“He came in, and just on the first take, I was like, ‘Oh my God. I didn't know that a person playing eighth notes could do that much”: How Pino Palladino transformed the simple bassline in Miley Cyrus’s End of the World into something "so much better"

Pino Palladino and Miley Cyrus.

Sometimes, it’s not the notes you play but how you play them. At least that’s what producer Shawn Everett discovered when he was working with pop superstar Miley Cyrus on her 2025 album, Something Beautiful.

Speaking to the Dead Wax podcast, Everett begins by revealing that, at Cyrus’s request - and unlike a lot of pop records these days - the instrumental parts on Something Beautiful were recorded by a live band.