Flowers Miley Cyrus

The pop singer's self-helpy new single illustrates how her music often doesn't match her star power.

[Endless Summer Vacation](https://pitchfork.com/news/miley-cyrus-announces-new-album-endless-summer-vacation/), starts in a similar position as 2020’s [Plastic Hearts](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/miley-cyrus-plastic-hearts/), with a story of a broken relationship that scans as a reference to her split from ex-husband Liam Hemsworth in 2019. [wheatpaste posters](https://twitter.com/popcrave/status/1604173329723961345) beside the exposed slice of stomach that’s somehow recognizable, all by itself, as [Miley Cyrus](https://pitchfork.com/artists/5996-miley-cyrus/). This time, instead of stomping through heartbreak to the sound of ’80s rock, she’s doing something like twangy disco funk, with a sour string section that gives her revenge anthem the faintest hint of flamenco.

Miley Cyrus has set the vibe for 2023 with her new song “Flowers.” The first taste of her impending album, Endless Summer Vacation, the track sees Cyrus ...

Cyrus teamed up with Kid Harpoon, Greg Kurstin, Mike WiLL Made-It, and Tyler Johnson for the record, which is said to be her By the time the chorus rolls around, Cyrus unveils herself and finds the confidence to go at life solo. New Miley.” Earlier this week, Cyrus posted a video of herself in the shower singing along to the chorus.

It's difficult to get over a break-up. But I'm feeling nostalgic for a Miley who isn't always singing about or to a man.

Their memory is something that will live with you forever (as Cyrus said of Hemsworth in an interview during the release of Plastic Hearts, “I really do and did love him very, very, very much and still do, always will”) — or at the very least become something you can milk for your art for years to come. And maybe, Cyrus wrote “Flowers” many years ago, when the wound was still fresher. “We were good, we were gold/ Kind of dream that can't be sold/ We were right 'til we weren't/ Built a home and watched it burn,” she sings. And if some fan theories are to be believed, the new song even appears to nudge at the actor more directly. The arrival of “Flowers,” the lead single of her upcoming album Endless Summer Vacation, however, isn’t exactly that — but isn’t not exactly that either. It doesn’t take a detective to gather who “Flowers” is likely about.

Miley Cyrus dropped her new song 'Flowers' on Liam Hemsworth's birthday, and many fans think it's a diss track referencing a Bruno Mars song.

"Once upon a time, it was paradise, once upon a time, I was paralyzed. "I hope your marriage goes better than mine," she said. "Once upon a time, it was made for us woke up one day, it had turned to dust. Cyrus' lyrics are strikingly similar: "I can buy myself flowers, and I can hold my own hand. Built a home and watched it burn," she sings on the song's first verse. We were right 'til we weren't.

Miley Cyrus' new single "Flowers," which is rumored to be about her ex-husband Liam Hemsworth, seemingly samples Bruno Mars' "When I Was Your Man."

“I can take myself dancing, and I can hold my own hand/ Yeah, I can love me better than you can.” The meaning behind “Flowers” is clearly personal. “We were good, we were gold/ Kind of dream that can't be sold,” Cyrus sings. The references to Hemsworth don’t stop there. “Take you to every party 'cause all you wanted to do was dance.” [Endless Summer Vacation](https://www.elitedaily.com/entertainment/miley-cyrus-endless-summer-vacation-album-announcement), by dropping the record’s first single, “ [Flowers](https://www.elitedaily.com/entertainment/miley-cyrus-new-single-flowers-release-date-liam-hemsworth).” The track is an [empowering breakup anthem](https://www.elitedaily.com/entertainment/miley-cyrus-best-music-videos) in which Cyrus tells her ex that she’s better off on her own.

Miley Cyrus dropped her new single on Thursday night (Jan. 12). Is the song about her relationship with ex Liam Hemsworth?

Sweetheart, we’re on the carpet,” he chided at the time. However, when the Access Hollywood personality followed that up by asking what a dance looked like between the couple, Hemsworth didn’t love Cyrus playfully grinding on him. “I would say that losing the house changed us much more than getting married changed us.” Of course, fans will remember that the couple’s Malibu home was destroyed in the devastating Woolsey Fire of 2018, a tragedy Cyrus later admitted spurred her into marrying Hemsworth nearly a decade after they first fell in love. Instead, she nonchalantly declares, “No remorse, no regrets/ I forgive every word you said” before dancing ecstatically around an LA mansion all on her own. [pop](https://www.billboard.com/t/pop/) star might be referencing her now-ex-husband when she announced the single’s Jan. But once the single dropped in full, the superstar got pointedly more specific. Does it feel good where you’re at right now?” she definitely didn’t lie when she said she’s got nerve,” one fan wrote after Cyrus shared the news. “Miley’s telling the world she can love herself better ON LIAM’S BIRTHDAY?! [Miley Cyrus](https://www.billboard.com/artist/miley-cyrus/) dropped her new single “ [Flowers](https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/miley-cyrus-flowers-stream-1235198408/)” on Thursday night, and all signs seem to point to the anthem taking inspiration from her relationship with ex-husband [Liam Hemsworth](https://www.billboard.com/t/liam-hemsworth/). [teasing](https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/miley-cyrus-flowers-shower-teaser-1235195929/) the song’s chorus in a sultry post on social media: “I can buy myself flowers, write my name in the sand/ Talk to myself for hours, yeah, say things you don’t understand/ I can take myself dancing, I can hold my own hand/ Yeah, I can love me better than you can.” On their own, the lyrics could be about any given ill-fated romance.