Miley Cyrus - Mother's Daughter

What this video is

Released July 2, 2019, 'Mother's Daughter' arrived at a flashpoint moment in U.S. reproductive rights politics, as multiple states advanced 'heartbeat bill' anti-abortion legislation. Director Alexandre Moors and Cyrus explicitly framed the video as a response to this climate. The video's deliberate casting of transgender women, nonbinary individuals, plus-size women, women of color, disabled women, and youth…

Why it matters

Represents a crystallization of late-2010s feminist pop video grammar — high-production-value activist spectacle combining maximalist visual branding, rapid-edit social-media-optimized pacing, and documentary-adjacent representation politics. Stands alongside contemporaneous videos by artists such…

The director

Alexandre Moors is a Belgian-born music video and film director whose credits span multiple major recording artists. He has directed videos for Kendrick Lamar, Jennifer Lopez, ScHoolboy Q, and Miguel. He also directed the feature film The Yellow Birds…