Last week, Miley Cyrus announced plans to drop a new album, Bass Persuades, under the newly-adopted mononym Miley. Today, she returned with the first preview of the record, a pop-meets-post-punk title track accompanied by a video heavily inspired by leather culture. Watch the Mert Alas-directed video for “Bass Persuades” below.
Bass Persuades follows Miley’s 2025 album Something Beautiful, and features contributions from New York art punks Model/Actriz. In a statement on the title shared to Instagram, Miley noted: “Music takes hold of us. We feel it, sing it, sometimes dance to it, let it out and carry on. It is powerful, vulnerable, sweet and strong. Heart full, heartache, every part of life in between.”
The singer will celebrate Bass Persuades’ September 18 release with two shows at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl: one on October 16, and one on October 17. In the year-and-change since delivering her last LP, she’s stayed booked and busy, releasing a deluxe edition of Something Beautiful and donning her iconic blonde wig for a Hannah Montana 20th-anniversary special.