Plastic Hearts is the seventh studio album by American singer Miley Cyrus, released on November 27, 2020, by RCA Records. It features production by Louis Bell, Mark Ronson, Andrew Watt, and Andrew Wyatt. Guest vocals are provided by Billy Idol, Joan Jett, Dua Lipa, and Stevie Nicks.
"Midnight Sky" was released as the lead single from Plastic Hearts on August 14, 2020. The song received universal critical acclaim, peaking at number 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 5 on the UK Singles Chart.
"Prisoner" featuring English singer Dua Lipa was released as the second single from the album on November 19, 2020.
Cyrus grew distant from the mainstream hip hop culture she was involved with while working on her albums Bangerz (2013) and Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz (2015), and leaned towards "rootsy" country music elements while making her sixth studio album Younger Now (2017). The album was released on September 29, 2017 to lukewarm critical and commercial performance. It received an average score of 58 out of 100 on Metacritic, and charted at number five on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 33,000 copies and 45,000 overall album-equivalent units. Its lead single "Malibu" became her ninth top-ten single on the US Billboard Hot 100, while the title track peaked at number 79. Cyrus confirmed there would be no further singles only one month after the album was released and that she would not be touring for it.
Two weeks prior to Younger Now being released, Cyrus claimed that she was "over " and was "already two songs deep on the next one"; however, she later said that she began working on the album in early 2018. In December 2019, Cyrus acknowledged that the musical direction of Younger Now "wasn't exactly the home for " and credited Ronson with " carve out sound, where could do everything that , which is more modern." Cyrus later cited Britney Spears and Metallica as musical influences on the album.