Miley Cyrus has long straddled the line between reinvention and rebellion, but with her upcoming album Something Beautiful, she’s leaning into something more tender—and arguably more truthful. Her latest single, “More To Lose,” arrives wrapped in black-and-white drama and dripping with camp, offering a quietly powerful performance that feels both personal and performative in the best way possible.
In the video, Miley appears in a procession of glamorously surreal outfits—from a feather-and-crystal bodysuit to a noir-ish suit and veil ensemble—each one exaggerating the emotional theater of a song about letting go of a love that didn’t deserve the pain in the first place. There’s no plot to the video, but the visuals don’t need one. Shot like a grainy arthouse film, it leans fully into mood: smoke, sadness, and sequins.
Sonically, “More To Lose” sways in slow motion, driven by a lush psych-rock soundscape that nods to Lana Del Rey by way of Mazzy Star. But it’s Miley’s vocals—smoky, restrained, aching—that center the track. She doesn’t over-sing. Instead, she simmers, capturing the quiet devastation of realizing the relationship you clung to was never quite real. The lyrics don’t beg for sympathy—they offer perspective.
Coming off the earlier singles “End Of The World” and the title track, Something Beautiful is shaping up to be a soft-focus breakup record with a queer lens and a cinematic scale. Cyrus herself has called it her “gayest” album yet, and while that might mean different things to different fans, “More To Lose” feels like a love letter to the aesthetic traditions of queer pop—the dramatics, the melancholy, the shimmer in sadness.
With Something Beautiful due May 30, “More To Lose” is an elegant prelude: one foot in heartbreak, the other in the spotlight. It’s glam, it’s grief, it’s Miley fully in her element.