Miley Cyrus Unveils “More to Lose”: A Haunting Prelude to Something Beautiful
Miley Cyrus has dropped “More to Lose,” the fourth single from her upcoming ninth studio album, Something Beautiful, arriving May 30 via Columbia Records. The new track builds on the emotional depth of prior releases—“End of the World”, the introspective “Prelude,” and the shimmering title track—each expanding the rich sonic palette of the project. Watch the new music video below.
The Creative Force Behind “More to Lose”
Co-written with Autumn Rowe and Michael Pollack, “More to Lose” is a fragile, piano-driven ballad that unravels the quiet grief of realizing love has slipped away. Cyrus, who also co-directed the song’s evocative black-and-white music video, enlisted a team of sonic alchemists: producers BJ Burton, Shawn Everett, Pollack, and Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado. The distinctive work of bassist Pino Palladino and multi-instrumentalist Drew Erickson further textures the track’s haunting atmosphere.
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The video, directed alongside Jacob Bixenman and Brendan Walter, paints a surrealist arc of heartbreak through symbolic costume changes and minimalist staging—moving from bridal lace to mourning veils. Its theatricality echoes Cyrus’s larger ambitions for Something Beautiful, which she’s described as “like The Wall, but with a better wardrobe and more glamour.”
Something Beautiful and Companion Film
A companion film, also helmed by Cyrus, Bixenman, and Walter, is slated for a theatrical release in June, with a premiere at Tribeca Festival. The visual album’s aesthetics are equally deliberate: the cover, shot by photographer Glen Luchford, showcases Cyrus in archival 1997 Thierry Mugler couture, solidifying the album’s fusion of pop spectacle and raw introspection.
Miley’s Bold Reinvention?
Something Beautiful is shaping up to be one of Cyrus’s most ambitious and stylistically expansive projects—one that finds her equally comfortable in the role of provocateur, auteur, and emotional conduit. As she continues to blend pop gravitas with cinematic flair, she’s even dabbling in reinventions of classic hits, like her recent rendition of Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer.”
