Miley Cyrus' long awaited 6th studio album is finally here. I know I'm a little late to the party, but I'm here now. Plastic Hearts is Miley confidently stepping into the world of Rock. Her voice is the perfect mix of raspy yet sweet to sing those wonderful ballads of hers.

Miley's been in this music industry for more than a decade as she has been one of the most pivotal artists this generation has seen. Starting her career off at the young age of 12 as the popstar by night and normal teen by day Hannah Montana on Disney Channel, she then slowly started to make her name as the musician she hoped to be. This goes without mentioning her career discourse throughout her 2015 "rap/pop" album Bangerz, where Miley has probably been cancelled more times than I can count but always comes back with a great bang(erz). 

She went back to basis with her album Malibu, but it didn't have the success she would hope for and ended up being one of her lesser known albums. Without having any really outstanding songs, except for 'Malibu' a country-pop song about her now ex-husband Liam Hemsworth. 

We've seen Miley grow up in the public eye, she is the epitome of child actor gone wild but then manages to get her career back on track and is still the topic of conversation for many. Plastic Hearts proves her lyrical growth and her vocals just show how incredibly talented she actually is. She's been covering bands like The Smiths and Fleetwood Mac before her Bangerz era to unprecedented audience who wouldn't really put Miley Cyrus in the same conversation as these bands. Her most recent covers of 'Zombie' and 'Heart of Glass' put her in that space where her vocals just works with the rock genre.

Lyrically, Plastic Hearts is still the old Miley, albeit with the edges sharpened: songs about fame and love and being a little too fucked up, whether through her drug usage (she is now sober) or her emotional scars left by her past relationships. There’s a thread of unfiltered honesty that positions the album as an emotional twin to Bangerz; that record, beyond the twerking, was largely about Miley's devotion to Liam at the time.  Now Plastic Hearts seems to be a direct conversation with songs from that record, an older, divorced Cyrus more eloquently echoing realisations she was only beginning to acknowledge seven years ago.

Put this album does ask the question, is Miley a real rock star? 

Listen to her album and let me know what you think.