Miley Cyrus Celebrates 1-Year Anniversary of 'Flowers' Release: 'Makes Me Happy'

Mar. 15, 2025

Miley Cyrus in West Hollywood in March 2023.Photo: Arturo Holmes/Getty

It’s been one year sinceMiley Cyrusdropped her catchy — andwildly successful— empowerment anthem “Flowers.”

On Saturday, the singer, 31, commemorated the anniversary on Instagram with a couple of black-and-white photos of herself and, fittingly, a flower.

In one photo, she holds the prop and in the other, she poses with it on top of her head.

Along with the pics, Cyrus shared a short but sweet message about the track, writing, “One year ago today ‘Flowers’ started making people happy & that makes me happy.”

“Love you. Thank you,” she added before signing off the message with, “XO MC.”

“Flowers” — in which Cyrus asserts her independence, crooning “I can buy myself flowers” and “I can take myself dancing” — was the first single forEndless Summer Vacation, which the singer dubbed alove letter to Los Angeles.

After it hit streaming platforms, “Flowers” struck a chord with listeners, spending eight weeks at the top of the U.S.Billboardcharts and skyrocketing to the top of Spotify’s charts — and breaking a record in the process.

Miley Cyrus' album ‘Endless Summer Vacation.’.

The trackbecame the most-streamed song in a single weekin the app’s history, beating out the previous record-holder, BTS' “Butter,” and prompting Cyrus to thank both Spotify and her “amazing fans" on social media.

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Elsewhere in the interview, the singer revealed that the upbeat song almost looked very different.

“I wrote it in a really different way,” Cyrus toldBritish Vogue. “The chorus was originally, ‘I can buy myself flowers, write my name in the sand, but I can’t love me better than you can.’”

“It used to be more, like, 1950s,” she continued. “The saddest song. Like, ‘Sure, I can be my own lover, but you’re so much better.’”

Added Cyrus: “The song is a little fake it till you make it. Which I’m a big fan of.”

source: people.com