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Miley Cyrus – Mother’s Daughter (Official Video)

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Miley Cyrus turns a pop anthem into a red-lit manifesto on bodily autonomy.

Miley Cyrus dropped the official video for “Mother’s Daughter” on July 2, 2019, and it’s less a standard music video than a statement piece. The track leads her EP She Is Coming, co-written with Alma and Andrew Wyatt, and director Alexandre Moors builds the whole thing around one defiant lyric: “Don’t fuck with my freedom.” It arrived just weeks after Cyrus’s headline-grabbing Glastonbury set, keeping her firmly in her most politically outspoken era yet.

• The video debuted July 2, 2019, days after “Mother’s Daughter” entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 54.
• Cyrus performs in a red latex catsuit alongside her real mother, Tish Cyrus, visualizing the chorus’s line about maternal empowerment.
• Flashcard slogans — “Every woman is a riot,” “Virginity is a social construct,” “Not an object,” “My body, my rules,” “Feminist AF” — and a “They / Them” title card run throughout, framing the clip as an activist statement rather than a straightforward performance video.

A Cast Built Around Real Activists

Rather than surround herself with dancers, Cyrus fills the frame with a specific, named group of activists and models: disabled trans model Aaron Philip, 11-year-old clean water campaigner Mari Copeny (known as “Little Miss Flint”), fat-acceptance activist Angelina Duplisea, queer professional skateboarder Lacey Baker, trans male model Casil McArthur, burlesque performer Amazon Ashley, dancer Paige Fralix, and models Vendela and Trydryn Scott. Each contributes personal statements on liberation woven into the video’s structure, turning three-and-a-half minutes into a rotating series of testimonials rather than a single narrative.

That casting choice is the point. Cyrus isn’t illustrating a lyric about feminism in the abstract — she’s putting the people the song is ostensibly written for directly in front of the camera, letting Philip, Copeny, Baker and the rest speak in their own words rather than serving as background dancers.

The Visual Language

Moors saturates nearly every frame in red — the catsuit, the lighting, the backdrops — a color choice that ties Cyrus’s own image to the recurring flashcard text. The slogans don’t function as subtitles; they interrupt the performance footage outright, forcing viewers to read “My body, my rules” or “Not an object” in the middle of a verse rather than tucked into a closing montage.

Don’t fuck with my freedom.

That chorus line is the video’s spine. Every visual choice — the Tish Cyrus cameo, the “They / Them” slide, the activist cast — loops back to it, making the song’s most explicit lyric the organizing idea of the whole four-minute piece rather than just a hook.

Part of a Bigger Rollout

“Mother’s Daughter” isn’t a standalone single — it’s the lead track off She Is Coming, the first of what Cyrus has described as a three-part EP rollout, and its video release followed her sobriety milestone earlier in the year, detailed in Miley Cyrus Reveals She Is 6 Months Sober. Combined with her Glastonbury performance, the song cements a version of Cyrus leaning hard into overt political messaging after years of genre experimentation, a shift that’s kept her firmly in the Trending Music conversation through the summer of 2019.

With the track already sitting at number 54 on the Hot 100 before the video even dropped, the bigger question for Cyrus was whether the rest of She Is Coming could sustain that momentum — the EP was still rolling out track by track heading into July, with the full project expected to follow in the weeks after.