BAREBACKKLASH PRESENTS THE DEAD PETZ EXPERIENCE (feat @BasilianThought)

POOLHOUSE AND BASIL ON MILEY CYRUS AND HER DEAD PETZ (2015)

Before Charli XCX's Brat dragged experimental pop kicking and screaming into the mainstream...Before Taylor Swift appropriated indie rock’s self-consciously pretentious aesthetics...Before Fantano and Pitchfork were bullish on poptimism...

There was a fweaky little SoundCloud drop that detonated the entire notion of what a pop music album could be: MILEY CYRUS AND HER DEAD PETZ.

Unleashed on a full moon in Pisces, after a chaotic VMAs, August 30, 2015, Dead Petz was a self-released surprise drop amid the fallout of Bangerz.

Teaming up with Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips, Miley shed the shell of Bangerz-era bad girl and took us on a raw, trippy, grief-streaked, deeply horny spiritual odyssey.

It was messy. It was mournful. It was Miley being Miley, in the most primal and earnestly artistic way she had ever been expressed.

Messy, raucous, introspective, and downright confessional, Dead Petz is a cosmic journey of creation, death, spirit animals, Tibetan bowls, space dudes, 15-minute orgasms, astral highs, and psychedelic comedowns.

You’re not supposed to make your magnum opus about your dead dogs, your coyote gangstalkers, your dead cat, your f*ckboi stoner deadbeat boyfriend, your uhh “slab of butter,” your possibly dead seahorse, or your really bad salvia trip—but it’s just Miley bein’ Miley: a self-created work of pop art in her own right.

On this edition of BAREBACKKLASH, your host Poolhouse welcomes the devastatingly literate and iconoclast-in-residence BASIL (BasilianThought, fka NeoBactrian) to plunge into Dead Petz. The electricity is palpable and the insights are breathtaking, as they reconstruct a radically singular critical perspective—not just on Dead Petz, but on the legitimacy of Miley Cyrus as a nationalist icon who represents world-class American artistry and influence.

No mere deep dive, this is a fanatical and holy crusade by two (mostly) normal men for redemption–not just for Dead Petz, but for the anti-leftist American cultural identity….and for themselves (obviously).

This is about bringing the Backklash to the Dead Petz backlash.

This is about justice for Twinkle.

FOLLOW BASIL - BasilianThought

ON SUBSTACK - https://barebactrian.substack.com/s/basilian-thought

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Q: wait, what is barebackklash again?

A: mind your own damn business

The DEAD PETZ aesthetic:

Flapping Tongue x Flaming Lip: When Aiden Met Wayne:

RIP TO FLOYD, PABLO, TWINKLE, AND POSSIBLY A SEAHORSE NAMED SADIE? I HOPE THEY CATCH THE… “COYOTES” WHO DID THIS…

Chapters

(0:00) - backkstage

(3:33) - Miley Cyrus: American Institution

(11:50) - MILEY CYRUS

(39:54) - THE DEAD PETZ EXPERIENCE PT. 1

(1:24:56) MILEY CYRUS NATIONALISM (INTERLUDE)

(1:29:14) - DEAD PETZ II

Selected Videography:

The Carpenters - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft

The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??

Miley Cyrus - See You Again (Rock Mafia Remix)

Selena Gomez & The Scene - Naturally

Mike WiLL Made-It - 23 ft. Miley Cyrus, Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J

Miley Cyrus & Noah Cyrus - I Got So High That I Saw Jesus

Miley Cyrus - Dooo It! (Live at the VMAs) [Link]

Miley Cyrus - BB Talk [Link] click if you dare!! 🙈

Miley Cyrus - Lighter

Miley Cyrus - Karen Don’t Be Sad (Live From SNL)

Miley Cyrus - Twinkle Song (Live from SNL)

Miley Cyrus - Used to Be Young

CRITICALLY CORRECT: MORE BACKKLASH HITZ

A TOTAL GUIDE TO POOLHOUSE MULTI-MEDIA MAYHEM:

ON ARTPOP [LINK]

ON V.C. ANDREWS, TRUE CRIME, & THE GREAT AMERICAN GOTHIC:

THE ULTIMATE EURODANCE CONSPIRACY PROJECT (FEATURING DJ POOLHOUSE)

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