--- title: Miley Cyrus Gets Emo in Lolawolf's New Single 'Teardrop' description: Miley's back on a debut track with Lolawolf, Zoe Kravitz's electropop band — and she sounds pretty fed up with playing the game of love. canonical: https://time.com/4413387/listen-to-miley-cyrus-get-emo-in-new-stripped-down-lolawolf-single-teardrop/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-19T19:15:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:32.660Z og:title: Miley Cyrus Gets Emo in Lolawolf's New Single 'Teardrop' og:description: The pop star is fed up with love games in a new song with Zoe Kravitz's band. og:url: https://time.com/4413387/listen-to-miley-cyrus-get-emo-in-new-stripped-down-lolawolf-single-teardrop/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e3e0c2e131eddac/69889c8f5f570f17f9b21c40/miley-cyrus-zoe-kravitz.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: "China: Through The Looking Glass" Costume Institute Benefit Gala og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Miley Cyrus Gets Emo in Lolawolf's New Single 'Teardrop' twitter:description: The pop star is fed up with love games in a new song with Zoe Kravitz's band. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e3e0c2e131eddac/69889c8f5f570f17f9b21c40/miley-cyrus-zoe-kravitz.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Listen to Miley Cyrus Get Emo in New Stripped-Down Lolawolf Single 'Teardrop'  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 19, 2016 7:15 PM UTC  NEW YORK, NY - MAY 04: Miley Cyrus and Zoe Kravitz attend "China: Through the Looking Glass", the 2015 Costume Institute Gala, at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic) NEW YORK, NY - MAY 04: Miley Cyrus and Zoe Kravitz attend "China: Through the Looking Glass", the 2015 Costume Institute Gala, at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)Taylor Hill—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 19, 2016 7:15 PM UTC Disney [renegade Miley Cyrus](http://time.com/4353471/miley-cyrus-sings-im-your-man-and-im-a-woman-on-maya-marty/?iid=sr-link4) has been keeping her vocal talent pretty under wraps lately, with no imminent album or tour plans in the works. But today, electropop band [Lolawolf](https://twitter.com/lolawolfband) (fronted by Zoë Kravitz, daughter of the [legendary Lenny](http://time.com/4016820/miley-cyrus-her-dead-petz-review/?iid=sr-link1)) dropped a new single featuring Cyrus’s distinctive drawl. The stripped-down song, [“Teardrop,”](https://t.co/VYf2GfwPbV) is equal parts eerie and catchy. Cyrus comes in strong to recite a distorted, morbid spoken interlude, too. “Forever is like Jesus, it’s just / Something that we’ve made our self believe in / So… makes maybe our death a little less scary,” she opines. “Love’s not a game and if it is I don’t want to play.” (So far, it’s only available on iTunes and Apple Music.) It doesn’t have quite the emotional heft of “Wrecking Ball” or banger quality of “We Can’t Stop,” but the slow-burning melody — like a boozed-up Lorde song — is a nice antidote to summer’s [string of poppy earworms](http://time.com/4375476/dj-earworm-summersmash-16-mashup/?iid=sr-link6). Lolawolf is set to release their debut album before the season is out; previously, the [trio band had opened](https://mic.com/articles/149175/miley-cyrus-and-lolawolf-debut-tear-drop-via-apple-music-s-beats-1#.UQstN5ASK) for Cyrus’s _Bangerz_ tour. Cyrus, meanwhile, has most recently been spotted hanging [with her former fiancé](https://www.instagram.com/p/BH-2FSVB6OV/) Liam Hemsworth and [getting a tattoo](http://time.com/4401005/miley-cyrus-liam-hemsworth-vegemite-tattoo/?iid=sr-link7) of the Aussie savory spread Vegemite last week. Her last album, [_Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz_](http://time.com/4016820/miley-cyrus-her-dead-petz-review/?iid=sr-link1), came out in August of last year. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4413387/listen-to-miley-cyrus-get-emo-in-new-stripped-down-lolawolf-single-teardrop/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4413387/listen-to-miley-cyrus-get-emo-in-new-stripped-down-lolawolf-single-teardrop/"},"headline":"Listen to Miley Cyrus Get Emo in New Stripped-Down Lolawolf Single 'Teardrop'","datePublished":"2016-07-19T19:15:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:34:32.660Z","description":"Love's not a game for Miley","url":"https://time.com/4413387/listen-to-miley-cyrus-get-emo-in-new-stripped-down-lolawolf-single-teardrop/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e3e0c2e131eddac/69889c8f5f570f17f9b21c40/miley-cyrus-zoe-kravitz.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e3e0c2e131eddac/69889c8f5f570f17f9b21c40/miley-cyrus-zoe-kravitz.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"China: Through The Looking Glass\" Costume Institute Benefit Gala","caption":"\"China: Through The Looking Glass\" Costume Institute Benefit Gala","creditText":"Taylor Hill—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4413387/listen-to-miley-cyrus-get-emo-in-new-stripped-down-lolawolf-single-teardrop/","name":"Listen to Miley Cyrus Get Emo in New Stripped-Down Lolawolf Single 'Teardrop'"}}]}] ```