Miley Cyrus hit single “Flowers” on her new album Endess Summer Vacation has become the fastest song in history to surpass 1.1 billion streams on Spotify. With over 449 million views in 4 months on YouTube really shows that she indeed put out a hit. Written by Miley Cyrus, Michael Pollack and Gregory Hein. It practically wrote itself.” The initial demo version of the song was a stripped-back ballad, only consisting of Cyrus singing and Pollack playing the Rhodes piano. Then it evolved into the uptempo song. Its final version was produced by Tyler Johnson and Kid Harpoon.
Michael Pollack in an interview with Billboard in March 2023, “Compared to other songs, the lyrics for ‘Flowers’ came relatively quickly,” he notes. “The only line that gave us trouble was the end of the pre-chorus.” Pollack is referring to when Cyrus potently muses, “I didn’t wanna leave you, I didn’t wanna lie.” “I think it was really important to contrast the empowerment of the chorus with a little bit of sadness and vulnerability, and that line ‘started to cry, but then remembered I’ does exactly that. I also love that the sentence is incomplete. It’s a subtle cliffhanger to take you to the chorus.”
