What a flop list. Not only them choosing a Miley Cyrus song, but also this awful Cup song. They obviously just chose those two songs because they got so hyped and the same counts for Control and Kendricks verse.
If you didn’t listen to the words of Miley’s surprisingly downbeat party-whipper-upper, you’d assume that it was a heartsick Rihanna-style lament. What she’s actually singing about is an exhausted, tooth-grinding, 3 AM kind of not stopping (hence the plausible-deniability drug references), anchored in hip-hop tropes from eight years before she was born: “can’t stop/won’t stop,” hands in the air, the hook from “La-Di-Da-Di.” Maybe the slyest detail in a song full of ‘em: the totally country inflection Cyrus adopts for “can I get a ‘hell no’?”
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