Miley Cyrus' new album, Something Beautiful, is finally available to stream everywhere. When news first broke about Miley Cyrus' next album, anticipation of it was palpable. The 32-year-old Grammy winner was approaching her ninth studio album, and naturally, her fanbase were eagerly awaiting the opportunity to see how she's improved over the course of a 24-year-long career in music.

The result is what can be best described as a rock opera by Miley Cyrus. The songstress has led an illustrious career filled with hit records and must-listen collab songs, but this is unlike anything she has released in the past. Instead, this feels like a one-of-a-kind definitive record that some could argue to be her magnum opus in that regard. As such, the best way to determine whether Miley Cyrus' new album knocks it out of the ballpark is to analyze and rank each song on the album from worst to best.

12 [TIE] Interlude 1 / 2

Track 5 and 7 of Miley Cyrus' Something Beautiful

Since both interlude or just straight instrumentals, they can be spoken of at the same time. Because they are more so instrumentals serving as transitions rather than of actual songs, that does not make them lesser than. Their low entry only speaks to how it's harder to rank and compare such instrumentals to actual songs. Actual songs can be enjoyed in isolation from the album, while interludes and preludes rarely produce the same enjoyment outside the album when they serve such a specific narrative purpose to the album.

Still, for what it's worth, these are enjoyable interludes. The first interlude serves more as a transition from the melancholy of "More to Lose" to the more pop-centric "Easy Lover." As such, the track starts off eerily, proving to be effective in creating a specific feeling for the listener. That eerieness helps build anticipation for what's to come. The second, meanwhile, is more electronic and maintains "Easy Lover's" upbeat tone.

11 "Prelude"

Track 1 of Miley Cyrus' Something Beautiful

While technically not so much a song as it is an introduction, "Prelude" is a necessary entrance into Something Beautiful that sets the tone for a cinematic album. Miley Cyrus' voice guides the listener by way of a monologue that reads like a spoken-word poem. She paints a picture in the listener's mind that evokes the warmth of the sun, the ing of a train, fists full of ashes, and other striking visuals. Alongside an orchestral instrumental, reminiscent of a musical score, Something Beautiful opens on a powerful note.

The first track is not truly a song with rhyming lyrics, but what it offers to the project is just as essential as any other track on the album. In that regard, it almost stands alone like any other song on the album. It can be enjoyed in isolation, though it does transition seamlessly into the title track.

10 "Walk of Fame" feat. Brittany Howard

Track 9 on Miley Cyrus' Something Beautiful

In one of only two tracks on the album that feature a special guest star, Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes (one of the best female-led rock bands) assists Miley Cyrus on "Walk of Fame," a song that showcases Miley Cyrus at her most confident. Not only is it a song that reflects the central character's journey throughout the album's narrative, it reflects one of Cyrus' best attributes as a musician. In her aura and aptitude on the mic, she carries a swagger to her that's hard to capture vocally, yet she does so with ease on tracks like "Walk of Fame."

This is also a song that takes both Cyrus and Howard out of their usual genres. "Walk of Fame" feels more like electric pop with a touch of dancehall, something that one would expect Lady Gaga to appear on. It's exciting to see Cyrus experiment with new genres.

9 "Easy Lover"

Track 6 on Miley Cyrus' Something Beautiful

"Easy Lover" is a stark contrast from the previous song on the album (not counting the interlude) and its melancholy, quickly bringing the listener back to a more upbeat nature. In keeping with the idea that the album reads like a visual album or even like a cinematic experience, this is when it feels like the album takes the listener into the second act. The descent from dejection and gloom from the first act is replaced by something more cheery.

Narratively, it feels like a progression in the central character's journey, given how the first few songs of this rock opera play out. This is the first instance of when the dark overtones and themes of the album slowly begin to shed its skin into something a bit more lighthearted and playful.

8 "Give Me Love"

Track 13 on Miley Cyrus' Something Beautiful

With Something Beautiful serving as a piece of operatic narrative storytelling, "Give Me Love" feels like the end credits to a journey that's finally concluded. Better yet, it reads as the epilogue to that journey unfolded. The song evokes religious overtones and an ending that can be read as either somberly prophetic or a peaceful swan song. The following lines especially leave an impression in the minutes of the album coming to a close:

So I'll say my goodbyes to the earthly delights

While my perfect Eden goes down in flames

I'm eaten alive by the mouth of a monster

While fearlessly calling out your name.

So much can be inferred from these lyrics that not only demand further interpretation, but brings the entire album full circle. Songs like "End of the World" and their deeper meaning come to mind while listening, and it is up to the interpretation of the reader to determine if they just witnessed a happy ending or a sad one for the eponymous main character of this album. What a poetically cryptic, formidable way to end an album.

7 "Golden Burning Sun"

Track 8 of Miley Cyrus' Something Beautiful

Coming out of the upbeat tone of both "Easy Lover" and "Interlude 2," "Golden Burning Sun" carries that same positive energy. It doesn't sound as overtly pop as "Easy Lover," but the energy stems from how "Golden Burning Sun" comes from the perspective of someone who has fallen in love with another. It appears as if things have turned around for the central character of the album as they find themselves a lover they can be proud to stand under a golden burning sun with.

It's a song not just about love, but savoring the moment. As Cyrus sings, "I know we're young, but it doesn't last / so let's lay under the fountain and get higher than these mountains." It echoes a similar sentiment as "End of the World," but the optimism comes more from a savoring than a global plight.

6 "More to Lose"

Track 4 of Miley Cyrus' Something Beautiful

The way the song "More to Lose" transitions seamlessly from "End of the World" is almost haunting. One moment, the character of the album is emphasizing fun in an effort to pretend like it's not the end of the world, and the next is a track filled with melancholy, as if reality had just kicked in for them. The world is ending, at least it feels like it, as the central character struggles to leave their lover. It's a song about the crumbling of a relationship and the feeling that one party is falling apart at the seams.

Anyone who has been (or is) in a faltering romance can likely relate to the inner turmoil that these lyrics speak about. At almost five minutes, it's one of the longer tracks on the album, and some will say such a lengthy track can be considered can hurt the song by overstaying its welcome. For "More to Lose," the song remains one of the better songs of the album.

5 "Something Beautiful"

Track 2 of Miley Cyrus' Something Beautiful

The title track for any album is arguably viewed as the most important song on the album. "Something Beautiful" is no different, as the song is booming and thunderous with every chord. Cyrus emphatically cements roots herself and this album into the rock genre by placing this song early on the record. There's something inherently old school about the sound. Not even necessarily in that it sounds likea genre-defining rock song(that can be said about the next track, "End of the World"), but it feels like a sound from a bygone era.

On an album that evokes old-time imagery like "a movie star in a worn-out coat," that can't be a coincidence. In keeping in mind how pivotal an album's title tracks can be, "Something Beautiful" feels indicative of the themes at the center of Something Beautiful as an album, arguably reflective of Cyrus' reflections throughout the album on time and healing through personal growth and age.

4 "End of the World"

Track 3 of Miley Cyrus' Something Beautiful

Some songs get better the more that someone listens to them. While the same assertion can apply to "End of the World," this is a rare case of a song getting better the longer it progresses. On the offset, the song is fun, boppy, and optimistic. It takes someone who is at their wit's end with the rest of the world as "the sky is falling, falling like a comet now." Still, though, they persevere, and choose to not only push forward, but for a moment at least, enjoy themselves like it's not the end of the world.

For many, it's a surprisingly relevant message given the state of the world for some people. The hopeful message resonates all the more strongly as the song progresses, largely because the song is so positively upbeat. The more upbeat the tone, the better the message lingers for the listener.

3 "Reborn"

Track 12 of Miley Cyrus' Something Beautiful

"Reborn" is a calmer track that turns the dial down a smidge from the epic "Every Girl You've Ever Loved" without having to turn down the quality. Whereas "Every Girl You Ever Loved" feels like the epic crescendo of a DJ's set in the middle of a packed club, "Reborn" feels like the euphoric reprise someone experiences after having just danced their heart out. The relief, serenity, and out-of-body-experience that follows is hard to describe, but Miley Cyrus comes the closest through this track.

In the context of the album, the song can be considered the central character's relief from the torment they experienced during the first act of the album, followed by the transition into learning joy in the second. The third act is the most transformative for both said character and the listener themselves.