Amid its release, the “Flowers” artist wrote on Instagram, “Miley Cyrus unveils ‘End of the World,’ the first official single off of her highly anticipated album, Something Beautiful, out May 30 via Columbia Records. The new single ‘End of the World’ out now.”

Tell me somethin’ beautiful, yeah, tonight/Until your lips turn blue/Said I don’t wanna talk about it for too long/Baby, now I think I do,” Cyrus sings. But when the chorus hits, it really hits, literally exploding the studio around her.

Over her nearly two-decade career, Miley Cyrus has prepared her fans to expect the unexpected. And with her ninth studio album Something Beautiful - a self-described "one-of-a-kind pop opera" - Cyrus might be taking her most ambitious swing yet.