The Grammy deadline is September 30th and guess who’s going to make it just under the wire?

Miley Cyrus. Dropping her Dead Petz and her Wrecking Ball, Miley is back on September 29th with “Younger Now,” her first official album in a couple of years. The album will include the hit single “Malibu,” but so far there’s no other track listing.

My guess is Miley goes soft and goes country. She’s been singing Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” a lot lately. The days of riding around naked on a wrecking ball in videos is over. So are the days warbling about loving marijuana. She’s on tour with daddy, Billy Ray Cyrus, which sends a very definite image signal: Miley’s era of pushing the envelope, or even licking it, are done.

The timing is interesting because if “Younger Now” weren’t terrific, the record label et al would wait until after the Grammy deadline. (Many artists do this.) The running for Album of the Year is light this year– no certainty like Adele or even Beyonce. So far, Miley’s competition would include Ed Sheeran (the favorite), Kendrick Lamar, Katy Perry.

It pains me to write this because I’m a fan of a lot of Mick Jagger’s solo work. But the famed Rolling Stone has treated his career like a hobby, and it’s rarely been attended with much follow up.

So that’s the story of the two singles he dropped and no one picked up on July 27th. Mick spontaneously released “Gotta Get a Grip” and “England Lost” with no warning and no promotion. And it wasn’t like they were spur of the moment projects. They were accompanied by handsome short films– videos– that took time to prepare.

Nevertheless, 10 days later, Mick needs to “Get a Grip.” Each single has sold 2,000 copies or less. “Grip” is slightly more successful because it’s better. “England Lost” is a sonic mess. Both tracks, though mixed and remixed by top contemporary producers, sound a little like U2 circa “Mysterious Ways.”

Radio has pretty much ignored the tracks, as well. But that happens to every legacy artist. Classic rock stations hypocritically play all the old music by Rock Stars, but refuse to support their new material. It’s really stupid– they’re killing the future of their own business.

as for Mick, I wish he had gone more in the direction of covers a la the Stones’ last and very successful album, “Blue and Lonesome.” Instead of blues he could have revived some soul hits. Or country. Alas, this experiment seems as though it will be marked as a two-off souvenir for the summer of 2017.

Back in 1998, no one was listening to vinyl much. So when the New Radicals’ “Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too” was released, it came out only on CD and cassette tape. It became the greatest cult album of the 1990s with two massive radio hits still heard today, “You Get What You Give” and “Someday We’ll Know.”

The singles were monsters. The album was a big hit. So where was the follow up? Gregg Alexander wrote or co-wrote all the songs and sang them. His sometime collaborator was Danielle Brisebois, known to TV audiences from “Archie Bunker’s Place” and “Knots Landing.” They had it made in the shade.

But after all the publicity and hype, Alexander just wanted to be a songwriter. No more New Radicals. They went the way of the Bay City Rollers and The Knack, into trivia books. Alexander scored “Game of Love” for Santana and Michelle Branch among his many penned hits. Then he and Brisebois wrote the song for John Carney’s sleeper film, “Begin Again.” Adam Levine sang “Lost Stars,” which earned an Oscar nomination. And life went on.

At Clive Davis’s Grammy dinner this past February, Joni Mitchell lit up when I asked if she wanted to meet Alexander. She said: “When I heard that song, I changed my mind about quitting the business. I was done. I wasn’t going to do anything more. But that it is the most brilliant song. I am so happy to meet you.”

Gregg told Joni that around that time he’d had a dream about her. Like most great songwriters, Alexander holds Joni in high esteem. He said, “I don’t want to sound stalkerish. But I knew all this had something to do with you.”

Joni was pleased to hear it. “I’ll tell you, I was really going to quit. But that song gave me hope.”

Universal has issued “Brainwashed” as a two LP set on gold vinyl. The beauty of the album is that it’s not just a two hit wonder. All the tracks could have been hit singles. If you love pop music, “Brainwashed” is to the 90s what the Raspberries were to the 70s. It’s like a lavish delicious dessert with lots of nutrition.

Here’s Gregg singing “Game of Love” — a rarity–