Younger Than Springtime Younger Than Springtime "Younger Than Springtime" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific". It has been widely recorded as a jazz standard. The song is performed in the first act by Lieutenant Cable when he makes love to his adored Liat, to whom he was only recently introduced by her mother Bloody Mary. The song shows that love just happens and does not follow the rules of racial separation prevalent in the United States at that time. In the original Broadway show, the song was performed by William Tabbert whilst in the 1958 film,
Younger Now (song) years, ending with a declaration she now is the best version of herself. 'I'm not afraid of who I used to be / No one stays the same,' she proclaims. 'Change is a thing you can count on / I feel so much younger now'". "USA Today"'s Maeve McDermott claimed "the song is infinitely more listenable than most of the music from her "Dead Petz" phase", but criticized Cyrus for "not offering much in the way of meaningful self-reflection on the song". The Remixes EP Cyrus first performed "Younger Now" at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards on August 27,