Have you heard that sultry singer Miley Cyrus’ new song, ‘Flowers’? It’s the first song from her upcoming album, ‘Endless Summer,’ which will be released on March 10th.
Writer Lea Veloso termed it the “ultimate self-love anthem of the year.” The lyrics that particularly resonate with any flower lover are the following: “I can buy myself flowers…I can love me better than you can.” Isn’t that a positive approach to new beginnings?
People love the song and the sentiment. Sometimes two good people aren’t good for each other, but you can always have flowers in the house to cheer you up and inspire you. Many are writing how the song references the break-up of her marriage in 2019 to Hunger Games actor Liam Hemsworth. And she did also release the song on the actor’s birthday.
Included in the lyrics is a reference to how their house burned down during the California wildfires. “We were right ’til we weren’t / Built a home and watched it burn,” she sings. In an interview with Rolling Stone in 2020, she revealed that the fire “did what I couldn’t do myself.” “It removed me from what no longer was serving its purpose,” she told the magazine.
But it is the flower reference that is trending. (Taylor Swift also launched her album with the song ‘Lavender Haze’)
In a songwriter’s hand, flowers are reliable metaphors that can very efficiently infuse a song with personal, societal, or cultural meanings. And what other entity outside of a flower can simultaneously trigger feelings that can evoke such a range of emotions, including love, loss, longing, celebration, revelry, remorse, remembrance, and, of course, joy?
Flowers help artists tell every possible story in the human experience.
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