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Miley Cyrus Talks 'Political' New Album, Says She Doesn't Know The New Taylor

Her new album 'Younger Now' is out today...

Miley Cyrus embraces her country roots more than ever before on her new album'Younger Now', and she's living her Nashville life so much so that she hasn't met the new Taylor Swift.

The new country-pop queen is NME's cover girl this week, and the interview is as open as we've come to expect from the 'Malibu' singer as she talks freely about gender fluid,her 'Wrecking Ball' legacy, wearing dildos onstage in 2015, the Queen of Pop and going mainstream in Trump's America.

Although theupbeat title track is about embracing all former phases, Miley says it's more so about ageism and sexism, referencing Madonna as aninspiration who is unfairly attacked by the media for simply being older.

While Miley shelved her girl-next-door image with'Bangerz'and'Dead Petz', this time she"wanted to be more straightforward.I think little parts of everyone that I’ve been in my life are starting to come through in this one kind of era of the music that I’m doing,because I really can embrace what I’ve been before rather than trying to distance myself from it.”

"Now, I think I have more of an open mind where I’m like, ‘OK, I can be a bunch of different things every day’, I don’t have to be so locked into myself because then I’m putting those walls and borders around myself that I tell everyone else not to give in to.”

I mean, we wouldn't exactly say that Miley has ever put herself in a box, as she's spent the last five years literally destroying the pop star textbook with her'Wrecking Ball', freedom and fluidity.

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Speaking of 'Wrecking Ball', Miley is still proud of it:“You know, I should f**king be grateful every f**king day for that song, and I am. I think people look at things that they’ve done and there is this sense of shame, or ‘I wish I wouldn’t have done that’ – not because I’m naked, by the way; it’s because I feel like I’m in a deeper songwriting place."

And about the unicorn dildo she wore onstage during her'Dead Petz'-promotingtour? A "political rather than provocative" move, she says, to normalise different sex-gender relations, and liberate all kinds of sexuality. Queen.

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Elsewhere in the interview while on the subject of identity,Miley is asked about old friend Taylor Swift's 'Look What You Made Me Do' video that portrays all of her different personas, and her answer floored us!

“I don’t really know much about it… I haven’t really heard it.” Um... WHAT?!

Does she not have Spotify? Or a phone?We see you on Instagram Live, Miley! How she managed to avoid T-Swift's record-breaking comeback is mind-blowing, but she doesn't seem fussed.

Somebody should tell her that Old Taylor is dead...

Words: Ross McNeilage

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