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  January wasn't too soon to start thinking about an Endless Summer Vacation , at least for Miley Cyrus . The singer's eighth studio album is coming out this coming Friday, and the first single, " Flowers " was dropped in January. The single builds on the theme of her last LP, Plastic Hearts , and its lead single " Midnight Sky ," in which Cyrus declares "I don't belong to anyone / I don't need to be loved by you." In "Flowers," Cyrus realizes that she can buy her own damn flowers rather than accept a half-hearted gift from a lackadaisical lover. The singer's target, of course, is ex-husband Liam Hemsworth .  WE WERE GOOD, WE WERE GOLD. Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth met on the set of the 2010  Nicholas Sparks film adaptation of The Last Song in 2009. The two dated on and off until getting engaged in 2012. They broke off their engagement in 2013 on good terms, dating other people until 2016 when they announced that they aga

In 2010, we learned that Miley Cyrus Can’t Be Tamed . The former Disney Channel star had released soundtracks for the Hannah Montana series before releasing several saccharine pop records. As she came of age, though, the singer wanted to make it clear that she was a sexual being. Enter 2013’s Bangerz and its second single “ Wrecking Ball .” The song is a slow breakup ballad and doesn’t feature explicit language like many of the other tracks on the record. Still, it was the video for the song that virally brought Cyrus into the post-purity culture, sex-positive zeitgeist. The video features the singer clad in only a pair of white panties and a t-shirt, then fully nude—the singer and the director tastefully hiding the singer’s genitals—riding on a wrecking ball and licking a sledgehammer. From that moment everyone had an opinion about Miley Cyrus and whether expressing sexuality in such a manner was art or pure immortality. DON’T YOU EVER SAY I JUST WALKED AWAY. And while Miley Cyrus’