{"id":3982,"date":"2025-06-03T17:17:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/?p=3982"},"modified":"2025-06-12T12:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:20:06","slug":"inside-miley-cyrus-surprise-performance-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/inside-miley-cyrus-surprise-performance-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Miley Cyrus' Surprise Performance in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Call it the end of the world tour as we know it. Miley Cyrus<\/a>, pop\u2019s perennial shapeshifter, is opting out of the stadium spectacle. Instead, she\u2019s slipping into something more intimate: secret performances at cultural haunts like the Chateau Marmont and the Carlyle Hotel, where the audience is small, the vibe is cinematic and the energy is raw.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t just a soft launch of a new era \u2014 it\u2019s a reinvention of modern touring that leans into intimacy and direct connection with an audience. <\/p>\n

Last night, that ethos came to life at Bemelmans Bar inside New York City\u2019s iconic Carlyle Hotel. The PAPER<\/em> cover alum surprised an intimate crowd with a pop-up performance that felt lifted from a dream. Draped in a custom look from Thom Browne\u2019s debut couture collection for Fall 2024, she delivered a trio of tracks: her Grammy-winning anthem \u201cFlowers,\u201d alongside two new standouts \u2014 \u201cMore to Lose\u201d and \u201cEasy Lover\u201d \u2014 from her ninth studio album, Something Beautiful<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHaving every day the relationship between you and other humans being subject and observer isn\u2019t healthy for me,\u201d Cyrus explained in her 2023 Used to Be Young TikTok series. \u201cIt erases my humanity and my connection.\u201d And you could sense it \u2014 a gentle unraveling of the old blueprint. Somewhere between Bangerz<\/em>\u2019s neon chaos and the introspection of Endless Summer Vacation<\/em>, the pop machine began to feel\u2026 less vital. So she recalibrated. No world tour for Something Beautiful<\/em> (at least for now) \u2014 just intimate pop-up shows in gilded hideaways where every note feels couture.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s more than self-care \u2014 it\u2019s self-sovereignty. In a cultural moment where artists are reasserting control over their time, bodies and narratives, Cyrus’ refusal to grind for the algorithm or run the merch gauntlet hits differently. It\u2019s a flex of creative autonomy, an act of preservation framed as performance art.<\/p>\n

And she\u2019s not alone. Across music\u2019s upper echelon, artists are staging quiet rebellions. Whether it\u2019s Lorde ghosting the main pop stage or the All-American Rejects<\/a> house party tour or Frank Ocean turning Coachella into a conceptual mirage, there\u2019s a new prestige in restraint. Less spectacle, more substance. Less for the crowd, more for the soul.<\/p>\n

Miley\u2019s return to the torch-song intimacy of a hotel piano bar is less nostalgia and more subversion. It\u2019s a reminder that connection doesn\u2019t scale \u2014 and maybe, it was never meant to.<\/p>\n

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Photos courtesy of Miley Cyrus<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Call it the end of the world tour as we know it. Miley Cyrus, pop\u2019s perennial shapeshifter, is opting out of the stadium spectacle. Instead, she\u2019s slipping into something more intimate: secret performances at cultural haunts like the Chateau Marmont and the Carlyle Hotel, where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4059,"href":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions\/4059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}