'Bangerz'

In case you haven’t been paying attention, Miley Cyrus has gone from Disney teen queen to Pop Tart sex kitten before you had the chance to say “she can’t be tamed.” Like Britney and Rihanna before her, Cyrus has shed her adolescent skin and reworked her image into music’s latest wild child, whether you like it or not.

But let’s put all the twerking talk and “Wrecking Ball” chatter aside to discuss how “Bangerz” is the so-stupid-you’ll-love-it pop album we’ve been craving all year.

The title isn’t a lie. Most of the selections on “Bangerz” are club tracks from A-list producers such as Mike Will Made It, Dr. Luke and Pharrell Williams.

The opening song, “Adore You” is a bit of a yawn-inducing misfire, but the rest of the album hits its stride as soon as “We Can’t Stop,” arguably one of the summer’s best pop ditties, queues up. Cyrus follows it up with a Britney Spears collaboration called “SMS (Bangerz),” and the stupid silly fun doesn’t let up.

“4x4,” a Pharrell Williams-produced and Nelly-assisted track, has a ridiculous country thump married to a slick club beat, and I’ll be damned if it isn’t the best song on the whole album.

“#GETITRIGHT” is right up there, though. But no surprise, seeing as it’s another Pharrell production.

And while “Wrecking Ball” is a pretty listenable power ballad, it’s really nothing that special. You’d be more satisfied waiting for the inevitable, and hopefully awesome, acoustic version.

Cyrus is right at home with the glossy, ‘80s-influenced electro beats, a pinch of dubstep and her unvarnished vocals. The album has a strong cohesion that introduces Cyrus as the young, independent woman she’s selling herself as these days.

As her first album since “Hannah Montana” ended its run, Cyrus’s “Bangerz” feels like the debut album she couldn’t drop until now. It’s a solid kiss-off to her haters so the rest of us can stay at her party until the whole harebrained ordeal is over.

So while Cyrus has a while to go until she proves to have the longevity of some of her pop peers, “Bangerz” is a perfectly solid start to what’s hopefully a long — and crazy — career in pop music.