Easter Eggs in Miley Cyrus's Flowers

Miley Cyrus made fairly a press release when she dropped her hit “Flowers,” together with its music video, on Jan. 12. The visible for the upbeat observe, which boasts an ode to self-love, options scenes of Cyrus prancing round in a press release gold gown and stripping all the way down to black lingerie by her pool. However, the carefree, summeresque track itself contains lyrics that seemingly allude to Cyrus’s ex-husband, Liam Hemsworth, plus the house they as soon as shared.

Liam Hemsworth References in Miley Cyrus’s “Flowers”

“We were right ’til we weren’t / Built a home and watched it burn,” she sings in the primary verse, referring to the home she and Hemsworth shared in Malibu that was destroyed by the 2018 Woosley Fire. In the hook, she additionally provides, “I didn’t wanna leave you / I didn’t wanna lie / Started to cry / but then remembered I,” which appears to seek advice from the ultimate days of Cyrus and Hemsworth’s marriage.

Cyrus and Hemsworth first met in 2009 and dated on and off for a decade earlier than they tied the knot in 2018. The two have been solely married for seven months earlier than Hemsworth filed for divorce in August 2019. That month, shortly after information of their separation broke, People reported, per a supply, that Cyrus “really fought to make it work” along with her ex. However, she’s since moved on to Liily drummer Maxx Morando, whom she’s been relationship for over a yr now.

Although Cyrus has a brand new love in her life, it is clear her hit track from her eighth studio album, titled “Endless Summer Vacation,” remains to be hashing out her romantic previous. And now it is began a dishonest rumor mill about her ex Hemsworth and his “Hunger Games” costar Jennifer Lawrence.

Jennifer Lawrence Gold Dress Rumored Reference in Miley Cyrus’s “Flowers”

During a June 26 look on “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen,” Lawrence shut down hypothesis that Cyrus referenced her in the “Flowers” video, per the gold gown the singer wears. For context, Lawrence wore a gold gown on the purple carpet with Hemsworth for the “Hunger Games”‘s Los Angeles premiere in 2012, however she instructed host Cohen there is no correlation between the 2.

Cohen instructed the actor, “There was already a lot of talk that the music video was referencing a secret fling that you had with Liam Hemsworth while he was with Miley Cyrus, can you please respond this—,” to which Lawrence instantly responded, “Not true. I would love to. Not true. Total rumor.”

She additionally added, “I mean, we all know that me and Liam, like, kissed one time. It was years after they broke up. So I just assume that was like a coincidence.”

Bruno Mars Reference in Miley Cyrus’s “Flowers”

Cyrus’s Hemsworth references in “Flowers” aren’t the one factor followers picked up on in the track. Upon a better pay attention, it seems that a part of “Flowers” mirrors a well-known Bruno Mars track, his 2013 breakup anthem “When I Was Your Man,” because the refrain replicates comparable lyrics from the previous smash.

If you pay attention intently, Cyrus’s lyrics “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” sound an terrible lot like Mars’s “I should have bought you flowers / And held your hand / Should have gave you all my hours / When I had the chance / Take you to every party ’cause all you wanted to do was dance.”

Rumor has it, Hemsworth as soon as devoted Mars’s track to Cyrus. On Jan. 9, a Twitter consumer wrote in a viral tweet, “miley cyrus wrote a song as a response to this bruno mars’ song which liam once dedicated to her, and she’s releasing it on his birthday 💀.” Considering the timing of “Flowers”‘s launch (someday earlier than Hemsworth’s birthday, Jan. 13), it appears the track has much more significance past its theme of self-love.

Listen to Cyrus’s “Flowers” above, and see if you happen to can catch all of the similarities from Mars’s “When I Was Your Man” forward.