Prisoner

PrisonerSingle by Miley Cyrus
General information
Main artist	Miley Cyrus
Featured artist	Dua Lipa
Release date	November 19, 2020
Recorded	July 2020
Genre	Dance, Dark-pop, Disco-punk, Disco-rock, Glam rock, Nu-disco
Length	2:49
Album	Future Nostalgia: The Moonlight Edition
Label	RCA Records
Songwriter(s)	Dua Lipa, Jon Bellion, Stefan Johnson, MarcLo, Jordan K. Johnson, Miley Cyrus, Ali Tamposi, ​watt
Producer(s)	Jon Bellion, The Monsters & Strangerz, watt
Singles chronology
Previous	"Fever"
Current	"Prisoner"
Next	"Real Groove (Studio 2054 Remix)"
Future Nostalgia: The Moonlight Edition track list
"We're Good"
"Prisoner"
"If It Ain't Me"
Music video

"Prisoner" is a song by American singer Miley Cyrus featuring by English-Albanian singer Dua Lipa. It was released on November 19, 2020 through RCA Records. It is the second single from Miley Cyprus' seventh studio album Plastic Hearts, and also appears on the Dua Lipa's second reissue album, Future Nostalgia: The Moonlight Edition.

Background

Following the October 2019 release of her single "Don't Start Now", Lipa confirmed that she and Cyrus were planning on recording a collaboration. In May of the following year, Lipa stated that she and Cyrus had decided to scrap their collaboration and record something different. On September 14, 2020, Cyrus confirmed the collaboration with Lipa and that it would appear on her seventh studio album, Plastic Hearts. At the beginning of October, after being spotted shooting a video together in New York City, rumblings that Miley Cyrus and Dua Lipa were working on a secret project got even bigger.

In an interview with Spanish radio station Cadena 100 on October 13, 2020, Cyrus stated that due to her and Lipa's fans "begging" for their collaboration to be released, they "[could] expect something pretty soon". On November 13, 2020, Cyrus announced the song's title as "Prisoner", along with the Plastic Hearts track listing reveal. Cyrus began teasing the single in a series of tweets where she confirmed its release and posted videos of her fans reacting to its music video. Cyrus and Lipa announced the release of the song on November 18, 2020. The song was released on November 19. "Prisoner" was later announced to be included in Lipa's second reissue album Future Nostalgia: The Moonlight Edition (2021).

In an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, Cyrus said they had worked on other songs together in the past and praised Lipa:

“	For her and I, there's just no competition. That changes just everything. There's a true partnership. Then I also liked that it wasn't the first song we'd cut together. We actually cut other songs. She wanted to keep going until it was right, until we found the one that honors our individuality. [...] We just waited until we felt like, 'Now this is Dua-Miley song. You can just, everything about it reflects us.' I mean, there's even something to me, like how I talk about like fashion being a way to flip yourself inside out. The colors that I see, when I listen to a song, I see colors. Some people's charisma is really overwhelming. I see, when Dua's around, that her charisma, there's no sense of desperation to it, like, 'I've got to be the best because if I'm not what if...' There's a calmness to her success, which I really like. Because I feel like when you can tell someone is too much of a... or a survivalist. That I don't like.	”
–Interview

Music video

The music video for "Prisoner" was filmed over two days from September 30 to October 1, 2020, in Brooklyn. The video was co-directed by Cyrus and Alana O'Herlihy. On November 18, 2020, Cyrus teased the music video release on her social media with a 20-second clip where the two artists are seen, covered in blood, partying it up and eating cherries. On November 19, the next day, the video premiered on YouTube alongside the song's release and it was described by Liam Hess of Vogue as "packed with grunge-inspired fashion and enough black eyeliner to make [Joan] Jett herself jealous".

Live performances

Cyrus performed "Prisoner" first time without Lipa on the first episode of the Amazon Music Holiday Plays digital concert series on December 1. Later she performed on The Howard Stern Show. She again performed "Prisoner" on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on December 7. Cyrus performed "Prisoner" on the newest episode of the YouTube series Released on December 10. Cyrus again performed "Prisoner" along with "Party in the U.S.A." and "Edge of Midnight (Midnight Sky Remix)" on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest in Times Square on December 31. Cyrus again performed "Prisoner" along with "Golden G String" and a cover of "Fade Into You" by Mazzy Star on Tiny Desk Concert hosted by NPR Music on January 28, 2021. Cyrus performed "Prisoner" along with several songs off Plastic Hearts at 2021 Super Bowl with TikTok Tailgate.

Track listing

• Digital download and streaming

1. "Prisoner" (featuring Dua Lipa) – 2:49

• Digital download and streaming – Jax Jones Remix

1. "Prisoner" (featuring Dua Lipa) [Jax Jones Remix] – 3:46

Videos

Miley Cyrus - Prisoner (Official Video) ft. Dua Lipa

Prisoner

Prisoner (Jax Jones Remix)

Lyrics

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Personnel

• Miley Cyrus – vocals, backing vocals, executive production
• Dua Lipa – vocals, backing vocals
• Andrew Watt – production, executive production, backing vocals, bass, drums, guitar, keyboards
• The Monsters & Strangerz – production, backing vocals, keyboards
• Jonathan Bellion – backing vocals, additional production
• Michael Pollack – backing vocals
• Paul LaMalfa – engineering
• Serban Ghenea – mixing
• John Hanes – engineering for mix
• Randy Merrill – mastering