Miley Cyrus is channeling a painful memory into music for one of the most highly anticipated films of 2025: Avatar: Fire and Ash.
As announced Wednesday (Oct. 22), the pop star will contribute an original song to the Avatar sequel’s soundtrack. Sharing a snippet of the track on social media, Cyrus shared that she was inspired by her own experience with losing her Malibu home to a devastating fire in 2018 while working on the track.
“Having been personally affected by fire and being rebuilt from the ashes, this project holds profound meaning for me,” she wrote. “Thank you, [James Cameron], for the opportunity to turn that experience into musical medicine. The film’s themes of unity, healing, and love resonate deeply within my soul, and to be even a small star in the universe the Avatar family has created is truly a dream come true.”
In the sneak peek at the song, Cyrus sings over a lush orchestral arrangement, “Even through the flames, even through the ashes in the sky/ Baby when we dream, we dream as one.”
Avatar: Fire and Ash is set to premiere in theaters in December, more than 15 years after the first film in the franchise came out. The original Avatar — which starred Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana — is considered the highest grossing movie of all time, raking in more than $2 billion in the box office.
Cyrus has been open about how seriously the 2018 wildfire affected her. At the time, she posted that the home she shared with then-husband Liam Hemsworth had been completely destroyed, though all of her animals were safely evacuated.
When wildfires again broke out in California this year, Cyrus again touched on the experience. “It’s a feeling you don’t ever forget,” she said. “Walking up to the door you would pass through daily, looking forward to being greeted by the ones you love like you always do but instead being met by a pile of ash and rubble.”
See Cyrus’ announcement below.
