MusicMiley Cyrus (30) has a huge hit with her song ‘Flowers’. Whichever international chart you watch, chances are she’s been number one for weeks. And that while she has never sung the song live. An overview.
It can’t be missed anymore: Miley Cyrus is number one almost everywhere. Whether you listen on Spotify, Apple Music or iTunes, ‘Flowers’ is leading the charts. This is no different internationally: ‘Flowers’ has been the most streamed song in the world on Spotify for 45 days in a row, where it reached 500 million streams in record time (37 days). Furthermore, Miley is now number one in America and England for six weeks in a row and she also took the lead in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Australia and New Zealand, among others. The song was released on January 13 and is still number one in Apple Music in thirty countries.
LOOK. Is Miley Cyrus’ song ‘Flowers’ about ex Liam Hemsworth?
Settlement with ex
The number of live performances to promote the track is zero. With 198 million followers on Instagram you don’t need much advertising either, but with ‘Flowers’ it took care of itself. The song made it to every showbiz website because it turned out to be a settlement with Cyrus’ ex Liam Hemsworth (33), the Australian ‘Hunger Games’ actor whom she divorced three years ago.
It must have been no coincidence that the break-up song came out on Liam’s birthday, which is also Friday the thirteenth. Rumor has it that he dedicated Bruno Mars’ song ‘When I was your man’ (2013) to Miley during the period surrounding their divorce. Mars wrote the song for his girlfriend Jessica Caban because he was afraid of losing her. The song contains a well-known passage in which Mars sings what, in hindsight, he wished he had done to keep the relationship going:
I should have bought you flowers
(I should have bought flowers for you)
(have to hold your hand)
Should have gave you all my hours
(Have to spend all my hours with you)
Take you to every party ‘cause all you wanted to do was dance
(Take you to every party, because you wanted to dance so bad)
You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to hear Miley respond to the same tune on Flowers:
I can buy myself flowers (…)
(I can buy myself flowers)
Talk to myself for hours (…)
(talking to myself for hours)
I can take myself dancing
(I can dance myself)
And I can hold my own hand
(And hold my own hand)
Cyrus closes the passage harshly, saying, “I love myself better than you.” They are unmistakably directed at Liam, as earlier in the song she mentions the house she owned with a loved one that she “saw to burn.” Miley and Liam’s villa went up in flames in 2018.
(Read more below the photo.)
Free to twerk
It doesn’t stop at words. In the sexy video for the song (good for 262 million views), Miley seems to repeat the move with which she made the news in 2019. On the red carpet, Miley and Liam were asked what a typical dance of theirs looked like, on which Miley moved her buttocks against Liam’s crotch while twerking. “Don’t do it, honey,” Liam replied, appearing embarrassed. “We’re on the red carpet.” In the new clip, there is no one to stop the reborn Miley.
Her song is also unstoppable for the time being. Now that she is slowly losing the top positions in charts here and there, a demo version of the song will reportedly be released tomorrow that sounds very different and will undoubtedly boost the hit.
LOOK ALSO. Miley Cyrus posts video of Ilsen and Verhulst on Instagram
READ ALSO
What are Viktor Verhulst and Kobe Ilsen doing on Miley Cyrus’ Instagram page?
Miley Cyrus’ hit ‘Flowers’ boosts flower sales in the UK by 52%
Miley Cyrus’ ‘Flowers’ breaks Spotify record: 100 million streams passed after just one week
Free unlimited access to Showbytes? Which can!
Log in or create an account and don’t miss a thing of the stars.
