Miley Cyrus Strips Naked In New Music Video For Liam Hemsworth Breakup Anthem ‘Flowers’

Leave it to Miley Cyrus to marque definite 2023 started connected the close foot. Two weeks aft welcoming successful the New Year successful epic fashion, Miley, 30, released “Flowers,” connected Jan. 12, the archetypal azygous from her upcoming album, Endless Summer Vacation (out March 10 connected Columbia Records) — and she’s surely blooming. The euphony video for “Flowers” starts disconnected connected a solemn note, arsenic she sings astir the beingness she and her ex-husband, Liam Hemsworth, built together. “We were good, we were gold, benignant of imagination that can’t beryllium sold. We were close ’til we weren’t, built a location and watched it burn,” she began, referring to the California wildfire that burned down their Hollywood location successful 2018.

The opus rapidly changes gait erstwhile Miley gets to the chorus and remembers that she tin emotion herself endlessly. “I tin bargain myself flowers, constitute my sanction successful the sand. Talk to myself for hours, spot things you don’t understand,” she sings arsenic she dances up the driveway of a modern mansion perched connected a hill. “I tin instrumentality myself dancing and I tin clasp my ain hand,” she continues successful the chorus. “Yeah, I tin emotion maine amended than you can.”

Miley Cyrus showed disconnected her toned assemblage successful the euphony video for ‘Flowers’ (Photo: Miley Cyrus/YouTube)

The erstwhile Disney prima continues connected her way of realization by singing joyfully astir each the things she tin bash for herself with “no regret”. Visually, she strips down to a lacy, achromatic underwear and bra acceptable she models portion swimming and moving retired successful the spacious abode. She past goes bare oregon a blistery and steamy shower arsenic she dances and sings, “I tin emotion maine better.” It doesn’t get much empowering than that!

By the extremity of the video, a fresh-showered Miley puts connected an oversized achromatic suit that she wears thing underneath. She dances astir the location successful the dark, escaped arsenic a bird.

Fans were archetypal hinted that thing large was coming from Miley successful the weeks starring up to New Year’s Eve. “NEW YEAR, NEW MILEY,” work the billboards that popped up successful Los Angeles during the play of Dec. 16. The billboards showed the little fractional of a assemblage wearing a reddish thong, suggesting that this New Miley mightiness still showcase immoderate skin successful her caller epoch — thing caller for her, of course.

In summation to that, Miley launched a countdown timepiece connected her authoritative website, which was acceptable to scope 00:00 connected Jan. 1, 2023. This coincided with her hosting her 2nd Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party from Miami, which she co-hosted with Dolly Parton. When midnight arrived, Miley announced that her caller song, “Flowers,” was connected the way. Ahead of the release, she posted snippets from the video, including 1 clip wherever she sang successful the shower.

Less than a week aft ringing successful 2023, Miley announced that she would merchandise her eighth workplace album, Endless Summer Vacation, connected March 10. The medium features accumulation from Kid Harpoon, Greg Kurstin, Mike WiLL Made-It, and Tyler Johnson. The cover, photographed by Brianna Capozzi, sees Miley airs arsenic if she was the long-lost girl of exemplary and histrion Angelyne portion dangling from a trapeze.

There had been a batch of speculation that Miley’s comeback would hap this year. On Dec. 27, Pop Crave tweeted that Miley would merchandise a caller medium called Ever Since Venus, and it would get connected Jan. 13. There was speculation that Miley’s caller azygous would beryllium called either “R3SET” oregon “The R3SET” aft Miley’s person and longtime collaborator, Mike WiLL Made-It, tweeted “THE R3SET – 2023” connected Dec. 19, 2022.

THE R3SET – 2023

— MADE-IT (@MikeWiLLMadeIt) December 19, 2022

Miley’s past medium before Endless Summer Vacation was 2020’s Plastic Hearts. Considered her “divorce album” since it followed her 2019 split from Liam Hemsworth, it was besides Miley’s 4th and last medium with RCA (she would aboriginal motion with Columbia Records successful 2021). Plastic Hearts was considered a departure for Miley, arsenic she embraced rock, synth-pop, and glam connected the LP. The medium featured appearances from Billy Idol (“Night Crawling“), Joan Jett (“Bad Karma”), and Dua Lipa (“Prisoner“), with Stevie Nicks lending her vocals to the “Edge of Midnight (Midnight Sky Remix)” connected the integer and vinyl version.

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Critically, Plastic Hearts was good received, earning an wide Metacritic people of 75 (her highest yet). “The caller tracks consciousness peculiarly crisp and cohesive, easy her astir captivating and keenly focused grounds yet,” wrote Bobby Olivier for SPIN magazine. “Cyrus has agelong drawn comparisons to her godmother Dolly Parton’s dependable — spot her instant-classic rendition of ‘Jolene’ — but here, she’s yet achieved the Tennessee queen’s knack for telling a vivid story,” wrote Claire Shaffer for Rolling Stone. “Even without her existent incarnation’s spunky sneer and platinum shag, Cyrus inactive has teeth, though this algorithmic ‘rock’ tin filter retired her wound astatine times. Still, this mightiness beryllium Cyrus’ astir palmy pastiche yet,” wrote Katie Moulton for Consequence.

Commercially, Plastic Hearts encountered immoderate issues. The singles performed okay: “Midnight Sky” reached No. 14 connected the Billboard Hot 100, “Prisoner” tapped retired astatine No. 53, but “Angels Like You” failed to chart. The medium peaked astatine No. 2 connected the Billboard 200, and Miley vented her frustrations implicit the evident issues with fans uncovering carnal copies successful stores.

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“My fans are everything to maine & to cognize y’all are disappointed erstwhile going retired to stores/calling/ checking banal to beryllium fto down, I americium equally/if not much frustrated,” she wrote connected Nov. 29, 2020. “When choosing 11/27 THE SUGGESTED DATE for medium merchandise my squad and I were ne'er told large retailers don’t banal carnal albums connected Black Friday and won’t get copies of PH until a fewer weeks aft release.”

“The packaging of the grounds is intimate, honest, and a ocular reflection of the dependable of my caller grounds that I americium truthful arrogant of,” Cyrus added. “It was created BY ME personally astatine location making creation FOR YOU. I privation it successful your hands! … This medium was a labour of love, and thing tin sabotage my admiration for the grounds my collaborators & I person created.”

Fans tin pre-order Endless Summer Vacation on vinyl, digital, oregon CD here.

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