Miley Cyrus rebrands as Miley and announces her 10th album ‘Bass Persuades,’ out Sept. 18, plus two Hollywood Bowl shows
Miley Cyrus is entering a new era, and she is doing it under a new name. On Tuesday (Sept. 1), the pop superstar, now going professionally by the mononym Miley, announced her 10th studio album, Bass Persuades, arriving September 18 via Atlantic Records. The reveal came just a day after she “hard launched” the name change on social media, and it doubles as one of the most deliberate reinventions of her post-Flowers career.
The announcement lands remarkably fast on the heels of her last record. Bass Persuades follows 2025’s Something Beautiful by barely a year, a pace that reflects Cyrus’ well-documented impatience with long album rollouts. She revealed in June 2025 that she had already sequenced twelve songs for the follow-up on a private Spotify playlist, and the finished project now carries the weight of a genuine artistic reset rather than a quick turnaround.
The Meaning Behind the Title
Cyrus framed the album’s title as an emotional catch-all. “Music takes hold of us. We feel it, sing it, sometimes dance to it, let it out and carry on. It is powerful, vulnerable, sweet and strong,” she wrote on Instagram. “Heart full, heartache, every part of life in between. That’s what the title means to me.” Alongside the message, she shared cover art and a teaser clip of herself playing electric guitar, hinting at the record’s sound. The 12-track project opens on the title track and includes a feature from art-punk band Model/Actriz on “Different Religion.”
Thematically, Cyrus has described Bass Persuades as a “love story.” Speaking about the album in July, she framed it as reflecting her relationship with fiancé Maxx Morando while also exploring self-love, “a quiet kind of love,” both for another person and for herself. She has called changing her relationship with herself her greatest personal evolution, and that dual romance, external and internal, threads through the record.
A Rebrand, Not a Dig
The name change has predictably fueled speculation, particularly given Cyrus’ well-publicized estrangement from her father, Billy Ray Cyrus. Some fans read dropping the surname as a pointed statement. But Cyrus has previously said the two reconciled, telling the “Reclaiming” podcast that “half of us weren’t speaking to each other at one point and we cleaned it all up,” adding, “I watched what happens when you don’t clean things up as they’re happening.” The mononym reads less as a family jab than as a clean-slate branding move for a star whose entire career has been built on reinvention.
The rollout has been comprehensive. Cyrus guest-edited a special issue of Wonderland Magazine photographed by Mario Sorrenti, and enlisted a heavyweight creative team including Alastair McKimm, her close collaborator on Bass Persuades, and Mert Alas, who exclusively created the visual world surrounding the album. It is a full aesthetic universe, positioning the record as a considered statement rather than a casual drop.
Back to the Stage
The album also marks a live return. Cyrus will play her first concerts in years with a two-night stand at the legendary Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on October 16 and 18. Tickets follow an American Express presale beginning Tuesday, September 8 at 10 a.m. PT, with additional presales through the week ahead of the general sale on Thursday, September 10 at 10 a.m. PT.
The announcement arrives during a poignant moment for Cyrus, who recently shared a heartfelt tribute to her godmother Dolly Parton following the country icon’s death at 80. It has been a whirlwind stretch overall, from a Hannah Montana 20th-anniversary special and a Hollywood Walk of Fame star to an original song for James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash. Bass Persuades, and the singular new name attached to it, is the clearest sign yet of where Miley is headed next. The album arrives September 18 via Atlantic Records.
