Miley Cyrus Debuts New Song ‘More to Lose’ During Performance With a ‘Couple of Exes’ In the Room

Miley Cyrus debuted another new song from her upcoming visual album Something Beautiful (May 30) during a show for an intimate audience at Casa Cipriani in New York on Saturday night (May 3). “Oh I stay when the ecstasy is far away/ And I pray that it’s comin’ ’round again,” Cyrus croons in a video from the set in which her raw vocals are accompanied by dramatic piano during the first public run through “More to Lose.”

“And you say it, ‘I wish it wasn’t true’/ I knew someday that I would have to choose/ I thought we had more to lose,” she crooned as the crowd went wild. In another video, she leaned into the powerful pre-chorus, growling, “You’re looking like a movie star in a worn-out coat/ Yeah, I throw away my mind/ And it happens all the time.”

As stirring as the song was, something Cyrus said while introducing it really caught people’s attention. “I have a lot of people that I’ve known and loved for a very long time in this room,” Cyrus said while setting up the performance. “Even a couple of exes.” At press time it was unknown who attended the gig and which former paramours Cyrus may have been referring to.

Before the show, Cyrus posted a different preview of the song from a recording studio in which she modeled a classic little black dress. “Sharing this song from the same place it was created… at the piano,” she said before busting into the moving ballad, singing, “The TV’s on, but I don’t know/ My tears are streaming like our favorite show/ Tonight, tonight/ My memories fade like denim jeans/ I try to chase when you’re running through my mind.”

She also posted some dramatic black and white pictures from the special performance just days ahead of Monday’s (May 5) 2025 Met Gala.

Cyrus’ ninth album, Something Beautiful, is the follow-up to 2023’s Endless Summer Vacation and it has been described as a 13-track visual “pop opera.” So far she’s teased the LP with the singles “Something Beautiful” and “End of the World.”