Miley Cyrus’s co-writers spill on how Jamie Lee Curtis convinced her to record song for The Last Showgirl

Jamie Lee Curtis and Miley Cyrus (Image: Gage Skidmore on Flickr/Miley Cyrus on Facebook)

Miley Cyrus’s poignant new ballad for the upcoming Gia Coppola film The Last Showgirl hasn’t even dropped on streaming yet and already the song has picked up nominations at both the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards for Best Original Song.

And now, in a new interview with IndieWire, the song’s co-writers Andrew Wyatt and Swedish pop star Lykke Li have revealed how the ‘Flowers’ singer very nearly wasn’t going to be involved in the film’s soundtrack.

Wyatt, a longtime collaborator of Cyrus‘s as well as a cowriter on other soundtrack smash hits such as Lady Gaga’s ‘Shallow’ and Dua Lipa’s ‘Dance The Night’, told the publication that Cyrus was “deeply ensconced in her own album process”

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