Have you heard Miley Cyrus’s hit song “Flowers”? So many millions of us have, it’s reached #1 on the charts in 13 countries, according to Miley herself on Instagram.
But according to this and several other sources, the song has also prompted a massive boost in flower sales at Lidl, the low-cost grocery chain.
The breakup anthem – which champions buying flowers for yourself – shot to the top spot on the UK’s music charts last week after racking up 203 million global streams… Flower sales spiked 52% in the wake of Miley hysteria just two weeks after the popstar’s release, which also includes an empowering self-care message.
The song begins with the story of her latest break-up, but it turns positive when she “Started to cry but then remembered I can buy myself flowers.” The self-affirming “I can buy myself flowers” is how the super-catchy chorus that’s playing nonstop in my brain begins. Other types of self-care cited in the song include “I can take myself dancing,” “I can hold my own hand,” “Paint my nails cherry red” and “Match the roses that you left.” (Scroll down for full lyrics.) And the video shows Miley swimming, working out fiercely and dancing joyfully, so it’s really fun to watch.
And we’re all pro-self-care, especially when it includes flowers. My only question is why, when I searched for promotional photos of Miley with flowers, this grungy old image is all I could find.
And if you watch the official video – for a song called “Flowers” – you’ll see no flowers. The closest the video gets to floral display is a flower-less yard with sprinklers going.
Apparently others are more interested in the target of this revenge song. Could it be her ex, the actor Liam Hemsworth, on whose birthday the song was released? That’s what other websites are gossiping about. Here on this news-breaking garden blog we’re just happy to see flowers getting some attention and being bought. Just for yourself!
“Flowers” lyrics
We were good, we were gold Kinda dream that can’t be sold We were right ’til we weren’t Built a home and watched it burn
Mm, I didn’t wanna leave you I didn’t wanna lie Started to cry but then remembered I
I can buy myself flowers Write my name in the sand Talk to myself for hours Say things you don’t understand I can take myself dancing And I can hold my own hand Yeah, I can love me better than you can
Can love me better I can love me better, baby Can love me better I can love me better, baby
Paint my nails, cherry red Match the roses that you left No remorse, no regret I forgive every word you said
Ooh, I didn’t want to leave you, baby I didn’t wanna fight Started to cry but then remembered I
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, yeah I can hold my own hand Yeah, I can love me better than you can
Can love me better I can love me better, baby Can love me better I can love me better, baby Can love me better I can love me better, baby Can love me better Oh, I
I didn’t want to leave you I didn’t wanna fight Started to cry but then remembered I
I can buy myself flowers (oh) Write my name in the sand (mmh) Talk to myself for hours (yeah) Say things you don’t understand (never will) I can take myself dancing, yeah I can hold my own hand Yeah, I can love me better than Yeah, I can love me better than you can
Can love me better I can love me better, baby (oh) Can love me better I can love me better (than you can), baby Can love me better I can love me better, baby Can love me better
Songwriters: Gregory Aldae Hein / Michael Ross Pollack / Miley Ray Cyrus
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It’s not like there’s a shortage of garden flowers in Los Angeles. Shortsighted of Miley, though I love the song, also.
Diane in slowly greening Colorado
March 4, 2023 at 12:16 pm - Reply
This is great fun; she is quite right and I love the lyrics.
More of us, even the married or coupled ones, need to remember this message.
Flowers are just plain ole Joy.
And even better when not accompanied by warnings and scolds about all the jet fuel being burned up by shipping them up from Latin America. True though that is.
Thank you for this happy diversion, Susan.
Got a good laugh out of video. I use to do those same exercises a few years back. In a lot more clothes and in a boring old gym. Sure didn’t look like Miley!
No flowers were harmed in the making of that video. Not one. 😉 – MW
I love that song. The video is great too, though yeah, wish there were flowers in it anywhere.
For a different version of it that may appeal to more here, look up the Kevin Bacon/Kyra Sedgwick cover of it, part of their “Goat Songs” videos.
It’s not like there’s a shortage of garden flowers in Los Angeles. Shortsighted of Miley, though I love the song, also.
This is great fun; she is quite right and I love the lyrics.
More of us, even the married or coupled ones, need to remember this message.
Flowers are just plain ole Joy.
And even better when not accompanied by warnings and scolds about all the jet fuel being burned up by shipping them up from Latin America. True though that is.
Thank you for this happy diversion, Susan.
Got a good laugh out of video. I use to do those same exercises a few years back. In a lot more clothes and in a boring old gym. Sure didn’t look like Miley!