{"id":807464,"date":"2020-05-14T22:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T04:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1000181"},"modified":"2020-05-14T22:00:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T04:00:38","slug":"noah-cyrus-details-the-end-of-everything-ep-track-by-track-unveils-young-sad-visualizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/noah-cyrus-details-the-end-of-everything-ep-track-by-track-unveils-young-sad-visualizer\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Cyrus Details \u2018The End of Everything\u2019 EP Track by Track, Unveils \u2018Young & Sad\u2019 Visualizer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Noah Cyrus<\/a>\u2019 The End of Everything<\/em> EP will be available on Friday<\/a> via RECORDS\/Columbia and to preview its release, the singer unveiled a new animated visualizer for the single \u201cYoung & Sad.\u201d The clip opens with a message from her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus.<\/p>\n

She tells Rolling Stone<\/em> it was important \u201cto start the song with a voicemail my dad had sent me a while ago during a dark period in my life reminding me to keep \u2018smiling\u2019 because at the time that he sent that, a smile seemed impossible for me to give,\u201d she says. \u201cI mean shit, I wasn\u2019t even able to pick up the phone.\u201d<\/p>\n

The contemplative track\u2019s visualizer opens with Cyrus\u2019 father\u2019s words of encouragement while the animated version of Noah is lying in bed with tears streaming down her cheeks. Over a reflective guitar melody, she sings about grappling with all-consuming sadness as she rides a horse by city skylines, rainy meadows and mystical landscapes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like a lot of artists these days are riding a bit of a trend of being sad. Like that it\u2019s \u2018cool\u2019 to be sad,\u201d Cyrus says of the song\u2019s lyrics, which she reworked to find a more positive outlook in the midst of feeling very low. \u201cI was writing this song with two friends and originally the lyric was \u2018I wanna be young & sad a little while longer,\u2019 but something just wasn\u2019t sitting right with me when I listened back. Like, I don\u2019t want to be sad. It\u2019s OK to struggle, but it\u2019s not \u2018cool\u2019 to struggle. So I sat with it for a while and eventually rewrote it and flipped the lyrics to say \u2018don\u2019t want to be\u2026\u2019 once I figured out that that was what was really bothering me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The eight-song set features previously released singles \u201cI Got So High That I Saw Jesus<\/a>,\u201d \u201cLonely<\/a>\u201d and \u201cJuly<\/a>\u201d along with five new tracks, which includes her collaboration with Ant Clemons, \u201cWonder Years.\u201d She also worked with Peter \u201cPJ\u201d Harding (\u201cI Got So High That I Saw Jesus,\u201d \u201cJuly\u201d) and Mike Sonnier (\u201cJuly\u201d). Cyrus details the EP\u2019s songs track by track exclusively for Rolling Stone<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cGhost\u201d
<\/strong>I\u2019ve kept this record in the archives for a special project and that project is finally here. It\u2019s been a long time coming and I\u2019m really happy to see it come out with the EP. It\u2019s such a brilliantly haunting song with an array of meanings. I can\u2019t help but see my younger self so hollow and sad filled with hatred towards herself. I\u2019ve dealt with depression since I was 11-years-old and always felt so uncertain with myself. I remember experiencing such, such sadness all the time. When I picture little me, I just see her needing a pair of arms around her; someone to let her know she\u2019ll grow up and be OK, and that one day the mirror won\u2019t be her enemy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI Got So High That I Saw Jesus\u201d
<\/strong>This song started with a dream PJ had. He literally woke up singing the title of the song, and it took us three months to finish. We knew we had something special but that it could be taken in a lot of different ways, and even be somewhat controversial, mixing Jesus with drugs, so we didn\u2019t want to rush the writing. Religion or spirituality can mean many different things to many different people. This song is not about or for one religion or belief system. Jesus basically represents a greater understanding and knowledge \u2014 that everything has its purpose and everything will work itself out the way it\u2019s supposed to. It will be OK, so long as we are guided by compassion and community. Both are needed more than ever right now. I was born and raised Christian with strong beliefs, and still hold those values. I was also smoking weed one night and had this epiphany around the same time that PJ dreamed the chorus. I hope this song resonates with people, especially with all that is going on in the world right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cLonely\u201d
<\/strong>This one is a really close and personal record for me. I think everyone can relate to these lyrics in one way or another. I worked on this song soon after getting off my tour in 2018 and I was in such a terrible place mentally. I couldn\u2019t look at myself in the mirror, I couldn\u2019t go to social things like my friends\u2019 birthdays. I\u2019d get there and feel like I needed to throw up from social anxiety. I was sitting with my therapist one day and he said to me, \u201cYou know what I think you are? You sound lonely.\u201d And he was so right. People were seeing me, but they weren\u2019t listening. My whole life peoples\u2019 words have taken such a huge toll on my mental health \u2026 But it\u2019s bittersweet because when this song comes on for me now, it reminds me of how far I\u2019ve come with that struggle and to encourage others to speak up. Of course there are some bad days, but I\u2019ve learned to speak up.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiar\u201d<\/strong>
This song just makes me bleed internally. My heart aches when I hear it. It\u2019s about the point of no return once the trust and the bond in a relationship have been broken. Even if it was just once. When I think of this song, I think of a specific someone who really liked me and treated me really kindly, but I took them for granted and I think about it pretty often.<\/p>\n

\u201cJuly\u201d<\/strong>
I was thinking about a relationship I was in for a few years that ended on the Fourth of July. That\u2019s kind of what had been on my mind the past couple of days and once we started the words just flowed. It\u2019s probably the most revealing I\u2019ve been with any of my songs. It\u2019s a beautifully sad thing to see that so many people connect and relate to this song.<\/p>\n

\u201cWonder Years\u201d<\/strong>
Ant\u2019s my guy and so beyond talented. We were working together one night and he pulled up this melody he\u2019d been working on that was an interpolation of \u201cWith A Little Help From My Friends\u201d by the Beatles and I was like, \u201cWOAH, shit.\u201d I went in the booth and hummed some melodies of my own, and then we just worked on the lyrics, production, structure, etc. It\u2019s funny because I don\u2019t think we ever knew how this song would even come out. Like, who gets a Beatles record cleared? Us I guess\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cThe End Of Everything\u201d<\/strong>
The inspiration behind this song changed my life, honestly. It\u2019s all inspired by a time-lapse video of the universe I saw by John Boswell, who also directed my video \u2026 For me, it really put into perspective how shortly lived our moments here as humans are \u2026 I realized I needed to appreciate the current moment more, and to let the ones I love know I love them with every ounce of my body \u2026 So, from the moment I saw the video and this day forward, I really think of everything and life as we know it so much more complex, but also so much simpler now that I know what is actually important to me. To sum it up: myself, my family, my friends, and time itself at the end of the day is meaningless and everything will die. It sounds depressing and it is depressing, but there\u2019s some sort of comfort in the greater message, too. The message that what we have RIGHT NOW is what matters. Nothing else. It\u2019s a deep message that needs five more hours for me to explain, but I hope I summed it up enough in the two or so minutes that the song plays.<\/p>\n

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