The album, which was released to streaming services on the same day as 'Endless Summer Vacation', appears to be no longer available.
On March 10, Miley Cyrus returned with her eighth album, 'Endless Summer Vacation'. It wasn't the sweeping divorce album she was hoping for, with her musings on her breakup with Liam Hemsworth sandwiched between dance songs and self-love anthems.
All that emotional outburst may have been reserved for "Down With Me," a 12-song album featuring the voice of Miley Cyrus that was released on the same day under the alias Clara Pierce.
Clara Pierce has about 250 monthly listeners on Spotify, about 79 million fewer than Miley Cyrus has on the streaming service.
All the songs on the album "Down With Me" are signed by Willian Cordeiro, except for one song called "I Don't Wanna Tell You Lies", which is signed by Carla Pierce.
As 'Down With Me' hasn't been officially promoted or even placed on any of the platform's editorial playlists, it's possible that Miley Cyrus simply didn't want the album to be found – if she uploaded it herself.
On the cover of the album the title is written on a mountain landscape. Carla Pierce's account photo features a woman who couldn't look less like Miley Cyrus.
But image aside, Miley Cyrus has one of the most distinctive timbres in pop music. Once her fans discovered the album, there was no doubt as to who the voice belonged to.
And unlike the AI songs with fake artist voices that have been circulating lately, no algorithm in an AI program could capture both Miley Cyrus's performance characteristics and style as effectively.
The other possibility is that the songs on "Down With Me" are high-quality leaks from Miley Cyrus' previous albums, including "Bangerz," "Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz," and 2019's "She is Coming" EP. Representatives for Miley Cyrus have not responded to requests for comment.
Aside from the obvious connections, such as "Sagittarius" taking its title from the singer's zodiac sign and the reference to her debut album "See You Again," several songs on the album draw direct parallels to Miley Cyrus' career.
On "Sagittarius," she references a single from "She Is Coming," singing, "I told you once before, I'm my mother's daughter."
'She Is Coming' was to be a precursor to 'She Is Miley Cyrus', an album that was never released.
“Just when I thought all the work was done… everything was lost. Including the greater importance of music. Because everything had changed," Miley Cyrus said ahead of the release of "Plastic Hearts" in 2022, referring to the fire that completely destroyed her home in 2018, as well as the songs she had prepared.
“Nature did what I now see as a favor and destroyed what I could not leave for myself. I lost my house in a fire, but I found myself in its ashes", commented the singer at the time.
“Luckily, my collaborators still had most of the music burned into diaries and computers full of songs for the series of EPs I was working on at the time. But I never felt like I had to release my 'story' (each record is an ongoing autobiography) with a huge chapter missing," he explained.
A song titled "At Least I Can Say That I Tried", which appears on the first half of the mysterious album "Down With Me", refers to the same theme of the single "Slide Away", which Miley Cyrus sings: as she sings : "I want my house in the hills / I don't want the whiskey and the pills."
On the secret song, she goes a step further: "It seems like an exaggeration / I don't need no more pills / I'm lost in chaos / I don't know when to stop / When I wake up, I look at him / He's still so confused / I'm always afraid of what I'll find."
And "At Least I Can Say That I Tried" is widely known to Miley Cyrus fans as "1000 Times (Been Through This)," a demo for a collaboration with Juice WRLD that never materialized.
On Sunday, the late rapper's former manager, Pete Jideonwo, retweeted a post from a fan account about the song on social media, hinting at the possibility of an official release.
