Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus. Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Miley Cyrus has ditched flowers for cowboy hats as a featured artist on Beyoncé’s highly-anticipated new nation album, Cowboy Carter, which was launched on Friday, March 29.
Cyrus, 31, and Beyoncé, 42, did the shock collaboration on new love track “II Most Wished” that followers are already calling an “iconic traditional”.
The observe, which is about long run relationships, kicks off with the lyrics: “Know we’re jumpin’ the gun, however we’re each nonetheless younger/ Someday, we received’t be/ Didn’t know what I would like ’til I noticed your face/ Say goodbye to the previous me.
“I’ll be your shotgun rider ’til the day I die/ Smoke out the window flyin’ down the 405/ I’ll be your backseat child, drivin’ you loopy/ Anytime you want,” they sing within the refrain.
Following the track’s launch a military of listeners flocked to social media website X to share their pleasure. “Beyonce and Miley Cyrus harmonizing whew. Chef’s kiss!” wrote one fan.
“Future Hope and Future Baby on the identical track is historical past,” wrote one other in reference to Beyonce’s former lady group Future’s Baby and Cyrus, who was born Future Hope.”
A 3rd mentioned: “I would like a complete Beyonce and Miley album subsequent! Whew.” Whereas a fourth commented: “This Bey and Miley track is on repeat. It’s an iconic traditional.”
Within the track’s different lyrics, they croon: “Got here out of nowhere, didn’t give no warnin’/ Pedal so heavy like the 2 most wished/ And I don’t know what you’re doin’ tonight.”
Miley then does her solo verse singing: “Making waves within the wind with my empty hand/ My different hand on you.” Beyonce joins in with, “Been some time since I haven’t tried to drag away/ But it surely’s time for one thing new.”
It’s not identified if the track was impressed by their very own relationships.
Beyonce has been married to hip hop mogul Jay-Z, 54, since 2008 and the couple share youngsters Blue Ivy, 12, and Twins Rumi and Sir, six.
Cyrus has been in a romance with drummer Maxx Morando, 25, since 2021.
This isn’t the primary time that the Flowers singer has shared the stage with the 32-time Grammy winner. In 2008, the duo carried out collectively as a part of a Stand Up for Most cancers occasion, alongside Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Rihanna and Leona Lewis.
Trying again on that efficiency for her TikTok collection, “Used to Be Younger,” Cyrus recalled feeling the magnitude of singing with a few of the musical greats.
“What I bear in mind most from doing this efficiency is I used to be standing in between two of the large legends and icons that I used to be wanting as much as on the time, and so they handled me like a little bit sister the complete time, they have been being actually candy,” she recounted in a August 2023 video. “I obtained brackets on the again of my tooth, and I’m singing with Beyoncé.”
Cyrus joins a formidable lineup of star-studded performers on Cowboy Carter. The album, which options 27 tracks, features a track with Put up Malone and talking options from Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and Linda Martell. Regardless of a hopeful fan frenzy, Taylor Swift, The Chicks and Girl Gaga have been not included on the observe listing.
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Beyoncé dropped the album’s songs “Texas Maintain ‘Em” and “16 Carriages” in February, turning into the primary Black lady with a No. 1 single on Billboard‘s Sizzling Nation Songs chart.
The artist detailed her new album through a March 19 Instagram submit, noting that Cowboy Carter has been “over 5 years within the making.” She shared a photograph of herself atop a horse, decked out in a cowboy hat and holding an American flag. “[The album] was born out of an expertise that I had years in the past the place I didn’t really feel welcomed…and it was very clear that I wasn’t,” Beyoncé wrote. “However, due to that have, I did a deeper dive into the historical past of Nation music and studied our wealthy musical archive.”
After teasing a number of collaborations on the album, Beyoncé famous, “This ain’t a Nation album. It is a ‘Beyoncé’ album. That is Act II Cowboy Carter, and I’m proud to share it with y’all!”
Cowboy Carter is out now.
