Prisoner (Miley Cyrus song)

"Prisoner"
In front of a graffitied wall, Miley Cyrus sits on the top of a couch with her arms around Dua Lipa, who is sitting on it. There is a black border around them and their initials, "MC" and "DL", appear in a heart on the top right.
Single by Miley Cyrus featuring Dua Lipa
from the album Plastic Hearts
ReleasedNovember 19, 2020 (2020-11-19)
RecordedJuly 2020[1]
Genre
Length2:49
LabelRCA
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Miley Cyrus singles chronology
"Midnight Sky"
(2020)
"Prisoner"
(2020)
"Angels like You"
(2021)
Dua Lipa singles chronology
"Fever"
(2020)
"Prisoner"
(2020)
"Real Groove" (Studio 2054 remix)
(2020)
Music video
"Prisoner" on YouTube

"Prisoner" is a song by American singer Miley Cyrus featuring English singer Dua Lipa. It was released on November 19, 2020, through RCA Records as the second single from Cyrus' seventh studio album Plastic Hearts (2020). It was also included on the re-issue of Lipa's second studio album Future Nostalgia: The Moonlight Edition (2021). It is a dance, dark-pop, disco-punk, disco-rock, glam rock and nu-disco song produced by Andrew Watt and the Monsters & Strangerz.

The music video was released on the same day as the single and was co-directed by Cyrus and Alana O'Herlihy. It features the singers driving a tour bus and draws references to the films The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Female Trouble. "Prisoner" received mostly positive reviews from music critics, though some of them deemed it one of the weaker moments of the album. The song reached number one in Bulgaria, Croatia, and Malta, the top ten in ten additional countries, and the top forty in nineteen additional countries. It also peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Global 200 and number 54 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

  1. ^ Ryan, Patrick (November 25, 2020). "Dua Lipa talks 'Studio 2054' virtual concert, teases Elton John collab". USA Today. Archived from the original on November 25, 2020. Retrieved November 25, 2020.