This song from the time Bangerz » leaked in 2017, but Miley Cyrus and Pharrell Williams released an improved version.
The musical seeds that Miley Cyrus and Pharrell Williams planted over a decade ago have come to fruition with their new single “ Doctor (Work It Out) “. The song, which premiered in 2012 around the time Cyrus was working on her album Bangerz from 2013, leaked online in 2017, but the new and improved version marks their first official collaboration since 2014.
“ We knew it was early. We just knew we were onto something that felt good, but just because the iPad came out when it came out doesn’t mean it was Steve Jobs and his team’s idea only a year beforePharrell told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe about why the song was finally released after over a decade. We don’t know if he was having these kinds of conversations in the 1970s or the 1980s. You never know. There is a moment when you feel that something fits, but you feel that the environment is not ready for it. »
The song was released alongside a video showing Cyrus in a sparkling dress echoing her performance of “ flowers » at the Grammys in early February
“ We believe so much in timing and that everything happens when it’s supposed to. And around the Grammys, Pharrell and I were talking about releasing this song, and I felt like it was serendipity, and there were so many alignments and so many moments that made me know that it was the perfect timeCyrus explained. And sometimes things from the past have more meaning in the present than they did then. And so this song, I think the nature, the celebration, the feeling, especially with the video, the joy, the dancing, the letting go, that’s what this song always needed. (…) This song is really fun, and it’s not too heavy or heady or deep, and that’s kind of where I am and my nature right now. It reflects my state of mind, and that’s what my music always does. »
Pharrell and Cyrus last teamed up on “ Come Get It Bae » from the solo album GIRL from the producer in 2014. But their collaboration began well before. “ I’m sitting in the same kitchen where I met Pharrell. And that was probably when I was 17 or 18Cyrus explained. Pharrell came to my house for a meeting and to ask me what I was doing now that I no longer had a TV show and what his vision was for me. And the kitchen table is where I’m sitting right now. »
Pharrell added: “ I will never forget meeting her at a time when people had labeled her as one thing. She was Hannah Montana back then, growing up and really wanting to live her life, no matter how far from the precipice, that was her. And I remember that the world, well, not the world, but maybe the guardians, didn’t understand her… We did a few songs that went on her album Bangerz, but this one was… like good wine to me, »
Pharrell first presented “ Doctor (Work It Out) » in January during the presentation of Louis Vuitton’s fall-winter 2024 collection in Paris.
