So finally, Miley Cyrus has a post-Hannah hit on her hand on the generic but sweet pop move’ We Can’t Stop” which joins Robin Thicke and Daft Punk in the song of the summer 2013 sweepstakes. I don’t think it will win but it won’t miss by much.
As political statements go, well, at least it sees a political component to hedonia; that a call to party is a call to freedom and a call to sex, or even, in the video, at least some form of friendship and tenderness, is its own reason for being.
In someways “We Can’t Stop” is a rethinking of “Party In The USA’ for a post 2010, mainstream EDM pop moment: the video is all movement and sexiness and the song constantly hails you on to acts of poly-drug Mollieisms. Miley’s sexiness is a gimme now but hr fierceness is something else, there is a rebellious pointedsteadfastness to the attitude. The beginning with the doctored voice and the background vocals is hooking you for the first 25 seconds without Miley even making a showing, when she does arrive, she sounds even older than she is, “ladi dadi we like to party” she says quoting, Doug E. Fresh, (though she probably thinks it’s Snoop) “dancing with Moll, doing whatever we want”.
Th hooks pile up and pile up and the song is already big and will sell all sumemr long so now it is a three way tie for Song of the Summer.
We Can’t Stop – Miley Cyrus – A-