Yes, the world is so full of ugliness that I, I assume like most everyone else, need a few minutes a day of beauty crossing their gaze to make life close to tolerable. And I certainly appreciate Miley for providing some of that. If you're the kind of person who watches Miley Cyrus just to add the generous images of her dancing in lingerie and minidresses to your spank bank, this show will not disappoint you. It is definitely visually interesting, from the costuming and makeup to the choreography and sets. But if you are also a fan of Miley the songwriter and performer, this is a noticeable letdown. Part of the problem is that the beauty is already fading at only age 32, both on the outside where the baby fat that originally made her adorable and beautiful has fallen from her face leaving the severe sunken cheeks of a high-society lady in her 40s or 50s, and on the inside, where her smoking habit is drying out her vocal cords and she is starting to sound like Marianne Faithfull but not in a good way. She still has a gorgeous figure, fit for the dancing and the writhing. But the songs in this album lack joy in the presentation, because her face is no longer capable of expressing it. Most of them came out uninteresting and dull, and there were very few opportunities for her to exercise her vocal virtuosity. She's not the "Wrecking Ball" girl anymore, more like a disappointed grown woman with a "wiffle" bat. The best moments were "Every Girl You've Ever Loved" in which she was supported by a sort of rapping narration by supermodel Naomi Campbell, who still has an astonishing figure at 55, which had more melodic life to it than the rest of the show; and "Give Me Love" sung during the closing credits. "Something Beautiful" is not terrible, but it should have been much better musically.
