Miley Cyrus Has ‘More To Lose’ On New Song

Miley Cyrus has been touting her forthcoming album Something Beautiful as her magnum opus, and the Grammy-winning crooner hasn’t shied away from flexing her talents across a wide range of sounds in the lead-up to the album’s release. After reveling in happiness on lead single “End of the World” and rocking out in the album’s title track, Cyrus is looking inward on “More to Lose,” the latest preview of the new LP.

On “More to Lose,” Cyrus reflects on a past love and as she mourns what once was and hopes that she might get to experience it all again. “I stay / When the ecstasy is far away / And I pray / That it’s comin’ ’round again / And you say it / But I wish it wasn’t true / I knew someday that one would have to choose / I just thought we had more to lose,” she sings on the track.

Cyrus has been known to bare her heart in her music over the years, and “More to Lose” sees a fully realized artist and adult dealing with the remorse of post-breakup hindsight. Now, she’s able to have fun with it, winking at the subject (or subjects) of the song at a private show last week. “I have a lot of people that I’ve known and loved for a very long time in this room — even a couple of exes,” she said, per Stereogum.

The new album will arrive with a Something Beautiful film in Cyrus’ nod to Pink Floyd’s The Wall album. Honoring Alan Parker’s iconic 1982 music film was a central part of the album and movie creation process.

“I have this heart-first attachment to it,” she told Harper’s Bazaar of the Pink Floyd – The Wall film. “My idea was making The Wall, but with a better wardrobe and more glamorous and filled with pop culture.”

Something Beautiful is out May 30.