Dead Petz

Miley moderated the VMAs last night, which nobody really cares about anymore, but she used the platform to drop a new album and a video that’s actually worth watching. The album’s called Miley & Her Dead Petz. It’s free. The first track is Dooo It, and the video is what you get when someone famous enough to do whatever she wants decides to make something completely unhinged.

Glitter exploding everywhere. Colors that shouldn’t coexist. It’s sexual in texture if not in content—excess and sensory overload rendered as an aesthetic choice. The bukkake comparison is too obvious to avoid (glitter instead of the literal thing), and the video knows it and leans in anyway without actually being about sex. It’s just about not caring what anyone thinks.

This is why Miley works as an artist. She’s at the point in her career where she can make literally anything. Most people in that position get cautious or start chasing approval in new ways. She just makes weird shit and puts it out. The Dead Petz album is exactly that—something she wanted to make, so she made it.

I’ve written about this before. I even proposed to her on this site, which she correctly ignored. The point is she’s one of the rare artists famous enough to do whatever she wants who actually does it. Not every project works, but the commitment is real. The video for Dooo It proves it—she’s not interested in being digestible. She’s interested in being herself, and if that makes people uncomfortable, that’s almost the point.