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Miley Cyrus is an artist who lives everyday like it is her last. Every day, she outdoes herself in the sphere of bad behavior. She continues to make headlines with her fondness for proudly showing her fabulous birthday suit, twerking like her life depended on it, and sticking her tongue out for the world to see. But that is not all there is to her. Indeed, this pretty starlet is more than just an empty twinkling light.

A little more than ten years ago, the world met Hannah Montana. Although Miley Cyrus, the former Disney princess, has come far from her Hannah days, she is still enjoying the “Best of Both Worlds.” For many, Cyrus is just another scandalously under-clothed songstress. Yet, looking at her impressing list of charity work, one has a hard time agreeing with the haters who seem to be blind to her good deeds. 
 
“If you pick up a guitar when you’re eight you’re really good at it by the time you’re 20. It’s the same with giving back,” Cyrus said in a 2008 Time interview. For her, giving to others comes naturally. She supports 41 charities that tackle a variety of social issues such as animal rights, inequality, youth rights, and basic human rights. 
   
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In 2015, she decided to create her own charity for the homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youths, naming it the Happy Hippie Foundation. Explaining her motivation for founding the organization in an op-ed titled, “Innovators vs. Dinosaurs,” she wrote, “For a year, my focus has been on helping homeless youth, and it was heartbreaking to hear that 40 percent of homeless teens identify as LGBT.” The foundation is still in the fledgling stage; however, it has already successfully lobbied for an extra $4,500,000 in yearly funding for the homeless on the streets of New York.

However, her impressive social work is not all that defines her wild, crazy, and artful soul. On her most recent album, Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz (2015), she sings of her love for her pets in a profoundly raw, psychedelic style that is all her own. The album was independently released to the public for free. She coos, screams, shrieks, and sweetly sings about her pets, some of whom are dead and others which are alive. The emotion will resonate with her listeners in a way that is personal, disturbing, and touching at the same time.
   
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According to the press release following the free release, her muses for the album, as the title suggests, were “Cyrus’s beloved dog Floyd, her blowfish Pablow, and a dear friend’s cat Twinkle.” Full of unicorns, sex, kittens, glitter, confetti, and white goo—the album’s unfinished feel is both refreshing and off-putting. This unfinished, unpolished, and brutally honest aspect of her most recent album is the best way to describe Miley Cyrus’s distinct style. Take a listen today—it’s free!—and delve into Cyrus’s world of grand psychedelic dreams and hopes. 
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