Pharrell Williams returns to Miley Cyrus' unreleased Louis Vuitton fall-winter collaboration

For every album it's worth of music released by aspiring pop producers, countless other records are left on the cutting room floor—lyrics that never integrate into anything more, choruses that repeat a beat but articulate an entire song, original demos that are completely transformed throughout creation process. Aside from the occasional internet leak, most of these songs never make it off whatever hard drive they're stored on. But when Pharrell Williams took over the Louis Vuitton mantle, he brought his archives with him and waited for the perfect moment to resurface an unreleased Miley Cyrus collaboration.

On Tuesday, in a live stream of the presentation of his Maison Men's Fall-Winter 2024 collection, the singer's unmistakable voice rang out while models navigated a maze-like catwalk at the Jardin d'Acclimatation in Paris. The song, known to fans familiar with the previous leak as “Doctor,” first surfaced online in December 2017. It's rumored to have been created over a decade ago during recordings for Cyrus' fourth studio album, Bangerz. which was released in 2013.

“I could be your doctor and your nurse/I think I see the problem, it's only going to get worse/The medicine he gave you, well, it's never going to work,” Cyrus sings on the record. The lyrics of the opening verse match what fans have documented from the less polished leaked versionhowever, the version he played has been rewritten in some areas and seemingly completely re-recorded.

Four songs Bangerz, including some bonus tracks, writing and/or production by Williams. The pair haven't released music together since Cyrus' vocals appeared on “Come Get It Bae” from the producer's 2014 solo album GIRL. Most of their rumored collaborations remain unreleased.

Williams, who succeeded the late Virgil Abloh as men's creative director at Louis Vuitton, also posted a release from Mumford & Sons' Fall-Winter 2024 show. another apparently unreleased song with a male vocalist and Cyrus' updated recording of “Doctor”.

Last year, just months after Cyrus released her latest album, Endless summer vacation, an album filled with her unreleased material appeared on Spotify and Apple Music under the name Clara Pierce. Eventually removed, the album title Down with me consisted of twelve high quality leaks from previous Cyrus albums including Bangerz, Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, and the 2019 EP Comes.