“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (the Beatles) with the Flaming Lips and Moby, With a Little Help from My Fwends Here is every Miley Cyrus cover song, ranked.ħ6. Regardless, her best and worst covers alike are rarely not interesting. Many of Cyrus’s misses often have the makings of her great covers and end up faltering for the reasons the others succeeded: a vocal performance played too straightforward or too outside the lines a song choice that sets her up to disappoint or ends up ringing empty. Sometimes, it’s singing the song that shows off the best contours of her voice others, it’s bending songs that just shouldn’t work to her will. Sometimes, it’s picking the perfect song for the moment others, it’s bringing a left-field song to a new audience or imbuing it with new meaning. (In the name of setting boundaries, we’re sticking to officially released covers, meaning no live bootlegs.) It’s hard to consistently pinpoint what makes a Cyrus cover great. That makes it the perfect time to take a look back at the highs and lows of Cyrus’s covers discography. Her latest project, a live album called Attention (released on April 1), featured even more new covers she’s performed over the past year on stage. She used her cover skills while promoting her 2020 album Plastic Hearts, sprinkling in new renditions at stages from her NPR Tiny Desk to her Super Bowl LV pre-show on TikTok to an entire Pride concert special. (Not to mention her live shows, where she regularly busts out new covers in the name of fan service.) In 2020, Cyrus’s covers were back in the spotlight thanks to a new cover of Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” hitting streaming (once again, by fan demand) and another revival of the Backyard Sessions as an MTV Unplugged special. She’s found success in other venues, too, from the BBC Radio 1’s “Live Lounge” to the stage of The Tonight Show to tributes and covers compilations.
While she’s been recording covers since the late aughts, she made them a more intentional staple of her repertoire with her Backyard Sessions YouTube series, which first debuted with three fan-favorite covers in 2012 and returned by popular demand in 2015 with even more, along with some guests. And she has the voice to back it up - one that can effortlessly traverse pop, rock, country, and soul. Miley Cyrus, Disney star turned perennial headline-maker, has long recognized the power of a good cover. It’s hard to consistently pinpoint what makes a Cyrus cover great.
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