Miley Cyrus wrote Slide Away before her break-up.
It was widely speculated that the Wrecking Ball hitmaker penned the track after the end of her marriage to Liam Hemsworth, where she also predicted her house would burn down - which it did during the Malibu wildfires, but she insists it was actually written in February the previous year.
Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music, she said: "I wrote Slide Away before my break-up. I wrote Slide Away in February of the year before. And I just keep speaking these things into existence. So, you know what? That's why I've also, I've decided to use my language to love myself, and to really create what I want to be my reality. Because otherwise, I keep doing the opposite. I burnt my house down with my words. I was talking yesterday about where you apply your attention to determine how you feel. And I think that's what I mean by definitely joking about me burning my house down with my words. But I do believe where we put our attention determines our faith."
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