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title: "Denmark’s Miley Cyrus Made an Homage to Mad Max and Raging Face"
description: "You’ve never partied this hard. Especially not in Kiev."
date: "2015-10-29"
modified: "2015-10-29"
authors:
  - name: "Ben Keeshin"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/ben-keeshin"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/692/denmarks-miley-cyrus-made-an-homage-to-mad-max-and-raging-face"
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  - "Culture"
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---

# Denmark’s Miley Cyrus Made an Homage to Mad Max and Raging Face

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For the uninitiated, MØ is a Danish electropop star. Here name is both an acronym for her middle and last names, Marie Ørsted, and Danish slang for “virgin.” She has a Madonna-like tendency toward sexual provocation, a sound not unlike critical darling [Grimes](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIi57zhDl78>), Miley Cyrus’ athleisureware-enabled dance moves and a heap of Bjørk’s unalloyed, low-country weirdness. Suffice it to say, MØ is very cool.

Recently, she provided vocals for Major Lazer’s huge international dance hit “[Lean On](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqeW9_5kURI>),” and has followed up that success with a major single release of her own, “[Kamikaze](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVD9j36Ke94>).” The song is high-quality mid-tempo dance music about youthful indifference and the right to party; the video was shot in an abandoned lot in Kiev, Ukraine. There’s a little rascally tussling, a litany of headdresses, a gold-painted tire throne and a lot of Nike sportswear. Car stunts, undertaken in some trashed Russian-market economy, are less meticulous versions of the aerobatics M.I.A. used in “[Bad Girls](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYs0gJD-LE>).”

![kamikazephoto.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/kamikazephoto.jpg>)

A great beat, a Danish ingenue and Ukrainian dirt—a festival of edgy, post-Soviet chic. Play it at your Halloween bash and folks will think you’re cool. And maybe Danish.

https://youtube.com/embed/eVD9j36Ke94

## Author
Ben Keeshin is a former staff writer for Maxim, and before that, contributed writing to the digital sides of Road & Track and Vanity Fair.

### Author social links  
[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/BnKshn>)