Miley Cyrus Shares New Song “Dream as One” for Avatar: Fire and Ash

For the third chapter of James Cameron’s Avatar saga, the final word belongs to Miley Cyrus.

The singer has released “Dream as One (From Avatar: Fire and Ash)”, a new original song written for the franchise’s latest instalment – a shimmering end-credits ballad that matches Pandora’s scale while staying rooted in Cyrus’s own story of loss, resilience and rebirth.

A lush collaboration built for Pandora

“Dream as One” finds Cyrus in full cinematic mode. She co-wrote and co-produced the track with longtime collaborators Andrew Wyatt and Mark Ronson, with additional contributions from Jonathan Wilson, composer Simon Franglen, Brandon Bost and others – essentially a dream team bridging pop, rock and film score worlds.

Musically, the song sits where orchestral grandeur meets intimate pop ballad:

• verses built on hushed vocals and gentle instrumentation

• a chorus that opens up into widescreen, Na’vi-sized emotion

• subtle motifs that echo Franglen’s score and the film’s elemental themes of fire, ash and renewal

It’s designed to carry audiences out of the film, not just as a closing theme but as a final emotional chapter, reinforcing the story’s message of unity and survival.

The emotional core: healing through fire

Lyrically, “Dream as One” leans into images of flames, ash and sky, using the destruction of fire as a metaphor for healing and connection. Lines such as “Even through the flames / Even through the ashes in the sky / Baby, when we dream, we dream as one” marry the film’s imagery with a deeply human sense of shared recovery.

In interviews and social posts, Cyrus has framed the song as deeply personal, referencing her own experience of losing her home in the Woolsey Fire and rebuilding her life in the years since. She’s described the track as “musical medicine” and a way of turning trauma into something communal and hopeful.

That personal history gives the song a lived-in weight; it doesn’t just accompany a story about a world ravaged by conflict, it speaks to the real-world process of finding beauty in what survives.

Continuing Avatar’s tradition of big-moment ballads

With “Dream as One,” Cyrus joins a small, carefully chosen group of artists who have been invited to close out the Avatar films:

• Leona Lewis with “I See You (Theme from Avatar)” for the original 2009 film

• The Weeknd with “Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” for 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water

• now Miley Cyrus, ushering audiences out of Avatar: Fire and Ash with a track that could easily sit alongside her own biggest ballads.

The new song will play over the end credits and appear on the film’s official soundtrack, which showcases Simon Franglen’s score and arrives on 12 December 2025, a week ahead of the film’s 19 December cinema release.

Where “Dream as One” sits in Miley’s current era

“Dream as One” arrives in the wake of Cyrus’s ninth studio album, Something Beautiful, released in May 2025 – a visual, conceptual project about healing, transformation and finding light in darker chapters. That record saw her working with a broad creative circle including Andrew Wyatt, Jonathan Rado, Brittany Howard, Adam Granduciel, BJ Burton, Shawn Everett, Tobias Jesso Jr., Bibi Bourelly and more.

In many ways, the Avatar track feels like a luxury epilogue to that era:

• it keeps the focus on resilience and connection

• it places her voice – textured, weathered, warm – against a more expansive, cinematic backdrop

• it underlines her current positioning as an artist comfortable moving between pop radio, awards conversations and big-screen moments

For Niche readers, this is Cyrus operating at the intersection of blockbuster cinema and high-gloss, emotionally literate pop – a lane she occupies with increasing confidence.

Avatar: Fire and Ash – the bigger picture

Avatar: Fire and Ash marks the third film in James Cameron’s Na’vi saga, continuing the story of Jake Sully and Neytiri as Pandora faces new threats shaped around the elements of fire and ash. Composer Simon Franglen, who scored The Way of Water, returns, reportedly inventing new instruments and sound palettes to match the film’s expanded world.

“Dream as One” is designed as the final emotional note: a reminder that, beneath the technology and spectacle, Avatar has always been about connection – between people, between species, between worlds.

How to listen

“Dream as One (From Avatar: Fire and Ash)” is available now on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and SoundCloud.

For those planning their winter cinema diary, Avatar: Fire and Ash opens in US and UK cinemas on 19 December 2025, with the full soundtrack landing a week earlier on 12 December.

Until then, “Dream as One” offers a luxurious first glimpse of Pandora’s next chapter – a song that feels equally at home in a Dolby Atmos theatre or on late-night headphones, reminding us that even in fire and ash, there is always something – and someone – to dream with.