Earlier this year Miley Cyrus shared 'Something Beautiful' with the world, her new album that serves as a complete experience, a "purposeful" statement of love and devotion that she wants to share as an artist. After taking a much needed rest away, the "Easy Lover" singer is back continuing to spread the gospel of her epic new effort, joining us in our Los Angeles studios for an Audacy Check In with Bru.

"I really am very selective about what I choose to do and be a part of," admits Miley, who not only created her new album, 'Something Beautiful,' but also a "pop opera" visual album that is now streaming on Disney+ and Hulu. "Everything that I'm doing is honestly filled with a lot of meaning and joy, and I always think something has to either be really joyful, it has to be fun, it has to be something that I look forward to, or it has to be something that's meaningful that might be something that's, whether it's a full circle moment, something that's come to fruition from manifestation, so I kind of balance those."

Joyous as it may be, that amount of work might feel like a lot to some, but it's been advice from a few famous friends that Miley keeps in mind to make sure she is never out of the moment.

"Everything was meant to be individualized and kind of isolated just to make sure every song was really honored," she says of the visual album. "I didn't want to be thinking about the next one. Actually one time I was doing a show and me and Joan Jett were both playing the show and I was shooting a music video at the same time for another song. She said, 'you never do something like that because you're taking away from the audience by not being in the moment with the one song that you're in now,' and I always took that as something that I think goes for everything. So when I was making this movie, I kept thinking I don't want to think about the next song while I'm in with the song before it. I wanted to really honor each song for what it was meant to be and then get clever at the end of how we're going to connect everything."

"Another person that does that really genius is Pharrell," exclaims Miley. "One time I had a session with him and he was doing 10 things at the same day, but not at the same time."

"He said, 'you know, I could tell you looked like I wasn't gonna be able to focus on you, but whatever I'm doing in that moment is all that I'm doing.' So I may today have 10 things, my hands in 10 different pots, but I'm only cooking with 1 item at a time."

'Something Beautiful' follows the highly-praised 'Endless Summer Vacation' from Cyrus, which scored a nomination for 'Album of the Year' at the GRAMMY Awards and took home the trophy for 'Record of the Year.' "They're actually so uniquely different and I think that's because they're at such different kind of pivotal places in my life and can't have one without the other," Miley reveals. "'ESV' was totally a bridge to 'Something Beautiful,' but 'ESV' was kind of curated and created to be something that I could do, and almost have the whole project from at a distance because I needed that vacation so deeply and desperately that I wanted to still put out the album that I made, but I wasn't actually going to physically go out there, and as we spoke about today, kind of carry around this project."

"I had already known I wanted an ESV, but 'Flowers' really made it possible that it could carry the album around the world, so I didn't have to."

"With this one I'm invested in a more kind of personal way of actually going out and sitting at stations and pressing play and seeing the audience and doing shows, just kind of investing in what it takes to really convey the truth that was, this is totally a body of work that is just totally built on love and devotion, dedication and passion, and really it does feel like it's one of the more purposeful records that I've ever gotten to make."

High above Manhattan in the Rock Star Suite of the Hard Rock Hotel New York, Adam Levine of Maroon 5 joins us for an Audacy Check In to talk about the upcoming album, 'Love Is Like,' the secret to the band's longevity, and more.

'Love Is Like' will arrive everywhere on August 15, and Levine shares that after years of success he's ready to trust what naturally flows from within. "This time around, I just thought to myself, well, we've had a lot of hits. And we've been really lucky to have those hits, and in some cases we were more kind of quote unquote 'formulaic' than others," Adam admits. "But this time around, I really wanted to be as unformulaic as possible and just say, 'you know what? I'm gonna make the kind of music that just comes out of me naturally and we'll see what happens and we'll see where it lands."

"The band has been begging me to do this for a long time, since we stopped doing it," he laughs. "Since we started collaborating more."

Formula or not, Maroon 5 has been a constant for over 20 years, so there has to be something secret in the sauce, right?

"If there's one thing I think you need to have, is like you need to get along with the people you work with," Levine shares with Mike Adam. "I love my band and my band loves me and we've been through it, but at the end of the day we love each other and we support each other and I think if that's not there, if you're in a band, then it's over."

"We also just love performing. We love being a band, we love doing it and we love making music, so... If we're enjoying it and there's enjoyment there, that kind of connects to the 'we should all get along' thing. As long as that's the case and your core group is tight, you know, the rest of it will come and go and it'll ebb and flow. We've been bigger at certain times and not as big at other times and you have to understand that that's the case too. You can't always be on top, and chasing that too hard I think can sink you. So you just got to kind of go with it."

For more from Adam Levine, including his acting audition gone wrong, check out the full Audacy Check In with Mike Adam above.

Reneé Rapp is gearing up for the release of her new album, 'BITE ME,' as well as a tour taking her across the country, but first she stops by the Hard Rock Hotel New York for an Audacy Check In.

After bonding over their shared Capricorn status, Mike Adam and Rapp got down to what makes them elite with their earth sign. "The fact that we can get s*** done, everybody usually listens to us, and we kind of tend to like lead the crowd," explains Reneé.

That kind of strength can often come with a "no filter" label, something that Reneé Rapp is very familiar with. "It's my entire career is me apparently having no filter," she shares, "which I was always very confused by because I don't really perceive myself that way. But it was so interesting to like start seeing everybody else perceive me that way, and then I was like, 'OK, I guess so.'"

"I don't know what else I'm supposed to do. I don't really know how else to do this. I'm not sure. There's no other way, you know what I mean?"

On her way into her sophomore album, Rapp admits she's both more secure in your own skin and more insecure at the same time. "I think in so many ways I'm much more secure, and also in so many ways I'm more insecure because you know... people point out new things for me to be insecure about every single day, it is what it is I guess, like I chose it, but yeah I think simultaneously both."

"I simultaneously care less about how I'm perceived at the same time as I still do really care," Reneé continues. "Basically I care but it's not affecting the way that I act or the way that I move. Certainly there will be days that it like makes me feel like s*** about myself, but also I'm like, 'OK, so what am I gonna do like try and act different for some like random b**** in Illinois?' I don't think so. Like that's not happening. You don't pay me."

'BITE ME' is due out everywhere on August 1, and Rapp explains that the recording of the album was very focused and routine because of her protection of her personal time. "I am very, very, very careful and protective of my mornings and my nights," she admits. "I need to start the day by myself and I need to end the day by myself." For Reneé that means being in the studio from about 12 to 7, having her coconut water in hand, and being with the people she's writing with. "I don't love having snacks in the studio because I get really distracted by them, but I would like one meal. I'd like one meal and maybe it's a Joan's on Third chicken salad. It's very good. That was kind of what we ate like every day."

Along with the album comes the 'BITE ME' tour, as Mike Adam asks if Rapp's found a way to protect her mental health while on the road. "I've only toured once and I didn't at that point," she says. "I don't feel like I had like any kind of protection and this go around, I'm like definitely gonna try and put things in place so that I don't get miserable."

"Tour is a really easy thing to fall into and feel depressed," Reneé reveals. "I like traveling but not that much. I like being in one place, I'm from a very small town in North Carolina, I'm not like a big city girl that like loves to play and do all this s***. Sometimes for sure, but I like to be at my house, bro."

"I'm gonna try and give it a go and make this one a little bit better for me," she adds. "I have to figure it out because I work way too hard to not enjoy the things that I end up doing."

To hear much more from Reneé Rapp, check out the full Audacy Check In above.