Miley seems to have a tradition of surprising us on VMAs. At the 2013 VMAs she surprised us with her raunchy twerking, and now, in 2015 returning to the show as the host, she surprises us with a free album. I had pretty low hopes from Dead Petz, expecting it to be the same old flimsy commercial pop Miley gave us on Bangerz, but Dead Petz is worse.
The album sees Miley taking on a psychedelic pop sound and the heavy influence of Wayne Coyne of the band Flaming Lips, who produced most of the album and also co-wrote a few of it's songs, is clearly heard in the music. Miley has also thankfully gotten rid of the overdone production we found on Bangerz and has switched to a more stripped down style.
Not wasting any more words, I'll get straight to the point. Apart from the songs Karen Don't Be Sad, Bang Me Box and I Get So Scared, I found the album to be pretty awful. The songs on Dead Petz feature some of the worst vocals Miley has performed in her career, and this time there is no heavy production to save her either. In the last track Twinkle Song, a piano ballad, Miley makes hilarious attempts at singing at a high pitch, which only ends up sounding like she's shouting.
The album's lyrics sound as if they were written after a quick read-through of "Poetry For Dummies". Most of the times they sound pretentious, and when they don't, they sound nonsensical, like in the first track Dooo It. The lyrics on the song Pablow The Blow-fish, about Miley's dead blow-fish are another great example. It is just impossible to figure out whether the song is meant as a joke or it is actually meant to be a mournful ballad, since it is too drab for the former and too silly for the latter.
A song that I did enjoy was Bang Me Box. The funky guitars and synths matched with the raunchy lesbian lyrics made quite a groovy combination.
To conclude, I feel, it was a brilliant decision to make this album a free one. I don't think anyone would have paid for such substandard music. Miley has said that Dead Petz was a side project, and she's currently working on another major release. Well, if she is, I'm not a bit excited for it.
Favorite Songs: Bang Me Box, Karen Don't Be Sad
Rating: 3.5/10
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