Miley Cyrus Pens ‘Avatar’ Song Inspired by Devastating House Fire: ‘This Project Holds Profound Meaning’

Miley Cyrus is channeling a achy representation into euphony for 1 of the astir highly anticipated films of 2025: Avatar: Fire and Ash.

As announced Wednesday (Oct. 22), the popular prima volition lend an archetypal opus to the Avatar sequel’s soundtrack. Sharing a snippet of the way connected societal media, Cyrus shared that she was inspired by her ain acquisition with losing her Malibu location to a devastating occurrence successful 2018 portion moving connected the track.

“Having been personally affected by occurrence and being rebuilt from the ashes, this task holds profound meaning for me,” she wrote. “Thank you, [James Cameron], for the accidental to crook that acquisition into philharmonic medicine. The film’s themes of unity, healing, and emotion resonate profoundly wrong my soul, and to beryllium adjacent a tiny prima successful the beingness the Avatar household has created is genuinely a imagination travel true.”

In the sneak peek astatine the song, Cyrus sings implicit a lush orchestral arrangement, “Even done the flames, adjacent done the ashes successful the sky/ Baby erstwhile we dream, we imagination arsenic one.”

Avatar: Fire and Ash is acceptable to premiere successful theaters successful December, much than 15 years aft the archetypal movie successful the franchise came out. The archetypal Avatar — which starred Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana — is considered the highest grossing movie of each time, raking successful more than $2 billion successful the container office.

Cyrus has been unfastened astir however earnestly the 2018 wildfire affected her. At the time, she posted that the location she shared with then-husband Liam Hemsworth had been completely destroyed, though each of her animals were safely evacuated.

When wildfires again broke retired successful California this year, Cyrus again touched connected the experience. “It’s a feeling you don’t ever forget,” she said. “Walking up to the doorway you would walk done daily, looking guardant to being greeted by the ones you emotion similar you ever bash but alternatively being met by a heap of ash and rubble.”

See Cyrus’ announcement below.