The Michael Knowles Show - February 04, 2023


She Has A Point! Michael Knowles REACTS To ＂Flowers＂ by Miley Cyrus


Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

164.3365

Word count

1,148

Sentence count

132

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

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Summary

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Miley Cyrus breaks up with her ex-husband Liam Hemsworth and talks about how she doesn t need him in her life anymore. Wonder Mike wonders if she can love him better than he can love her now that he's gone.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hey there, it's Wonder Mike. I've come to say hello. You know I am your hip-hop pop music maven.
00:00:06.000 Cue your character.
00:00:12.120 I'm on a channel. I don't really know anything about this song. They've just told me, they said,
00:00:16.360 Michael, you're probably not going to like this song.
00:00:18.040 But it is really popular right now, so you have to listen to it.
00:00:21.460 The song is Miley Cyrus. This is a breakup anthem called Flowers,
00:00:25.120 which she apparently released on her ex-husband Liam Hemsworth's birthday.
00:00:31.220 Miley, take it away.
00:00:55.120 I didn't want to lie. Started to cry, but then remembered I...
00:01:00.860 I can buy myself flowers. Write my name in the sand. Talk to myself for hours. Say things you don't understand.
00:01:15.900 I can take myself dancing. And I can hold my hand. Yeah, I can love me better than you can.
00:01:30.160 Can love me better than you can.
00:01:31.860 Devastating.
00:01:32.720 I kind of like Miley. I'm going to put my cards on the table.
00:01:35.660 I'm learning a lot about myself through this music series. I didn't realize I was a Swifty or a Belieber.
00:01:39.920 And I'm a Miley man, too. I don't know what Miley's fans are called.
00:01:43.680 Because I love that song Party in the USA. I really got a kick out of it when it came out.
00:01:47.880 I remember Miley Cyrus was married. I didn't realize she got divorced. 1.00
00:01:51.020 But I just remember for all of her crazy, eccentric, show-busy stuff,
00:01:55.400 she seemed to have a kind of conservatism to her in that she got married.
00:02:01.440 In that she... I think she's Southern, right?
00:02:04.320 I think she talked about partying in the USA. Vaguely patriotic.
00:02:08.760 And in this song, she's saying, we had this great house. We had this great home.
00:02:13.200 I didn't want to leave it. Basically, you screwed it all up.
00:02:16.040 I didn't want to mess up our marriage.
00:02:17.980 And now what? Now what does she say?
00:02:20.540 I can take myself dancing. I can hold my own hand.
00:02:23.020 I can write my name in the sand.
00:02:24.480 I can tell me I love me.
00:02:25.900 I can do all the stuff that a husband is supposed to do better than you can.
00:02:30.760 And I can do it all alone.
00:02:31.960 And I assume that this is the point of the song,
00:02:33.880 is that it certainly seems like the lady doth protest too much, me thinks. 1.00
00:02:38.520 That you can't really do that.
00:02:40.260 You can be very hurt if someone leaves you.
00:02:42.760 And you can say, well, screw you. I don't need you.
00:02:45.340 I'll just be my own spouse.
00:02:47.600 I'll buy myself the presents.
00:02:49.180 I'll take myself out on dates.
00:02:50.660 I'll write my own name in the sand.
00:02:52.880 But I don't need you.
00:02:54.140 But that comes from a place of hurt.
00:02:55.980 She's walking through the song wearing this kind of embittered looking outfit,
00:03:00.400 lamenting her ex-husband.
00:03:02.800 Yeah, she's telling you there.
00:03:03.840 She goes, yeah, fine, I'll do all this stuff.
00:03:05.440 But I'm not going to be happy about it.
00:03:06.720 I'm going to resent it.
00:03:07.780 As well, she should.
00:03:08.320 You love me, baby.
00:03:10.560 You love me, baby.
00:03:12.040 Made my nails cherry red.
00:03:16.160 Mapsed the roses that you had.
00:03:19.420 No remorse, no regret.
00:03:24.180 I forgive every word you say.
00:03:28.380 Ooh, I didn't want to leave, baby.
00:03:30.940 I didn't want to fight.
00:03:32.840 Started to cry, but then remembered I.
00:03:37.240 I can buy myself flowers.
00:03:41.340 Write my name in the sand.
00:03:45.160 Talk to myself for hours.
00:03:48.380 Oh, yeah, I'll say things you don't understand.
00:03:53.740 I can take myself that seat.
00:03:57.060 Yeah, yeah.
00:03:57.900 I can hold my hand.
00:04:00.900 Yeah, I can love me better than you can.
00:04:05.940 It might be true.
00:04:07.500 It might be true that she can love her better than he can, but that's a real knock on him.
00:04:11.160 Showbiz people get divorced all the time. 0.99
00:04:14.080 And Miley Cyrus, she's got a ton of money, and she's been famous since she was very little.
00:04:18.920 And she's got everything in the world, right?
00:04:20.640 Why would she be upset?
00:04:22.160 Well, because life is about more than money.
00:04:24.440 And because life is about more than fame.
00:04:26.060 And you can have all the personal servants in the world, and you can go to all the workout classes.
00:04:29.760 You can even see her moving around, and she obviously still works out.
00:04:33.740 She still looks good.
00:04:35.000 But we still feel sad for this character.
00:04:37.740 We still feel sad for this person who's there and saying, yeah, I don't need a husband.
00:04:40.920 I don't need someone to love me.
00:04:42.080 I don't need, no, it's okay.
00:04:43.380 I'm going to work out and do it myself, and I can love me better than you can.
00:04:46.820 Maybe that's true, but it's not supposed to be that way.
00:04:49.480 We're supposed to love our spouses and stick by our spouses.
00:04:53.300 I didn't want to fight.
00:04:54.700 I didn't want to leave.
00:04:55.380 You did this, basically.
00:04:57.120 That's fine.
00:04:57.780 I'll move on.
00:04:58.900 But I'm still embittered by it, as she should be.
00:05:01.320 I can love me better, baby.
00:05:04.160 You can love me better.
00:05:05.840 I can love me better, baby.
00:05:08.240 You can love me better.
00:05:10.000 I didn't want to leave you.
00:05:14.020 I didn't want to fight.
00:05:15.540 I started to cry, but then I made it.
00:05:18.300 Modern art is so ugly.
00:05:21.440 It's kind of a side piece, but there's statues and that cold, clinical-looking house.
00:05:32.660 I'm sure the house costs millions and millions of dollars, but look how cold it is.
00:05:35.900 Look how clinical.
00:05:36.880 It has no ornamentation, much like the life that she's describing.
00:05:40.600 It's just all totally clean, any attachments.
00:05:48.360 And so she dances around like she's 23 years old.
00:05:52.120 But she's recognizing that she's not 23 years old, but life has progressed since then.
00:05:57.020 She's been married, and she's trying to go back, but one cannot do that.
00:06:00.820 Life is supposed to progress, and we're supposed to gain more attachments and more ornamentation
00:06:11.580 and allow that to augment our lives.
00:06:13.300 And what happens in modernity is we don't get married and stay married.
00:06:16.960 We have a relationship for a period, and then we have a sort of mutual decoupling, and then
00:06:22.180 we just go back to square one.
00:06:24.320 We just forget that we're living in time and space.
00:06:26.540 We try to deny that we're living in time and space.
00:06:28.560 We have everything be totally clean and clinical and okay, and now that marriage and phase
00:06:34.760 is over.
00:06:35.280 That's okay.
00:06:35.880 I'll love me better than you can, and I'm just going to go back to dancing like I did
00:06:38.720 when I was a kid, and I'll have another relationship and another cold, clinical, kind of sterile,
00:06:44.860 neutral playing around, and then we'll just allow that cycle to repeat.
00:06:47.980 All the while, one seems to get a little less joyful and a little more resentful about the
00:06:52.920 whole thing.
00:06:53.480 All right.
00:06:54.060 That's Miley Monday.
00:06:54.800 Miley Monday for you.
00:06:56.540 Here's Michael from Miley Monday saying, see you tomorrow.