Miley Cyrus Bass Persuades: A New Label, Ten Tracks and a Hollywood Homecoming

There is something quietly pointed about the way Miley Cyrus Bass Persuades has arrived: a new album, a new label, and a name stripped back to its first half. Announced without elaboration, Cyrus has dropped her surname for this promotional cycle, presenting herself simply as Miley as she readies her tenth studio record.

A New Chapter on Atlantic Records

According to Consequence, Bass Persuades is not only her tenth studio album but also her first release on Atlantic Records, following a move from Columbia earlier this year. Label transitions at this stage of a career rarely happen without some intended reset of context, and the name change (however unexplained) feels of a piece with that broader repositioning. Whatever the mechanics behind it, the record itself has been shaped with some care about who populates it.

The album carries ten tracks. Model/Actriz appear on ‘Different Religion’, and Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow, a longtime collaborator, lends his hand to ‘Neon Signs’. Model/Actriz will also open the October concerts, which gives their involvement a particular coherence rather than the usual speculative guest-feature dynamic. The visual world around the project is already assembled: Cyrus has been guest-editing a special issue of Wonderland magazine, photographed by Mario Sorrenti, and working with Alastair McKimm and Mert Alas on the project’s imagery.

In an Instagram post accompanying the announcement, Cyrus framed the album’s title in plainly personal terms. ‘Music takes hold of us,’ she wrote. ‘We feel it, sing it, sometimes dance to it, let it out and carry on. It is powerful, vulnerable, sweet and strong. Heart full, heartache, every part of life in between. That’s what the title means to me. Thank you for being a part of making my wildest dreams come true. I sincerely hope you love this album.’

Miley Cyrus Bass Persuades and the Return to the Stage

The concerts are, in their own way, as interesting as the record. According to Rolling Stone, Cyrus will headline two nights at the Hollywood Bowl on 16 and 18 October, her first full concerts in the United States since 2021. That gap of several years is not incidental. In a Billboard interview last year, she said she had stepped away from traditional album cycles and large-scale tours in favour of more intimate performances, explaining that she prefers the ‘one-on-one, intimate connection’ of smaller rooms. She has not undertaken a full tour in twelve years.

The Hollywood Bowl, then, is not a capitulation to the arena machine. In a separate Instagram post, Cyrus was careful to make that distinction felt: ‘The Hollywood Bowl is my favorite place to experience music and see my favorite artists. I’ve sat in those seats many times, but I’ve never taken the stage. L.A. is my heart and I’m bringing it home. See you there.’ The venue operates less as a conventional touring stop and more as a specific, weighted location. Coming home, at least in this framing, is different from going back on the road.

Bass Persuades follows last year’s Something Beautiful, which debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album. The new record, then, arrives with commercial momentum behind it, even if the artistic and logistical choices around it suggest Cyrus is not simply riding that wave.

Tickets for the Hollywood Bowl dates will be available first via an American Express pre-sale beginning Tuesday, 8 September at 10:00 a.m. PST, running through Wednesday, 9 September at 10:00 p.m. PST, as Consequence reports.