Concert - Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful – A unique concert in Paris tonight

By Mulder, Paris, 17 june 2025

On June 18, 2025, Miley Cyrus will take the stage in Paris for what promises to be one of the most remarkable, intimate, and meaningful concerts of her career. This moment will be much more than just a concert. It is a convergence of art, healing, and reinvention that embodies everything her ninth studio album, Something Beautiful, represents. The event itself is not just a tour stop, but the latest exclusive edition of Spotify's Billions Club Live, a series of live concerts celebrating elite songs that have surpassed one billion streams on the platform. This year, for the first time, Spotify is taking the series beyond the US and has chosen the perfect ambassador for this transatlantic expansion. Miley Cyrus, in all her unique and transgressive glory, will not be performing in a stadium, but at a secret Parisian venue, which will only be revealed a few hours before the show. The audience? An extremely limited number of Spotify Premium subscribers, handpicked and invited by email. For everyone else, the magic will happen later this summer when the concert, accompanied by behind-the-scenes footage, will be streamed on the platform. But for those in the room that night, it will be a unique encounter with an icon, a moment suspended in time.

This isn't just Miley Cyrus' first concert in France since 2014, but a symbolic return to a country that has adored her since the Hannah Montana days, through the electrifying chaos of the Bangerz tour, to her current period of introspection and refinement. She's not coming back to reclaim something she lost, but to share something she found. Her latest album, Something Beautiful, released a few weeks earlier on May 30, is a deeply moving and exploratory project that transcends the realm of music and ventures into the visual arts. Co-produced with sound innovator Shawn Everett and accompanied by a visual album, a pop opera co-directed by Jacob Bixenman, Brendan Walter, and Miley Cyrus herself, the album was conceived as a holistic experience. It made its film debut at the Tribeca Festival and is set to be released in theaters more widely later this month. This is not just an album, but an immersive story about identity, grief, joy, and the quiet strength that comes from surviving it all with your spirit and voice intact.

And the voice is essential here. Miley Cyrus's husky, soulful voice, recognizable among all others and charged with emotion, is the fruit of both her artistic talent and the trials she has endured. She lives with Reinke's edema, a rare condition that affects her vocal cords and requires her to approach her performances with surgical precision and the utmost care. That's why she hasn't toured the world in over ten years. It's also why her concert in Paris is so important. It's not just about seeing a pop star live. It's about witnessing a moment that may never happen again, at least not quite like this. It's about understanding that for Miley Cyrus, every note she sings is a risk, a gift, and an act of perseverance. This evening will not be a succession of hits played mechanically for the general public. It will be an intentional act of storytelling, a spiritual reminder of an album that already feels like a conversation between old friends by candlelight.

The road to this show has been anything but conventional. In the weeks following the release of Something Beautiful, Miley Cyrus launched a quiet revolution in music promotion. Rather than embarking on an exhausting tour, she opted for a series of sporadic appearances at select, atmospheric venues across North America. There was the intimate candlelit concert at the Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle Hotel in New York, where she sang Easy Lover, More to Lose, and Flowers like whispered confessions in a dark room. There was the surprise stop at Brooklyn's 3 Dollar Bill Club, where Miley Cyrus, dressed in leather, lit up the small stage with the raw power of a stadium artist, without the spectacle. There were the stripped-down performances on Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she didn't sing as a celebrity, but as a woman who has lived, lost, and found joy again. Her TikTok listening party at Chateau Marmont, where she presented her new songs to just over a hundred fans, felt more like a sacred ritual than a promotional event. All with the goal of preserving her voice and her vision. And it worked. With Something Beautiful, Miley Cyrus has created what may be the most cohesive and vulnerable work of her career, and she lets the music speak for itself.

Of course, this deeply personal period builds on a pop career that has been anything but static. From her meteoric rise to Billboard chart success as Disney's Hannah Montana to her culture-shaking twerking phase during the Bangerz years, Miley Cyrus has never stopped evolving. She's been a country singer, a rock rebel, a psychedelic provocateur, and now, a pop songwriter. And yet, even as she changes form, her authenticity never wavers. She remains completely herself: messy, brilliant, daring. With Endless Summer Vacation, she won her first Grammy Awards. With “Flowers,” she gave the world a breakup song disguised as a powerful ballad. And now, with Something Beautiful, she distills a decade of personal growth, pain, love, and artistic clarity into one of the most sincere albums of 2025. Critics are already calling it her most mature and musically assured work to date, an album that feels less like an album and more like an open letter to herself.

Paris is not just a backdrop. It's the perfect partner. A city synonymous with reinvention, timeless beauty, and melancholy that dances to the rhythm of euphoria. For Miley Cyrus, Paris becomes the stage not for a comeback, but for a culmination. The secrecy surrounding the event only adds to its mythical character. No flashy countdown, no sky-high ticket prices. Just a whisper on Spotify, an invitation in your inbox, and a venue that will only be revealed on the day itself. It's the antithesis of her previous tours, which were all about her. No pyrotechnics, no giant foam fingers. Just Miley Cyrus, her band, and a setlist drawn from the very heart of her discography, from the iconic Wrecking Ball to the soothing mantra of Flowers, via the fearless audacity of We Can't Stop and the vulnerability of More to Lose.

Yet even as she opens up completely on stage, she remains discreetly invincible. Miley Cyrus has made peace with the paradoxes of her celebrity. She no longer performs to please. She performs to connect. She doesn't sing to dominate the charts, but to move souls. Every performance is a conscious choice, a moment she owes to no one and gives freely. She has found a way to be a megastar without being constantly at the mercy of the media machine. And in doing so, she has become more magnetic than ever. The Something Beautiful concert in Paris is much more than just a concert. It is a presence. It is about witnessing an artist who has transcended the structures that once confined her.

It's about understanding that sometimes less is more, and that intimacy, when paired with intention, can move mountains. Whether you're one of the lucky few in that secret venue or one of the millions watching the broadcast this summer, one thing is certain: Miley Cyrus isn't just giving us a show. She's giving us a piece of herself. And in these fleeting and fractured times, that may be the most beautiful thing there is.

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