Every Girl You've Ever Loved

In March 2025, the American singer Miley Cyrus announced her ninth studio album, Something Beautiful, and shared the trailer to its accompanying musical film, also titled Something Beautiful.^[2] In May, she revealed the album's track listing through a visual trailer, which featured footage of the British model Naomi Campbell. "Every Girl You've Ever Loved", the eleventh track, was announced to feature Campbell.^[2][3] Cyrus stated that she decided to create the song after Dolly Parton's positive reception to its title, when Cyrus shared it to her before the writing process began.^[4][5]

Columbia Records released the album Something Beautiful, including "Every Girl You've Ever Loved", on May 30, 2025. On the same date, Cyrus performed the track and "Easy Lover" at the 3 Dollar Bill bar in New York, where an album release party took place.^[6] In the visuals for the song included on the accompanying film, Cyrus and Campbell perform and dance in an empty warehouse with dim lights.^[7] The visuals were released as a music video on June 30, 2025, one day after being teased by Cyrus on her social media accounts.^[8][9] Columbia Records issued the song as a limited edition vinyl on July 11,^[10] promoted by a signing event that took place weeks prior in London's Rough Trade.^[11]

Cyrus, Michael Pollack, Shawn Everett, Jonathan Rado, Alec O'Hanley, Pierre Guerineau, and Molly Rankin wrote "Every Girl You've Ever Loved", while the former three produced it with Ian Gold.^[12] The song contains a sample of a Soulwax remix to a Marie Davidson track titled "Work It"; consequently, Davidson and Soulwax members (David and Stephen Dewaele) received writing credits.^[13]

Music critics categorized "Every Girl You've Ever Loved" as a disco^[14][15][16] and disco pop song.^[9] Campbell appears with an spoken-word speech, in which she praises Cyrus: "She's got that kind of grace / Did Botticelli paint her face? / She's got the perfect scent / She speaks the perfect French".^[16] For NME, Nick Levine compared the sound to the ballads by the British band Coldplay, and Campbell's participation to the English musical duo Pet Shop Boys.^[17]

Several critics highlighted "Every Girl You've Ever Loved" as a standout on Something Beautiful.^[18][19] Elle included "Every Girl You've Ever Loved" on a list of the best music released in May 2025; the magazine's writer Samuel Maude perceived it as a "fashion anthem" and said that it had possibilities to become "[Cyrus's] next big hit".^[19] Billboard's Lyndsey Havens ranked it as the fourth best track on the album and described its latter half as "the perfect soundtrack for a spellbinding vogue-off".^[15] Several music publications believed that the lyrics of "Every Girl You've Ever Loved" referenced the English-Albanian singer Dua Lipa.^[20][21] In a more negative review, Daisy Carter of DIY criticized its lyrics as cliche and "a laboured emulation of 'yass queen' sass", and Campbell's participation as not beneficial to the song.^[22]

In April 2026, "Every Girl You've Ever Loved" was featured in the 'lip sync for the crown' segment of the grand finale of RuPaul's Drag Race season eighteen. Finalists Myki Meeks and Nini Coco performed the song, with Myki Meeks winning the lip sync and, consequently, the season. Cyrus was present to watch the performance, as she had been honored with the show's Giving Us Lifetime Achievement Award in the same episode.^[23]