If you’ve been on the internet the past few weeks, you’ve probably heard about Miley Cyrus’s new song, Flowers. The song is already shaping up to be one of the most popular songs of 2023, and possibly Miley’s biggest hit since Wrecking Ball. Miley Cyrus is an often underrated musical power source, so for her to finally be getting the recognition she deserves is amazing.
Flowers is about Miley learning to love herself after what we can only assume is the divorce from her husband. The song was even released on his birthday, in the music video for the song she wears the same suit she wore when on the red carpet he told her to “behave” and the music video was allegedly filmed in the house her ex-husband used to cheat on her with a bunch of different women.
In the song, Miley talks about all the things her husband used to do for her, that she can now do for herself.
“I can buy myself flowers
Write my name in the sand
Talk to myself for hours
Say things you don’t understand
I can take myself dancing
And I can hold my own hand
Yeah, I can love me better than you can.”
The song may very well become the ultimate self love anthem of 2023, a message that is needed a lot in the world right now. A song like this, about a woman openly learning to love herself even through grief is incredibly powerful. Up until recently, most breakup pop songs were sad, but in recent years there has been a spin to sing about why the break up was a good thing and what the artist has learned from it. In Flowers, Miley has mastered exactly that. She shares her trauma while also blooming from what happened.
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