Chief among them, Cyrus said, is Pink Floyds masterpiece,The Wall.
We really leaned in, Cyrus recalled.
And so I have this heart-first attachment to it.
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My idea was makingThe Wall, but with a better wardrobe and more glamorous and filled with pop culture.
As hercollaborations withthe Flaming Lips proved, Cyrus has never shied from experimentation and psychedelia.
Another major influence is the 2018 Nicolas Cage horror movieMandy.
Cyrus loved the movie so much that she named one of her dogs, Mandy.
She even thought about remaking itas a musical, with her starring in the Cage role.
(In the original, he plays a lumberjack seeking vengeance on the cult that killed his girlfriend.)
I love that its a romance revenge story, Cyrus said.
Romance and revengethose are some of the greatest tragedies.
I forever and always will be interested in those.
Cyrus reached out toMandydirector Panos Cosmatos to pursue the remake.
But while that fell through, Cosmatos stuck around to help Cyrus develop the new visual album.
I love when she talks like that.
For me, it opens up a whole world.
Speaking of the interplay between the visuals and music, Cyrus said the former is driving the latter.
It was important for me that every song has these healing sound properties, she continued.
They are the shadow, they are the charcoal, they are the shading.
You cant have a painting without highlights and contrast.
