Miley Cyrus has evolved to a new era of her career, paying tribute to punk and glam rock greats with her upcoming seventh studio album Plastic Hearts.
And the Grammy nominee is serving the dark and delicious aesthetic throughout the latest compilation’s visual accompaniment.
She embarked on a sexy sapphic road trip in a retro tour bus with Dua Lipa for the gritty punk music video of their collaboration Prisoner, dropping the album’s second single Thursday.
Girls trip: Miley Cyrus embarked on a sexy sapphic road trip in a retro tour bus with Dua Lipa for the gritty punk music video of their collaboration Prisoner, dropping her album Plastic Heart’s second single Thursday
The 27-year-old kicked off the video with some avant-garde visuals, including a fly buzzing around the screen before being squashed in blood by a riding crop.
She can be briefly seen gritting her teeth with some red blood-like liquid smeared down her chin.
A veiny pulsating heart wrapped in barbwire displays the artists’ initials ‘MC x DL’ before launching into the song.
Miley’s disembodied lips begin singing (a la Science Fiction Double Feature from Rocky Horror Picture Show).
Bloodsucker: The 27-year-old can be briefly seen gritting her teeth with some red blood-like liquid smeared down her chin, as the video begins
Lip service: Miley’s disembodied lips begin singing (a la Science Fiction Double Feature from Rocky Horror Picture Show)
Riding shotgun: Dua, 25, then sings her verse from behind the wheel of a tour bus, as Miley rides shotgun, huddled up to her side
Punk princesses: They appeared to channel the Runaways, Miley rocking her bleach blonde shag cut with a Joan Jett-inspired ensemble to match
A black-and-white time lapse of rolling clouds and clips of herself and Dua, 25, playing in the background.
Dua then sings her verse from behind the wheel of a tour bus, as Miley rides shotgun, huddled up to her side.
They appeared to channel the Runaways, Miley rocking her bleach blonde shag cut with a Joan Jett-inspired ensemble to match.
Vintage video footage shows the ladies partying with glam friends from the back of the bus, drinking and dancing in platform stilettos and fishnet stockings.
Party girls: Vintage video footage shows the ladies partying with glam friends, drinking and dancing in platform stilettos and fishnet stockings
Scantily clad: The dance party continues at the back of the bus, as the ladies slip on some sexy satin and fishnets
Cherry red: Miley then makes a mess with a jar of maraschino cherries, dripping down her face like a messy vampiric scene
Sapphic energy: She and the British artist seductively eat the cherries, while licking the juice off each other’s faces, surely sparking sexual awakenings among queer kids all over the world
Fan girls: The intimate scene slows down, before they step off the bus to screaming fans, autographing cleavage and stepping over drunken partiers
A spider crawls across a web, as Miley belts out a solo under flashing lights, before biting the arachnid right out of the web, referencing a recent viral video.
The dance party continues at the back of the bus, as the ladies slip on some sexy satin and fishnets.
Miley then makes a mess with a jar of maraschino cherries, dripping down her face like a messy vampiric scene.
She and the British artist seductively eat the cherries, while licking the juice off each other’s faces, surely sparking sexual awakenings among queer kids all over the world.
The intimate scene slows down, before they step off the bus to screaming fans, autographing cleavage and stepping over drunken partiers.
Hot ticket: They take to the stage at a gritty punk venue, performing under flashing lights for a packed house, putting on a sensual display onstage
Miss Independent: The video ends with a message displayed in pink and barbed wire: ‘In loving memory of all my exes. Eat s***’
They take to the stage at a gritty punk venue, performing under flashing lights for a packed house, putting on a sensual display onstage.
The video ends with a message displayed in pink and barbed wire: ‘In loving memory of all my exes. Eat s***.’
It then showed a clip of late drag icon Divine in John Waters’ 1974 cult classic Female Trouble, professing: ‘I’m a free woman now, and my life is just ready to begin.’
Miley’s seventh studio album Plastic Hearts drops November 27, featuring the previously-released lead single Midnight Sky.
Coming soon: Miley’s seventh studio album Plastic Hearts drops November 27, featuring the previously-released lead single Midnight Sky