Flowers

Miley Cyrus's Grammy-winning celebration of emotional independence is re-imagined as a barbershop contest tune, inspired by the Postmodern Jukebox cover version. It starts off in a wistful free waltz-ballad feel, switches up a gear into a steady swing vibe at the first chorus, and escalates again into a faster, clave-driven Latin vibe before subsiding back into a slower tempo for the very end. There is a hint of the initial wistfulness at the start of the tag, but it settles into a sense of gentle resolution: all is now sorted.

Here it is in performance: