Chris Willman Music WriterMiley Cyrus took neither a wrecking ball nor the mirrorball she straddled at Sunday’s VMAs to Billie Eilish’s “My Future,” a song she reverently covered for BBC Radio 1’s “Live Lounge.” (Watch her version, below.)The cover comes right on the heels of Cyrus doing her latest single, “Midnight Sky,” at the MT Video Music Awards.
Cyrus is very much into breakup songs these days, and seemed to find a thematic connection between “Midnight Sky” and “My Future,” although her own new tune is much more pointed and less gentle.
Cyrus made a point of leaving her version of Eilish’s recent hit less open-ended than the original. “My Future” is about leaving a narcissistic significant other behind to concentrate on achieving.
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