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For someone who’s been in toxic relationships, Flowers by Miley Cyrus hits too close to home. It's better getting out of these.
Flowers’ by Miley Cyrus has taken the internet by storm. It has shattered one-week records on Spotify with over 100 million streams.
Miley Cyrus dropped the first song ‘Flowers’ from her much-awaited album ‘Endless Summer Vacation’. It’s Miley’s version of the Bruno Mars song ‘when I was your man’, where Bruno talks about what he would do for the woman he loved.
Bruno is talking about how he lost the woman he loved due to his selfishness, and now he regrets not giving her his all as she’s with someone else. However, he wishes to be her man again and do the things he didn’t do for her when they were together.
Miley Cyrus released ‘Flowers’, a line-by-line reply to the song. It’s a post-divorce song, and reportedly, her ex-husband dedicated ‘Wish I was your man’ by Bruno Mars to Miley. She released it on her ex-husband’s birthday too.
Flowers by is such a powerful song about self-love and discovery. It should be every woman’s anthem to leave that toxic relationship behind and embrace herself again. Miley talks about how she doesn’t need a man to buy her ‘flowers’ or hold her hand. She can do it herself.
If you haven’t watched the video of Flowers by Miley Cyrus yet, do yourselves a favour and watch it. The symbolism has given me chills down my spine.
The video starts with Miley in a golden gown (which signifies the relationship she was in). As the song progresses, she strips that golden gown off, and returns to her authentic self. By wearing what she likes, she regains her power, takes complete control of her life, dances with herself, and finally is in love with herself, all over again.)
It’s very easy to lose yourself while trying to be with someone, and the worst part is that you don’t even notice. Later when you leave the relationship that was holding you back, only then you realise how much it’s taken from you. As a 22-year-old, what I’ve really understood so far is that, you are not supposed to fix anyone. It’s not your job. Women are not rehab centres for problematic men.
Bollywood has sold us this narrative for too long where a pixie manic dream girl fixes a dark soul who doesn’t smile or talk and has no purpose in life (What he really needs is a therapist, by the way), and fills his life with colours which now changes and is fixed by the pixie manic dream girl. Ladies, let me break it down for you. It doesn’t work like that.
It’s not your job to ‘fix’ broken men. You don’t deserve to be with someone like that. You should be with someone who is constantly working on themselves and makes you happy.
As cliche as it sounds, love yourself first. Only then can you love someone else, and that’s vice versa. Only someone who has love for themselves in their heart can give love to others.
And at the end, as Miley said, you can buy yourself flowers and hold your hand. So you don’t need anybody to do that for you. It’s 2023, and we believe in self-love and acceptance.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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