Miley Cyrus kicked off her latest music era in earnest tonight, releasing “Flowers,” the primary single from her latest album Countless Summer Vacation (out March 10) at midnight London time. It marked the beginning of her ex-husband Liam Hemsworth’s birthday there.
Fans have speculated that the song could also be about her life post-breakup with the actor based on the lyrics, given its “I can love me higher, baby” tagline and the timing of the discharge (Hemsworth’s thirty third birthday).
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Miley Cyrus – Flowers (Official Video)
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The complete song adds more fuel to this theory, given Cyrus appears to lyrically reference the Woolsey fire where the Malibu home they shared burned down (“We were right ’til we weren’t / Built a house and watched it burn”) and their arguing that led her to comprehend this relationship would not work (“I didn’t wanna leave you, baby / I didn’t wanna fight”).
Moreover, Cyrus’s verse about not wanting to go away could also be a reference to reports that got here out on the time of Hemsworth and Cyrus’s split that she desired to reconcile. TMZ reported that she had been fighting for his or her marriage up until the week Hemsworth suddenly filed for divorce, telling him she desired to work on their relationship.
And her lyric later within the song about not wanting to live a lie (“I didn’t wanna leave you / I didn’t wanna lie”) could also be a reference to what a People source said in August 2019 about Cyrus not wanting to completely change who she is to be with Hemsworth. “She just got to the purpose where she didn’t wish to hold back about who she is,” the source said. “She desires to be true to herself. Being with Liam, this was just impossible. For them to be comfortable, she had to vary as an individual an excessive amount of. She knows not being with Liam will make her happier in the long term.”
Cyrus spoke a little bit about not being a standard wife to ELLE when she was married: “I believe it’s very confusing to folks that I’m married,” she said an interview published in July 2019, shortly before her and Hemsworth’s split was announced. “But my relationship is exclusive. And I don’t know that I might ever publicly allow people in there since it’s so complex, and modern, and latest that I don’t think we’re in a spot where people would get it. I mean, do people really think that I’m at home in a fucking apron cooking dinner? I’m in a hetero relationship, but I still am very sexually drawn to women. People develop into vegetarian for health reasons, but bacon continues to be fucking good, and I do know that. I made a partner decision. That is the person I feel has my back essentially the most. I definitely don’t fit right into a stereotypical wife role. I don’t even like that word.”
Cyrus and Hemsworth were together on-off for 10 years and got married in December 2018. Their divorce was finalized in January 2020. Cyrus spoke in December 2020 about how she would all the time love Hemsworth, but there was an excessive amount of conflict of their relationship for it to be healthy longterm. What she said during that interview about their relationship breakdown also appears to be echoed within the lyrics of “Flowers.”
“We were together since 16,” Cyrus told Howard Stern. “Our house [in Malibu] burned down [during the Woolsey fire]. We had been like, engaged—I do not know if we actually ever thought we were actually going to get married, but after we lost our house in Malibu—which when you take heed to my voice pre- and post-fire, they’re very different in order that trauma really affected my voice. And I used to be actually in South Africa, so I couldn’t come home, and like, my animals were tied to a post on the beach. I lost every part. I had polaroids of Elvis, like front row, passed on from—I got a pair grandmas to offer me their Elvis polaroids. I all the time became friends with my friends’ grandmas so I could get the products from the artists I really like.”
“I had a lot and it was all gone, every song I had ever written was in that house,” she continued. “Every photograph of me that my parents had given to me, all my scripts, I lost every part. And so in attempting to put that back together, as a substitute of going, ‘Oh, nature sort of did something I couldn’t do for myself; it forced me to let go,’ I ran toward the fireplace. Which will not be abnormal, a number of animals do that and find yourself dying, like deers run into the forest. You’re drawn to that heat and me being an intense person and never wanting to take a seat with it, and never wanting to go, you already know, ‘What might be purposeful about this?’ I just clung to what I had left of that house, which was me and him. And I actually do and did love him very, very, very much and still do, all the time will.”
Cyrus added later of their dynamic, “There was an excessive amount of conflict. After I come home, I need to be anchored by someone. I do not get off on drama or fighting.”
Cyrus and Hemsworth have each moved on and are dating different people. Hemsworth has been with model Gabriella Brooks for over three years. Cyrus, meanwhile, has been dating Maxx Morando for nearly a yr.
Here, the total lyrics of “Flowers” to soak up, via Genius. You may watch the music video above.
Verse 1
We were good, we were gold
Form of dream that cannot be sold
We were right ’til we weren’t
Built a house and watched it burn
Pre-Chorus
Hmm, I didn’t wanna leave you, I didn’t wanna lie
Began to cry but then remembered I—
Chorus
I should buy myself flowers
Write my name within the sand
Discuss with myself for hours
See stuff you don’t understand
I can take myself dancing
And I can hold my very own hand
Yeah, I can love me higher than you may
Post-Chorus
Can love me higher, I can love me higher, baby
Can love me higher, I can love me higher, baby
Verse 2
Paint my nails, cherry red
Match the roses that you simply left
No remorse, no regret
I forget every word you said
Pre-Chorus
Ooh, I didn’t wanna leave you, baby, I didn’t wanna fight
Began to cry but then remembered I—
Chorus
I should buy myself flowers
Write my name within the sand
Discuss with myself for hours
See stuff you don’t understand
I can take myself dancing, yeah
I can hold my very own hand
Yeah, I can love me higher than you may
Post-Chorus
Can love me higher, I can love me higher, baby
Can love me higher, I can love me higher, baby
Can love me higher, I can love me higher, baby
Can love me higher
Bridge
I didn’t wanna leave you, baby, I didn’t wanna fight
Began to cry but then remembered I—
Chorus
I should buy myself flowers (Uh-uh)
Write my name within the sand
Discuss with myself for hours (Yeah-eah)
See stuff you don’t understand
I can take myself dancing, yeah
I can hold my very own hand
Yeah, I can love me higher than
Yeah, I can love me higher than you may
Post-Chorus
Can love me higher, I can love me higher, baby
Can love me higher, I can love me higher, baby (Baby)
Can love me higher, I can love me higher, baby
Can love me higher, I—
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