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.

As bright shots of shadows dancing over flowers flash in and out over an intensifying orchestral soundscape, Cyrus ponders existential thoughts in spoken-word format. "Like when following an image from a train,