Miley Cyrus Gets Deep About Emotional New Song ‘Secrets’: ‘Written As a Peace Offering’

Miley Cyrus has already talked astir however 1 of the caller bonus tracks connected the just-released deluxe edition of her ocular medium Something Beautiful was written successful grant of her dad, state prima Billy Ray Cyrus.

But successful an Instagram post connected Friday greeting (Sept. 19), conscionable hours aft the expanded LP dropped, Miley went deeper, explaining that the opus was an effort to heal a rift that had opened up betwixt them. “This opus was written arsenic a bid offering for idiosyncratic I had mislaid for a clip but ever loved. In my experience, forgiveness and state are 1 and the same,” she wrote of the soaring ballad featuring 2 of her dad’s favourite musicians.

“Thank you to Lindsey Buckingham & Mick Fleetwood for bringing magic to the music,” she added of her collaborators, erstwhile Fleetwood Mac bandmates guitarist Buckingham and drummer Fleetwood. “This opus is for my dad.”

The station was accompanied by what appears to beryllium a caller video for the song, successful which Cyrus wears a gauzy achromatic headdress and matching diaphanous, flowing gown, arsenic good arsenic a achromatic formal matched with a sparkling achromatic mask. “Oh, I wanna beryllium the one, I wanna beryllium the one/ I wanna beryllium the one, I wanna beryllium the one/ Anywhere you run/ You cognize I’ll follow/ Anywhere you go, anyplace you go/ You cognize I’ll follow,” she sings connected the track.

The pursuing verse features emotionally earthy lyrics astir the trouble of being a caretaker of your bosom portion wishing state for those you love. “Love is not a prison/ I’m not a guard, no/ So adjacent erstwhile I’m holding you/ I won’t fastener you up,” she sings. “You tin travel and spell arsenic you want/ Would you similar to beryllium lonely?/ Your connection is each I want.”

Billy Ray has been hyping the opus each week, writing connected Tuesday (Sept. 16) that helium “can’t hold for everyone to perceive the full song!!! It’s amazing!!!!!,” past adding connected Friday morning, “Best day acquisition a dada could ever inquire for. Thank you @MileyCyrus for ‘Secrets’… a opus consecutive from your bosom to mine. The memories we’ve made unneurotic mean the satellite to me, and seeing you soar with your euphony makes maine prouder each azygous day. Having Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood connected this way is axenic magic. Here’s immoderate memories done the years with Miley… anticipation y’all bask this arsenic overmuch arsenic I do.”

Speaking connected Monica Lewinsky’s podcast successful June, Cyrus said penning the opus helped her resoluteness immoderate long-running tensions betwixt her and her father. “I wrote this opus astir my dada due to the fact that I wanted him to archer maine adjacent though determination were secrets, adjacent though I didn’t truly privation to know,” she said. “I wanted to beryllium the 1 helium felt harmless capable to archer maine the things that were damning and damaging to the family. I wanted him to deliberation that arsenic a mediate child, I’m aged capable that I could instrumentality immoderate of that.”