The Miley Cyrus Discography Rate Part 1: WINNER ANNOUNCED! FINISHED!

[Music Is Life & Death]

I have watched the movie after reading your description of it, but the movie and the song are both mediocre.

Yeah, well, you're mediocre.

 

[Music Is Life & Death]

So that's your bottom 10 Miley/Hannah songs. I'm happy I avoided losing any 10s, thanks for that...

Which didn't last long, cause with the next elimination I'll be losing my first 10. Y'all suck.

 

[DJHazey]

Yeah, well, you're mediocre.

Well I found out from one of your videos that you're another Greg, so keep calling another Greg mediocre why don't you ddd.

 

[Music Is Life & Death]

Well I found out from one of your videos that you're another Greg, so keep calling another Greg mediocre why don't you ddd.

Yes my name is Greg. But its actually spelt G-r-a-I-g. So its Graig. Much more rare.

 

[DJHazey]

Yes my name is Greg. But its actually spelt G-r-a-I-g. So its Graig. Much more rare.

Oh what that is unique! I have seen Craig and Gregg but never Graig.

 

[Music Is Life & Death]

Oh what that is unique! I have seen Craig and Gregg but never Graig.

Yeah. It was my dad's idea. He named me after Graig Nettles, his favorite baseball player.

 

[Music Is Life & Death]

#93 - True Friend: 5.88

(Found online)
Highest: 1x10 (Me) 1x9 (@Entropy)
Lowest: 1x2 (@Mirwais Ahmadzaï)
My Score: 10
Favorite Lyric: You know the secrets I could never tell. (Everyone has that one person you tell everything, no matter what. I love that.)
Trajectory
5 Voters: #63
10 Voters: #70
15 Voters: #91
19 Voters: #92
Total Points: 88.25
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True Friend was recorded and used as the closing track on Hannah Montana 2. It was written by Jeannie Lurie, and produced by Marco Marinangeli, who’s an Italian songwriter and producer, and has worked with Donna Summer, The Cheetah Girls, Hilary Duff and more, and will actually pop up again later. With this elimination, Hannah Montana 2 becomes only the second album to lose more than one song, as Hannah Montana Forever has already lost 3, and it lost “Old Blue Jeans" back at #99. I will say that the album will be safe for a while after this, so don’t worry about losing your faves. It was first used in the show in the second season two episode “Cuffs Will Keep Us Together”. At the beginning of the episode, Miley and Lilly are in gym class, and Miley’s complaining cause they’re playing flag football, and she knows she’s going to get picked last cause she stinks at sports (the relatability). She’s upset, until Lilly is named as one of the team captains, and she gets excited cause she knows Lilly will pick her for her team. This is the first episode that introduces Joannie Palumbo, a rival of theirs (but mostly Lilly’s), and she also gets picked as team captain. Miley makes a bet with Joannie that whoever’s team wins gets to give the loser’s team captain a haircut. Because of this, Lilly doesn’t pick Miley for her team, and this makes Miley mad. Lilly won the bet, but when she tries to get Miley to stop being mad at her after a concert where she performs True Friend (introducing the song as a “sweet song about a two-faced backstabber”), Miley picks people to ride in the limo, and instead of picking Lilly, Miley picks a ficus named Fern. This leads to continued fighting, and when Miley finds out that True Friend won a Silver Booty for best country-pop crossover, she rushes off to tell Oliver instead of Lilly. After telling Oliver, and being annoyed that he didn’t happy dance, she drags him off to get their nails done. After this, Miley comments on how a guy has the best eyes, and Oliver mentions how the guy’s sweater makes them pop, leading to him freaking out a little. Lilly and Miley fight over who gets to hang out with Oliver, until he puts handcuffs around their wrists, and loses the key. They’re stuck together until Miley gives a speech about winning the award for the song, after which the two of the make-up. It’s a really cute episode, and one of my favorites of season 2. There’s also a whole sub-plot where Robby stops talking to Jackson cause he never listens, and it always made me scared my dad would stop talking to me. It has since been used multiple times throughout the series, usually during episodes that have a friendship theme. Anyways, this has always been one of my favorite Hannah songs, partly cause of the emotional attachment I have to it. I actually mentioned in the Sabrina elimination for Seamless that my closest and longest friend and I kinda made this our theme song when we were kids, considering we were basically each other’s only friend. Whenever we hung out and listen to music, we’d usually play this at least once and just sing together. Well, I’d sing. She’d whisper quietly. But we’re still really close today – she’s practically a sister to me – and we’ve been through a lot together, so this song will always be that for me. Then there’s the fact that it’s a pretty good song. Sure, it’s cheesy as fuck, but the lyrics are well-written, and I like cheese anyway. The production bops and feels very…light and subtle, but still very enjoyable. I love the strings and guitars in the song. I really wish this had done better here, but I’m not surprised you heartless haters didn’t even let it make the top 90. Although to be honest, I’m not sure I’d give it a 10 if I didn’t have that emotional attachment. But knowing me, I probably would. Critics didn’t really comment on it, which is unsurprising to me, cause I feel like unless it stands out, songs in the back-half of albums don’t get much attention. So, once again, I have to rely on what you guys said.

None of the lowest scorers gave commentary, so we’re going to start with @DJHazey (4) who isn‘t into cheese like this: Pure cheese and not the kind I'm interested in. Fine. More for me then. @iheartpoptarts (5) just says: The vocals on that middle 8… What about them? They sound fine. Remember, she was like, 14 when she recorded this. @phily693 (6) thinks it’s a throwback: This sounds very 1999/2000, but not quite good. It actually kinda does. Huh. But I would argue it is good. @M24 (6) uses the “f” word: Just as boring as the previous song in the album. As fillerish as Hannah can get, which I'd still happily listen to anyway. That last bit is a whole mood though, let me be honest. Finally, we have a couple people who get it. @savilizabeths (8.25) struggled where I gave in: This one was hard to score. I used to sing this with my best friend. We learnt the lyrics together over the phone day and just sang it all the time. It was cute. But it’s also a little sugary sweet? And I have never been a fan of her excessively nasal vocals on this one. But how can I ignore my emotional ties to this? Ah, the conflict! Sis, just do what I do. And once again, I turn to @Entropy (9) for the last word: So sickly sweet but so good. Me and my best friend at the time used to send this song to each other on MSN to remind ourselves we were bestie’s, cringe but aww. That’s not cringe, I totally get it.

How about a live music video?

And here's the episode, sped-up:
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[DJHazey]

This post is whole bunch of awww from everyone and I just heartlessly give it a 4. Oops.

 

[Music Is Life & Death]

This post is whole bunch of awww from everyone and I just heartlessly give it a 4. Oops.

you heartless hater​

 

[Music Is Life & Death]

#92 - Butterfly Fly Away: 5.93

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Highest: 1x10 (@savilizabeths) 2x9s (@Sprockrooster @Sprocky's BF)
Lowest: 3x1s (@DJHazey @Guy @Hurricane Drunk)
My Score: 8.5
Favorite Lyric: I don't really have one. Sorry.
Trajectory
5 Voters: #89
10 Voters: #88
15 Voters: #96
19 Voters: #91
Total Points: 117.75
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Butterfly Fly Away was written by Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri and recorded by Miley and Billy for the Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrack. Ballard is quite the industry veteran, having worked extensively with…Michael Jackson (ugh – sorry Sprocky), as well as working with Paula Abdul, Alanis Morissete, No Doubt, Shakira, Christina Aguilera, Katy Perry and Idina Menzel. The song is used in the movie, in a scene between Miley and her father, where they sing the song after talking about some situations that happened in the film. The song is…nice. It’s cute. I’ve never actually been it’s biggest fan, though my sister has always loved it. I like the plucky acoustic guitar line throughout, and Miley sounds beautiful, but there’s just not a lot to grab onto here. The metaphor is cute, but it’s one of those “Daddy’s little girl is growing up” songs, and as a young male – bisexual or not – I just couldn’t connect with it. It works much better in the context of the movie though, I’ll give it that. Despite not being a single, the song managed to climb to #56 on the Hot 100, because that’s the power Miley and this show/movie had. Critical reception was slightly mixed, as About.com just found the Miley songs on the soundtrack to be “sentimental” in general, in an interview with Billy Ray, the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette called the extended version (yes, one exists) a “sweet duet”, and AllMusic called it a “treacly duet”. That’s pretty much where I’m at too. It’s cute, it’s sweet, and it’s sentimental. But it can also be pretty boring. With this elimination, y’all officially crown I Learned From You as the best Miley/Billy ballad. I’m not surprised. Also, this is the correct first elimination from the movie soundtrack. Good job y’all.

Alright people, it’s your turn to speak up. Poor @savilizabeths (10): I know you will probably all tank the Billy Ray duets but they’re so sweet so how dare you! I love the guitar picking pattern. It’s so pure and childlike. I just really feel the father daughter chemistry here and it’s absolutely charming. Plus, once again, their voices sound so pretty together and Billy Ray has a gorgeous, raspy voice. I just love this, okay? I love you girl, but sometimes you need to re-evaluate your taste. @pop3blow3 (8) sums up how I feel: Sweet little song. Yup. That’s it. That’s all it is. I have a feeling @M24 (5) will be happy about this one: Did not remember how boring this song was. And the lyrics are meh. Yes, exactly. @iheartpoptarts (2) reminds us she’s a fun-loving girl: I really don’t go for the serious father/daughter songs, sorry. Don’t worry, you’re not the only one. I’ll close with @DJHazey (1) who helped in stopping this song go any farther: Hey, at least I was nice to the last Daddy Cyrus track, but no that isn't happening again. The chorus sounds like when I accidently skip the "Teen Pop" station on my TV music channel line-up and it goes to the "Child Songs" station which is right after. I hear something sounding similar to this for a brief second before it recognizes I've switched back to the station I wanted. I have no idea what this means because I don’t listen to the radio, but you do you boo.

A cute little performance of the song:

That extended version I mentioned:

And a couple underrated Glen Ballard songs:

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[Music Is Life & Death]

Your Top 90!
Hannah Montana - 9/9
01. The Best Of Both Worlds
02. Who Said
03. Just Like You
04. Pumpin' Up The Party
05. If We Were A Movie
06. I Got Nerve
07. The Other Side Of Me
08. This Is The Life
09. I Learned From You

Hannah Montana 2 - 8/10
01. We Got The Party
02. Nobody's Perfect
03. Make Some Noise
04. Rock Star
05. Old Blue Jeans
06. Life's What You Make It
07. One In A Million
08. Bigger Than Us
09. You & Me Together
10. True Friend

Meet Miley Cyrus - 10/10
01. See You Again
02. East Northumberland High
03. Let's Dance
04. G.N.O. (Girl's Night Out)
05. Right Here
06. As I Am
07. Start All Over
08. Clear
09. Good & Broken
10. I Miss You

Breakout - 13/14
01. Breakout
02. 7 Things
03. The Driveway
04. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
05. Full Circle
06. Fly On The Wall
07. Bottom Of The Ocean
08. Wake Up America
09. These Four Walls
10. Simple Song
11. Goodbye
12. See You Again (Rock Mafia Remix)
13. Hovering
14. Someday

Hannah Montana: The Movie - 11/12
01. You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home
02. Let's Get Crazy
03. The Good Life
04. Don't Walk Away
05. Hoedown Throwdown
06. Dream
07. The Climb
08. Butterfly Fly Away
09. Let's Do This
10. Spotlight
11. What's Not To Like
12: The Best Of Both Worlds: The 2009 Movie Mix

Hannah Montana 3 - 8/9
01. It's All Right Here
02. Mixed Up
03. He Could Be The One
04. Just A Girl
05. I Wanna Know You
06. Supergirl
07. Every Part Of Me
08. Ice Cream Freeze (Let's Chill)
09. Don't Wanna Be Torn

The Time Of Our Lives - 7/7
01. Kicking & Screaming
02. Party In The U.S.A.
03. When I Look At You
04. The Time Of Our Lives
05. Talk Is Cheap
06. Obsessed
07. Before The Storm

Can't Be Tamed - 12/12
01. Liberty Walk
02. Who Owns My Heart
03. Can't Be Tamed
04. Every Rose Has its Thorn
05. Two More Lonely People
06. Forgiveness & Love
07. Permanent December
08. Stay
09. Scars
10. Take Me Along
11. Robot
12. My Heart Beats For Love

Hannah Montana Forever - 9/12
01. Gonna Get This
02. Que Sera
03. Ordinary Girl
04. Kiss It Goodbye
05. I'll Always Remember You
06. Need A Little Love
07. Are You Ready
08. Love That Lets Go
09. I'm Still Good
10. Been Here All Along
11. Barefoot Cinderella
12. Wherever I Go

Extras - 3/7
01. Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
02. Part Of Your World
03. Ready, Set, Don't Go
04. I Thought I Lost You
05. I Hope You Find It
06. Send It On
07. We Belong To The Music
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So, predictions for what's next? Anything you want out? Anything you wish was still in? Discuss!
Also, this is where things will start to get a little messier for me, and I will be upset, so I would just like to remind y'all that all of my dragging are in good fun, and I'm very happy all of you participated.
Also, I think its really funny we lost the first four extras in order.

 

[M24]

Totally ok with today's eliminations! I can understand True Friend has a nice message many could relate to, but it was among the most boring songs of HM2. Also, I'm wondering what @savilizabeths scored I Learned from You if they gave Butterfly Fly Away a 10... :P

Overall, except for "Just A Girl", the rest of the choices have been correct. Ice Cream Freeze and Before the Storm should've gone out already (though I just checked my scores and I gave ICF a higher score than some other Hannah songs smh).

 

[TwistedInnocence]

I think I’d like Clear out next!

 

[Music Is Life & Death]

I think I’d like Clear out next!

Oh man I wish. That's something I could get behind.

Overall, except for "Just A Girl", the rest of the choices have been correct. Ice Cream Freeze and Before the Storm should've gone out already (though I just checked my scores and I gave ICF a higher score than some other Hannah songs smh).

Y'all are going to pay for this.

#91 - Before The Storm: 5.94

(created by Suburbia)
Highest: 3x10s (Me, @Sprocky's BF @savilizabeths)
Lowest: 1x1 (@DJHazey) 1x2 (@Ana Raquel) 1x2.5 (@phily693)
My Score: 10
Favorite Lyric: Standing out in the rain, knowing that it's really over. Please don't leave me alone. I'm flooded with all this pain! Knowing that I'll never hold ya like I did before the storm. (Look, don't ask me why but I love rain/water/storm metaphors. And the absolute pain in their vocals for this final chorus...it kills me.)
Trajectory
5 Voters: #97
10 Voters: #93
15 Voters: #93
19 Voters: #90
Total Points: 118.95
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Before The Storm was written by Nick Jonas, Joe Jonas, Kevin Jonas & Miley Cyrus for the Jonas Brother’s fourth album, Lines, Vines & Trying Times. A live version was included on Miley’s The Time Of Our Lives EP, as the last song. Now, I feel like some of you rated the live version, and it’s my own damn fault because I didn’t specify which version I wanted you to rate, even though I put the studio version in the Spotify playlist. So if you rated the live version, and tanked it just cause it’s a live song…I hate myself. This is a beautiful song. The country-pop-rock production hits all the right spots in my poor heart, and the lyrics – I already mentioned I love metaphors like this – are so well-written and sad. The whole song makes me want to walk dramatically in the rain down a well-lit street. The fact that this is probably about Miley and Nick’s break-up (visited many times on Breakout) just fuels the drama queen in me (though quite a few reviews think it’s about Joe’s break-up with Taylor, partly cause of the country-aping production. I personally think this is bullshit.) And Hollywood Records are completely insane for not having the boys release this as a single. After the success of The Climb, this could’ve been another huge adult pop crossover, for not just one, but two of their major artists at the time, before leading into Party In The U.S.A. Absolutely fucking ridiculous, and one of the many facets of proof that during this time period at least, Hollywood Records was fucking useless. Anyways, these three boys were as much a huge part of my childhood as Miley, Selena and Demi were. When the six of them owned Disney Channel…well, I’ll get back to that later in the rate. But there was never a possibility that I wouldn’t love this, and when I first heard it, I was blown away. Also, I talk about the final chorus up top, but I need to mention how the music is just a piano until after “please don’t leave me alone” then there’s a quick drum line, and a huge drum pound before launching into the last few lines. Gives me a rush every. Time. I can’t believe y’all barely let this scrape into the top 90. The fact that this is the highest it ever was…it breaks my poor heart. Critics actually agreed with most of you on this song, as the ones who commented on it didn’t seem to like it that much. Consequence Of Sound just called Miley a “predictable tag-along” for the song, PopMatters called the song “dull”, AllMusic called Miley a “stand-in for Taylor”, and Slant Magazine called the song “overwrought”. Absolute bastards, the lot of them, just like all of you. Y’all are tasteless monsters for this, if you gave it below a 7. I love you @savilizabeths, and @Sprockrooster, please please thank your boyfriend for me. The rest of you can suffer for all I care.

This is Round 01 of @DJHazey (1) Testing My Patience As Much As Possible: The combination of the Jonas Brothers dominating the song, the country twang, and overall sleepiness of it. Let it burn in hell. You can burn in hell, and I’ll see you there, ‘kay? @phily693 apparently wants to join in: This sounds exactly like I thought it would before I listened to it. What’s your point, hun? I think the comment from @iheartpoptarts (4) is my fault: I’m sure going to a Miley/Jonas concert was peak late 00s tween life. I mean, you can hear it. You listened to the live version, right? I hate myself. Though you probably wouldn’t like the studio version that much anyway. That said, I would die if I got to go to a Miley/Jonas Brothers concert as a kid. I got a tiny bit of this dream when I went to Demi and Nick’s Future Now tour 3 and a half years ago (Jesus). But that’s two down, four to go. Anyways, I know @M24’s (5) comment is my fault: I usually hate live renditions. And this one has the Jonas Brothers. In a ballad. So… I'll score it low. *Sigh*. I hate myself. Finally, we have a person who understands, with @savilizabeths (10): Look, it’s the fangirl in me. I was so into these three stupid boys as a kid. And I was invested in all the drama. Besides that though, it’s quite a beautiful song. But I’m also just a bit biased. Maybe I’m biased too, but it’s a great song.

Listen to it and repent!:

The live version from her EP:

And one of my favorite Jonas Brothers songs:
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[TwistedInnocence]

I seriously thought that song would’ve been much higher!!

 

[Music Is Life & Death]

I seriously thought that song would’ve been much higher!!

Me too! But no, y'all man hating bastards tanked it ddddd.

 

[M24]

Anyways, I know @M24’s (5) comment is my fault: I usually hate live renditions. And this one has the Jonas Brothers. In a ballad. So… I'll score it low. *Sigh*. I hate myself.

Honestly, don't hate yourself. I just listened to the studio version and it wouldn't have got from me more than a 6.5 or a 7 if I feel like being generous. It's too Jonas-y, and even if I accepted that, I would've preferred Joe's voice in the chorus, even if I know it makes sense for Nick to sing those lines. I don't find the lyrics that special either. I'll turn to Hilary's "Come Clean" everytime I want a Disney rain-metaphor song, sorry!!!

 

[Music Is Life & Death]

Honestly, don't hate yourself. I just listened to the studio version and it wouldn't have got from me more than a 6.5 or a 7 if I feel like being generous. It's too Jonas-y, and even if I accepted that, I would've preferred Joe's voice in the chorus, even if I know it makes sense for Nick to sing those lines. I don't find the lyrics that special either. I'll turn to Hilary's "Come Clean" everytime I want a Disney rain-metaphor song, sorry!!!

Okay, I understand preferring Joe's voice. And I understand LOVING Come Clean. But if you can't hear the beauty if the song then I can't help you.
Don't worry, I don't hate myself that much. Just the normal amount dddd.

I might actually have enough in me to get out one more song tonight dddd.

 

[Music Is Life & Death]

Okay, I understand preferring Joe's voice. And I understand LOVING Come Clean. But if you can't hear the beauty if the song then I can't help you.
Don't worry, I don't hate myself that much. Just the normal amount dddd.

I might actually have enough in me to get out one more song tonight dddd.

Nope I lied. I waited too long and got tired. But it's fine, considering I already got 5 songs out today. See y'all tomorrow (or later today I guess.)

 

[DJHazey]

First of all the tv music channel explanation. When you have cable tv and it's digital cable sometimes like with my Spectrum the last 50 channels or so are all music channels that play nothing but music. It's not radio as there are no comnercials and it will run information about the song and artist on the screen as it plays.

If you like rain/storm metaphors I'm betting Blown Away by Carrie is one of your alltime favorites.

Get used to people not having time for male vocals around here. #misandryjustice

Lets not start coming for Clear.