. There's a certain anonymity to some of

these songs. Like, they remind me of songs that get passed around through the machine. And like,

they, like, there's a pop star of Miley's stature, like, cannot have songs that feel like they could be sung by other people like when you get to that level of success like when you listen to the other people this is the thing it's like the dissonance we've talked about this on the other episode it's like there's a dissonance between the sort of a list feel of mili as a pop star and figure and then like what ends up happening on these albums to me a lot of times and like to me this is another example of this and maybe a more even more egregious one considering that she's been set up for this massive comeback and this moment of like reclaiming a sort of like harmony between the stature of her pop stardom and her music is that I get into some of these songs on the early part of the record and I'm like these feel like they got passed through like I could picture a lot of other people singing jaded

I could picture a lot of other people singing rose colored glasses I could picture a lot of people singing

a thousand miles it reminds me of like a Nashville song that gets you know is expertly made and shopped to a lot of

artists I'm not always right but still I ain't got time for what went wrong.

Where in the final will I care?

I just feel like that's not befitting of an artist of Miley's stature.

I think that's where the expectations game got fucked for me is I was like, okay, she's got this big hit on her hand, right? I'm not saying that the hit is super singular either, but like she's set herself up here. This feels like it's being packaged as like a restart to her career that's going to like realign the sort of stature of her in the pop landscape, like, with the music on this record.

And instead, and this first half of this record, I'm like, I don't feel like a singular sort of

sense of who Miley Cyrus is as an artist here. It just feels like, you know what? Songs to me.

You're so, I think, apart from you, I think none of these songs sound like only Miley could sing it.

And even then you is tenuous because it, there's a little bit of that resemblance to Rihanna

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