"Midnight Sky" is a song by American singer
Miley Cyrus
Miley Ray Cyrus ( ; born Destiny Hope Cyrus on November 23, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known for her distinctive raspy voice, her music spans across varied styles and genres, including pop, country, rock, hip hop ...
, released on August 14, 2020, by
RCA Records
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as the lead single from her seventh studio album ''
Plastic Hearts''. The single was written by Cyrus,
Ali Tamposi,
Ilsey Juber and
Jon Bellion with song's producers:
Louis Bell and
Andrew Watt. It is a
disco
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,
pop
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,
synth-pop
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,
electropop
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and
pop rock
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song with lyrics about independence and self-confidence. The song's music video was Cyrus' first self-directed music video and was released on the same day as the single.
"Midnight Sky" was included on several year-end lists of best songs of 2020. Commercially, the song reached number one in Scotland, Bulgaria and Serbia, as well as the top five in the United Kingdom and has reached the top ten on music charts in over 15 territories. It was also the longest-running number-one single on UK radio in 2020, spending six weeks atop.
Background and release
On August 4, 2020, Cyrus posted on her social media a clip of the music video for her song "
Start All Over
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" with the hashtags "
#sheiscoming" and "#butforrealthistime", in reference to her long-delayed seventh studio album ''She Is Miley Cyrus''.
Later that day, she shared a preview of "Midnight Sky" on social media.
The track was released on August 14 as planned.
A preview of "Midnight Sky" was released to coincide with the launch of Instagram Reels, a video-sharing service similar to
TikTok
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, on August 6, 2020. On August 31, the Midnight Sky Truck, an experiential pop-up, appeared in Los Angeles, with various influencers sharing photographs and videos of themselves in the truck.
The song and video were inspired by other female musicians, such as
Stevie Nicks
Stephanie Lynn Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and producer known for her work with the band Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist.
After starting her career as a duo with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham, releasi ...
,
Joan Jett and
Debbie Harry
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Born in ...
, specifically, Nicks' song "
Edge of Seventeen". Cyrus reached out to Nicks before release, asking for her blessing of the song. In an interview with Hits 1, Cyrus explained the song's background, stating:
Just hours before it was released, reports surfaced that the singer and
Cody Simpson had split. Although unconfirmed, the reported breakup came as the singer explained to
SiriusXM Hits 1
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that much of the song focuses on the idea of personal evolution.
Composition and lyrics
"Midnight Sky" is an uptempo
"
Prince
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-esque"
disco
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,
pop
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Arts, entertainment, and media Music
* Pop music, a musical genre Artists
* POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade
* Pop!, a UK pop group
* Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band
Albums
* ''Pop'' (G ...
,
synth-pop
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,
electropop
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and
pop rock
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song with "gritty",
"raw"
arena rock vocals and "pristinely glossy" production.
Written in the key of
E minor, it has a
tempo
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of 110
beats per minute, with Cyrus' vocal range spanning from the low note of D
3 to the high note of D
5.
Its lyrics are inspired by Cyrus' divorce from
Liam Hemsworth and relationships with Kaitlynn Carter and
Cody Simpson, and show the singer "tak
ngback her narrative" and being confident in herself.
She also revealed in an interview in Alex Cooper's ''
Call Her Daddy
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'' podcast that her desire was for the song to be an anthem that normalized
pansexuality
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and provided visibility for those living in fear of rejection over their authentic selves. Cyrus described the song as a "reflection of everyone kind of having this personal kind of woke moment" during an interview on the Zach Sang Show, where she declared:
I feel like a lot of us are waking up. And you know, the midnight sky, I think is kind of a road that feels like it could be nice to take with our head up in the clouds. You know, I feel like right now in society, we don't want to live with our heads in the clouds. But I think in time that's maybe why I've created worlds like this. Because this is kind of my idea of living with my head in the clouds of my own kind of fantasy and the world I wanna create. So I think that it's a cool message, to tell people to create the environment and the world that you wanna live in and I think that's happening on a very political level right now. But also we can do it especially in this quarantine time, in these intimate spaces of our home that we have a place that feels like we've created our own environment, our own head in the clouds, so this is mine.
Singing about the idea of forever being no more in the track, Cyrus explained that she wanted to capture the idea of personal growth. "I think we're kind of set up for devastation — in that, from the time we're little kids, we're taught to claim other humans as our best friends forever. And you just don't know who you're going to be sitting with here right now. You never know who you're going to evolve to be and who they're going to evolve to be," she said to SiriusXM Hits1.
Cyrus opens the song with the declaration that "it's been a long time since I felt this good on my own" and she later sings "I don't need to be loved by you", the moment is a personal one, exploring independence in the wake of her divorce from Liam Hemsworth. As she told
Zane Lowe
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After an early career in music creation, production and DJing, he moved to the UK in 1997. He came to prominence thro ...
in an
Apple Music
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interview, some of "Midnight Sky" stemmed from a personal desire to be the one to tell her story, since looking back, she explained that it often felt as if the press were the ones to tell her story. With the release of the song, Cyrus wanted to speak directly to her fans, and to have more control over an identity that's been shaped by a lifetime in the public eye.
Critical reception
Brittany Spanos of ''
Rolling Stone
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'' praised the song saying that "the 27-year-old
Disney
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darling-turned-pop provocateur has returned with yet another bold reinvention, looking to the raw arena rock vocals and the pristinely glossy production of the era for her new single". The writer also pointed that Cyrus channeled
Stevie Nicks
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After starting her career as a duo with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham, releasi ...
at her solo 80s peak, calling the track a "
Stand Back
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" 2.0, and added that it is "a Prince-esque come hither full of biting, bewitching heartbreak confidence that Nicks invented". Nina Corcoran of ''
Consequence of Sound'' described it as a "flashy synthpop number" stating that is "arguably sleeker than anything Cyrus has released before".
Alex Gallagher of ''
NME
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'' described "Midnight Sky" as an "assertive disco-tinged bop". Gallagher praised the song's lyrics for "Cyrus asserting
ercontrol and independence," adding that the song's chorus was "rousing." Similarly, Michael Cragg of ''
The Guardian
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'' called the song a "disco-tinged, post-divorce banger", commenting that it "sounds suitably refreshed after the double-meh of
2017's country singer rebirth and last year's, erm, '
Cattitude', 'Midnight Sky' is everything all that wasn't: impassioned, energised and delivered by someone brave enough to sport a platinum-blonde mullet". Mike Wass of
Idolator described it as a "dreamy disco anthem"; he praised the personal lyrics stating that "the first taste of MC7 is a deeply autobiographical account of the pop star's emotional journey post-divorce".
''
The New York Times
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'' pop critics ranked "Midnight Sky" as one of the week's most notable releases in their weekly updated column "The Playlist", where Lindsay Zoladz highlighted that "Cyrus's punchy, muscular alto is the true center of this song's power". ''
Entertainment Weekly
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''s music team also ranked the track as one of the best songs of the week in their weekly column "Friday Five" and Marcus Jones commented: "the single lets her still be the rock star she's branded herself over the last five years while catering to those who first embraced her during the ''
Hannah Montana
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'' era". Claire Dodson of ''
Teen Vogue
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'' included "Midnight Sky" in the magazine's selection of the week's best new tunes, stating that "Cyrus' musical journey continues to twist and turn, but her rebellious sensibilities (and recent '80s Joan Jett-esque haircut) are perfectly at home on 'Midnight Sky' an
electro-dance track about not belonging to anyone".
Year-end lists
Many music publications included "Midnight Sky" on their lists of best songs of 2020.
Commercial performance
In the United States, "Midnight Sky" debuted at number 14 on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming Cyrus' 15th top-20 hit in the country and 50th entry on the chart, making her one of the artists with most Hot 100 entries. The song also became her best solo debut on the chart since "
Malibu", which peaked at number ten in 2017, although in the meantime Cyrus had also reached number 13 with "
Don't Call Me Angel
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", along with
Ariana Grande
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and
Lana Del Rey. In its first week "Midnight Sky" was the 20th most heard song in the United States in streaming and the third most downloaded legally. The single debuted at number three on
''Billboard'' Hot Digital Songs chart after only
Cardi B
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's "
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" with
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and
Morgan Wallen
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's "
7 Summers
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", another release of the week.
In the United Kingdom, the song debuted at number 15 on the
UK Singles Chart
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for the issue dated August 21, 2020 and reached number seven in its seventh week there, becoming Cyrus' sixth top-ten hit in the country. In its tenth week, it reached a new peak of number five. The song is also the longest-running number-one single on UK radio in 2020, with six weeks so far, and on iTunes, with 29 days atop the chart. Thus, "Midnight Sky" became United Kingdom's biggest song by a female artist of 2020 and second overall, according to ''
The Official Big Top 40
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'' making it Cyrus' second year on a roll having the biggest female song of the year in the country, following "
Nothing Breaks Like a Heart
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Pea ...
" in 2019. The song was also the 11th best-selling single in pure sales of 2020 on the UK Singles Chart. On June 20, 2022,
PPL reported that "Midnight Sky" was United Kingdom's 9th most played track in 2021 and also the only solo song by a female artist in the top 10.
"Midnight Sky" also debuted at number 16 in Australia, later peaking at number seven, number eight in Canada and number one in Scotland.
Remix
On November 6, 2020, Cyrus released a remix of "Midnight Sky" featuring Stevie Nicks titled "Edge of Midnight". The song is a
mashup
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of "Midnight Sky" and Stevie Nicks's own 1982 single "
Edge of Seventeen". Nicks lends her own vocals in this version, singing the chorus of "Midnight Sky", while Cyrus does the same singing "just like the white winged dove" from Nicks's "Edge of Seventeen". The remix has a unique cover featuring both Nicks and Cyrus.
Music video
An accompanying, self-directed music video for "Midnight Sky" was released on August 14, 2020. It features Cyrus in various settings, such as a room with mirrors, a "colorful" gumball pit and a neon disco setting with streamers and
Technicolor statues of jungle animals, while wearing a
mullet, glittery makeup, black
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bodysuit,
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gem-covered black gloves.
In a mini-doc about the making of the video, Cyrus is detailed in her references, calling upon
Pat Benatar
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and
David Bowie
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as visual inspirations. She's even more specific and studied when she talks about the
acid-trip theme of the video: "You went to a
Blondie show at
CBGB
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with a hit of
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for later
n tow head to an afterparty at Indochine, and pop the tab when you know you'll be at
Studio 54
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," she says.
According to Lauren Valenti of ''
Vogue
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'', the music video shows Cyrus ushering in a new aesthetic era that harks back to the glamour and rebellion of the late 1970s. "It's a dizzying display of self-expression all Cyrus's own, though she did work off the right blueprints, drawing inspiration for her sparkling short from her female rock icons Joan Jett, Debbie Harry, and Stevie Nicks" pointed Valenti.
In an interview with
Apple Music
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, Cyrus explained she was in fact creating the music video for another song when the "Midnight Sky" song idea came out to her, along the music video concept:
In a radio interview with Chris Kelly for Toronto's
KiSS 92.5, Cyrus said the
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in the video represents "
erbeing lost in the
bubblegum pop
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scene" and the disco ball reflected that "it's this kind of broken pieces that were put back together to make something whole again".
Live performances
Cyrus performed "Midnight Sky" for the first time at the
2020 MTV Video Music Awards
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on August 30, where she swung on a
disco ball, in reference to her 2013 song, "
Wrecking Ball". The next day, she performed the song on ''
Live Lounge
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''. On September 10, she performed the song at ''
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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''. Ten days later she performed the song on
iHeartRadio Music Festival
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2020. On October 9, she performed "Midnight Sky" on ''
The Graham Norton Show
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'' amongst "a million Mileys". On October 16, Cyrus performed the song on her ''
MTV Unplugged:
Backyard Sessions
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'' special. She performed the song at Save Our Stages, the event was held on October 20, 2020. She performed again in
Amazon Music Holiday Plays digital concert series on December 1. Later she performed the remix version of Midnight Sky, "Edge of Midnight" for the first time on ''
The Howard Stern Show''. Cyrus again performed the "Edge of Midnight" along with "
Party in the U.S.A.
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" and "
Prisoner" on ''
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest
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'' in
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on December 31. Cyrus also performed "Edge of Midnight" along with several songs of ''
Plastic Hearts'' at the
2021 Super Bowl with
TikTok
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Tailgate. On December 31, 2022, Cyrus performed the song with
FLETCHER as a duet on the TV program ''Miley's New Year's Eve Party''.
Awards and nominations
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
References
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