Music Video Breakdown: Miley Cyrus Flowers Is A Visual Marvel
Monday, December 16th, 2024Ultimately, Joker was famously isolated and the visual similarity may suggest that Cyrus has mixed feelings about her lack of relationship
On Jan. 13, Miley Cyrus released Flowers, the debut single from her upcoming eighth studio album, Endless Summer Vacation. As of ed song in a single week in Spotify history. The music video for Flowers, directed by Jacob Bixenman, is jovial, empowering, and full of digs at her ex-husband Liam Hemsworth – whose birthday coincided with the date of the release.
Freed of a burdensome relationship, she emphatically states that she can provide for herself without it
As the video opens, Cyrus is seen walking down a sidewalk in a vintage gold Yves Saint Laurent dress. Fans couldn’t help but notice that the stunning wardrobe piece happens to be quite similar to a dress that Jennifer Lawrence wore to the 2012 Los Angeles Premiere of The Hunger Games. Cyrus’s former husband notably played the love interest for Lawrence’s character in the movie.
Though Cyrus previously denied the rumors of cheating in 2019, Lawrence’s comments about kissing Hemsworth outside the realm of their work, in combination with the similar dress, re-ignited fan speculation of cheating rumors.
Right off the bat, the lyrics make clear reference to Cyrus’s previous marriage, stating; We were right til we weren’t / built a home then watched it burn. Cyrus and Hemswoth shared a home in Malibu, which was destroyed in 2018 by the wildfires that wrought the area. As the chorus starts, Cyrus takes off her gold hood, puts her hair up, and begins to dance.
The lyrics of the chorus, I can buy my own flowers appear to respond to the 2012 Bruno Mars song, When I Was Your Man. Perhaps this suggests a changed mindset about her previous relationship. Rather than wondering if a former lover wishes things ended up differently, Cyrus reasserts herself as the maker of her own destiny. (more…)
