Tommy OlovssonNewly released “Prisoners” is the latest collaboration between Miley Cyrus and Dua Lipa. In the video, set in the 1980’s, the artists have a wild, spider-infested bus ride to a club. Cyrus sports an ’80s mullet haircut that she could have borrowed from her father, Billy Ray.
Video Is Wild
Miley Cyrus - Prisoner (Official Video) ft. Dua Lipa
Directed By Alana O’Herlihy & Miley Cyrus
LYRICS
Prisoner, prisoner
Locked up, can’t get you off my mind
Off my mind
Lord knows I tried a million times
Million times
Oh whoa
Why can’t you, why can’t you
Just let me go
Strung out on a feeling
My hands are tied
Your face on my ceiling
I fantasize
Oh I can’t control it, I can’t control it
I try to replace it
With city lights
I’ll never escape it
I need the high
Oh I can’t control it, I can’t control it
You keep making it harder to stay
But I still can’t run away
I gotta know why can’t you
Why can’t you
Just let me go
Prisoner, prisoner
Locked up, can’t get you off my mind
Off my mind
Lord knows I tried a million times
Million times
Oh whoa
Why can’t you, why can’t you
Just let me go
Prisoner, prisoner
Locked up, can’t get you off my mind
Off my mind
Lord knows I tried a million times
Million times
Oh whoa
Why can’t you, why can’t you
Just let me go
I tasted heaven now I can’t live without it
I can’t forget you and your love is the loudest
Oh I can’t control it, I can’t control it
You keep making it harder to stay
Oh whoa
But I still can’t run away
I gotta know why can’t you
Why can’t you
Just let me go
Prisoner, prisoner
Locked up, can’t get you off my mind
Off my mind
Lord knows I tried a million times
Million times
Oh whoa
Why can’t you, why can’t you
Just let me go
Prisoner, prisoner
Locked up, can’t get you off my mind
Off my mind
Lord knows I tried a million times
Million times
Oh whoa
Why can’t you, why can’t you
Just let me go
Prisoner
Can’t get you off my mind
Why can’t you just let me go
Million times
I wanna know why can’t you
Why can’t you
I wanna know why can’t you
Why can’t you
I gotta know why can’t you
Why can’t you
Just let me go
During the adventure, Miley pours a blood-like red liquid over her cantily dressed self. The stars enjoy glacé cherries while they embrace each other. The video closes with a dedication that reads: “IN LOVING MEMORY OF ALL MY EXES”, with the words “EAT S*** inside a barbed-wired heart.
Following, a clip of drag queen Divine appears. The star quotes a line from the 1974 John Waters film Female Trouble. “I’m a free woman now and my life is just ready to begin.”
And There’s the Music
The track is synth heavy. Lyrics speak to the misery felt while getting over a past lover. One line goes: “You keep making it harder to stay / But I still can’t run away / I gotta know why can’t you, why can’t you just let me go?”
Teasers Released
Ahead of the release, Miley teased fans with an Instagram post in which she appeared in bloody makeup. She wrote, “COMING 4 BLOOD #PRISONER Feat. my main squeeze @DUALIPA (sic)”
Both stars shared teaser clip from the music video. The video saw both with cigarettes in their mouths while dancing in a bedroom.
On Instagram Dua wrote, “PRISONER @MILEYCYRUS 19NOV 4PM LA / 7PM NYC / 12AM LONDON / 11AM SYDNEY / 8AM BEIJING (sic)”
In October, Miley teased fans that a duo with Dua would be “pretty soon.” She added, “It’s perfectly a blend of the both of us, I’m super proud of it. I’m really excited for our fans to hear it because they’ve been begging for it. Seriously, it’s all I ever hear from both of our fans [that] they want to hear the record that we did together.”
”Prisoner” is the lead track from Plastic Hearts, due out on November 27.
Image: Jeff Denberg
